Catherine Lord with Matias Viegener
Wednesday, March 27
Doors: 7:30pm
Reading: 8pm
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The Poetic Research Bureau presents Catherine Lord in conversation with Matias Viegener on the occasion of the Los Angeles book launch of The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men (no place press, 2023).
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On The Effect of Tropical Light on White Men:
Catherine Lord, a native of Dominica now living in Manhattan, confronts the flammable history of colonialism on an insignificant Caribbean island. Using sardonic humor, well-honed critical rage, hundreds of photographs, and an abiding love of the tropics, she queers the patriarchal skeleton by which an ambitious nineteenth century plantation owner organized his knowledge, and reshuffles the master’s cards to dismantle the master’s house.
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Catherine Lord is an artist and writer who divides her time between Hudson, NY and Manhattan. A long-time resident of Los Angeles, where she taught at CalArts and UC Irvine, her previous books include The Summer of Her Baldness: A Cancer Improvisation and the survey, with Richard Meyer, Art and Queer Culture. She has exhibited her work as an artist at Site Santa, Calllicoon Gallery, Thomas Jancar, the One Institute, the New Museum, and the Dorsky Museum. Her essays and autofiction have been widely published and anthologized.
Matias Viegener, a member of the CalArts critical studies faculty, is a writer, artist and critic who works in the fields of writing, visual art, and social practice. He is the author of 2500 Random Things About Me Too.