Dixon Place Presents Experiments & Disorders Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford
Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford
Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.
MEET THE AUTHORS
Josh Thorson is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. His video work has been screened at MoMA NYC, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rencontres Internationale (Paris/Berlin), MIX NYC, and Anthology Film Archives. Since 2008, he has created video projections for theater at Signature, American Repertory, Bard SummerScape, Crossing the Line/New Settings, St. Ann’s Warehouse, and most recently for Daniel Fish’s Tony Award Winning Broadway production of Oklahoma!, for which he received a Drama Desk Award nomination and an Obie Award Special Citation for his work. He has a BA in Film and Cultural Studies from the University of Minnesota, an MFA in Film/Video from Bard College, a Ph.D. in Electronic Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic, and is an Associate Professor in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT. He is currently working on his first novel, Busy Body.
Ama Birch is the author of “(Spirit),” “Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” “Faces in the Clouds,” “Sonnet Boom!,” “Ferguson Interview Project,” and a video game available for Android, “Space Quake by Ama Birch.” She has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the California Institute of the Arts. She has been published by Grove Atlantic, Great Weather for Media, Autonomedia, A Gathering of the Tribes, Vail/Vale, Vitrine, Insert Blanc Press, Live Mag!, Fellswoop, Apricity, Belladonna*, and The Brooklyn Rail. Birch did a residency at the Atlantic Center of the Arts.
Abeer Hoque is a Nigerian-born Bangladeshi American writer and photographer. She likes Mentos, ephemera, and biking around cities. Her books include a coffee table book (The Long Way Home, 2013), a linked collection of stories, poems, and photographs (The Lovers and the Leavers, 2015), and a memoir (Olive Witch, 2017). She has won fellowships from the NEA, Queens Council on the Arts, NYFA, and the Fulbright Foundation, and holds BS and MA degrees from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, and an MFA in writing from the University of San Francisco. See more at olivewitch.com.
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DP TV programs are free and participating artists are remunerated. Donations help support the community during this challenging time as DP continues to bring together visionary artists and adventurous audiences. If you can make a gift at this time, we’re very grateful for your consideration!
Tuesday, December 06, 2022, at 7:30pm
General Admission
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$10 at the door
Students/Seniors
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