Quijote Talk: Mónica de la Torre

Mónica de la Torre will give a talk and read from her book The Happy End/ All Welcome. De la Torre builds, fastens, cuts, pastes, performs, and extrudes a variety of poems to suit a most serious situation comedy: poems as job interviews, poems as postings, poems as questionnaires, reports, speeches, lyrical rants… At its heart, this playful bricolage explores the norms of the workplace and its notions of competence, while tackling office design, performativity, and skilled vs. deskilled creative labor.