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CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock- Featuring a Presentation from Zoe Strauss
The City Real & Imagined at the ICA
CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock- Featuring a Presentation from Zoe Strauss
Frank Sherlock and CAConrad will launch their new book The City Real and Imagined on Feb. 3, 2010 at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia with Zoe Strauss, the cover artist, presenting a slide show of her work.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, February 03, 2010 /Art and Artists PR News/ -- In celebration of the newly released poetry collaboration entitled The City Real & Imagined, the ICA will host a reading/performance by CA Conrad & Frank Sherlock on Wednesday February 3 at 8pm.
The poets will read from their work during the event, which also features a visual presentation from photographer Zoe Strauss.
Conrad and Sherlock have engaged in many collaborative efforts in the city of Philadelphia for more than a decade. Their combined endeavors have included curatorial work, political activism, literary projects, and a close working friendship. The culmination of their shared actions has resulted in The City Real & Imagined, a new Heretical Texts title from Factory School Books. This book-length poem was fueled from walks through Philadelphia, which included sharing both their common and divergent experiences of their city with each other.
Poet/critic Rob Halpern of Nonsite Collective says, "Through their (Conrad's & Sherlock's) modes of practice, the poem becomes a form assumed by lived social relations under the pressure of so many forces conspiring against us. What's more, the poem becomes not only a formal expression of dissent, but the insurgent means by which "dissensus" might potentially and provisionally be organized within contested social spaces and public discourses."
The book release party will include a slide presentation from Zoe Strauss, who is a Philadelphia native, USA Gund Fellow and recipient of a Pew Fellowship. Her work is featured on the cover of The City Real & Imagined.
The ICA event is an opportunity to wander with Conrad & Sherlock through their psychogeographical work and play. The event will include peoples' histories and magical traditions rooted in the first capital of the American possible- the city of Philadelphia. Landmarks that remain standing will be visited, citizens that live on in memory will be revisited, and provocations for future mappings of a real & imagined city will be shared.
CAConrad and Frank Sherlock collaborated on this book by walking together in the city of Philadelphia and writing about their observations and deeper connection to the people and places.
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