September 1997: Audrey Code, paintings; October 1997: DeDe Fedrizzi, photography; October 11, 1997 Johannes Tonio Kreusch, classical guitar; November 1997: Alexandra Wiesenfeld, paintings; November, 1997 Reese, alternative R&B; April 1998: Jim Klein, paintings; April 1998: The Antioch Review. Stephen Jay Gould, reading; April 1998: The Interpreters: Shaping American Art , Panel Discussion: Carter Ratcliff, Rosie Schaap, Sarah Schmerler, Grady T. Turner, Alexi Worth. Moderated by Steven Vincent; May 2-31, 1998 James Gilroy, paintings & works on paper; May 1998 John Ashbery & Gerrit Henry, poetry reading; September 17 - October 31, 1998. Judy Glantzman, painting & drawings; September 24, 1998: murmur, reading. Kevin P.Q. Phelan, editor. Readers: Lindsay Ahl, Tim Davis, Oona Frawley, Laird Hunt, Krysia Jopek, Sharon Lattig, Dan Machlin, Jill Magi, Mark Mirsky, Eileen Myles, Heather Ramsdell, Danzy Senna, Stephen Mounkhall, Geny Turovsky; October 27, 1998: Ann Lauterbach & Heather Ramsdell, poetry reading; October 29,1998: Science and Art Panel Discussion with Tom Breidenbach, Mark Daniel Cohen, Jonathan Goodman, and Sharon Lattig. November 5, 1998: Raphael Rubinstein & Max Henry, poetry reading. November 28 - December 24, 1998: Group Show, paintings & drawings by Camille Eskelle, Katherine Kadish, Christina Park, and Alexandra Wiesenfeld. December 11, 1999 Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill and Paul Muldoon, poetry reading. February 25, 1999: Jackson Mac Low and Jena Osman, poetry reading. March--April, 1999: Stephanie Rose, paintings; April 8, 1999 Washington Square Journal, reading. Galway Kinnell, Marie Ponsot, Agha Shahid Ali, Stephen Sandy, Alan Michael Parker, Chuck Wachtel; April 27, 1999 The Antioch Review, with Victor Navasky; April 30, 1999, Avec: A Journal of Writing, reading; May 20, 1999, C.D. Wright & Camille Guthrie, poetry reading. September 23 - October 30, 1999; Anne Dunn, paintings. October 28, 1999, Tom Breidenbach & Jonathan Goodman, poetry reading. November 6 - December 10, 1999: James Gilroy, information paintings and drawings "Don't Let Go," a digital documentary with James Gilroy & Larry Clark. November 18, 1999: Bernadette Mayer & Dan Machlin, poetry reading. January 24th 2000: Dactyl Screening Room Benefit Honorary Chair: John Ashbery Curators: John Bissell, Willem Dafoe, Sean Gullette, Lyle Hysen, Elizabeth LeCompte, David Levine, Kate Valk. Committee: Anurag Bhargava co-chair, Debra Scherer co-chair, Henry Buhl, Michael Caruso, Tom Fontana, Massi Ghausi, Agnes Gund, Eva Herzigova, Sarah Lee, Rick Montgomery, David Sussman, Hillary & Bradley Thomas, David Thorpe, Jed Weintrob. Projects: Darren Aronofsky, Peter Care, Larry Clark, James Crutchfield, Jim Findlay, Michael Galinsky, Suki Hawley, Lewis Klahr, Ken Kobland, Alex McDowell, Jon Moritsugu, Ret.Inevitable, Richard Sandler, Leslie Thornton, Todd Solondz, Brett Vapnek, The Wooster Group. February 10, 2000: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge and Krysia Jopek, poetry reading. February 28th, 2000: "The Gods of Times Square" a documentary by Richard Sandler March 4--April 1, 2000: Peter Begley, sculpture. March 14, 2000: Letters from Alphaville by Raphael Rubinstein, poetry reading. March 16, 2000: Artists 4 Ireland, poetry reading. St Paddy's Jam 2000 Colum McCan, Tom Kelley and friends. March 30, 2000: Reception for the Antioch Review with Cynthia Fuchs Epstein. April 4--6, 2000: Retrodiction The History of Chaos in Literature, Science and Art April 4th & 5th: Angus Fletcher, (CUNY) on Spenser's "Mutability Cantos" and the poetry of John Ashbery April 6th: John Ashbery, (Bard College) poetry reading. Jim Crutchfield, (Santa Fe Institute) on the physics of chaos. Joan Richardson, (CUNY) on science & poetry, & Angus Fletcher, (CUNY) respondent. more information. May 12, 2000: The Figures Press & Roof Press, book