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REDCAT hosts The Séance In Experimental Writing, a public meditation on the condition of language and narrative in contemporary writing

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Los Angeles, CA - REDCAT, CalArts' downtown center for innovative visual, performing and media arts, presents The Séance In Experimental Writing, October 29th and 30th, a special two-day symposium of international authors, poets and thinkers brought together for conversations on language, narrative, possession, haunting, the supernatural and the ordinary. The event is organized by Christine Wertheim and Matias Viegener and sponsored by the Annenberg Foundation and CalArts MFA Writing Program.

This Séance in Experimental Writing gathers new and established writers to speculate on the boundaries of structural and linguistic experiments today. Participants include novelists, short-story writers, poets, and hypertextualists, from Canada, the US, and Europe: Dodie Bellamy, Charles Bernstein, Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, Dennis Cooper, Madeline Gins, Robert Glück, Kenneth Goldsmith, Shelley Jackson, Kevin Killian, Ben Marcus, Eileen Myles, Joan Retallack, Cristina Rivera-Garzaic, Steven Shaviro, Janet Sternburg and Lidia Yuknavitch. The Séance is composed of six daytime panel discussions in which writers address issues in contemporary writing practice, and two evening events in which they read from and perform their own work.

Click here for the complete Séance schedule of panels and events.

REDCAT is located in downtown Los Angeles at the corner of W. 2nd St. and S. Hope St., inside the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex. Tickets prices are as follows: $30 all events; $12 per evening, $6 per day; special student tickets available. Seating is general admission. Tickets may be purchased at the REDCAT box office -- located at the corner of 2nd and Hope streets, by calling 213.237.2800 or at by clicking here.

The Critical Studies Writing Program attempts to question and provoke the mutations that may occur in forms and styles of writing and reading. It is neither a "creative" writing program nor a "critical" writing program but is predicated on the assumption that critical writers need to think about questions of aesthetics, form, rhetoric, and mode of presentation, while, at the same time, creative writers need an arsenal of critical ideas to structure and drive their work.

California Institute of the Arts, CalArts, the first U.S. higher educational institution to integrate the visual and performing arts under one roof, is recognized as the nation's leading laboratory for the arts. Housing six schools--Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater--CalArts embraces creative cross-pollination among diverse art forms and traditions, and strongly encourages each artist to pursue his or her vision within a broad context of social and cultural understanding.

Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater, REDCAT, is an interdisciplinary arts center that introduces diverse audiences, students and artists to the most influential developments in the performing, visual and media arts from around the world, and gives artists and future artists in this region the production opportunities and creative support they need to achieve national and international stature.

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