Red Rover Series{readings that play with reading}
Experiment #37:
Public Words - Letters & Interviews
Featuring:
David Emanuel
Jen Hofer
Anne Elizabeth Moore
PART ONE: THURSDAY, JUNE 3rd
2-8pm at the Damen Ave six-way intersection
near the CTA Damen blue line
Jen Hofer types letters in either Spanish or English for passers-by, charging $2 for a letter, $3 for a love letter, and $5 for an illicit love letter.
PART TWO: SATURDAY, JUNE 5th
7-9pm at Outer Space Studio
1474 N. Milwaukee Ave, 3rd floor
suggested donation $4
David Emanuel asks participants to assemble and write letters onto the pages of their own handbound chapbooks or zines. Materials will be supplied.
Anne Elizabeth Moore invites Chicagoans down to do a short interview about their city, lives, and what they think about the world. Know someone with a great Chicago story? Bring them or prepare to tell yours!
DAVID EMANUEL creates text and text-based pieces. He has collaborated with artists to make performance installations, zines and occasional artifacts. He has worked as an arts administrator, helping artists make their visions realities. His critical writing has appeared online in How2 and in print in Newcity. From time to time, he can be found making letterpress prints, writing Frank O'Hara poems in collaboration with others, and drinking coffee. He is from Oklahoma, but came to Chicago to go to school. He will be leaving Chicago after 11 years this fall in order to go to school in Providence, RI.
JEN HOFER is a Los Angeles-based poet, translator, interpreter, teacher, knitter, book-maker, public letter-writer, and urban cyclist. Her most recent books are a series of anti-war-manifesto poems titled one (Palm Press, 2009); sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre, a translation from Dolores Dorantes by Dolores Dorantes (Counterpath Press and Kenning Editions, 2008); The Route, a collaboration with Patrick Durgin (Atelos, 2008); lip wolf, a translation of lobo de labio by Laura Solórzano (Action Books, 2007); and Sin puertas visibles: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women (University of Pittsburgh Press and Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2003). Her forthcoming books are a translation of Mexican poet Myriam Moscona’s Ivory Black (Les Figues Press), a translation of Guatemalan poet Alan Mills’ Síncopes (Piedra Santa), and the poem sequences from the valley of death (Ponzipo) and Laws (Dusie Books).
ANNE ELIZABETH MOORE is the author of Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity (The New Press, 2007), and Hey Kidz, Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People (Soft Skull, 2004). Co-editor and publisher of now-defunct Punk Planet, founding editor of the Best American Comics series from Houghton Mifflin, Moore teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and works with young women in Cambodia on independent media projects when she’s not traveling the globe lecturing on freedom of speech issues. Recently, Moore mounted two single-person exhibitions of her conceptual art, has been the subject of two documentary films, and her work appeared on the radio program Snap Judgment and in the Boston Phoenix, the Progressive, and on Truthout.org.
Red Rover Series is curated by Laura Goldstein and Jennifer Karmin. Each event is designed as a reading experiment with participation by local, national, and international writers, artists, and performers. The series was founded in 2005 by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin. Email ideas for reading experiments to us at redroverseries@yahoogroups.com
