[Brooklyn]

The Little Big Apple Sabotage Event: Alone but Together - with Ida Börjel & Jennifer Hayashida, AKA Jen Börjelhayash-Ida
March 31, 2017, 7:00 pm
at Interference Archive

An evening with a redistributed collective reading of Miximum Ca’ Canny The Sabotage Manuals – you cutta da pay we cutta da shob (Commune Editions, 2016) by and with Ida Börjel & Jennifer Hayashida, AKA Jen Börjelhayash-Ida.In a predominant languaging of bullshit, ersatz behavior, corporate and political lingo-slinging, where belief competes with truth, how do we take up words? Evan Calder Williams writes, ”[W]e might consider sabotage, at the most abstract level, as the deployment of a technique, or activation of a capacity, at odds with the apparatus, system, or order within which it is situated and for which it was developed.” At odds. How do we look upon our works of poetry and art in a troubled time? If poetry is seen as language’s excess, it cannot be reduced to information. If poetry is a reopening of the indefinite, the ironic act of exceeding the established meaning of words, can it also be a refusal, the sketching of fine threads of deviation available to poets and artists as strategies of protest, of refusal and insistence at the level of language?