party. May 15th, 2000: Shirtsleeves, a short film by Bruce Bennett, Ode, a film by Kelly Reichardt July-August-September 2000 Artist Search Project; August 12, 2000 Poetry Reading/Open Mic September 23, 2000 Artist Search Project; September 28, 2000 John Reed, reception A Still Small Voice; October-November 2000 Alexandra Wiesenfeld, paintings and works on paper, with a screening of "The Look of Love," a digital mini-doc about the artist; October 16, 2000 murmur journal, reception, volume ii includes works by Ashbery, Fletcher, Hollo, Ni Dhomhnaill, and Ramsdell; October 19, 2000 Gad Hollander's the palaver transcription, poetry screening; November 16, 2000 John Yau & Vincent Katz, poetry reading; November 28, 2000 Carter Ratcliff & Kenneth Koch, poetry reading; December 6, 2000 John Ashbery, reception Your Name Here and Other Traditions; December 8, 2000 Studio Semester in New York and Empire State College, anniversary reception; December 15-22, 2000 BookFair Limited editions, hand-made bindings, Poetry and Literary Fiction; January 10, 2001 Norman Jewison, film screening; February 6, 2001 Publication party celebrating Edizioni Mazzotta's monograph on Norman Bluhm; February 15, 2001 Brett Vapnek, film screening. Dream Machine starring Mary Timony; February 22, 2001 Ken Kobland, video screening; March 10, 2001 Washington Market School, "small works 11" children's art exhibition; March 15, 2001 Richard Sandler, film screening, The Gods of Times Square. April 4, 2001 Richard Howard and Susan Wheeler, poetry reading. Antioch Review 60th Anniversay Celebration; April 7-May 21, 2001: Judy Glantzman, paintings & drawings. April 26, 2001 6:30: Public Lecture: "The Poet, The Critic, & The Interpreter: A Crash Course," Angus Fletcher (Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate School, CUNY), Respondents: Nico Israel (Asst. Prof, English, Hunter College, CUNY; critic, Artforum International Magazine) and Victoria N. Alexander (Dactyl Foundation). May 10, 2001: book party with The Figures: On the Nameways (Vol.2) by Clark Coolidge, My Terza Rima by Michael Gizzi, Push The Mule by John Godfrey, Savage Baggage by Roger Mitchell, The Drift of Things by Terence Winch, Roof: Christophe Tarkos: Ma Langue est Poetique--Selected Writings, Vocoder by Judith Goldman, Free Will by Craig Watson, Pen Chants By Lissa Wolsak. June 7th & 8th: Metropolis, film screening, Fritz Lang's 1926 landmark silent sci-fi film, With a new soundtrack by electronic musician Jeff Mills, with moderators: Anuj Desai, Editor in Chief, Black Book Magazine; Tara Anderson, Dactyl Foundation, presented by Black Book Magazine and Dactyl Foundation; July 7, 2001, Memorial service for Keenan Milton with video screening; June, July, and August, 2001, Artist Search Project, call for artists, Turning on Turner. Sunday, September 23 2001, Laird Hunt, The Impossibly (Coffee House Press). September 28, 2001, "History, Memory, Trauma," a public lecture by Dominick LaCapra, recipient of the Dactyl award for aesthetic theory. October 26, 2001, Greenroom / Mayfly Theater Company, Benefit. November 3 - December 8, 2001 Mike Piscitelli, Devolution. November 10, 2001, "Nabokov, Evolution, and Insect Mimicry" a public lecture by Victoria Alexander. Saturday, December 15 - 21, Poetry BookFair, reading Friday 14th. Feb 5, 2002 Diane Torr in Discussion. Drag King Ambassador to the World. Feb 19, 2002 Laura Biagi: A performance of Italian Folk Songs. Feb 22, 2002 poet-critics, Michael Davidson and John Taggart. Feb 26, 2002 Editing Panel and Screening New York Women in Film and Television; March 16-April 14, 2002, Emily Orling, paintings; March 26, 2002, Budoflux, performance and lecture; April 10, 2002, Suely Rolnik, public lecture on Brazilian artist Lygia Clark; April 20, 2002; small works 12 An exhibition of art by the students of The Washington Market School; May 4-25, 