Two Models of Inescapable Shock

Two Models of Inescapable Shock

Thursday 7 July 6-8pm

Marina Vishmidt and Anne Boyer in conversation
 

A Mute launch for:

Marina Vishmidt & Kerstin Stakemeier, Reproducing Autonomy, 2016

Anne Boyer, Garments Against Women, 2016
 

Richard Hoggart Building

Room 137a (main building)

Lewisham Way
London
SE14 6NW

About the books

Garments Against Women

ISBN: 978-1-906496-38-8

Boyer tests these conditions, putting their accidents on the page because others will have to go on doing so. She probes and tests, flinching, letting go and pushing on, up and downward. Made sick by ‘the supreme whateverness of upward moving depths’ – by the ‘unconstrained constraints’, the bullshit choice between happiness or infirmity – she senses what lies between the pages of the closed book (‘another veracity that includes conspiracy, corners, shadows, slantwise, evasion, unsayingness, negation, and under-the-beds?’) With her mind as the deadpan-logical mouse in this laboratory, Boyer tries to invert and hollow out the conditions, to lift the real from its carefully constructed frame.

– Mme Tlank

More information: http://www.metamute.org/editorial/books/garments-against-women

Reproducing Autonomy

ISBN: 978-1-906496-99-9

Countering liberal conceptions of the autonomous entrepreneurial subject, Kerstin Stakemeier and Marina Vishmidt side with those cast in the role of the heteronomous, such as domestic and reproductive workers. From the vantage point of reproductive labour, Stakemeier and Vishmidt make a compelling case for the ongoing relevance of the notion of autonomy in the context of art, beyond and against modernist accounts of self-sufficient artworks produced and received by self-sufficient subjects. Vishmidt and Stakemeier operate like true feminist materialists, looking more than a little bit closer, and tarrying with thought as a mode of praxis.

– Sven Lütticken

More information: http://www.metamute.org/editorial/books/reproducing_autonomy

 

Related Events

* 28th of June, 2016 at 7pm *

Anne Boyer reading at Booksa in Zagreb

Anne Boyer will read from Garments Against Women followed by a discussion with Dunja Kučinac and Luka Ostojić

Booksa, Martićeva 14/a, Zagreb, Croatia

* Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 7pm *

Berlin launch for Garments Against Women at Anagram Books

Anne Boyer will be reading from her new book Garments Against Women published by Mute

Anagram Books
Lausitzer Str.35
10999 Berlin

* Friday 8 July 2016 *

MATERIALS READING SERIES

POETRY
!!! Anne Boyer reading in Cambridge !!!

POETRY
David Grundy

PERFORMANCE
Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon, The Tragedy of Theresa May

08 July 2016
7 for a 7.30pm start
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, English Faculty, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge
Free drink

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ANNE BOYER
Anne Boyer is Kansas City-based. Her publications include The Romance of Happy Workers (2006) and My Common Heart (2011). Her most recent book, Garments Against Women (2015), has been described by The New York Times, a 'sad, beautiful, passionate book that registers the political economy of literature and of life itself.'

DAVID GRUNDY
David Grundy's publications include The Problem, the Questions, The Poem (2014), Whatever You Think the Good Home (2014) and To the Reader (2016). 'with no catch to hold / what floods through the door'.

LISA JESCHKE & LUCY BEYNON
The Tragedy of Theresa May is a sequel to David Cameron (2013).
 

* Saturday 9 July 2016 7pm-late *

Anne Boyer reading with Danny Hayward, Sacha Kahir, Hestia Peppe, Eirik Steinhoff and Keston Sutherland as part of Bad Feelings launch and party at T-Chances

Launching three new books:

Black Box: A Record of the Catastrophe, Bad Feelings, Anguish Language: Writing and Crisis

Tickets: £3 in advance. Unwaged donations
Advance tickets: http://tinyurl.com/zhwbqk7

Further Info: http://anguishlanguage.tumblr.com/

FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/1204461059585116/

T-Chances

399 High Rd,

London N17 6QN