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Feminaissance Colloquium on Women, Experimental Writing and Feminism
April 09, 2007
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FEMINAISSANCE
ƒeminaissance is a colloquium on women, experimental writing and feminism, to be held on April 27th and 28th, 2007, at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). A related workshop and consciousness-raising event will take place on Sunday, April 29th at LACE, in Hollywood.
This event is organized by Christine Wertheim, Matias Viegener, and Teresa Carmody and is sponsored by the Writing Program at CalArts with a generous grant from the Annenberg Foundation. Feminaissance is presented in conjunction with MOCA’s show “WACK: Art and Feminist Revolution.” The colloquium puts writers from many genres in dialogue about issues concerning women writers today.
FRIDAY, April 27, 2007
MOCA, 250 S. Grand Avenue, LA, CA 90012
7 pm Reception
8 pm Readings by Caroline Bergvall, Teresa Carmody, Meiling Cheng, Bhanu
Kapil, Chris Kraus, Tracie Morris, Christine Wertheim, Stephanie Young, and
Lidia Yuknavitch
SATURDAY, April 28, 2007
MOCA, 250 S. Grand Avenue, LA, CA 90012
10:30 am-12:00 pm
Panel: “Feminine” Writings
Are there specifically “feminine” texts, topics and modes of writing? Or is
the concept of “écriture féminine” more hindrance than help?
Panelists: Caroline Bergvall, Meiling Cheng, Chris Kraus, and Lidia
Yuknavitch
12:20—1:50 pm
Panel: Selves
Are women writers creating new forms of selfhood? If so, how does this
manifest in the subject and/or perspective of the work and in the object,
i.e., the formed text?
Panelists: Tracie Morris, Vanessa Place, and Christine Wertheim
LUNCH BREAK
3:15—4:45 pm
Panel: The Social
Can women writers effect the social imaginary in ways that positively change
our psycho-sexual organization? Are they obliged to, or is this another
version of mothering that restricts women?
Panelists: Dodie Bellalmy, Bhanu Kapil, Yxta Maya Murray, Maggie Nelson
5:00—6:30 pm
Panel: Categories
What is gender today? Are the terms “gender” and feminism still useful in
writing? Or are we in a post- or trans-gendered era, and to what intent
social, representational, aesthetic, activist?
Panelists: Wanda Coleman, Susan McCabe, Eileen Myles, and Juliana Spahr &
Stephanie Young
DINNER BREAK
8:30 Readings by Dodie Bellamy, Wanda Coleman, Susan McCabe, Yxta Maya
Murray, Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Vanessa Place and Juliana Spahr
SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2007
LACE, 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90028
2-6 pm Potluck and consciousness-raising workshop on MOTHER: literary,
real, symbolic and edible. Led by Bhanu Kapil, Eileen Myles and Chris
Kraus.
And please join us for an unofficially related event:
The Smell Last Sunday Reading Series at The Smell
247 S. Main, Los Angeles, CA 90012 [enter in back]
Between 2nd and 3rd Street
6:30 pm
Reading to Celebrate an new mother anthology by Fence Books, with readers
Wanda Coleman, Martha Ronk and Rae Armantrout