Author: Fara

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Join contributors Dodie Bellamy, Tammy Rae Carland, Xandra Ibarra, Glen Helfand, Johnny Ray Huston, Brontez Purnell, Larry-bob Roberts, and editor Bradford Nordeen who will read from the latest issue of Dirty Looks’ annual film publication, which contains chapters on Hippie Dick, Nao Bustamante, Rick Castro and Vaginal Davis’ Fertile LaToyah Jackson, Rosa von Praunheim’s City of Lost Souls, Nguyen Tan Hoang, Teo Hernandez’s Salomé and a round-up of DL’s first eight years of programming.

The Dirty Looks Volume series compiles a year’s worth of Dirty Looks’ programming into one pocket-sized black and white publication, brimming with original contributions, photocopy facsimiles, original program notes and queer film ephemera.

Contributors include Dodie Bellamy, Carl Bogner, Joshua Chambers-Letson, Richard Fung, Rudy “Bleu” Garcia, Raquel Gutiérrez, Glen Helfand, Johnny Ray Huston, Xandra Ibarra, William E. Jones, Bruce LaBruce, Clara López Menéndez, Amos Mac, Kelly Marie Martin, Bradford Nordeen, Iván Ramos, Larry-bob Roberts, Linda Simpson, Angie Stardust and Juan Antonio Suárez. Design by Nathan Hauenstein + Tiffany Malakooti. Cover by Scott Ewalt
167 Pages. $12.95 ISBN 9780578470634

$7-$10, Free for memebers

Ariel Goldberg

Ariel Goldberg’s publications include The Estrangement Principle(Nightboat Books, 2016) and The Photographer (Roof Books, 2015). Goldberg’s writing has most recently appeared in Afterimage, e-flux, Artforum, and Art in America. From 2014-2017, they organized readings at The Poetry Project and they currently work at The Jewish History Museum in Tucson as the Zuckerman Fellow, Curator of Community Engagement. They are on hiatus from adjuncting for universities in New York City with the continual aspiration to spend desert mornings and nights working on two books.

You’ll hear them read from A Century, a novel on the partnership of art critic Elizabeth McCausland and photographer Berenice Abbott. 

Lara Durback

Lara Durback  is a poet & interdisciplinary artist living in Oakland for 13 years now. She recently gave a talk on connective tissue and is working on a long poem about lawless friendships.

She has published books collectively under NoNo Press and Mess Editions. You can see her printed and/or written work in Drift Magazine, Mrs. Maybe, Bombay Gin, the UK journal Hi Zero, and Tripwire. Her archiving work is online at deepoakland.org. In 2013, with designer Andrew Kenower, she produced the letterpress publication Field Work: Poems on the Occasion of Mark diSuvero at Crissy Field for SFMOMA. She has taught a letterpress printing course at Naropa University’s Summer Writing Program, SF Center for the Book and was a founding member of the  press collective Material Print Machine. She is also the author of A Lizard, A Smashed Safe, And A Pillow (Encountered On A Walk In Oakland) (Publication Studio, 2016).

Claire Grossman

Claire Grossman is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at Stanford and co-curator of Cantíl, an Oakland-based reading series.

DAVID COX’ ASSANGE + PUTIN + PAGLEN +

Networks of surveillance and espionage —and hacking–have become prime movers in political history…and the judgment is still pending on one of the charged field’s lightning-rods, Julian Assange. Agent provocateurDavid Cox riffs through a raft of pro- and con- cine-essays afloat, including the crucial Risk by ex-SF resident Laura Poitras, as well as the latest from Chelsea Manning and Adam Curtis. ALSO: In its West Coast debut, Mariam Ghani’s The Seen Unseen looks into the after-lives of former black sites, operated by the CIA for rendition, interrogation, and torture. In person, Kathleen Quillian world-premieres her speculative collage Immaculate Concussion, an inquiry into the nefarious potentials (incl. embassy noise weapons) of the spectrum. UCB golden-boy Trevor Paglen punts in a pair of pieces–one on his art-in-orbit! PLUS an opening salvo of satires of Trump and Putin, Caleb Foss’ Amusement Park Home Movies Inspire the Algorithm, a ForbinProject prologue, CIAfilmstrips, and free vodka shots.*$8