WEEK ONE

Individual Memory: A Celebration for Hannah Weiner
January 9-11
Friday & Saturday at 8pm, Sunday at 7pm
Tickets are $12 ($10 students, seniors, & working artists)
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Performative readings, butoh dance, and installations focus on the influence of the late clairvoyant poet Hannah Weiner. January 9: Friday night talkback led by Laura Goldstein, poet and sound artist.

NEW LINEUP OF ARTISTS EACH NIGHT:

Friday, January 9
Judith Goldman with John Beer, Nicole LeGette, Jenny Roberts, Timothy Yu, and video by Abigail Child

Saturday, January 10
Lee Ann Brown, with Jeff Harms/A D Jameson/Toni Asante Lightfoot/Sarah Merchlewitz/Anni Rossi/Auroar Tabar/Rachel Tredon, Roberto Harrison, Nicole LeGette, and Jenny Roberts

Sunday, January 11
Lee Ann Brown, with Jeff Harms/A D Jameson/Toni Asante Lightfoot/Sarah Merchlewitz/Anni Rossi/Auroar Tabar/Rachel Tredon, Judith Goldman with John Beer, Jenny Roberts, Timothy Yu, and video by Abigail Child

READINGS

Local poet Judith Goldman, with New York-based collaborator and former Links Hall Artistic Associate John Beer, reads selections from Hannah Weiner’s book Spoke (Sun & Moon Press); Goldman also reads from her work in progress, l.b.; or, catenaries, which is highly influenced by Weiner’s experimental techniques. 

Milwaukee-based writer and artist Roberto Harrison reads his poetry, woven together with text from Hannah Weiner's The Fast (United Artists Books), amid projections of his own drawings.

PERFORMANCE

New York/North Carolina-based Lee Ann Brown, a poet, performer, and the publisher of Tender Buttons Press, gives a performative tribute to the legendary 1969 Fashion Show Poetry Event originally staged by Hannah Weiner in New York City.

Award winning, Toronto/Chicago-based writer Timothy Yu reads selections from Hannah Weiner's Clairvoyant Journal (Angel Hair Books) in a multi-vocal performance that combines live and recorded voices, creating a layered sonic landscape that seeks to replicate the texture created by Weiner's work on the page.

INSTALLATION

Jenny Roberts, a local visual artist with roots in poetry, presents Words Melt, an outdoor site-specific piece in front of Links Hall composing words on the sidewalk with ice, taken from Hannah Weiner’s work; and S;=cond Sight, an indoor interactive spectacle that blurs the distinctions between language and vision.

VIDEO

New York-based Abigail Child’s films and videos explore mixed genres and strategies for rewriting narrative, as well as investigating public space through memory and history. PREFACES, Part 1 is from her film series Is This What You Were Born For? and contains recordings from a walk with Hannah Weiner, who saw words in colors. MIRROR WORLD creates a sub-version of class conflict and desire with formal play and poetic montage.

DANCE

Nicole LeGette, Chicago’s leading advocate for Butoh Dance, performs The Sense to Remember, blurring the distinction between real and imagined, and questioning ownership of a memory.