Readings in/around KEROTAKIS
Celebrate the release of KEROTAKIS (Dog Horn Publishing, 2010), Janice Lee’s postmodern exploration of consciousness, form and narrative, as it follows the journey of G.I.L.L.
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7:30 PM Saturday, June 26
131 N. Avenue 50 / Highland Park, CA 90042
KEROTAKIS is a contemporary reimagining of Frankenstein that takes us forwards, backwards and sideways through time and space:
With enormous tenderness and craft – – (this writer is a design genius in a way that extends to the wiring of the lines themselves) – Lee asks her readers: What erodes an originating point? Why do people disappear? What brings a body back to the optic and sensate domains, where it thrives, where it has a love, where it had a mother?
(Bhanu Kapil)
Beyond the graphic, philosophical, narrative and poetic splendors of Janice Lee’s dazzling generic experiment Kērotakis is a more cruel beauty and a more devastating realization—that the multifarious speculation of consciousness in manipulative exile and in heartbreaking dialogue with its origin and its future is, and always has been, consciousness itself.
(Jon Wagner)
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The evening will include readings/performances by:
Vanessa Place
Matias Viegener
Teresa Carmody
Anna Joy Springer
Will Alexander
and Janice Lee.
MC: Laura Vena
Light refreshments will be served, books will be available for purchase.