September 3-30.  NI UNA MAS.

Ni Una Mas, Not One More! is the slogan used by activists to protest the mass slaughter of women in Juarez.  But it is not just women who are being killed.  As Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields says, Juarez kills everyone.  And the situation in Juarez is itself just the exemplar of a wider social phenomenon in which individuals (the|’Sones) are isolated and pitted against the many of the collective (themOthers).  In so far as we deny our being a part of a collective we all contribute to the denegration and disenfranchisement of the many, especially the many of the poor.  This project pays homage to themOthers, naming some, and asking our government to intervene on their, and ultimately our behalf.

Writer’s Statement: Language is not just a medium of poetry.  It is also, as a tongue, one of the organs through which we process data and make sense of the world.  Are the puns that abound in language simply funny slips of the tongue, or are they indices of something more important?

quoi- Sock Puppet Play

Christine Wertheim brings sock puppets
to The Manual Archives
May 8, 2008

quoi is a dramatic exploration of the relationship between sound,
body, sense and voice, performed with two sock-puppets, seven jellyfish, one
blasted tree, two space-capsules and a balloon on a stick called
Nigel. May 3rd is its world premiere.

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Christine Wertheim will be participating in the &NOW Conference this year at the University of Colorado in Boulder, CO.

Facebook Event Page

November 3, 2012 at 7:00pm until November 10, 2012 at 10:00pm

Les Figues authors Martin Glaz Serup (Copenhagen) and Christine Wertheim (Los Angeles) will be on a Field Tour of the Field States from November 3-10, 2012.

Glaz Serup and Wertheim will also be creating a video-document entitled The Field / Field States. Inspired by Glaz Serup’s book, The Field, different people along the tour route (event attendees, students, etc.) will be asked to read one of the hundred pieces of The Field on video, creating short clips of field texts in different voices, different bodies, genders, and personas—though all from “field states” in the American Midwest (Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio). The filmed version will embody Glaz Serup’s The Field, performing everybody’s autobiography.

Saturday, 11/3/12: Red Rover Series, Chicago, Illinois
at Outer Space Studio | 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave

Monday, 11/5/12: Lake Forest College, classroom visit

Tuesday, 11/6/12: Kenyon Review Reading Series, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

Thursday, 11/8/12: House Reading, South Bend Indiana

Friday, 11/9/12: PUB.UNIT Presents, Illinois State University