Tag Archives: Unexplained Presence (Bryant)

TISA BRYANT AND CAULEEN SMITH IN CONVERSATION

I saw a call for the “Best American Experimental Writing,” and it said something like, “Bring us your weirdest, your wildest writing.” And I thought, Is that it? What creates the experimental, the innovative, the hybrid that has to be weird or wild? There’s always grace, there’s always stealth, there’s always nuance, there’s always structural intervention. And, depending on readers, one might not always notice what literary forms are being manipulated until you get uncomfortable with your expectations not being met. The tag on the book says one thing, but your experience of what you’re reading is doing something else. — Tisa Bryant*

Join Bryant—author of Unexplained Presence and a forthcoming book from Semiotext(e)—and Cauleen Smith in conversation as part of LACMA’s Confabulations series.

See link below for r.s.v.p. info.

CAULEEN SMITH CONFABULATIONS SERIES—TISA BRYANT

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Tuesday, February 23.

6 pm on the West Coast; 9 pm East Coast.

*“Hybrid ‘I’: Tisa Bryant, Anelise Chen, Chris Kraus, and Q. M. Zhang in Conversation,” PARIS LA 16 (2018), 174–177.

From top: Tisa Bryant, courtesy of the author; Cauleen Smith, courtesy of the artist, Cauleen Smith, Sojourner (2018), digital video, color sound; Tisa Bryant, Unexplained Presence (2007), cover image courtesy and © Leon Works.

TISA BRYANT AND ERNEST HARDY — CONVERSATION AND SCREENING

Join writers Tisa Bryant (author of Unexplained Presence, and a forthcoming book from Semiotext(e) press) and Ernest Hardy (film writer for the LA Weekly and the author of Blood Beats Vol. 2: The Bootleg Joints) this week at the Hammer as they “sift through film, television, music, social media, and news to explore black representations of depression and distress, remedies and healing, and the resilience of joy in black life and culture.”*

Next week Bryant and Hardy will return to the museum for a Q & A following a screening of Dee Rees’ 2011 feature PARIAH.

TROUBLE IN MIND…BUT I WON’T BE BLUE ALWAYS—TISA BRYANT and ERNEST HARDY IN CONVERSATION, Thursday, August 24, at 7:30 pm.

PARIAH, Tuesday, August 29, at 7:30 pm.

HAMMER MUSEUM, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Westwood, Los Angeles.

* hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/08/trouble-in-mind-but-i-wont-be-blue-always/

hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2017/08/pariah/

See Ina Diane Archer’s PARIAH review from the November/December 2011 issue of Film Comment:

filmcomment.com/article/pariah-review/

Adepero Oduye in Pariah. Image credit: Focus Features.

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