[New York]

Collective Task Performance
November 1, 2015, 7:00 pm
at Expansion Foam Gallery 67

Featuring readings by: Kim Rosenfield, Erica Baum, Lanny Jordan Jackson, Sophia Le Fraga, Kristen Gallagher and Andy Sterling. Kim Rosenfield is a poet and psychotherapist in New York City. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Good Morning--Midnight-- (Roof), Tràma (Krupskaya),re:evolution (Les Figues) and Lividity (Les Figues). Her work has been included in the anthologies Bowery Women (YBK Publishers, Inc.), The Gurlesque (Saturnalia), Against Expression (Northwestern University Press) and I’ll Drown My Book (Les Figues). She co-founded and co-edited Object magazine (1993-2002) with poet Robert Fitterman. She is part of the artist/writer’s collaborative Collective Task. Erica Baum is an artist who lives and works in New York. Lanny Jordan Jackson is a New York City based artist interested in poetry and performance, and often uses audio/visual means of creating artwork. He is a designer and publisher at Bas-Books, where books “engage a performer as a guest.” Sophia Le Fraga is a poet and visual artist. She is the author of literallydead (Spork 2015); I RL, YOU RL (minuteBOOKS 2013, Troll Thread 2014) and I DON'T WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE INTERNET (KTBAFC 2012). Her anti-play trilogy of iOS translations comprises W8ING 4, TH3 B4LD 50PR4N0 and UND3RGR0UND L0V3R5 (Gauss PDF). "Other Titles" (Büro Broken Dimanche; Berlin, Germany) was her first solo show. She's recently been included in "Greater New York" (MoMA PS1; New York), "Eugen Gomringer &" (Bielefelder Kunstverein; Bielefeld, Germany), "Itself Not So" (Lisa Cooley; New York) and "read the room / you’ve got to" (SALTS; Basel, Switzerland). She is the poetry editor of Imperial Matters, a curator for the experimental reading series Segue, and teaches poetry at BHQFU, New York's freest art school. Kristen Gallagher is the author of two books of poetry: Operator (Rubbaducky) and We Are Here (Truck Books). Recent poetry appeared in West Wind Review, and a review of Tan Lin’s Heath Plagiarism/Outsource appeared in Criticism in 2010. She is an associate professor of English at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York. Andy Sterling is a writer living in NYC and a member of Rob Fitterman’s Collective Task ensemble. Notable publications include Mackey (bas-books, 2010), Supergroup (Gauss PDF Editions, 2013) and Who Owns Primos? (forthcoming, 2013). More info here.