ROT TALKS 3: DIRT (A FEAST) with Alexandra Tatarsky

Poem-performances engage gleaning as sculpture and etymology as decomposition. Five artists of undoing share strategies of breakage and decay, exploring how rust and plastic function as both construction materials and metaphors for change over time. Accompanied by a streaming installation.
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Basie Allen + Cassandra Mayela / slow braised in yuck / with freaks
stone -- tire -- shells -- sponge -- nails -- brick -- garments -- painting as poem -- knots + untying
Rolando Politi / Trash is a weed… by nature I have always been a worshipper.
winter flowers -- packaging inferno -- throwaway society -- trash worship -- ceremony -- heaps
Kenya (Robinson) / AST ROT URF ING
privilege as plastic material -- enigma + identity -- nurture that muscle -- etymological tarot -- “woowoo” words
Sparrow / Happiness is like a weed we see but cannot identify
headless poems -- garbage pasted onto garbage -- earth as a muffin -- tentative brightening
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Public Health Precautions
This is tentatively planned as a live outdoor event at St. Mark's Church. We are following (and exceeding) recommendations laid out by NY State for outdoor gatherings. These include: limiting the number of attendees, including event participants, to under 30; setting up seating with fixed and socially distant spacing; requiring and providing face masks, as well hand sanitizer stations. We will have 3 microphones on hand, and will be rotating / sanitizing these between readings. Attendees are required to register in advance, and contact information is collected at the point of registration in the event that we need to support any public health efforts around contact tracing. We are grateful to attendees for helping us maintain safety within our present public health context, and look forward to holding meaningful shared listening space together.