2002100 More Jokes from The Book of the Dead, exhibition of hand-colored etchings and poetry by Archie Rand and John Yau (Meritage Press) Also celebrating the release of My Heart Is That Eternal Rose Tattoo (Black Sparrow), Borrowed Love Poems (Penguin) by John Yau, Simply Separate People by Lynn Crawford, edited by John Yau (Black Square), Me with Animal Towering by Albert Mobilio, edited by John Yau (Black Square); and Bayart by Pascalle Monnier, translated by Cole Swensen, edited by John Yau (Black Square); May 9, 2002, Journey to the West: Chinese Medicine Today, a documentary film by Big Mouth Productions; May 14, 2002,Poetry reading with Meena Alexander, celebrating the release of Illiterate Heart; Introduction by Tricia Lin; May 17, 2002, Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s,ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. 26 essays on contemporary avant garde poetries. Book release & panel discussion with Charles Borkhuis,Lee Ann Brown, Jeff Derksen, Jeff Hansen, Bill Howe, Andrew Levy, Eileen Myles, Leonard Schwartz, Juliana Spahr, Brian Kim Stefans, Gary Sullivan, & Elizabeth Willis; Tuesday, May 21, 2002, Antioch Review Readings with James Purdy and Jeffery Renard Allen; June 1-29, 2002 Point & Shoot, a collection of T-4 photography by pro-skaters, Alex Corporan, Elska Sandor, Giovanni Estevez, A-Ron the Don, Suekwon, Shadi Perez, Giovanni Reda, Mike O'Meally, Keith & Anne Hufnagel, Todd Jordan, Aaron Meza, Athena Razo, Leo Fitzpatrick, Ryan McGinley, Angela Boatright, J2, Dave Ortiz, and Carla Ullman Reception: Saturday June 1, 2002, 7-10pm; June 4, 5, 6, 2002 Mayfly Theater Company; June 25, 2002 7pm Screening: Transportation, an episode of Rizoma by Professor Fernando Salis of The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil An integrated television program and internet site for debate and communitarian action onenvironmental issues; July 13, 2002 6pm Imaginary Architecture: Part I SkyFi A video tribute to the power of art direction and scenic design By Sean Gullette Featuring architectural installation by Yumi Moriwaki, Casey Mack, Kostas Seremeties; ; September 3 - 28, 2002 Jim Gilroy, paintings Before & After 9/11 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7th, 6-8pm; Thursday, September 12, 2002, 7:30 John Ashbery & Gerrit Henry, poetry reading; September 23, Larry Clark, Premier New York film screening of Ken Park; Saturday September 28, 2002 Short Video Show, 7:30-9:00pm "Business and Pleasure" by Maria Antelman and George Drivas "Insomnium" by Craig MacNeil "Stillspeed" by Georg Steinboeck "EX" by Andreas Troeger and Dactyl Foundation award recipient, "'Intersocial Volition' (Theirs and Ours)" by Tina Landis ; Wednesday, October 2 6:30pm Screening "Rockets Redglare!" a documentary by Luis Fernandez de la Reguera; October 5 - November 12 Yelena Yemchuk, photography "Phenomena+Existence No. 1" Opening: Saturday, October 5th, 6-8pm; Friday Oct 25th, 2002 7pm Josip Novakovich, reading; Friday, November 8th 2-4 pm panel discussion on new ways of interrogating dichotomies in the sciences Hosted at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, Room 5409, by the 20th Century Group & Dactyl Foundation Panelists: Susan Oyama (Philosophy of Biology), Victoria N. Alexander (Narrative Theory), and Sharon Lattig (Poetics). ; Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002 7-9pm: Black Wine Film Screening ; November 16- December 7, 2002 The Freshjive Mad Dog Chronicles, a retrospective interview with professional skater Tony Alva featuring the photography of Wynn Miller Opening Saturday Nov 16th, 6-8 pm; December 7 - 21, 2002 Front Hall Book Fair Limited editions, hand-made, Poetry and Literary Fiction. Open reading Dec. 6th -6-8pm; February 1-28, 2003; erotic drawings by Neil Grayson Proceeds to Benefit Dactyl Foundation Reception/Fundraising Benefit, Feb. 14th, 