Blue Tomorrows brings together three artists whose work represents new ecologies at the intersections of writing and image-making. Through personal, political, and philosophical engagement attuned to the impermanent, the indeterminate, and the transcendent qualities of material practice, Corina Copp, Rebekah Weikel, and Missouri Williams each take distinct approaches to feminist world-making. The School of Critical Studies is honored to host a discussion of their work in poetry, criticism, cinema, and fiction.
A reception will follow the symposium in Room D206. Image & Text work from students in the Creative Writing department will be screened at the reception. All are welcome.
Corina Copp is a poet, critic, and artist. She is the North American translator of Chantal Akerman's My Mother Laughs (The Song Cave); the author of The Green Ray (Ugly Duckling Presse), and the play, The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love. Work has appeared in Frieze, BOMB, Cabinet, Film Comment, Metrograph Journal, and is anthologized in America: Films from Elsewhere, Out of Everywhere 2, Sallones de belleza, and Triple Canopy. She programs Rotations, a screening series focused on experimental nonfiction filmmaking by women and feminist practitioners, in residence at 2220 Arts + Archives. Copp is a PhD candidate in cinema and media studies at the University of Southern California. She has taught at The Poetry Project, Poets House, Wendy’s Subway, and Mount St. Mary’s; and is a current faculty member at CalArts School of Film/Video.
Rebekah Weikel is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. From 2006 to 2016 she oversaw Penny-Ante, a book press invested in revisionary and innovative forms. In 2021, she established Interlude Docs, an online archive where documents engaged with the theme of impermanence are acquired from writers and artists. Her writing has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, and elsewhere.
Missouri Williams is a writer and editor who lives in London. She is the co-editor of the film journal Another Gaze. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Baffler, The Believer, Granta, and Five Dials. The Doloriad is her first book.