Sixth Street Synagogue and the Forward present:
Jewish Art for the New Millennium: Avant-Garde Poetry and Music
Charles Bernstein, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Jamie Saft
Curated by Jake Marmer
Tue June 8th, 8:00 pm
Sixth Street Synagogue
325 East 6th (b/n 1st and 2nd Ave)
Cover: $8 (includes a free drink)
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Sixth Street Synagogue, Foundation for Jewish Culture, and the Forward present the first in a new series of innovative cultural evenings at Sixth Street Synagogue. The “Jewish Art for the New Millennium” series is aimed to showcase cutting edge Jewish artists, who represent their identity in most original, innovative ways.
The first night features three artists who represent different generations, genres and aesthetics. Multi-instrumentalist musician Jamie Saft, poet Charles Bernstein and writer/poet Kenneth Goldsmith team up for an evening of intellectually provocative words and music as each performs separately and then join forces for conversation.
Charles Bernstein is a rebel voice in the world of poetry and poetic theory. Author of a number of acclaimed poetry collections including this year’s “All the Whiskey in Heaven: Selected Poems” (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). He is Donald T. Regan Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. For this event, he will be reading from Shadowtime (Green Integer, 2005), his libretto in/on/around/about Walter Benjamin, for an opera by Brian Ferneyhough, which was performed in 2005 at the Lincoln Center Festival (CD from NMC & I-Tunes; more info: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/shadowtime/.
Kenneth Goldsmith’s writing has been called “some of the most exhaustive and beautiful collage work yet produced in poetry” by Publishers Weekly. Goldsmith is the author of ten books of poetry, founding editor of the online archive UbuWeb (ubu.com), and the editor of I’ll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol Interviews, which was the basis for the opera, “Trans-Warhol” the same year that an hour-long documentary on his work, “Sucking on Words” premiered. More about Goldsmith can be found at: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Goldsmith.
Jamie Saft is a virtuoso pianist, keyboardist, producer, and composer from New York and a mainstay of the Downtown scene. Saft’s stylistic versatility, multi-instrumentalist capabilities, and production skills have been featured with The Beastie Boys, Bad Brains, The B-52’s, Laurie Anderson, John Zorn, John Adams, Donovan, Bobby Previte, Dave Douglas, Antony and the Johnsons, and scores of other artists. See more of his work here: http://www.jamiesaft.com/.
