Language Garden
Language Garden (Season 2)
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden
Installment no. 1
Karl Holmqvist
Holly Melgard
Joey Yearous-Algozin
Afternoon Tea
Saturday, April 27
1:30pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden
1911 7th Ave, Los Angeles, CA
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Karl Holmqvist is an artist and writer currently living and working in Los Angeles with a grant from MAK Center. His writing can take the form of installations, artist’s books, videos and spoken word performances. Recent one-person exhibitions include Beau Travail, Stockholm, Laxart, Los Angeles, Fridericianum, Kassel, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Geneva, Power Station, Dallas and Camden Arts Centre, London. He has participated in the Venice Biennial in 2003 and 2011 and Performa, New York in 2005, 2007, 2013 and 2023. Next month he will stage a performance The Rant at New Theatre Hollywood.
Holly Melgard is the author Fetal Position (Roof 2021), named one of “Artforum’s Best of 2021,” and Read Me: Selected Works (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2023), which surveys her poems, short stories, and critical essays. Prior to this, she co-edited and designed Troll Thread Press for over a decade, a dual release print-on-demand + free .pdf platform, where she self-published ten other books, including several co-authored with Joey Yearous-Algozin. Her work has appeared in Best American Anthology of Experimental Writing, BOMB Magazine, and the German journal Merkur among other places. She lives in Brooklyn where she designs books and teaches writing.
Joey Yearous-Algozin is the author of multiple books including: A Feeling Called Heaven (Nightboat), and the multi-volume work, The Lazarus Project, among others. With Holly Melgard he has co-authored a trilogy of texts: Liquidation, White Trash, and Holly Melgard’s Friends and Family. He is a founding member of the Troll Thread publishing collective. He teaches at multiple institutions in and around NYC and lives in Brooklyn.
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The Language Garden Reading Series is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.