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"Approaching Humility/ Its Hard to Be Humble: An Illustrated Lecture Series"
Mary Walling Blackburn
New York, New York USA
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Participants will lecture on their earliest memory.
Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center
Lower East Side, New York City, New York
September 10, 2003
7:00 pm
Speakers:
Paul Chan, artist.
SUBLIME HUMILITY:
Notes on outsider art and outsider politics -- after 9/11
Art and politics on the margins of history point toward alternatives to the unsavory dynamic of social humility/humiliation at work today in everything from reality television to the war on terror. What can foreign policy experts learn from wood carvers from Mississippi and Iraqi Sufi sheikhs?
Kathy Graber, poet.
HUMBLE POET, HUMBLE POEM:
Insult or praise?
Humility is, frankly, not a virtue widely valued in contemporary American poetry, an artistic landscape dominated by the extremes of the narrative confessional lyric and the language poem. Yet there is a legacy of something like humility that comes to us from Keats s idea of Negative Capability and the examples of both Whitman and Dickinson. Why is humility so problematic for poets? Is the insistence on the centrality of the self simply arrogance? Something predictably and typically American?
Joel Ferree, urban planner.
Topic TBA
Artists
Austin Thomas
Holly Miller
Dave Ford
Honglei Li
Performers
Diane Cluck and Dave Deporis
Goat Island (video)
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