6-9pm ; Saturday, March 8, 2003 Washington Market School, "small works" children's art exhibition ; Wednesday, March 19 Guy Shahar Screening; Saturday, March 22nd, 7-9pm Book release party for Victoria N. Alexander, Naked Singularity ; Saturday, March 29 Obscure Publications 7-9pm; April 22-May 10 Group Show. Peter Begley, Judy Glantzman, Jim Gilroy, Emily Orling and Yelena Yemchuk; Thursday, May 8th at 7pm Memorial for Gerrit Henry Readings by Neil Grayson, John Ashbery, Susan Baran, Marc Cohen, David Lehman, Maggie Paley, Bill Sullivan, John Wells, Tom Breidenbach, Audrey Ushenko, and Ellen Banks ; Sunday, May 18th, 2pm The Secret Agent adapted & directed by Richard Kimmel,featuring Tony Torn as Secret Agent Verloc and Wayne Adams, Dominique Bousquet, Steve Cuiffo, Andrew Garman, Jordan Lage, and Gary Wilmes. Development of THE SECRET AGENT is supported in part by a grant from NYSCA's Individual Artist Program; Thursday, May 22nd Antioch Review fund-raiser, 6:30-7:30pm drinks and hors d'oeuvres, 7:30-8:30pm readings by Katherine Vaz and Henry Van Dyke.; May 23-June 28, 2003 Opening: Friday, May 23rd Heroes and Villains, skateboard designs. Curated by Jon Buscemi, Matt Sohl, Michelle Harb, and Jason Dill; Friday, June 6th 7pm Discussion: Trauma at Home: After 9/11 (University of Nebraska Press, 2003) Readers will include: Jim Berger, Elizabeth Baer, Donna Bassin, Judith Greenberg (editor), Marianne Hirsch, Irene Kacandes, E. Ann Kaplan, Nancy K. Miller, and Richard Stamelman; Thursday, July 17th 7pm Poetry Readings, The Genius of (Mis)Translation Series Joshua Beckman and Pierre Joris ;September 13th - November 8th, 2003 Judy Glantzman, monoprints & drawings; October 29th Fundraiser for Fence Press, 7-10 pm; Thursday, October 30th 7pm Poetry Readings, The Genius of (Mis)Translation Series. Jen Hofer, Mónica Nepote, Cristina Rivera-Garza, and Laura Solórzano. Partial support for this series has been provided by the New York State Council on the Arts and the Mexican Consulate; November 20 - 29th, 2003 Marc Baptiste, Book Release and Photography Exhibition; December 9, 2003 6-8pm Kids from The Point Art Exhibition, curated by Michael Glazebrook; Dec 12 Private Party Museum for African Art; Tuesday, Dec 16th, 6-8 Book Release Party for Raphael Rubinstein Polychrome Profusion: Selected Art Criticism 1990-2002; Saturday, March 13, 2004 Genius of (Mis)Translation Series with David Hinton, a translator of ancient Chinese poetry, Cecilia Vicuña, a Chilean poet who performs multilingually, & John Thompson, who plays the guqin, a musical instrument of China's ancient poets; Saturday, March 20, 2004, 2-5pm
Washington Market School, "small works" children's art exhibitionThursday April 15, 2004
Dactyl celebrates the release of A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the Environment, and the Future of Imagination by Angus Fletcher (Harvard University Press)
wine and hors d'oeuvres 6:45 p.m.
presentation 7 p.m.
suggested donation $8
Amid gloomy forecasts of the decline of the humanities and the death of poetry, Angus Fletcher, a wise and dedicated literary voice, sounds a note of powerful, tempered optimism. He lays out a fresh approach to American poetry at large, the first in several decades, expounding a defense of the art that will resonate well into the new century.May 7, 2004, 10th Anniversary Celebration with Sarabande Books
Sarabande is a nonprofit literary press, founded in early 1994 to publish poetry, short fiction, and literary essays--genres which increasingly have trouble finding a place in the for-profit world.May 17th Private Party
Monday, June 28, 2004, 7 p.m.
Memoirs of my Nervous Illness film screening
Directed by Julian Hobbs
Admission: $8 suggested donation
Drinks will be served. Seating is limited so please RSVP email@dactyl.org and arrive fifteen minutes prior to the screening to assure your seat/s.
