[Yale-readings] August 15: Drunken Boat Multimedia Blowout at Hygienic Art Park in New London

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Drunken Boat at the Hygienic Art Park
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
79 Bank St.
New London, CT 06320
http://www.hygienic.org/

Drunken Boat , international online journal of the arts, celebrates its
tenth anniversary at the Hygienic Art Park in New London, (79 Bank Street,
New London, CT 06320) on Saturday, August 15th from 7:00 to 10:00 pm by
featuring a multimedia blowout.

Featuring Mat Bevel, from the Surrealistic Pop Science Theatre in Tucson, AZ
and the maestero of ³a gizmotronic fanfare of spunk, funk and kinetic junk,²
as well as rare video footage of Charles Olson, father of the Maximus Poems
and the Black Mountain School, Harlem native and vocal deconstructor Latasha
Natasha Diggs, a short film from Guggenheim Fellow and stereoscopic
projectionist Zoe Beloff, and literary stylings from the translator of Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight Adam Golaski, Larissa Shmailo the 2009 New
Century Music Award Winner for spoken word with jazz, electronica, and rock,
web artist Steve Ersinghaus, PEN/Faulkner award winner and screenplay writer
Sabina Murray and New London¹s own native son, novelist and frequent
contributor the New York Times, Rand Richards Cooper. Share drinks and an
evening of literary alchemy and intermedia performance.

Suggested Donation $10
 
Featuring: 

Mat Bevel   

Mat Bevel a.k.a. Ned Schaper is a kinetic sculptor and performance artist
living in Tucson, AZ. He created the Mat Bevel Institute in 1992 as a venue
for the visionary arts. Founded on the principles of Available Resource
Technology, his patented method of making anything from nothing, the MBI is
now home to Bevelvision, internet video production company, featuring the
³Museum Of Kinetic ART,² the official interactive interface of the Mat Bevel
Institute.  Mat¹s joining us through the magic of live video.
 

LaTasha Natasha Diggs

Writer, vocalist, and sound artist, Latasha N. Nevada Diggs is the author of
three chapbooks which include Ichi-Ban, Ni-Ban,and Manuel is destroying my
bathroom, as well as the album, Televisíon. Her work has been published
internationally and she has received numerous scholarships, residencies, and
fellowships from, among others, Cave Canem, Caldera Arts, New York
Foundation for the Arts, Harlem Community Arts Fund, and the Barbara Deming
Memorial Grant for Women. LaTasha currently curates and directs literary and
musical events with The Black Rock Coalition Orchestra.

 

Zoe Beloff   
Zoe Beloff works with a variety of cinematic imageryincluding:  stereoscopic
film, projection performance and video installation. Her projects
investigate the space where technology intersects with unconscious desire.
Her work has been exhibited internationally. Venues include: The Museum of
Modern Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, the Rotterdam Film festival,
Pacific Film Archives and the Pompidou Center. Her exhibition ³Dreamland:
The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972² is
currently on view at the Coney Island Museum.

 

Adam Golaski 

Adam Golaski is the author of Worse Than Myself, a collection of strange
stories, and Color Plates, a ³museum² that houses connected little stories
drawn from the paintings of Manet, Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Cassatt. He
is an associate editor at Open Letters, an online critical journal.Adam
edits New Genre, a journal of horror and science fiction and he¹s
co-publisher of the experimental poetry press Flim Forum. His poetry,
fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in widely in both literary magazines
and anthologies.

 

Larissa Shmailo  

Larissa Shmailo's new collection of poetry is In Paran. Larissa is the
winner of the 2009 New Century Music Awards for spoken word with jazz,
electronica, and rock; her poem "Warsaw Ghetto" won Best Spoken Word track.
Larissa's translation of the Russian transrational opera Victory over the
Sun is part of the collections of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the
Hirschorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute, and the Los Angeles County
Museum of Modern Art. She has been published in numerous journals and
anthologies.  

 

Steve Ersinghaus  

Steve Ersinghaus is a digital artist, poet, and fiction writer.  He is the
author, with Carianne Mack, of 100 Days: 100 drawings 100 poems, Stoning
Field, a hypermedia fiction , The Life of Geronimo Sandoval, a novel in
hypertext, and That Night (Drunken Boat 10).  He teaches writing,
literature, and new media at Tunxis Community College in Farmington,
Connecticut. 

 

 

Rand Richards Cooper is the author of The Last to Go and Big As Life. His
fiction has appeared in Harper¹s, GQ, Esquire, and many other magazines, and
he is a film critic for Commonweal and longtime travel writer for Bon
Appétit. A New London native, Rand is a graduate of Harbor School, St.
Joseph School, and the Williams School, and now lives in Hartford with his
wife, Molly, and three-year old daughter, Larkin. He is a former columnist
for the New London Day, and currently writes a blog about fatherhood, ³Dad
on a Lark,² for Wondertime.com.

 

Sabina Murray is the author of the novels A Carnivore¹s Inquiry , Slow Burn,
and Forgery .  Her short story collection The Caprices received the 2002
PEN/Faulkner award.  Her stories are anthologized in The Norton Anthology of
Short Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead II. She received the Fred R. Brown
Award in 2008 and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim foundation and
Radcliffe Institute.  She teaches at UMass Amherst.
 

 

*************** 
Ravi Shankar 
Ed., http://www.drunkenboat.com
Poet-in-Residence 
Associate Professor
CCSU - English Dept.
860-832-2766 
shankarr at ccsu.edu 



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