Stephanie LaCava & Anahid Nersessian
TENSO: A DIALOGUE ON LOVE
between Stephanie LaCava and Anahid Nersessian
Tuesday, February 14, 7pm
Free
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In the medieval song-form called tenso--or debate--two poets converge on a single subject, usually having to do with love and/or ethics. One voice sets out a problem; the other voice responds.
This performance is a debate, a letter, an object and a theory.
Together LaCava & Nersessian will live-exchange words and images to agitate—disturb—the terms with which we understand desire and intimacy.
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Stephanie LaCava is the author of I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU, THE SUPERRATIONALS and EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS.
Anahid Nersessian is the author of KEATS’S ODES: A LOVER’S DISCOURSE and THE CALAMITY FORM: ON POETRY AND SOCIAL LIFE. She teaches at UCLA.