Plastic Words - Publishing Models And Technologies Of Publication

Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication – Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman Chaired by Antony Hudek Thursday 15 January 2015, 6.30pm Panel discussion with Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman about the forms of publication best suited to writing in an expanded field. Chaired by Antony Hudek. --- Jeremy Akerman is a London-based artist, curator, lecturer and co-director of Akerman Daly, an organisation that commissions and publishes writing by artists. Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of The Last Samurai (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), Lightning Rods (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of Your Name Here (in limbo since 2006). Antony Hudek is Curator and Deputy Director, Raven Row, and co-director of Occasional Papers, London. Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. She is the author of four novels, most recently Summer of Hate (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, 2012). --- Panel discussion as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.