IN THE LOUNGE Experiments & Disorders Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford
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About This Show
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers. Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford.
Featuring Neil Goldberg & Jennifer Firestone
About the Artists
Neil Goldberg makes visual art and performance work that focuses on embodiment, sensing, mortality and the everyday. He’s shown this work at MoMA, The New Museum, The Museum of the City of New York, The Kitchen, and elsewhere. The NY Times described his work as “tender, moving and sad but also deeply funny,” and Time Out New York wrote “Goldberg has produced some of the most quietly intense and affecting art of his generation.”
Jennifer Firestone is an Assistant Professor at the New School’s Eugene Lang College. Her books include TEN, (BlazeVOX, forthcoming), Gates & Fields (Belladonna* Collaborative), Swimming Pool (DoubleCross), Flashes(Shearsman), Holiday (Shearsman), Waves (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs), from Flashes and snapshot (Sona Books) and Fanimaly (Dusie). Firestone co-edited Letters To Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Politics and Community (Saturnalia). Firestone has work anthologized in Kindergarde: Avant-Garde Poems, Plays, Songs, & Stories for Children and Building is a Process / Light is an Element: essays and excursions for Myung Mi Kim. Firestone won the 2014 Marsh Hawk Press’ Robert Creeley Memorial Prize.
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Credits
This event is funded in part by the Axe Houghton Foundation, and Poets & Writers with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Photo credit:
Amanda Field (for Jennifer)