Sunday June 4 – Wednesday June 7, 11:30pm PT
1:AM Poetry Journal: Issue N.01, Crucible
Poetic performances by David García Casado, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, and Daniela Stubbs-Leví
& video by Safaa Fathy
In-person & live-streamed
Microscope Gallery is very pleased to present a night of poetry organized by editor David García Casado on the occasion of the publication of the first issue of 1:AM Poetry Journal.
The evening will include an introduction of the new journal by García Casado along with poetic performative readings by Daniela Stubbs-Leví and by Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, as well as a screening of a video work by Safaa Fathy related to her poetry.
From David García Casado:
“1:AM Poetry Journal originates from an interview with Anne Waldman, whose words serve both as a vision and a blessing for a world in crisis. In the emergence of a new world where many things we now take for granted are on the verge of disappearance, the work of the artists and poets included in this issue is a warning but also a method to navigate this crucible.
A new beginning where the poetic – transcending the function of language as pure information devised by the imminence of AI technologies – can lead to the very exercise of what it means to be human, the ability to produce a kind of language oriented to the transmission of experience rather than the transmission of information. In this way, the works included here are destined for readers not so much interested in “deciphering” language but in retracing the path of its creative production.”
1:AM Poetry Journal: Issue N. 01, Crucible includes an extract of the interview with Anne Waldman mentioned above; poetic pieces by Safaa Fathy, Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola, Daniela Stubbs-Leví and Matt Marble; and artwork by Victor Esther. The cover image is by Leila Jacue.
General Admission $8
Member Admission $6
Please note: Tickets for online admission will become available on this page starting from 7pm ET on the day of the event.
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David García Casado is a Spain-born visual artist, essayist, art critic, and editor based in NYC. He has a Ph.D. in Fine Arts from the University of Castilla La Mancha specializing in Conceptual Art and Language Arts. Initially connected with the emergence of Net Art he participated in different online projects and his project Appendix was included in the Rhizome Artbase. He has participated in and curated art shows and as an author and has published the book of essays “Buscando Invisibles” where he reflects on the invisible, the fleeting, the silence, echo, melancholy… that barely perceptible place where the artistic experience becomes present.
Safaa Fathy is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne in 1993. She has been Program Director at the International College of Philosophy (2010-2016). She is a poet, filmmaker, and essayist. She wrote Ordalie and Terreur with an introduction by Jacques Derrida with whom she signed a book Tourner les mots. Her most recent poetry books are Revolution goes through walls ( SplitLevel ed.) and A Name to the Sea (Dar Al Nahda). Her last play is Aquarius, in Sillas en la Frontera. Her latest films are Tahrir: Raise, raise your voice! (work in progress, 2011), Mohammad saved from the waters, Derrida’s elsewhere and a film poem Nom à la mer.
Daniela Stubbs-Leví is a Peruvian poet, musician, and multidisciplinary artist. Her practice explores the relativism of memory as the ever-changing frame with which we measure reality. Through the oscillations between disciplines, she’s interested in capturing the manifestations between absent-present, remembered-imagined, and space-place. She is the co-founder of Current Press, an experimental collaborative platform for books and zines made by women. Her work has been shown in New York, Paris, Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago, Berlin, and London.
Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola (Mexico City, 1987) is an artist, experimental poet, and editor whose work explores the materiality of language, memory, sound ecology, elements of chance and archive. She exhibits and performs in multiple media, leads workshops and co-edits diSONARE, an experimental editorial project from Mexico City. She is the author of the chapbook “O” (Cielo Abierto) and “The Telaraña Circuit”, an art and poetry book recently published by Tender Buttons.