July 28: Renee Gladman and Fred Moten in conversation
Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, Renee Gladman and Fred Moten will speak about their new book, One Long Black Sentence (Image Text Ithaca Press, 2020) at 6pm ET on Tuesday, July 28.
The live event will stream directly on this page on Tuesday, July 28 at 6pm ET. There is no login or rsvp required. A recording will be posted shortly afterwards. During the broadcast, please email your questions to evan@192books.com.
One Long Black Sentence by Renee Gladman and Fred Moten (Published by Image Text Ithaca Press)
A sumptuous artist’s book of acclaimed writer Renee Gladman’s fantastical drawings that merge writing and architecture, with a response from Fred Moten.
Since 2013, poet, novelist, essayist and artist Renee Gladman (born 1971)—author of the acclaimed Ravickians novels—has been doing a kind of asemic writing that is also at once drawing and architecture (some of this work was published as Prose Architectures in 2017). Printed in white ink on black, with a beautiful embroidered cover, One Long Black Sentence brings together these drawings with a text by New York–based theorist and poet Fred Moten (born 1962) to form a sumptuous artist’s book in which drawing becomes an architecture for thought, for what writing looks like from the inside out. Fred Moten’s “Anindex” pushes the index beyond its utilitarian conventions. At times riffing on the architectonics of Gladman’s illustrations, Moten’s associative poetic prose points toward the structuring imposition or emergence of sentences as the marks and forms of thought.
Renee Gladman
Renee Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of poetry, prose, drawing and architecture. She is the author of thirteen books, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as two visual arts collections—Prose Architectures (Wave Books, 2017) and the newly released One Long Black Sentence (ITI Press). She makes her home in New England.
Fred Moten
Fred Moten teaches black studies, critical theory and poetics in the Department of Performance Studies at New York University. Stefano Harney and he are co-authors of All Incomplete which will be out in the autumn of 2020 from Minor Compositions/Autonomedia.