Join us for an exploration of words and worlds with a double book and tarot card launch on September 23 in Montreal, featuring Erin Robinsong, Alexei Perry Cox, Ashley Obscura, Apocablyss Studio, Nadah El Shazly, Erose and Nadia Chaney.
Join us as we endeavour to create a space to communally traverse timely matters: finding bliss in the apocalypse, living on a wet planet on fire, surviving the unsurvivable, using witchcraft to create new paths and meanings, and more. Come and enjoy poetry readings, tarot readings, a trippy arcade of surreal video games, interactive art, a publication table, bar and more all within an inspired and inspiring space.
This event is presented by Intertext.e: Centre for Book and Media Arts, a center for new trajectories in publication, media and literary arts. It fosters and creates space for artistic collaboration, creation, exploration, broadcasting, and exhibitions.
DATE: September 23, 2022
7:00pm - 11:30pm
LOCATION: Anteism Project Space - 435 Rue Beaubien O, Outremont, QC H2V 1C9
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DOORS: 7:00pm
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TAROT READINGS: 7:00 - 11:00pm
Sandra Huber
Nadia Chaney
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APOCABLYSS ARCADE: 7:00 - 11:00pm
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READINGS: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
ERIN ROBINSONG - launching Wet Dream (Brick Books), a poetry collection about living on a wet planet on fire.
ALEXEI PERRY COX - launching PLACE (Noemi Press), a poetry collection about communal existence and surviving what is unsurvivable
Followed by a conversation guided by writer and editor MICHAEL NARDONE
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APOCABLYSS PRESENTATION: 9:15-10:00pm
ASHLEY OBSCURA - reading from Sexo por ultima vez (Socios Fundadores)
PALOMA DAWKINS & ASHLEY OBSCURA - present the Apocablyss universe
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MUSIC: 10:15pm-11:00pm
NADAH EL SHAZLY
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BAR: 7:00pm - 11:30pm
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PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE:
Officially Launching:
Wet Dream (Brick Books): https://www.brickbooks.ca/.../wet-dream-by-erin-robinsong-3/
PLACE (Noemi): http://www.noemipress.org/catalog/poetry/place/
Apocablyss Tarot (Major Arcana): https://www.apocablyss.com/.../aeif3vhxsbm10k69tknxxzxqu9...
More:
Journal Safar: https://www.journalsafar.com/
Select Anteism Publications: https://www.anteism.com/shop
Select Metatron Publications: https://www.metatron.press/books-and-publications/
Select Documents Publications: http://www.centreforexpandedpoetics.com/documents-series
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This event takes place on the lands of the Kanien'kehá:ka, the easternmost member of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, also referred to as the Six Nations Confederacy. We recognize this land as a site of meeting and exchange amongst many First Nations including the Kanien’kehá:ka of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Huron/Wendat, Abenaki, and Anishinaabeg. Anteism Project Space is located on land commonly referred to as Montréal, but its original name is Tiohtià:ke.
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ACCESSIBILITY
To enter the venue one must pass down two steps.
There is 1 gender neutral washroom on the second floor. There is an elevator to take you up if need be.
Please let us know if we can help in any way given these accessibility restrictions! Do not hesitate to reach out!
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BIOS
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APOCABLYSS - Apocablyss is a new creative studio based in Montreal. Founded by Mexican-Canadian artists Paloma Dawkins and Ashley Obscura, our studio is dedicated to creating magical, interactive and multi-platform art and entertainment that inspires human connection and conscious engagement. We specialize in building connections and in creating
speculative, subversive environments that harness connective tissues not only between humans, but with natural, digital and virtual realms as well. We are interested in how world-making and experience-driven art can be used to expand the possibilities for people to harvest meaningful experiences grounded in empathy, intimacy and connection. Apocablyss is devoted to using new media to explore new forms of storytelling, invoking conversations around caring for our planet and protecting life, creating animated and programmed speculative fictions that help us re-connect and re-imagine ourselves and the world around us in these troubled and turbulent times. https://www.apocablyss.com/
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ERIN ROBINSONG - Wet Dream is an expansive, erotic, and enlivening book of ecological thinking, vibrating with pleasures, fears, and medicines for living on a wet planet on fire. Erin Robinsong’s poems are enmeshed ecologies of body and planet, brain and ocean, moisture and consciousness. From the sleep paralysis of necrocapitalism erupt moth-angels, bird teachers, feral study, Venusian warnings, an extremophile lover, and a dying cat to lead us through the underworlds of ecocide. This book is a meditation on nearness, metabolizing toxic logics through the air, water, and relational space. Brilliant, embodied, and gorgeously disorienting, Wet Dream is a pulse of agency to the heart.
