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On Thursday evenings this March, join us for a series of virtual readings, screenings, and conversations to celebrate the essays included in Cookie Jar 1: Home is a Foreign Place.
Each event will take place between 7-8PM ET via ZOOM, and will consist of a presentation by the author(s), followed by a conversation between the authors, the series editors, and event attendees.
To receive the Zoom invitations, you must register via Eventbrite using the following link:
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
MARCH 2, 7-8PM ET
SHAKA MCGLOTTEN / RACIAL CHAIN OF BEING
In their pamphlet Racial Chain of Being: The More Things Change, The More Things Change, the anthropologist and media scholar Shaka McGlotten updates the chart of representations that was Donna Haraway’s provocation in “A Cyborg Manifesto,” in the process forging connections between familial legacy, Black radicalism, and the classroom.
For their Cookie Jar Talk, McGlotten will present a video adaptation of their essay, followed by a brief conversation moderated by Shiv Kotecha and Pradeep Dalal, series editors.
Registration via Eventbrite, here.
Download: Racial Chain of Being: The More Things Change, The More Things Change: PDF | epub
MARCH 16, 7-8PM ET
TAN LIN (THE FERN ROSE BIBLIOGRAPHY) and ARI HEINRICH (EJECTA)
This two-person event will feature readings by the poet and writer Tan Lin and the translator and writer Ari Larissa Heinrich, followed by a conversation about the links and divergences between their respective Cookie Jar contributions.
Lin’s The Fern Rose Bibliography blends autofiction and bibliographic method to meditate on the loss of the writer's parents through an exploration of his family’s books. Ari Larissa Heinrich’s Ejecta shuttles between various times and spaces—from the earth's surface, along a train ride across New York state and a junk shop in Fitzroy, Australia, to its inner, volcanic core—to unpack the geological strata trafficked by metaphoric language, and as a way to re-encounter the melanin sculptures of the artist Jes Fan.
For their Cookie Jar Talk, Heinrich and Lin will each read from their pamphlets, followed by a brief conversation moderated by Shiv Kotecha and Pradeep Dalal, series editors.
Registration via Eventbrite, here.
Download: The Fern Rose Bibliography: PDF | epub || Ejecta: PDF | epub
MARCH 23, 7-8PM ET
WILLIAM E. JONES / HE BROUGHT A SWASTIKA TO THE SUMMER OF LOVE
In He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love, the filmmaker, artist, and writer William E. Jones closely reads the fascist iconography in four films by the American avant-garde filmmaker Kenneth Anger—Fireworks, Invocation of My Demon Brother Scorpio Rising, and Lucifer Rising—for their prescient, unnerving connections to our contemporary political moment.
Jones will give a reading from his pamphlet, followed by a brief conversation moderated by Shiv Kotecha and Pradeep Dalal, series editors.
Registration via Eventbrite, here.
Download: He Brought a Swastika to the Summer of Love: PDF | epub
MARCH 30, 7-8PM ET
M. NEELIKA JAYAWARDANE / ‘THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT HISTORY’
In ‘This is not the correct history’: Lacunae, Contested Narratives, and Evidentiary Images from Sri Lanka's Civil War, the scholar M. Neelika Jayawardane questions the evidentiary nature of documentary photography foregrounding the slippery ethics of reading images of the decades-long civil war in Sri Lanka.
Jayawardane will give a reading from her pamphlet, followed by a brief conversation moderated by Shiv Kotecha and Pradeep Dalal, series editors.
Registration via Eventbrite, here.
How to join:
Each Cookie Jar event will be held over ZOOM. You must register at eventbrite to receive the ZOOM link.
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Please arrive 5-10 mins in advance to ensure you’re connected and ready to view the talk.
Each talk will be recorded for archival purposes and will be made available to view on our website.
The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant is committed to making our events programming inclusive and are working to improve and expand upon accessibility measures. Please send any questions or suggestions to cookiejar@artswriters.org.
