Chalk Playground, LitTwitChalk

Tan Lin

• P.S. 2 playground
• 122 Henry St.
• Saturday, November 14 1:00pm

A performance-based chalk translation and street drawing in a parking lot. Chalking of a Futurist manifesto, a Chinese manifesto, and a collaborative, real-time poetry “line” installation piece by New York writers. Writers include: Felix Alarcon, Bruce Andrews, Chris Alexander, Joe Amrhein, Anselm Berrigan, Jimbo Blachly, Lee Ann Brown, Ethan Bumas, Greta Bumas, Emilie Clark, Yina Chun, Clare Churchouse, Kareem Estefan, Robert Fitterman, Sarah Gambito, Kristen Gallagher, Kenneth Goldsmith, Paolo Javier, De-Quan Jenkins, Eric Laine, Ahn Lin, Joseph Legaspi, Ati Maier, Saqub Naeem, Jason Perry,Gina Picinic, Richard, Elizabeth Sanchez, Brittany Sanders, Katherine Sanders, Olivia Shao, Phillippa Shao, Jeremy Sigler, Lytle Shaw, Danny Snelson, Jennifer Tsuei, Charles Yarbrough, Helena Zhang, and others.

Chalk Playground is preceded by a live street-chalking exercise, LitTwitChalk. YouTube:LitTwitChalk.

For further details and updates: see Twitter: chalkknit

Tan Lin is author of BlipSoak01, Heath: plagiarism/outsource, and 7 Controlled Vocabularies and Obituary 2004. The Joy of Cooking (forthcoming, Wesleyan University Press, 2010). His visual and video work has been exhibited at the Yale Art Museum and the Sophienholm (Copenhagen). He is a professor of English and creative writing at New Jersey City University. More info: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Lin-Video.html

Sponsored by the Asian American Writers Workshop, Museum of the Chinese in America, the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University, and the Chinese American Association for Poetry and Poetics.

1-3pm

FREE