TONIGHT- Filipinotown
Join Us tonight @ 2220 Arts + Archive.
Stephanie LaCava and Anahid Nersessian
In the medieval song-form called tenso–or debate–two poets converge on a single subject, usually having to do with love and/or ethics. One voice sets out a problem; the other voice responds.
This performance is a debate, a letter, an object and a theory.
Together LaCava & Nersessian will live-exchange words and images to agitate—disturb—the terms with which we understand desire and intimacy.
Stephanie LaCava is the author of I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU, THE SUPERRATIONALS and EXTRAORDINARY THEORY OF OBJECTS.
Anahid Nersessian is the author of KEATS’S ODES: A LOVER’S DISCOURSE and THE CALAMITY FORM: ON POETRY AND SOCIAL LIFE. She teaches at UCLA.
This is an age 21+ event
2220 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057
2220 Arts + Archives is dedicated to non-commercial, adventurous and experimental arts. It is volunteer-run and most of our events are curated and hosted by our resident programmers. If you want to make sense of it, come and see.
2220 is not only our name, it’s our address. We are located at 2220 Beverly Blvd in Historic Filipinotown, adjacent to Echo Park and Downtown LA. We are across the street from Brooklyn Bagel Bakery, and lease the Praise Christian Fellowship church parking lot, accessible off Roselake Ave. Visitors can park there, and there is generally significant street parking on Beverly, largely unrestricted in the evenings.
We’ve chosen an intentionally modest place-based name (2220 Beverly Blvd is our street address), because our venue is the container, not the contents. Instead we want to foreground the artists, series and programmers that inhabit the space.
While we’re conscious of our place in the community, we are not hyperlocal. We see Los Angeles as a world city, and want to give safe harbor to international artists as well as Angelenos and Californians. We want to reflect the illimitable diversity of our city, and give voice and stage to younger artists, while honoring elder innovators, wild thinkers and radical communities of practice. We particularly celebrate the autodidacts and ‘ordinary intellectuals’ who have long given this city its vibrancy, strangeness, dissensus and intensity. We’re open to all genres, but are particularly interested in artists testing the limits of their categories.
We’re always looking out for fellow travelers, and hope to grow and diversify our community over time. We beg your patience as we do so! We’ll inevitably pause to pilot, experiment, evolve and change, and won’t be an always-on entertainment factory any time soon. We’ll make accommodations for slowness, second-guessing, exploration, community feedback, difficulty. If it all works out, we may never be the same.
For additional information, visit the website @
https://www.2220arts.org
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