Yesterday we had an interesting mixture of contributions, beginning and ending, one might say, with the male gaze. Bernard Kelly read a short story entitled "Going Along." Martha Baillie continued her reading of The Incident Report. Giovanna Riccio read several poems, including a very pointed consideration of furniture under plastic and a certain local literary celebrity. Diane Bracuk read an article she'd written on her encounter, in Warsaw, with the complexities of pig fat. Theo Heras sang two ballads from her forthcoming CD. Celia Lottridge read from her novel Home is Beyond the Mountains (Groundwood, fall 2010).
Finally, Courtney Fairweather talked to us about Vanessa Beecroft [pictured below] and Pietra Brettkelly's documentary on Beecroft recently shown at Hot Docs [http://hotdocs.bside.com/2008/?_view=_filmdetails&filmId=51988278] and read to us from her own essay on "relational aesthetics" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational_Aesthetics] and the French critic Nicolas Bourriaud [pictured right].
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