Event Type
Disruption exists everywhere. When first hearing the word, we may think of it as stopping something that is supposed to keep going. What if disruption could be a wake up call, an invitation, a poem, an interjection to violence whether physical or inside our minds, what if it is something that helps draw attention to something important, that breaks us out of our routine thinking or boredom?
As we scrape to retain art and practice in the political moments we are hurdling towards and untangling, this collective of poets has started to ask what it means to redirect movement, to pause, to overwhelm, to sever, to cut off flow, to disrupt and then ask what next. This roundtable will expand upon several types of disruption be it insomnia disrupting sleep, wheatpasting disrupting public discourse, sound, to expand upon what it means to disrupt a space, a movement, a political landscape, the intimacy with your own bed. This hybrid roundtable, in some parts panel but more parts performance and a sharing of resources, explores disruption as a poetic practice.
Erika Hodges will show a video suite meant to interrupt our understanding of the communal reference point while further examining how the common vernacular within communities/families/street corners can disrupt or reinforce outside designs. They will present from their work in progress, Pink Houses.
Maura Modeya will discuss SAPPHO TERROR, their book from Problem Press that traces the feverish convergence of insomnia, Sappho’s haunting 3 a.m. visitations, and wheat-pasting as practice of public visual disruption, all the processes that inform the collection.
In addition there will be performances and conversation by Shreeya Shrestha and Andrea Abi-Karam.