Erin Robinsong is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. She is the author of Rag Cosmology (Book*hug, 2017), which won the AM Klein Prize for Poetry, and several chapbooks including Liquidity (House House Press, 2020). Her work has appeared on BBC Radio 3, and in journals and anthologies including o bod, Vallum, The Capilano Review, Effects Journal, and Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis. Collaborative performance works with Andréa de Keijzer and Hanna Sybille Müller include This ritual is not an accident, Facing away from that which is coming, and Polymorphic Microbe Bodies. A PhD student at Concordia University, Erin’s research-creation work focuses on transcorporeal poetics. With scholar and place-based educator Michael Datura, she co-organized a Geopoetics Symposium & Residency on Cortes Island in spring 2022, bringing together poets, scholars, activists and place-based educators around questions of what it means to think and create with the more-than-human world. Originally from Cortes Island, Erin lives between Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and England. https://erinrobinsong.org/About
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ALEXEI PERRY COX - Placed in the context of ongoing moral disaster, PLACE is a discussion of language and poetic usefulness, specifically how collective discourse survives the unimaginable through personal recourse. It examines the ideology of cultural superiority and intellectual migration in public squares and private homes. With skepticism and love, this poetry and poetics attempts to explain the failure and potential at the heart of revolutions: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a communal existence across time. It is meant to speak, with many voices, beyond these known failures and into our many futures. It is a defense of the art of poetry as a means to evoke the necessary accommodations human beings can make to survive what is unsurvivable. These political and/or personal poems demonstrate the culture-bound logistics and flourishings and shortcomings of certain poetic voices during the Cuban Revolution of 1953-59, the Cultural Revolution in China of 1966-79, the Civil War of Lebanon of 1975-90 and the Arab Spring in the MENA region of 2010-11, as well as ongoing revolutions in the lands currently known as the United States and Canada. The poems center around healing these wounded places in the often more ambitiously universal interiors of the psyche.
Alexei Perry Cox is a writer and teacher and organiser. She is the author of Night 3 (Centre for Expanded Poetics), Re:Evolution (Gap Riot Press), Finding Places to Make Places (Vallum), as well as the full length collection Under Her (Insomniac Press). PLACE is forthcoming with Noemi Press. Her poetry and criticism has graced the pages of a wide variety of publications, including Journal Safar, Arc Poetry Magazine, Moko Magazine, Carte Blanche, and The Georgia Review. At the core of her makings is the belief that we imagine relationally, sometimes with words and sometimes with graze. https://feministmediastudio.ca/alexei-perry-cox/
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ASHLEY OBSCURA - Ashley Obscura is a Canadian-Mexican poet, publisher, and editor. She is the author of two poetry collections: Ambient Technology (Metatron, 2018) and I Am Here (Metatron, 2014). Sexo por ultima vez (Socios Fundadores, 2022) is her first full-length poetry collection available in Spanish. She is also a scriptwriter and co-conceptualizer of experimental video games and digital environments: Oceanarium (Apocablyss Studios, 2020), Songs of the Lost (Manchester International Festival, 2019), and Museum of Symmetry (National Film Board of Canada, 2018). Aside from her creative practice, Obscura is also the Founder and Managing Editor of Metatron Press, an award-winning literary publisher that publishes cutting-edge contemporary poetry and fiction. https://www.ashleyobscura.net/
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EROSE - Erose is Eliza Robertson and Sandra Huber who are, respectively and sometimes collectively, a writer, astrologer, educator, academic, practitioner of magic and witchery, and friend to the cat community. Together they divine with cards, stars, words, intuition, analysis, and care.
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NADIA CHANEY - Born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan of Indian descent Nadia Chaney has been professionally active since 2002 in poetry, music, creative non-fiction, visual arts, social practice and performance installation. At the core of these tentacular practices is community art and the belief that creativity is a birthright for all beings of the world, human and beyond. She holds a master’s degree in Imaginative Education and a certificate of advanced graduate studies in Expressive Arts Therapy. Her current work is with the Time Zone Research Lab, a non-local and nonlinear community for arts based research into the nature of time and temporality. www.nadiachaney.com
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NADAH EL SHAZLY - Nadah El Shazly is a producer, vocalist and sound artist from Cairo, Egypt. Her debut album “Ahwar” radically reinvents the popular music of her homeland from the early 19th century and explores new sonic and harmonic frontiers. Using voice, field recordings and instruments, she creates haunting sound pieces and songforms that hijack the perception of time with their complex layers and dynamic structure.