Memoirs of My Nervous Illness is a captivating drama set at the dawn of the 20th century in a world of religious fervor, paranoia and sexual awakening. This feature film examines the startling psychological profile of the renowned Daniel Paul Schreber, whose psychosomatic exploration of different genders, documented in a journal during his incarceration in a mental asylum, served as the source for Sigmund's Freud's unsettling investigations of paranoia.Playing Schreber is played by the dynamic Jefferson Mays -- a Tony Award winner, currently on Broadway in a remarkable solo performance in I Am My Own Wife, a multiple award winning play.Thursday, July 15, 2004 7-9p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series
Readers: Timothy Liu, Robert Siek, Debra R. Andrews, Rene N. Hargrove, Joel Gold, Celest Woo, Justin Lacour, Laura Rothenberg, Jane Ormerod, Rich Newman, Ilene Starger, Richard Fein and Peter Covino.Thursday, July 22, 2004 7p.m.
Dreams of Sparrows film screening. A documentary that follows first time Iraqi director Hayder Mousa Daffar and his team of contributing directors as they share their vision of life in Baghdad, post war and pre reconstruction. As the story begins, Hayder Jabbar, one of the several Iraqi directors chosen by Daffar to contribute to the documentary portrait, explains his involvement in the project. Jabbar thanks his savior George Bush, whom he loves. Jabbar's convictions introduce the essential divide within Iraqi psychology that the movie follows as it develops from the aftermath of war, the capture of Saddam and the realization of long term occupation. The discourse is maintained through an inquiry into the arts and culture of Baghdad, drawing the viewer into intimate and powerful encounters with Iraqi painters, writers, filmmakers. As the production continues, the interviews increasingly veer towards the politics of occupation and resistance, concluding with the reclaiming of Falluja by local militias and the devastating and graphic killing of one of the crew members by US marines. In somber self interviews made following the production, the filmmakers reveal the dramatic changes in their characters and beliefs, changes caused not only by the situation in Iraq, but also by the process of documenting it.August 3-11 preview
Thursday, August 12, 2004 6-9p.m.
Art Auction benefiting Poor People's Economic Human Rights Campaign fundraising committee: Mark Webber, Leo Fitzpatrick, James Ransone, John Buffalo Mailer, William Upski Wimsatt and Brendan Sexton III. Artists include: Ray Abary, Harvey Finkle, Tim Lynch, Melissa Farley, Squire Fox, Patrick Maisano, Melinda Stickney-Gibson, and Judy Glantzman. Curated by Gael Abary and Liz Ronk. More infoFriday, August 13, 2004 7p.m.
FOOD ON EARTH a documentary film in progress by david kaplowitz
www.thirdstonefilms.orgThursday, August 19, 2004 7-9p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series
Readers:Jane Ormerod, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Rich Newman, Ilene Starger, Debra R. Andrews, Robert Siek, Todd Cincala, Steven Matrick, Margarita Shalina, Karl Lorenzen, Christian Georgesco, Justin Lacour and Joselyn Almeida Beveridge.Thursday, Sept 9, 2004, 7p.m.
Kate Earl Acoustic Performance
Hosted by Mike Piscitelli, Record Collection Music
$10 suggested donation; Drinks will be served.
Wednesday, September 29, 7 p.m.
Josip Novakovich, reads from his novel, April Fool's Day.
The Utne Reader named Novakovich one of the ten writers who are changing our world-view, and Kirkus Reviews dubbed him one of the best short story writers of the 1990s. Novakovich has received the Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Book Award, multiple National Endowment for the Arts grants, and an O. Henry Award. Both a political satire and a parody of war, April Fool's Day is about Ivan Dolinar, a man whose life begins, auspiciously, on April Fool's Day, 1948. Caught in the crosscurrents of senseless wars, ridiculous dictators, and the usual-and-unusual-difficulties of just trying to get by in the Balkans, Ivan Dolinar quickly discovers that even the best of intentions can backfire.
Thursday, September 30, 2004 7p.m.
Ecopoetics: poetry reading / discussion with Marcella Durand & Lytle Shaw
Introduction by Victoria N. Alexander. Ecopoetics combines ecology, the study of the patterns of relations between individuals and their environments, with poetics, the study of the form and structure of poetry. An ecopoet is anyone who shows an ecological understanding of the environment or whose poetry reflects the self-organized structure of natural processes. Please join us for a discussion of ecopoetics, which offers an exciting alternative to postmodern theories of poetry.
Wednesday, October 6, 6:30- 8:30pm.
