Today's first interview is with Susan David concerning Emerge, her site specific eggshell sculpture installation at ACA in the Vault Gallery. The final night of this exhibit is November 9, 2019, where all in attendance will be invited to crush the eggshells underfoot!
In her own words, "Emerge blends ideas concerning elements of mythology, psychology, abjection, and the feminine. It is largely inspired visual culture research exploring the History of the Shadow, Film/Literature, and the symbolic nature of Water in connection with the human form. Theses ideas allow me to express the cyclical nature of our lives and all the uncertainties that it entails. To be forever waiting. To be torn apart internally and externally. Of the familiar and the un-heimlich. Of being in between spaces and longing for the other. Of Liminality. Of floating in limbo knowing something is coming but it is inescapable, familiar, and haunting. Yet still we wait in this limbo of being. These preoccupations come from my immersion in memory, history, my mindset as a printmaker, my interest in Place, in the body, and its uncanny limits. These hauntings are what I aim to illuminate."
Please visit this link for more information on this fantastic installation!
Our 2nd interview with Bruce Coen & Donney Rose discusses the upcoming Festival of Words, a celeberation entire spectrum of langauage and word! The annual festival takes place on november 1-2 this year. "The annual festival, held at the Thenstead Center in Grant Coteau, is a FREE festival featuring award-winning writers. These writers provide community readings and writing workshops. During the Festival a Community Stage is open to all writers and performers, local students perform dramatic readings of works by the visiting writers at the "Drive By Poetry" event and a Creative Writing Contest is held for area youth."
Please continue to the Festival of Words website to learn more about the festival and other upcoming events.
Also, visit this link to learn more about poet Donney Rose and his contributions to Louisiana's artistic community.