Jennifer Scappettone (CRF 2019) shared news of her recent and upcoming events with us.
Scappettone has a gallery exhibition at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor from August 20–December 31. There will be poetry readings, choral recitation of trash, and conversation with Celina Su at the Newhouse Center on September 18 at 1 pm ET.
She will participate in a performance at Freshkills Park on November 5, and be in theatrical performances at Gibney Dance on December 8, 9, 10.
Scappettone’s current work on the poetics of copper and the material ramifications of mining toward the “cloud” is reflected in several digital and physical places:
- An entry on the Coal-Mine Canary for becoming-Feral, a bestiary for the anthropocene published by Objet-a in Glasgow, and a video-poem named Syrinx Spring at the becoming-Feral digital collection
- “A Cage Full of Oxygen,” an accordion fold-out featuring collage and lyric essay for Portable Gray 5:1, an issue devoted to Earth
- A performance for the Segue Series, alongside a reading by Saretta Morgan
- Parts of a libretto surrounding the Statue of Liberty from SMOKEPENNY LYRICHORD HEAVENBRED at Three Fold Press
- A reading with translations into French by Olivier Brossard for Double Change
- A talk with Ghazal Mosadeq at Language is a Vírus, based in Santiago de Chile
Scappettone has also published a video-poem surrounding Lake Michigan, climate change, and borders at Visible Binary, edited by Patrick Pethybridge.
Image: Jennifer Scappettone, Fresh Kills Landfill-becoming-park, fieldwork with iLAND residency, April 2010.