A Fundraiser/ Cocktail Party to benefit The Trials of Darryl Hunt
a film by Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Documentary work-in-progress
A feature documentary about a brutal rape/murder case and a wrongly convicted man, Darryl Hunt, who spent nearly twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Both a social justice story and a personally driven narrative, the film explores the bitter legacy of race and class in America, and its harrowing impact on a man accused. This exclusive look at one man's loss and redemption challenges the assumption that all Americans have the right to unbiased justice. Darryl Hunt escaped the death penalty and is alive today to share his experience with us. PLEASE COME MEET DARRYL HUNT AND MARK RABIL, THE LAWYER WHO FOUGHT FOR HIS RIGHTS. Please consider making a contribution to the project. Make checks payable to ARTS ENGINE, Memo "The Trials of Darryl Hunt." Contributions are 100% tax-deductible as required by law. Funding has been provided by New York State Council for the Arts, IFP/Anthony Radziwill Documentary Fund and Big Woods Foundation.Thursday, October 7, 2004, 7-9p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets SeriesOctober 16 - Nov 30, 2004
Dreamreaders, Works on Paper Yelena Yemchuk
Opening Reception: Saturday Oct 16th, 6 PM.
Ukrainian-born fine art photographer Yelena Yemchuk has contributed to major publications including Japanese & Italian Vogue, ID magazine, and W and worked on campaigns such as Dries Van Noten and Cacharel. Her fashion photography is influenced by her art background, which allows her to create painterly, richly-colorful compositions that flirt with the surreal. In rock portraiture, Yelena has lent some of her fey charm to a number of celebrated performers, most recently former Hole bassist Melissa Auf Der Mau. In general, her still photographs seem to prefigure a tantalizing future by capturing moments in narrative time, and suggest a deep love for story-telling, as seen in some of her early work: the haunting silent movie/carnival imagery of Smashing Pumpkins' videos that she directed.
For those who have been intrigued by her work, there will be a special opportunity to glimpse the Dæmons motivating the characters she has created on film. The Dactyl Foundation will exhibit 37 paintings by Yelena, exposing the raw imagination that underlies the strange and fascinating imagery of her photographs. Yelena has had a number of fine art photography exhibitions, including a solo exhibition at Dactyl Foundation in 2002 and a group exhibition at Sotheby's, also in 2002, but this is the first time that her paintings will be shown to the public. While Yelena the photographer works wonders with what actually exists, Yelena the painter can express the impossible. Her acrylic-on-paper compositions bring to life a world populated by Aesop's fable-like creatures and characters from Ukrainian folk tales. Her paintings are sometimes ironic and whimsical and sometimes cutting and caustic. Circus performers, cats in tutus, and crafty birds plot sinister misdemeanors and make general mischief. The characters and their interactions are complex. In one painting, a brown mutt protecting a blue ball looks worried as pregnant humanoid blue bird whispers in his ear, while surreptitiously reaching for his prize. In another, a dog has a rubber chicken and a bag of money that a gray cat seems to want. The execution is rich and painterly: green undertones deepen flesh tones. With simple strokes of her brush, she creates complicated and intelligent expressions. Her theme is secrecy: there is always so much going on that we never see.
Fellow visionary Billy Corgan chose one of her paintings for the cover of his new poetry collection, Blinking with Fists, published by FSG.Thursday, November 11, 2004, 7-9p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series
Readers: Brian Unger, Peter Carravetta, Ilene Starger, Jane Ormerod, Rich Newman, Maya Pindyck, and Alexis Beeth.Saturday, January 22, 2005, 6-8 p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series featuring poet Lance Phillips
Lance Phillips holds degrees from the University of North Carolina and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His first book, Corpus Socius, was published in 2002 by Ahsahta Press and his second, Cur aliquid vidi was released this past December from the same. His work has appeared in Aufgabe, Colorado Review, Fence, and Slope among others. He lives in Charlotte, NC.Thursday, February 17, 2005, 7-9 p.m.
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series
Readers: Joel Allegretti, Debra Andrews, Deanna Barillari, Peter Emile, Richard Fein, Douglas Korb, Karl Lorenzen, Albert Min, Robert Siek, Ilene Starger and Nate Stengrevics.Wednesday, March 2, 2005, 6-8 p.m.
