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Eleni Stecopoulos and Rebekah Rutkoff at 192 Books

October 15, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Celebrate the launch of Eleni Stecopoulos’s Dreaming in the Fault Zone: A Poetics of Healing (Nightboat Books, 2024) and Rebekah Rutkoff’s Double Vision: The Cinema of Robert Beavers (MIT Press) at 192 Books.

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In the era of the “chronic acute” long predating COVID-19, Eleni Stecopoulos set out to investigate the imagination, aesthetics, and ideology of healing—its mysteries and mystifications, its many channels and codes. Fusing lyric inquiry with cultural criticism, Dreaming in the Fault Zone explores art’s treatment of our conditions at a time of both increased cynicism about healing and longing for it. Stecopoulos talks to physicians, poets, psychotherapists, disability activists, ethnographers, spiritual seekers; curates performances and takes part in community rituals; documents pilgrimages and visits therapeutic landscapes. Weaving together esoteric scenes and everyday practice, with flashes of humor, these essays travel in a space of impasse and unending experiment.

Double Vision is a beautifully written work of biography and criticism that tells the inside story of Robert Beavers (b. 1949), a major American avant-garde filmmaker. Until now, Beavers’s dramatic life of itinerancy and resistance to commercial circulation has obscured his recognition as one of today’s most significant living filmmakers. In Double Vision, Rebekah Rutkoff, the first scholar to have full access to Beavers’s writing archive, sheds light on this deeply original underground figure and reveals the way Beavers’s films explore nonoptical seeing—awareness itself—as an outcome of cinematic sight.

Details

Date:
October 15, 2024
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Website:
http://www.192books.com/upcoming-events/

Venue

192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue
New York, 10011 United States
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