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TROLL THREAD 2017

Please join us for the eighth installment of ARTIFICIAL EAR (EE #24): RADICAL TENDERNESS RADICAL TENDERNESS does not acknowledge a break between the personal and the public. The resulting vulnerability is not a weakness; it is a useful disguise for anger and brilliance, and a trap for the mindlessly violent. The radically tender build "machines that generate empathy" and teach others to never submit to those whose goal is to deprive or destroy them. Tenderness is a gut space. It is a fluid and fertile terrain that prepares us for many encounters to come. July 30, 8pm HCL 4th floor studios Mana Contemporary Chicago 2233 S. Throop St. Featuring: Amir George Sofia Moreno La Spacer Anna Vitale Amir George is a motion picture artist and film curator from Chicago. Amir’s work delves into installation, cinema, and performance. In addition to founding Cinema Culture, a grassroots film programming organization, Amir is the co-curator of Black Radical Imagination, a touring experimental short film program. Sofia Moreno was born and raised in Coahuila, Mexico. In 1994 she immigrated to the United States, where she currently lives and works. Prior to moving to Chicago, Moreno lived in Dallas, Texas. Sofia Moreno is a multimedia artist and her subjects include expressions of the sacred and profane, the body, sexuality, religion and socio-political issues within contemporary culture. Moreno is currently working on the follow up to her three-year project P o r n A g a i n. "I'm interested in the essence of the body rather than the form itself. I paint a sexually and spiritually confused youth." – Sofia Moreno La Spacer creates audio art with Techno & House as the groundwork using HARDWARE machines during production. Raised in the birthplace of HOUSE music, growing up in the 90s in CHICAGO in the neighborhood of Little Village where Italo Disco, a.k.a. "Da CLASSICS", Industrial, House, Hard House, Acid House, Techno was blasting out of speakers from those old school Dj PROMO Cds and Tapes; Or the radio, the neighbors windows, or a car cruising by with a BASS bumping system. It is not a coincidence that La Spacer was raised in the right place to influence and pursue her passionate feelings for Mind Bending Body Music. Anna Vitale lives in Madison, WI, where she's pursuing a PhD in English Literature. Her writing includes Unknown Pleasures, a book about Joy Divison, Ian Curtis, and suicidal desire; and Anna Vitale's Pop Poems, which are poems based on R&B and hip-hop songs she loves from the early 90s. Anna's video work includes "Street View Lyric," which is based on Google Street View images of her childhood neighborhood, taking "Come and Talk to Me" by Jodeci as its soundtrack. Not surprisingly, Anna is working on a book titled Detroit, Detroit.

"Extreme poetry" this Saturday. 

5) Marconi's Cottage by Medbh McGuckian

Like Joy Division? You will like this chapbook of poetry.

Just finished this. And that book is heavy as fuck, and potent, and good, and please read it, if you ever think about Joy Division, Ian Curtis, or suicide. 

I’d like to start with that conversation we were having about death.                                         smooth growth                                   face fog           casting shadows’ nocturnal liquid                                                          [ejaculaaaaaaassssssssssion]   Say it, don’t spray it!                                    [but we’re fucking]                                  He could lift us off                        everything just like that poem                          where that guy lifts everything                                     with his dick   Why do you think the not-lesbian on Orange is the New Black is so afraid of female ejaculation?                                      Just shut yr mouth                                    how can you say                                      I go about things                                    the wrong way?                                      I am   this conversation isn’t even about the Smiths!                                      human and                                    I need to be loved   so can we talk about—                                             just like   cleaning up?                                      everybody                                    else does                              pull back                 the line of fire        yank open my mouth                                     what would be the most erotic form for                                  letters? men with long hair or those that throw a fit?                           ask for nipple biting, the ass’s rose                   pulsing                             diamond neck laces us                                                     when you lift us                           to split                                      spilt the sweet taste of                                    muscle on yr                                    coat raw                                             underneath yr head                                           taking a bite                                           of it                                                                 moving meat                                                               from from                                                               one half                                                               to the Madame                                                               XXX                                             with which white                                           did she tie                                           her hair                             a thane’s puss                           fishing for                           licked fists   an understudy flaps his praying head hand- ling pricks to tie letters to words  

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