RSVP: The Mind's Eye Works-in-Progress Colloquium: “Imitation of Life: A Lyric Essay” by Dr. Zack Finch

Tuesday, April 13, 2021
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM

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 between 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.