Laura Elrick and Rodrigo Toscano, FRACTURED DIAGRAM:
("A Networking Approach to Problem Solving," in Relief), (2004).
Image: courtesy of the artists.


Reading
Laura Elrick and Suzanne Stein
Thursday 29 Sep 2005
8 pm
$10/$8 members, students, seniors

Elrick invites us to wonder at her power to communicate while at the same time inspiring us to do the same. – Janine Armin, writer

Langton’s award-winning Performance Writing series continues this fall with performances by literary artists Laura Elrick and Suzanne Stein. Laura Elrick’s work explores novelty in language, and the relationships between spoken language and written texts. At Langton she performs her text Permeable Structures, A Performacne Essay in Stereo (2005), which combines recorded elements with poetry and sections of live commenatary.

Suzanne Stein discusses and demonstrates poetry’s religious and psychological implications in an exploration of the relationships between the self and the group.

The Performance Writing series brings multi-disciplinary literary artists to Langton to present works that explore language in the context of live performance. The series, curated by Jocelyn Saidenberg and Brandon Brown, earned a 2005 “Best of the Bay” award in the San Francisco Bay Guardian for “Best New Reading Series to Catapult Language Off the Page.”

Suzanne Stein. Photo: Brandon Brown.


Artist Biographies

Laura Elrick’s book Fantasies in Permeable Structures is forthcoming this fall from The Factory School Press, as part of the “Heretical Texts” series. She is also the author of sKincerity (Krupskaya, 2003) and is one of the featured writers on Women in the Avant Garde, an audio CD produced by Narrow House Recordings (2004). Recent poetry and essays have appeared in the Poetry Project Newsletter, The Brooklyn Rail, Tripwire, Crayon, and War and Peace. Elrick lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Suzanne Stein’s works have appeared in the publications Mirage #4/Period[ical], Commonweal, Small Town, The Bay Area Poetry Anthology, and at the venues Refusalon Gallery, the San Francisco Exploratorium, the Berkeley Art Center, Outpost for Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. She is the former co-director and film curator of four walls gallery, San Francisco. Stein lives in San Francisco.





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