Episode 29 - Living with Trans Despair with Simon(e) van Saarloos
About this episode
The episode features a talk on living with trans despair, including poetry readings and discussions around art and resistance.
Today I am presenting a talk that Simon(e) van Saarloos and I did, kind of as a followup to our last talk together at the NYC Art Bookfair, called "Living with Trans Despair." I'm going to give you the origin and details of the event before I present the edited recording of the event itself., so this is a bit of a long introduction. The idea to make a sequel came in the initial planning of our first talk about Simon's book, Against Ag(e)ism , as we discovered we were both in the process of writing books dealing with despair. The circumstances of the event were particularly special: a friend of ours and amazing artist, Phoebus Osborne, had a show up at the gallery Parent Company , a four channel video installation called oh it's my ass, it's my anus . Phoebus welcomed our talk into part of the series of events he was holding surrounding this exhibition. But to make the talk even more special, we framed it with poetry readings from two beautiful poets, Sahar Khraibani and Rebecca Teich , whose contributions provided a perfect bookend for our talk, which was also surrounded by the intensely beautiful environment created by Phoebus's installation. To give a better sense of this solo…
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