[Brooklyn, NY]

Lighght Reading with Ed Steck & Mariana Valencia
May 22, 2015, 7:30 pm
at Unnameable Books

Lighght Reading is a bi-monthly reading and performance series curated and hosted by UDP editors and authors. The series features emerging poets and performers and underexposed writing in translation, often pairing a writer or translator associated with UDP with readers and performers from other communities. All events are free and open to the public. Limited-edition broadsides, letter pressed at the UDP studio, accompany each reading. * ED STECK is the author of The Garden: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulation (UDP, 2013), sleep as information/the fountain is a water feature (Center for Ongoing Research and Projects, 2014), The Rose (with Adam Marnie, Hassla Books, 2014), Door Graphic Data Recovery (orworse, Summer 2015), and Far Rainbow (Make Now, Fall 2015). He is currently working on a piece titled An Interface for a Fractal Landscape, and a project on low-budget horror movies consisting of essays and a long poem. * MARIANA VALENCIA is a dance artist who works with bodies, costume and words. Mariana has had residencies at New York Live Arts, Chez Bushwick, Pieter Pasd, Show Box LA, and is currently at Issue Project Room. Her ideas in dance art have taken form in classes and workshops through ClassClassClass and Movement Research Sunday Process Labs among other teaching platforms. A Jerome Travel and Study Grant recipient, she'll travel to Mexico City for an ethnographic study of the sub-cultural dance movement, Cumbia Sonidera. As a choreographer, Mariana works with performers Lauren Bakst, Kate Brandt, Elsa Brown and Lydia Okrent with whom she is creating her first evening length work, ORIGINATORS, to be presented in 2016. As a performer, Mariana has worked with Elizabeth Orr, Kim Brandt and Jules Gimbrone. Mariana's costume and styling include projects with artists Vanessa Anspaugh, Lauren Bakst, Jen Rosenblit, Shane Powers and Geo Wyeth. Mariana is a member of No-Total with Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Jordan Lord, Emma Hedditch, Joseph Teeling and Elizabeth Orr; they are a reading and practice group. More info here.