Poets Jen Bervin, Nick Flynn, Tamalyn Miller, and Rachel Zucker, and musicians KILLDEER and GODDESS, respond to Mel Chin’s room-sized installation The Funk & Wag from A to Z (2012), in which the artist transforms engravings that illustrated a 25 volume set of encyclopedias into whimsically titled, fantastic new configurations.
The poets will read works inspired by individual volumes of the encyclopedia, published in the eponymous book on the installation alongside images of over 500 black-and-white collages, as well as new works related to “The Artifice of Facts and Belief”. Musical performances will follow.