Harbinger & Dactyl Foundation Presents: Short Film Screening Series
Screening followed by Q+A with the filmmakerHeld on a quarterly basis, the screening series promotes the short film genre and provides an unprejudiced platform for filmmakers to screen their work in an intimate Q+A setting.
Films are judged by the audience and the winners of the year round series are announced at the end of each annual term.
For questions contact Andrew Wilder: (212) 845 8186 or Thuy Tran: (212) 219 2344Saturday, March 26, 6-8 pm
Open Mic/Emerging Poets Series
$8 donation; Drinks will be served.
Open to all writers and the general public.
Poets are encouraged to register: write Maria Villafranca at poetry@verseonvellum.com. There will be a short break in between the readings. Poets plan to read for about 10 minutes; 3 poems.
Current readers: Rich Newman, Karl Lorenzen, Peter Emile, Patricia Carragon, Jane Ormerod, Ilene Starger, Sheela Wolford, Richard Fein, Ondi Mcmaster, George Paterson, Ice, Lourdes Vazquez and Debra Andrews.
Exhibition April 2 - 30. (Closed April 15 -18) Opening: Saturday, April 2, 6-9 pm
Works on Paper by Bill Alpert.
In the 80s, Bill Alpert was known as a creator of "constructs" (painted 3-dimensional objects hung on the wall) and exhibited at a prominent SoHo gallery. After his gallery closed and he suffered some personal misfortunes, Alpert began painting for himself, as he says. The work is nonrepresentational, but many of the pieces elicit a Rorschach-test-like response. Some of the patterns in the paint were naturally formed by various kinds of differentiation processes as they dried, recalling nature's patterns in the mountains of China and the Amazon Rainforest that inspired his work. For twenty years, Alpert has painted daily. Today, navigating his 2000 SF SoHo AIR studio is like walking through the rough terrain of his complex mind. Stacked to the rafters, Alpert's works on paper form innumerable art chimneys leaving little space in his loft for personal use. Alpert's compulsiveness is one of the marks of true artistic temperament and Dactyl Foundation is paying tribute to his dedication to his art.April 16, 2005 Washington Market School, "small works 11" children's art exhibition.
Sunday, April 17, 12:00 - 1:30 PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. Conversation with Ha Jin. Requires a Festival Pass in advance from PEN
May 6, 2005 CUBA Arts NY & NJ Auction
May 11th 6:30-9:30 Cocktail Fundraiser to benefit Theatre Arts Production Company
TAPco, a theater arts middle school in the Bronx serving economically disadvantaged students. Private event featuring students' work, passed hors d'oeuvres and cocktails.May 19th 6:30-9:30 2005, Second Annual Spring Fling Benefit for the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning
A progressive educational program for elementary school children in the Bronx. Private event featuring passed hors d'oeuvres and cocktails.May 23-25 PBS taping
June 2005 A History of Shut Skateboard Company, curated by Alex Corporan with photos by Spike Jonze et al.
Poetics-Cognitive Science Colloquy
September 16-18, 2005
Among the disciplines informing cognitive poetics, neuroscience has been undersung and underutilized, a trend that seems to suggest imminent remedy. Indeed, the recent experimental and theoretical advances offered by neuroscience question the traditional judgment that literary knowledge is incompatible with scientific knowledge. What insights might detailed attention to the neuronal activity of the brain lend to the creative process? Might this directionality be reversed, that is, might the complex structures interrogated by poetics yield a formal understanding that could, in turn, shed light on neuroscientific problems?
Related questions which might be addressed include: What role do the complexity sciences play in understanding the emergence of consciousness and, by extension, emergent meaning in creative works? What, if anything, is to be gained through empirical approaches to literary texts? How might such approaches be implemented? Many readers praise texts for speaking to a reader's "spiritual" side. Can a study in cognitive poetics help clarify and redefine what is meant by this term? or by other phenomena often deemed inaccessible to science, such as a poem's "irrational" or "artistic" qualities? Can post-structuralist theory be helpfully rearticulated in neuroscientific terms? Is the oft-observed variable nature of literary meaning analogous to brain processes exhibiting similar transitory behaviors? Can the same be said of more stable qualities and behaviors?
This conference is intended to be a small, select gathering of scholars interested in probing these questions, collaborating on research, and reporting relevant findings in their respective fields. Participants will include: literary theorists, neuroscientists, writers, artists, cognitive scientists of various disciplines, e.g., linguistics, physical psychology, social psychology, and the philosophy of mind.