Am I A Fiction?: Bagley Wright Lecture Series with Renee Gladman
"Am I a Fiction?" // Three lectures on Invisibility, Fictional Knowing and Writing-Drawing
In this three-part event, writer and artist Renee Gladman will take the audience on a tour through the perplexities, epiphanies, inventions and other phenomena that have been central to her writing and drawing practices over the past two decades as well as indispensable to the shaping of her Ravicka series. These talks will roam through several questions: How do we envision a future space or future city that can both recognize and nourish bodies that are exiled, fractured, othered, multiple or ever-shifting? How do we cultivate relationships with the non-known and non-visible forms that energize and make mysteries of our work and our living? And how do we sustain work across varying fields of thought and media?
This lecture is titled "Figuration: The Transversal Properties of Fictional Knowing," and the lecture description will be updated soon.
The final lecture is on Nov. 4 at 4:30 p.m. Please search for it in ASU Events.
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of thirteen published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians—"Event Factory" (2010), "The Ravickians" (2011), "Ana Patova Crosses a Bridge" (2013) and "Houses of Ravicka" (2017)—as well as two collections of drawings, "Prose Architectures" (2017) and "One Long Black Sentence," a series of white ink drawings on black paper, indexed by Fred Moten (2020). "Plans for Sentences," an image/text-based work about future lines and future spaces, is forthcoming from Wave Books in 2022. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in "The Paris Review", "Gulf Coast", "Granta", "Harper's", "BOMB magazine", e-flux and n+1. She has been awarded fellowships, artist grants and residencies from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Lannan Foundation and KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Berlin), among others and is the recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell prize in fiction. For more information, visit reneegladman.com.