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Public Programming InSite: Art + Commemoration
Jill Magi - SLOT
LMCC and Ugly Duckling Presse celebrated the publication of SLOT, a new book by writer, poet and visual artist, Jill Magi. An experiential investigation of how we move through cultural landmarks and institutions, SLOT presents a lyrical and thinking response to official, landscaped memory. In the book, a person slips in and out of highly designed museums and memorials, looks for a mentor who is more than a tour guide, rebels during the official tour, and occasionally finds the lament she is looking for: in comparisons across history, in ambiguous photo sequences, and in poetry. The resulting text stages a quiet argument between the persistent urge to "slot" things—into narratives, frames, archives—and a clear view of what, by resisting, remains. Select passages were read by Joanna Sondheim, Johannah Rogers and Jill Magi.
SLOT by Jill Magi was the closing event for Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's InSite: Art + Commemoration, a program that honors the ten-year anniversary of 9/11 by inviting artistic response to a decade of recovery and change in Lower Manhattan and beyond through exhibitions, performances, poetry, and ideas.
