Gabrielle Civil & Janice Lee

RAD! presents a reading by Gabrielle Civil and Janice Lee at the PRB in the 2220 Archives.

Friday, October 1, 8pm

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GABRIELLE CIVIL is a black feminist performance artist, poet, and writer, originally from Detroit MI. She has premiered fifty performance art works around the world, most recently Jupiter (2021) and Vigil (2021). Her performance memoirs include Swallow the Fish (2017), Experiments in Joy (2019), ( ghost gestures ) (2021), and the déjà vu (2022). Her writing has also appeared in Kitchen Table Translation, New Daughters of Africa, Teaching Black, and Experiments in Joy: a Workbook. A 2019 Rema Hort Mann LA Emerging Artist, she teaches at California Institute of the Arts. The aim of her work is to open up space.

Janice Lee is a Korean-American writer, editor, teacher, and shamanic healer. She is the author of 7 books of fiction, creative nonfiction & poetry, most recently: The Sky Isn’t Blue (Civil Coping Mechanisms, 2016), Imagine a Death (Texas Review Press, 2021), and Separation Anxiety (CLASH Books, 2022). She writes about interspecies communication, plants & personhood, the filmic long take, slowness, the apocalypse, architectural spaces, inherited trauma, and the concept of han in Korean culture, and asks the question, how do we hold space open while maintaining intimacy? She is Founder & Executive Editor of Entropy, Co-Founder of The Accomplices LLC, and an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Portland State University. She can be found online at http://janicel.com.

This is an all ages event.

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Readings are supported by a Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts 2021 Organizational Support Grant.