Jonathan Ames
Saturday, October 16, 2004
Readings, News, Performances: On October 23, I will give two readings. Here's the information on the first one, which is a Cabinet Magazine event and where I will read my essay on the color 'bice' : Chromophilia: An Exploration of a Few Corners of the Visible Spectrum
Time: Saturday, October 23, 2-4 pm
Venue: P.S.1, Long Island City, New York (second floor, "Kunsthalle" room)
Admission: Free; There is a suggested $5 fee to enter P.S.1. This is reduced to $2 for students, children, and seniors
Munch on chromatically interesting food and listen to readings by by Jonathan Ames (author of "Wake Up, Sir!"), Andrea Codrington (independent cultural critic), Tim Griffin (Artforum, editor-in-chief), Frances Richard (poet and editor at Cabinet), and Albert Mobilio (poet and fiction editor at Bookforum). There will also be audio-visual presentations on Superblack, the history of color gardening, the Chat Noir monochromes, the first synthetic dye, and more...
The event will end with the first-ever mass administration of the Luscher Color Test, which is a very interesting personality test. I took it and found it to be terribly and oddly accurate. Here is the information for the second reading I will participate in that day, which is a fundraiser for Concerts for Change -- it will take place at Pianos Bar in Manhattan at 7pm (158 Ludlow just past Stanton) and the suggested donation is ten dollars, but five dollars would help and anything above ten would really help. Concerts for Change funnels money to groups which are trying to get out the vote in crucial swing states. I wish it didn't come down to this electoral college madness, but that's the way it is. Reading at Pianos Bar that night, along with myself, are the following very talented people: actress Lili Taylor, Nick Flynn - author of Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, James Frey - A Million Little Pieces, Darin Straus - Chang And Eng, Nelly Reifler - See Through, and Stephen Elliott - Looking Forward To It or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The American Political Process. Stephen Elliott is the organizer of this reading. On October 26, I will be hosting a Moth event, go to www.themoth.org for details, and on October 27, I will be reading at the Open City night at KGB at 7pm; go to www.opencity.org for details. On October 30, I will be reading at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, TX; the reading will be with Adam Johnson and Kyle Smith, and will take place in the State Capitol at 2:15 pm in Capitol Extension Room E.2.010, which sounds very bureaucratic. Thank you for visiting my website!
