[Reader-list] [Announcements] NOVEL: A Living Installation at Flux Factory

[Vivek Narayanan]

For those in New York or thereabouts:

NOVEL: A Living Installation at Flux Factory
May 7th ­ June 4th, 2005
Opening Party: May 7th, 7pm

 
Flux Factory
38-38 43rd Street
Long Island City, NY 11101
www.fluxfactory.org
718-707-3362
For more information contact: kerry at fluxfactory.org
 
The Show
>From May 7th until June 4th, 2005 Flux Factory, Inc. will lock up three
novelists in individual cubicles built in the Flux gallery in Long Island
City. The writers will be let out for short periods each day in order to use
the bathroom, shower, etc. The rest of the time they will remain in their
respective cubicles and will have food, snacks, and supplies provided for
them while they embark on the process of writing a complete novel. Public
readings of the novels-in-process will be held every Saturday evening. There
will also be several public viewing times/press briefings at other times
during the week. On June 4th, each writer will emerge from his or her
cubicle, having each finished one novel, composed entirely within the
cubicle. 

The three cubicles will be constructed by artists/architects from their own
designs and in collaboration with the novelists. Each cubicle will reflect
the specific needs and interests of the individual writers. These cubicles
address complex issues of design and desire, space (or lack thereof) and how
a complete room in which someone can live comfortably for an entire month
can be built.
 
NOVEL takes the isolation of the writer to a rather extreme conclusion in
order to investigate what will be produced under those conditions. But, just
as writing is solitary, it is also a performance. The writer, sitting alone,
is always conscious of an audience, whoever that may be. NOVEL combines the
private and public aspects of writing in a striking way. The goal for NOVEL
is to facilitate the production of quality fiction and explore the act of
writing itself as a performance, installation, and kinetic, living
sculpture.

Additional Events
In a continued attempt to make transparent the issues of contemporary
literature, a discussion about the current state of the novel will be held
at Flux Factory on May 21st. Writers Myla Goldberg (Bee Season), Tom Bissell
(Chasing the Sea), and J.M. Tyree will be among the panel members.
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The Writers

Ranbir Sidhu is a recipient of a Pushcart Prize in fiction and his work has
appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Zyzzyva, Other Voices,
Press and a Houghton-Mifflin college reader among other publications.
Trained as an archaeologist, he has worked in California, Nevada, Israel and
France. One of his finds, a 3,000-year-old woman, made cover skeleton of
Biblical Archaeology Review. Most recently, he worked for the United Nations
in Sri Lanka as a communications consultant.

Laurie Stone is author of Starting with Serge (Doubleday, 1990), Close to
the Bone (Grove, 1997), and Laughing in the Dark (Ecco, 1997). A longtime
writer for the Village Voice (1975-99), she has been theater critic for The
Nation, critic-at-large on NPR's Fresh Air, and a regular writer for Ms.,
New York Woman, and Viva. She has received grants from NYFA, The Kittredge
Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, Poets & Writers, and in 1996 she won the
Nona Balakian prize in excellence in criticism from the National Book
Critics Circle. 

Grant Baille is a Cleveland-based writer and artist. A contributor to
McSweeney¹s and Zygote in My Coffee among others, Grant¹s novel Cloud 8 was
published in 2003 by Ig Publishing. His work was selected for honors by the
Writer¹s & Poets League of Greater Cleveland and he had been a featured
speaker and reader at book events in the US and Canada. His paintings have
been exhibited at William Busta Gallery and Joyce Porcelli Gallery.
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