Taryn Simon, An Occupation of Loss. Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2016. Installation view.
(Photography by Naho Kubota)

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Join CARE SYLLABUS for the first in a series of lectures, part of The Mind’s Eye Works-In-Progress Colloquium.

Title: Imitation of Life: A Lyric Essay

Abstract: In this reading of an essay begun during this past year, Zack Finch explores whether performance art and literature can enact the sorts of funerary, healing, and socially cathartic care work traditionally reserved for more religious rituals and ceremonies of mourning.  Moving across a spectrum of aesthetic texts, including installation works by Taryn Simon, sculpture by Fred Wilson, essays by Stéphane Mallarmé, and films by Douglas Sirk and Stan Brakhage, this work-in-progress takes a personal, auto-theoretical approach to the question of how one navigates loss and separation under the conditions of the ongoing pandemic. 

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Speaker Bio
Zack Finch is a poet, essayist and scholar of modern and contemporary US poetry and poetics. He has received awards and fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Wallace Stevens Society. His work has appeared in places including American Letters & Commentary, Boston Review, Fence, Jacket2, Poetry and Tin House. A graduate of Warren Wilson's Program for Writers (MFA in poetry) and University of Buffalo's Poetics Program (PhD), he currently teaches writing and literature courses in the English Department at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.