[New York]

While I was also listening to: Performances by Constance DeJong, Morgan Bassichis, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Sara Magenheimer
March 30, 2018, 6:00 pm
at Emily Harvey Foundation

While I was also listening to presents performances by Constance DeJong, Morgan Bassichis, Wayne Koestenbaum, and Sara Magenheimer that tackle the genre of the “talk” and the medium of “talking” as occasions for investigations in narrativity and storytelling, the relationship between sound and language, and improvisatory modalities of speech. The evening features a musical and poetic outro by Félicia Atkinson and a silent performance by Yann Sérandour. -- CONSTANCE DEJONG Constance DeJong interlaces recent and early writing live performance work. Turning short stories, fiction, and narrative prose into spoken recitation, she uses memory as a time-based medium through which storytelling and literary form take shape. MORGAN BASSICHIS Drawing from his recent musical adaptation, with TM Davy, DonChristian Jones, Michi Osato, and Una Osato, of Larry Mitchell’s book The Faggots and Their Friends Between the Revolutions (1977), illustrated by Ned Asta, Morgan Bassichis will give a talk exploring radical queer lineages and intimacy in the archives. WAYNE KOESTENBAUM Inspired by stanzas in his newly-released Camp Marmalade, the second volume of Wayne Koestenbaum’s “trance trilogy,” the poet will perform an improvisatory Sprechstimme recitative, with free-style musical accompaniment—while remaining open throughout its duration to the intervention of musical guests, most of whom have not yet RSVP’d, though invitations have been issued to such ghosts as Gabriel Fauré, Karol Szymanowski, Paul Bowles, and Germaine Tailleferre. SARA MAGENHEIMER Within an evolving soundscape, Sara Magenheimer’s performs a new work exploring language’s capacity for narrative when the human voice travels as disembodied sound, and narrative is constituted as an abstract assemblage of associations, imagery, and vernacular references. FELICIA ATKINSON Félicia Atkinson performs "Words and stones with xylophone," a piece for poetry, concrete sounds and monotonous resonances conceived as three concentric circles. YANN SERANDOUR In Audience dog II, Yann Sérandour, wearing a dog mask, performs silently for the duration of the evening, making visible the act of listening to, and reminding us to pay attention to the multiple narrations that unfold. -- Organized by Rachel Valinsky With La Criée centre d'art contemporain Doors 6pm / Performance 6:30pm More info here.