Oxygen Art Centre's Author Reading Series
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Join Oxygen Art Centre on Wednesday the 23rd of February at 7 p.m. PST for an online reading featuring painter-poet, Tiziana La Melia, and poet-critic, Fan Wu.
The evening will open with readings from students in the Selkirk College creative writing program.
Tiziana La Melia’s The Eyelash and the Monochrome asks: what happens when material becomes thought and thought becomes object? At once a book of poetry and an artist’s book, it gathers together poems, performance scripts, and parallel texts, illustrating the hybrid nature of these texts and trespassing upon the boundaries of genre.
It is a book about enmeshment, about the potentiality of interplay. It is a conversation. It is not linear, but it interrogates and explores the line: lines of text, lines of dialogue, socio-economic lines drawn or crossed, lines that were the trails of snails… Everything is a signifier, meaning is elastic, and references are multi-faceted. La Melia’s multivalent and generative practice lives in process; it thinks through materials (paint, objects, non-human forms) with violent sentimentality, excessive desire, naiveté, narrative construction, and an awareness of the body and memory.
Fan Wu is a poet, editor, critic, and founding member of the Toronto Experimental Translation Collective. He is a frequent contributor to Canadian arts publications, a very good dancer, and has responded to contemporary exhibitions as an essayist and storyteller. Core to Wu’s writing practice are eclectic participatory performances that draw on collective experimentation, inspired by sensual, convivial energies.
Wu collects the erotic qualities of language and offers them to us, placating a lack in our always desiring minds.
Student writer, musician, and reader, Stevie Rose Polling will join us from the Selkirk College creative writing program.
Anyone interested can register on Eventbrite through the following link.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/x/author-reading-series-tiziana-la-melia-and-fan-wu-tickets-240546831047
Photo Caption: Tiziana La Melia and Fan Wu will read online for Oxygen Art Centre’s final Author Reading Series event of the season, February 23. — Submitted
