Language Garden with Lucy Ives

Language Garden
Saturday, April 22
11am–1:30pm
at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave Garden

~

Language Garden
A Season of Readings, Workshops, & Living Matters to take place in the Future Garden

Installment no. 1 (not a perfume):

Exercise for Writing from Memory and Other Exercises:
A Workshop with Lucy Ives

~

Open to all writers, poets, artists, kindred spirits.
Registration for this workshop is free for participants, with limited capacity.
Donuts or cookies or leaf-like digestible breakfast souvenirs will be provided (gulp).

To register for the workshop, please email: corina@rotations-la.net

~

"This exercise may be associated with writing, or it may be associated with something else. It tends to result in unexpected forms of information and experience: vicarious, virtual, personal, and otherwise." So concludes Lucy Ives's now out-of-print pamphlet, Exercise for Writing from Memory and Other Exercises (If a Leaf Falls, 2022). Join Ives for a guided encounter with selected exercises, provocations, and transformative prompts. As we write, we will think about the first person, what is true, and what we believe about our own narratives. These reflections may offer a surprising series of origins—a way to host a self or selves. Perhaps we can even be seduced by fiction and nonfiction's inseparability. Such categories may, alternatively, be invited to fall apart (gently, spontaneously) and thereby help us shift toward other kinds of questions.

~

David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden
1911 7th Ave., Los Angeles, CA

~

Lucy Ives is the author of the novels Impossible Views of the World, Loudermilk: Or, The Real Poet; Or, The Origin of the World, and Life Is Everywhere, and the story collection Cosmogony. Her writing has appeared in Aperture, Artforum, frieze, Harper's, and Vogue.

~

Language Garden is programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, and Joseph Mosconi, with interventions/germinations from David Horvitz.