Author: Fara

Discussion will focus on Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s book, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013). focus on Chapter 5: Planning and Policy, and Chapter 6: Fantasy in the Hold. For a PDF of the text email smallpresstraffic@gmail.com

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coming up:

Sunday NOV 3, 5:00 pm @ Timken Hall, California College of the Arts, 1111 8th Street, San Francisco

the Poetry Center, Small Press Traffic, and the Bay Area Public School present

Fred MOTEN, a reading and a talk on “The Undercommons

RED MOTEN works at the intersection of black studies, performance studies, poetry, and critical theory. He is author of Arkansas (Pressed Wafer Press, 2000), In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), I ran from it but was _still_ in it. (Cusp Press, 2007), Hughson’s Tavern (Leon Works, 2008), B Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010), The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions, 2013), and with Stefano Harney, The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study (Minor Compositions, 2013).

 

 

 

A short program of 16mm film works from the Process Reversal Collective and other artist-run film groups including L’Abominable (Paris, France), The Double Negative Collective (Montreal, PQ), Cherry Kino (Leeds, UK) and The Handmade Film Institute (Boulder, CO). Filmmakers including Sarah Biagini, Andrew Busti, Taylor Dunne, Nicolas Rey, Kevin Rice, Robert Schaller, Martha Jurksaitis & Philippe Leonard.

Program:

Sucia – Robert Schaller (The Handmade Film Institute)

Salt – Martha Jurkastis (Cherry Kino)

I Swim Now – Sarah Biagini (Process Reversal)

Terminus for You – Nicolas Rey (L’Abominable)

At Hand – Andrew Busti (Process Reversal)

Perceptual Subjectivity – Philippe Leonard (Double Negative Collective)

Cornmother – Taylor Dunne (Process Reversal) 

Peach – Martha Jurkastis (Cherry Kino)

Sanctuary – Kevin Rice (Process Reversal)