We couldn't afford to go out in this city in any case. It is a pandemic, so we don't go anywhere. We work temporary jobs in Portland and pay two-thirds of our income to the landlord. The room and the building, the city and the state, are permeated by economies and public-health statuses and modes of transit and pollution, by taste and custom and the determining structures of US racial and class hierarchies. The world goes on around the museum and the city records office, in infinite overlapping circles. It becomes property and I am its arranger. In the map and the landscape painting-objects I feel such a fondness for-the place that holds me is reduced to a place that I can hold. We perceive the beauty of a map or painting in the manageable space between the object and ourselves, the gaze a place that holds the object still. A map eye and a surveyor's eye, a deed eye an insurance company's eye, a property investor's eye, a painter's eye an art collector's eye beholding the paintings of the "empty" landscape that hang in the well-appointed houses in the best neighborhoods, in the white cool rooms of the city's art museum. This talk will be broadcast online, for free. I will give a talk entitled “On the line”. US Eastern I will give the second of my Linkages Lectures. Event and booking information will be here (in-person only). On November 21, along with two other writers to be confirmed, I will read and talk with the others as part of the Trinity College Literature & Resistance Series, in the Trinity Long Room Hub. I will give a talk entitled “When you get someplace new, learn to read the landscape like an alphabet”. US Eastern I will give the first of two lectures as the Annulet Inaugural Linkages Lecturer. In-person only tickets are free and I will post more information when I have it. Irish time in the Classics Museum at UCD, Jeanne Tiehen will direct a staging of An Archaeology, for which I’m making costumes. I am also very pleased to be able to let you know about a few upcoming events in November and December.įirst of all, on November 9 at 7 p.m.
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