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Sophie Seita

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Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and writer whose practice explores text in its various translations into book objects, performances, videos, fabric-sculptures, or other languages and embodiments. Her work has been commissioned, performed, supported, and exhibited by, for example, Queer Art Projects, [ SPACE ], Rupert (Vilnius), The Hunterian (Glasgow) and The Roberts Institute of Art, La MaMa Galleria (NYC), Printed Matter (NYC), Bold Tendencies, the Arnolfini, JNU (New Delhi), Raven Row, Parasol Unit, Art Night London, Kunsthalle Darmstadt (Germany), the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Council, UP Projects, and Flat Time House. Her recent and forthcoming publications include: a book of lyric essays Lessons of Decal (87Press, 2023, forthcoming), a book of experimental performance writing, My Little Enlightenment Plays (Pamenar, 2020), a book of criticism, Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital (Stanford University Press, 2019), a performance script The Gracious Ones (Earthbound Press, 2020), and translations of Uljana Wolf work, Subsisters: Selected Poems (Belladonna, 2017) and Etymological Gossip: Essays and Lectures (Nightboat Books, 2023, forthcoming), as well as art writing in Flesh Arranges Itself Differently (Roberts Institute of Art/Hunterian, 2022) and ON FIGURE/S (Ma Bibliothèque, 2021).

Writers on Writing, spring 2023

Full Reading | Recorded: 04/06/23 | Run time: 25:41