Janice Lee's Blog, page 19
April 16, 2014
Errata Salon: Slowness / April 24
Weird Essays, Unexpected Histories, Nonconformist Lectures, Works In Progress.
Monthly at Betalevel.
An Ongoing Nonfiction Reading Series
This Month: SLOWNESS
Janice Lee + Jared Woodland, David Eng, Jason Brown
Thursday, April 24th, at 8pm. Lectures start at 8:30
Free
Janice Lee + Jared Woodland
Apocalypse Withheld: Janice Lee & Jared Woodland will discuss the function of slowness and the long take in Béla Tarr’s Satantango.
David Eng
David Eng observes the glacial pace and urban space in Tsai Ming-liang’s short film Walker.
Jason Brown
zota brings the slow jamz, with an examination of layering and repetition in sound.
April 10, 2014
The Unknown Show / April 10
I’m reading/talking today on The Unknown Show hosted by Bud Smith. Along with Robert Vaughan, Michael Dickes, and Cort Bledsoe. The program starts at 7PM EST but for those on the west coast like me, it’s 4PM PST. I’ll be on at about 4:40PM PST.
7pm Robert Vaughan, author or Addicts and Basements
7:20 Michael Dickes, producer of Awkword Papercut
7:40 Janice Lee, author of Damnation
8:00 Cort Bledsoe, writer who means goddamn business, 100%
March 30, 2014
A Collaborative Nexus / April 19
19 April, Saturday – 4:00 PM
WILL ALEXANDER PRESENTS: A COLLABORATIVE NEXUS
Beyond Baroque’s poet-in-residence hosts an evening of poetry and collaboration, featuring his own work as well as the words of Janice Lee and Harold Abramowitz.
Beyond Baroque
681 Venice Blvd.
Venice, CA 90291
March 29, 2014
Human Resources / April 17
9PM, Thursday, April 17
Human Resources / 410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, CA
Words:
Joseph Mosconi
Janice Lee
Sounds:
Ted Byrnes
Corey Fogel
(spatial drum duo performance)
Sounds:
Marco Eneidi
Gabriel Lauber
March 20, 2014
Entropy Launches!
I’m beyond excited to be launching ENTROPY today with co-founder Peter Tieryas Liu. Check out the website for some great writings by Laura Vena, Peter Tieryas-Angela Xu, Kyle Muntz, Joseph Michael Owens, Narelle Ho Sang, Leif Haven, Maxi Kim! I’ve got a review of Sisyphus, Outdone by Nathanaël (Nightboat Books), among other amazing things. New content will be going up everyday.
ENTROPY:
A new website featuring literary and related non-literary content. A website that loves and builds off models such as HTMLGIANT, Kotaku, The Lit Pub, Gawker, & The Rumpus. A website that seeks to engage with the literary community, that becomes its own community, and creates a space for literary and non-literary ideas. A website that seeks to cover topics such as video games, graphic novels, interactive literature, science fiction, fantasy, music, film, art, and other topics in addition to literary reviews, interviews, conversations, and articles on experimental literature, translation, small press practices, and performance.
March 10, 2014
Molasses Books Reading / March 15
I’ll be reading at 7:30PM at Molasses Books in Brooklyn, NY with Carlos Richard Lara and Jessica Laser.
Molasses Books
770 Hart Street
Brooklyn, New York 11237
March 3, 2014
Hiding Place Reading in Philadelphia / March 17
I’ll be reading at 7:30PM at The Hiding Place Reading Series in Philadelphia long with the brilliant Sueyeun Juliette Lee.
319 N. 11th St, 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
More details forthcoming, but hope to see you there!
January 31, 2014
[out of nothing] #7 nothing but; time released
Announcing [out of nothing] #7, “time ⊕ (nothing ⇒ but)”. Šǝvat 2014.
Featuring new works in various media by: Bill Basquin, Elizabeth J. Colen, Boona Daroom, Benjamin Lambert, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Felipe W. Martinez, Abinadi Meza, Simon Perchik, Kathryn L. Pringle, Nate Pritts, Jon Rutzmoser, Andi Schmied, Tom Trudgeon, Tyrone Williams, and Michael Woody. The emcee for this issue is Feliz Lucia Molina.
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[out of nothing] is also open for submissions for Issue #8. Call for submissions here.
January 14, 2014
AWP, Seattle 2014 – Offsite Readings & Events / Feb 26 – Feb 28
Festival of Language AWP Reading
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
5:00pm – 10:00pm
Rock Bottom Restaurant and Brewery
Details Forthcoming
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eohippus labs & Poetry + Politics Imprint Book Release and Reading AWP Offsite
Thursday, February 27, 2014
7:00pm – 9:00pm
Barca Lounge
1510 11th Ave, Seattle, Washington 98122
A reading by contributors to the newly released Acts + Encounters and by the writers of eohippus labs. Hosted by Andrea Quaid & Harold Abramowitz w/ readings by Cole Cohen, Michelle Detorie, Tung-Hui Hu, Krystal Languell, Janice Lee, Juliana Leslie, Joseph Mosconi, Doug Nufer, Eireene Nealand, Vanessa Place, David Shook, and more TBA!
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Spooky Solar Birds (an AWP 2014 off-site reading)
Friday, February 28, 2014
3:30pm – 5:00pm
Left Bank Books Collective
92 Pike St, Seattle, Washington 98101
a reading hosted by Spooky Girlfriend Press, Birds of Lace and Solar Luxuriance! Featuring the following readers:
Leon Baham (BoL)
Samantha Cohen (BoL)
Lucas de Lima (BoL)
A. Minetta Gould (SGP)
Janice Lee (SL)
Nate Logan (SGP)
M Kitchell (SL)
Megan Milks (BoL)
Nicole Steinberg (SGP)
Kristen Stone (BoL)
Cassandra Troyan (SL)
Come for the readings, stay for the giveaways & cookies!
January 8, 2014
On Damnation at Montevidayo
A new review of Damnation is up by James Pate at Montevidayo.
Excerpt:
Damnation. In Lee’s book, it’s a kind of gravity, a weight pulling us into the mud, into a constant state of corruption. We’re all damned to this state of things. The lover, the machinist, the eerie girl and her cat, the doctor: all of the figures in this book live in the shadow of the guillotine (to quote Victor Hugo).
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Also, a nice mention at Jacket 2: “A same time speed Moyra Davey’s ‘The Problem of Reading’” by Ariel Goldberg & Rachel Levitsky:
I’m reading Damnation by Janice Lee, an ekphrasis of Béla Tarr’s films. It is a book that among other things addresses time and cinema, or image, against the time of narrative. Both of these writers pose the question of correspondence between the time of writing and the time of image. Take for example the case mentioned above, in which Davey switches from talking generally about the subject to talking about herself as the subject invoking herself by using a “she” pronoun. We know that the position of interpretation has shifted. You cannot make a pronoun of a character change in a photograph as you can in a progression of sentences. You can’t represent the writing in the photograph or the photograph in the writing but what Davey does do in both is produce a corresponding or same time, speed, and affect. Deeply contemplative. Sort of slow. At least steady. There is a trust to the next footfall, like a walking meditation. It’s a modernist time. Virginia Woolf. Calvino. I have no patience for Harold Bloom and I was interested in Davey’s patience with him, the crotchety adult with mean requirements versus pleasure, play, politics.
