POP UP Evolving : BLACKLIVESMATTER: Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo

Arts For Art presents an Evolving POP UP venue honoring #BlackLives, Roy Campbell & Amiri Baraka who we lost in January, 2014. From January 23 to 30th, 2015 #BlackLivesMatter & the multiple creative outcomes of this statement will be celebrated. Please join for an epic journey of FreeJazz, music, poetry, dance, visual art & conversations.
Yuko Otomo is a visual artist and poet of Japanese origin. She also writes art criticism, essays & translations. Her visual art, which focuses on the study of “pure abstraction,” has been shown at Tribes Gallery, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Gallery, ABC No Rio, Brecht Forum, Gallery 128, Knitting Factory, Vision Festival, and elsewhere. She has read her work at many New York City venues and in Germany, France and Japan. Her books include Garden: Selected Haiku(Beehive Press), Small Poems (UDP), The Hand of the Poet (UDP), Cornell box Poems, Genesis, and Fragile (Sisyphus Press).

Steve Dalachinsky’s work has appeared extensively in magazines, journals and anthologies. He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James “Blood” Ulmer, Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His chapbooks include Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris), Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective), Lautreamont’s Laments (Furniture Press), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Presse), The Mantis: collected poems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (Iniquity Press), and Long Play E.P. (Corrupt Press). His book of notebooks from Charles Gayle concerts, The Final Nite was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2006 and won the 2007 Josephine Miles PEN National Book Award. With pianist Matthew Shipp, he has collaborated on a book (Logos and Language from Rogueart Press) and a CD, Phenomena of Interference (Hopscotch Records). He is a contributing columnist for The Brooklyn Rail.

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