west coast!

Headed to &NOW at UC San Diego this Friday. I have a paper on the Fatty poems from the excellent Tytti Heikkinen -- I'll bring some of these XL-lent ones with me. My section is on Saturday, but oh boy am I looking forward to so many other awesome-sounding talks and readings! Look at the schedule! Anna Joy Springer and Amina Cain have done an epic job of putting this thing together. Things I am especially looking forward to:

• Spelling the Beasts
  Spelling the Beasts is a poetic performance of two works, SPELLES and WE, BEASTS, created by hex laboratorium (an entity of inquiry created by Oana Avasilichioaei) and performed by Oana Avasilichioaei, using layered voices, vocal processors, a variety of sampled sounds, pre-recorded tracks and live vocal play.


• Performance/MACHINE: Jell-O, Drano, Meteorology & Shape-Shifting
  Kathleen Brown, Genji Amino, Liat Berdugo, Donna Fierle, Eliese Colette Goldbach, Sonja Greckol, Erin Robinsong, Lia Pas
  performance/MACHINE is a structured improvisation of multi-media experiments combining text, performance, sound, electronic instruments, visual music and animation.deconstructs and re-composes the relationship between audience and performer. The performance consists of six movements or Whe(a)thers that are individual ‘compositions’ playing with futures of text: text’s tomorrow is uncertain, jiggly, re-forming and re-winding, a voice held in puberty’s wavering clasp.


• No Future
  Joyelle McSweeney, Lucas de Lima, Monica Mody, Feng Chen
  Turning away from the positivist, well-lit vista of literary futurism & political progressivism, this panel will semaphor our queer concerns through a discussion of Art-poison; ecstatic states; media and channels; fatal art (not just for the artist); hack art & art-hacks; resistance & submission; the Necropastoral & the viral tree of life/the space in which writer & reader bleed through paper & kiss a dead being/it is embarrassing to be human.

A follow-up report will emerge somewhere after the fact, I'm sure. If you will be at &NOW this weekend, please say hello. You will recognize me by these facts: 1.) I am a shaved-head lady, and 2.) I am generally sporting a feral-looking scowl, but wouldn't you know it that I'm pretty friendly once you get to know me!