CAConrad,
13 Moons: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return.
Opening: March 31st,
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Exhibition continues until June 30th.
fluent is pleased to present 13 Moons: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, the first exhibition to be realized on the work of CAConrad.
The exhibition presents two poetic installations and premieres The Obituary Show, a film by Augusto Cascales based on Conrad’s homonymous theatre play. Through them, the practice of writing becomes an unforeseeable path where a series of voices channel the inert, the living, the oppressed and the oppressive again and again. As these voices formulate poetic questions, they also re–signify meanings in an intensely intimate manner, overcoming past’s and future’s verbal violence while contesting sites of communication across history and beyond our petrified present. In doing so, Conrad maintains the present tense as a response to the neoliberal trauma in which bodies behave as extensions of machinery by creating coping mechanisms where the present is shut–off.
CAConrad has been working with the ancient technologies of poetry and ritual since 1975. They are the author of AMANDA PARADISE: Resurrect Extinct Vibration (Wave Books, 2021). Other titles include While Standing in Line for Death, Ecodeviance and The Book of Frank which has been translated into 9 different languages. They received a Creative Capital grant, a Pew Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, and a Believer Magazine Book Award. They teach at Columbia University in New York City and the Sandberg Art Institute in Amsterdam.
As part of 13 Moons: Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return, fluent hosts two reading performances by CAConrad where they will explore ‘‘which direction their voice should move.” Through them, Conrad exercises the fluctuations of sound as a liberating movement:
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Friday, April 29th, 7 [removed]
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Saturday, April 30th, 12 [removed]
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