Miscs is a fictional structure, an editorial programme created by Giselle's Books – the artists' book collection co-founded by Lucas Jacques-Witz in Marseille in 2020. The first issue of Miscs...
Evening reading with Hannah Black and Mayra Rodríguez-Castro
Organized on the occasion of PENUMBRA, by Hannah Black, Juliana Huxtable & And Or Forever at OCTO Productions, Marseille.
28.08.2022
Giselle’s Books · Marseille
On the occasion of PENUMBRA, by Hannah Black, Juliana Huxtable & And Or Forever, which opens on Saturday the 27th of August at OCT0 Productions, Giselle's Books will host an evening reading by Hannah Black and Mayra Rodríguez Castro on Sunday the 28th at 8pm.
HANNAH BLACK works across mediums from video to performance and writing, most recently exhibiting The Meaning of Life, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada (2022); Wheel of Fortune at gtaExhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland (2021); Beginning, End, None at ORG Project (2020); and Dede, Eberhard, Phantom at Kunstverein Braunschweig Germany (2019). She has published widely, including in Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Tank, Harpers, 4 Columns and The New Inquiry. She is the author of Life (2017), which she co-wrote with performance artist Juliana Huxtable, and Dark Pool Party (2015), an auto-fictional collection of poems and texts. In 2022, Capricious Publishing released her novella, Tuesday or September or the End.
MAYRA A. RODRÍGUEZ CASTRO is a writer and translator. She is the editor of Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984-1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020). Her writing and contributions appear in Social Text Journal, The Poetry Project, South As a State of Mind among others. Rodríguez lives across cities.
À l'occasion de PENUMBRA, par Hannah Black, Juliana Huxtable et And Or Forever, qui ouvre ce Samedi 27 Août à OCT0 Productions, Giselle's Books sont heureux de vous inviter à une lecture par Hannah Black et Mayra Rodríguez Castro le dimanche 28 Août à 20 heures.
HANNAH BLACK works across mediums from video to performance and writing, most recently exhibiting The Meaning of Life, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada (2022); Wheel of Fortune at gtaExhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland (2021); Beginning, End, None at ORG Project (2020); and Dede, Eberhard, Phantom at Kunstverein Braunschweig Germany (2019). She has published widely, including in Artforum, Texte zur Kunst, Tank, Harpers, 4 Columns and The New Inquiry. She is the author of Life (2017), which she co-wrote with performance artist Juliana Huxtable, and Dark Pool Party (2015), an auto-fictional collection of poems and texts. In 2022, Capricious Publishing released her novella, Tuesday or September or the End.
MAYRA A. RODRÍGUEZ CASTRO is a writer and translator. She is the editor of Dream of Europe: selected seminars and interviews: 1984-1992 (Kenning Editions, 2020). Her writing and contributions appear in Social Text Journal, The Poetry Project, South As a State of Mind among others. Rodríguez lives across cities.
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