Where We Are Now Issue #3: Aftermath

Monday, May 10, 2010 – 7 pm

Launch at Bluestockings Books (172 Allen St. near Rivington, NY 10002)

What is left but sound—flammable and everlasting? Sound was the first thing. Then more sound, this time organized, which is to say “song” or breath igniting air. I hear metal clang metal and skin drum skin. A swollen hum ripples black water. In my depleted state, I mount the hillock, crying, “Yes, more!”

E. Tammy Kim. Mineral. 2010. "What is left but sound—flammable and everlasting? Sound was the first thing. Then more sound, this time organized, which is to say “song” or breath igniting air. I hear metal clang metal and skin drum skin. A swollen hum ripples black water. In my depleted state, I mount the hillock, crying, 'Yes, more!'"

Join editors Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn for a conversation with contributors Maureen Connor, E. Tammy Kim, Anthony Smyrski from Megawords, Gregory Sholette, and Alan Smart.

Contributors to the Journal: Tina Gerhardt & Robert Eshelmann, Taraneh Hemami, E. Tammy Kim, Johan Lundh interviewing Gregory Sholette, Megawords, Oliver Ressler, Eric Sanderson, Alan Smart, and others.

Editors: Berin Golonu and Marisa Jahn

Where We Are Now Issue #3: Aftermath considers notions of consequentiality, collapse, disruption, legacy, revision, and change through recent events—the climate forum in Copenhagen, political upheaval in Iran, democracy in America, artistic practices today, etc.—that draw critical comparison between what preceded and what remains.