Reading
ROT TALKS 3: DIRT (A FEAST) with Alexandra Tatarsky
Radical mycologists and poets offer ruminations on rot as sustenance for growth. Lecture-experiments draw from metaphors of the mushroom: the fleshy spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus that troubles the distinction between singular and collective. Accompanied by a sound installation.
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William Padilla Brown / Tiny intricate things
cordyceps -- zombie mushroom -- parasite -- host tissue -- aphrodisiac -- oxygen
manuel arturo abreu / My screen protector is definitely the dirtiest part of my body
Rot Semantics -- decayed teeth -- out of the death of metaphors -- glitch -- entheogeny -- ‘spoiled’ energy -- reanimating the undead -- divination
Cecilia Vicuña / pitch, a fertile / rite / a little / broken pitch / er
precarios -- basuritas -- ecological destruction -- PALABRARmas -- unravelling words
Tracie Morris / Her her button. Her boutonniere. Her boobeleh. Her boo. Her Too. Her Tooklas. Her view. Her book. Herbal.
sound poetry teases apart the meaning -- so what i try to do is pull these things apart -- it is the ground -- it's dirty -- reverberation and accumulative alterations
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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.
