The Horror of Objects: A two-day Writing Workshop
Author of the blog Desecration Hardware and the book Combined and Uneven Apocalypse, Roman Letters, Evan Calder Williams leads a two-day writing workshop using objects in the exhibition and the city as inspiration.
Evan Calder Williams is a writer, theorist, and artist. He received a PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. He is the author of Combined and Uneven Apocalypse and Roman Letters, as well as two books forthcoming in 2015, Shard Cinema and Donkey Time. His writing has appeared in Film Quarterly, Mute, The Journal of American Studies, The Italianist, World Picture, Radical Philosophy, Historical Materialism, Third Rail, and The New Inquiry, where his ongoing online project, Socialism and/or Barbarism, lives. He has presented films, performance, and audio works at the Serpentine Gallery, the Whitney Museum, Tramway, Artists Space, Images Festival, ISSUE Project Room, the Ljubjana Biennial of Graphic Arts, and the Montreal International Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. He is part of the editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine and works, with Lucy Raven and Victoria Brooks, as Thirteen Black Cats, a research and production collective for moving images. He is currently a 2015 artist-in-residence at ISSUE Project Room.