Toward a decolonizing/apotropaic poetics @ Duplex [PORTLAND/USA]

[5 June at 18:00 in PDT]

[Jamondria will present a low & high theory workshop on the radical poetics of decay and liberation derived from eccentric archives as well as what Lauren Berlant calls "silly archives," which emerge from looking for knowledge in the "wrong" places in order to dredge subjugated and repressed forms of thought. Driven toward the apotropaic (that which wards off evil), Jamondria examines how such archives and the thought-paths they reveal/conceal ask us to embrace the impossibility of failure and losing one's way, the pursuit of difficult questions about linguistic complicity, and the search for counterintuitive forms of resistance in the poetic.

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Jamondria Marnice Harris is a poet & artist living in Portland, OR. She uses words, sounds, wires, instruments, textiles & whatever is at hand to engage blackness, desire, decolonization, fairy tales, femme supremacy, & body horror. She is a VONA Workshop Fellow.]

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