Poetry Reading at 7. Lecture Performance at 8.
One night only, at 1821 S Racine Ave.
Under the Sun, As it Were is a celebration of the subjunctive mood; a wishful thinking for the seemingly out of our grasp. Taking place in honor of the summer solstice, we present to you a speculative speciation of the mundane, the simple, the natural brought on by the light of that longest sun. The three prongs of the event: works engaged in the telling of story, the tenuousness of their instant, and the relations that they honor; a presentation of impossible domestic gestures that believe in their possibility; and a lecture as a performance invested in imaginations, word-worlds, and the proposition. A day celebrated since antiquity, with many a monument in many a culture erected to acknowledge and coincide with the sun’s positioning, Under the Sun asks us to think backward and forward, participate in the possibility that a certain kind of mysticism, a little bit of magic, and a belief in what we do for what is to come has something worth considering in it.