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LOGISTICS

Discussion space takes place on Zoom from 6-7:15pm every other Wednesday starting July 7th.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 7th 6-7:15PM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 21st 6-7:15PM

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4th 6-7:15PM

July 7th - August 4th, 2021

*Meetings occur every other Wednesday from 6pm-7:15pm. These sessions are 75 min in duration. Full schedule follows.

FUTURE IMAGING

How do we envision a future where we elude cataclysm? Can tentative optimism be proactive? How can we build language that takes us beyond our current paradigm?

Let's read/play through the collected Twines of Oakland-based artist Porpentine and discuss the potential futures she crafts by decompiling and restructuring contemporary notions of reality into futurist language. In these works she extrapolates trans femme culture from the last few decades within imagined futures that often assume a world cataclysm.

What is it and what will we do?

In this virtual bookclub, we will use Porpentine’s work in Twine as a framework to discuss integration of futurist imagining within our individual craft practices.

We will meet on Zoom, and use the reading as a starting point to discuss how crafting futurist language can influence our resiliency, and inform the steps we take forward.

How do we access the materials for this reading room?

Porpentine’s twine library can be found at http://slimedaughter.com/games/ . Here you will find the 40 works we’ll be discussing over three reading room sessions. (We will be skipping ‘Rat Shrine’ as it is a digital shrine and not applicable). The library is free to access.

HOSTED BY: Myra Lilith Day

Born in a shack with bacteria-tainted well water in the central valley of California, Myra has been finding creative solutions to life’s problems since she first drew breath. For undergrad she escaped to the Evergreen State college in Olympia, Washington where she developed a love of mixing materials and processes to suit her desired outcomes. In the years after her graduation she traveled the west coast getting into gender trouble and eventually settled down at Richard Macdonald’s Bronze Atelier in Monterey, CA. When she had had her fill, Myra returned to the Pacific Northwest and never looked back. She lives in an egregiously pink 1930’s apartment with the love of her life and spends the majority of her time rendering sprawling 3D mesh images in her computer closet hideaway.

https://myralilithday.com/ and @myralilithday