Kristian Vistrup Madsen in conversation with Tiziana La Melia
Please join us for an-in person conversation with Kristian Vistrup Madsen and Tiziana La Melia on processing art through writing.
Please join us for an in-person conversation with Kristian Vistrup Madsen and Tiziana La Melia on processing art through writing.
About this event
This event is on the occasion of the launch of Vistrup Madsen's book: Doing Time: Essays on Using People. Copies will be available for purchase at Or Gallery and READ books.
On Doing Time: Essays on Using People
To write about someone else means both to expose and transform them. This is the dilemma of writing that Janet Malcolm describes as “morally indefensible.” In Doing Time: Essays on Using People, Kristian Vistrup Madsen deliberates on his correspondence with an inmate in a California prison named Michael. Over several years, this spawns a series of reflections about the politics of solidarity and appropriation, but also about writing itself and what happens when life is turned into art. This book is a portrait of a friendship interpolated by great difference, and of a fearful time in which experience and identity are everything, and thinking not enough.
Kristian Vistrup Madsen is a writer based in Berlin. He is a contributor to magazines such as Artforum, frieze, Texte zur Kunst and Kunstkritikk, and the recipient of the 2020 Broken Dimanche Press novel prize.
Tiziana La Melia grew up in the Okanagan region of British Columbia and now lives in Vancouver. Her paintings, textiles, installations, collaborations and writing are concerned with overlapping registers of perception, feeling, memory and narrative.
Copies of Doing Time: Essays on Using People will be available for sale at Or Bookstore.
Safety note: Attendance is limited. Please register through the Eventbrite link here. Should health restrictions on indoor events be extended, notifications will be sent out with information to view the talk online. Otherwise attendees should wear masks while inside the gallery and be ready to confirm their fully vaccinated status.
This event is presented in collaboration with ECU's Audain Faculty of Art.