HOT Festival Experiments & Disorders Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford. With Belladonna's Lesbian Allstars Syd Staiti, Bishakh Som, Jillian McManemin &  Erica Dawn Lyle

Curated by Tom Cole & Christen Clifford

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry & performance texts by the most adventurous, cross-genre established & emerging writers.

MEET THE AUTHORS

Syd Staiti is the author of Seldom Approaches (The Elephants, 2023) and The Undying Present(Krupskaya, 2015). Recent work is published in Baest, Tripwire, Social Text, and A Perfect Vacuum. Staiti is the director of Small Press Traffic and a collective member of Light Field.

Bishakh Som is the author of two graphic novels out in 2020: Apsara Engine, a collection of eight short stories, published by The Feminist Press. and Spellbound a graphic memoir published by Street Noise Books. Som is the illustrator of The Prefab Bathroom: An Architectural History, published by McFarldand. Their comics work have appeared in The New Yorker, We’re Still Here (The first all-trans comics anthology), Beyond, The Strumpet, The Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, VICE, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, Hi-horse, Blurred Vision, Pood, Specs, The Brooklyn Rail, Volume 3 of the Graphic Canon series from Seven Stories Press. Som received the prestigious Xeric grant in 2003 for their comics collection Angel.

Jillian McManemin is an art writer and artist living in New York. She has published work with Hyperallergic, ART PAPERS, The Broadcast, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB Magazine, PreCog Magazine, and many other art magazines and independent presses. She recently collaborated with  ARTPAPERS on reissuing Representing Lesbian Subjectivities (1994), originally guest edited by the artist Patricia Cronin.  
Jillian read her work at the Whitney Museum as part of the 2022 Whitney Biennial: As Quiet as It’s Kept, and has presented multimedia and performance work at Anthology Film Archives, The MET Live Arts, The Poetry Project, Dixon Place, Invisible Exports, the Knockdown Center, and other international venues. She starred in the arthouse feature The Cruel Tale of the Medicine Man in 2016, and co-starred and co-directed Confederitis in 2018. In 2020 she founded the Toppled Monuments Archive (TMA), an international digital archive for recorded toppled and defaced monuments. She has worked with a number of artists on editorial and archival projects including Denise Green, Judith Bernstein, Dread Scott, Saul Ostrow, and The Estate of David Smith, among others.
Jillian has just completed her first book, Sculpture Kills—auto theory that centers around fatal works of contemporary art. An excerpt of Sculpture Kills is forthcoming with Ursula in Fall 2023. She has a forthcoming column with Texte zur Kunst, and will be performing with her partner, Vanessa Place, at the Karl Lagerfeld Library in 2024.
Erica Dawn Lyle is a writer, curator, experimental musician, and cultural instigator who lives in New York City and Florida. Lyle is the author of Streetopia (Booklyn, 2015) and On The Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of The City (Soft Skull, 2008). The former touring guitar player for Bikini Kill, as a solo performer, Lyle has released musical collaborations with Kim Gordon, The Raincoats, Vice Cooler, Brontez Purcell, and many more.

 

 

Tue, July 18, 2023 at 7:30pm

General Admission
$8 in advance
$10 at the door

Students/Seniors
$5 in advance
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