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Trickhouse Live: An Integrative Arts and Performance Series
w/Laura Hinton, Johanna Skibsrud, and David ShermanTuesday, March 26
7-9 p.m.
$5 Suggested Donation
Trickhouse Live is co-organized by TC Tolbert, Assistant Director of Casa Libre and Noah Saterstrom, founder/ curator of Trickhouse.org.in·te·gra·tive adj \ˈ in-tə- ˌ grā-tiv\
combining and coordinating diverse elements into a wholeTrickhouse Live is an integrative arts series that brings together people working with words, images, sounds, videos, and a variety of performances. The series serves as a venue for visiting artists to interact with local artists and for the borders between genres and mediums to be permeable. Trickhouse Live is a physical world extension of the online cross-genre arts journal, Trickhouse.org which is based in Tucson.
Performer Bios
Laura Hinton is the author of a poetry book, Sisyphus My Love (To Record a Dream in a Bathtub), published by BlazeVox Books, and a critical book, The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911 (SUNY Press). She is also the co-editor of the essay collection (with Cynthia Hogue), We Who Love to Be Astonished: Experimental Women’s Writing and Performance Poetics (University of Alabama Press).
Her own critical essays, poet interviews, and reviews have appeared in numerous books and journals including Contemporary Literature, Postmodern Culture, Textual Practice, Women’s Studies, Rain Taxi, Jacket, Poetry Project Newsletter, The Journal of the Academy of American Poets, among others. Individual prose and hybrid poems, as well as photography and poetry videos, have been published in Yew, Madhatter Review, Esque, Feminist Studies, Bird Dog, Sonaweb, How2, Poets for Living Waters, Nth Position, Poetic Voices without Borders, Poetry in Performance, and other venues. She also works with choreography and movement studies in her current performance poetry.
Recent performances have been at the University of Maine at last summer’s National Poetry Foundation Conference, and in New York City.
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize winning novel, The Sentimentalists (Norton 2011), a book of short fiction, This Will Be Difficult to Explain, and Other Stories (Norton 2012 -- out in paperback April, 2013!), and two collections of poetry (Gaspereau 2008, 2010). Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, she lives in Tucson, where she is working on a collection of critical essays and a second novel.
David Sherman is a filmmaker and media/sound artist, whose appropriation and collage based, works are concerned with activating/documenting alternative histories and states of consciousness. Sherman’s works have been exhibited extensively at film festivals, museums and alternative venues throughout the world including: The Whitney Biennial, The New York Film Festival, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art , and Musée National d’Art Modern, Paris.
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