The Moon Is Reading Us a Book

The Moon Is Reading Us a Book 26 de Maio | 18h00

Lançamento de livro pelo curador e poeta Serubiri Moses

THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK, primeira coleção de poesia de Serubiri Moses, exprime uma ampla paleta de narrativas e folclore num conjunto de poemas narrativos. O livro é moldado em torno de um conjunto de personagens célebres e desconhecidas. Moses cria poemas de inspiração visual que combinam o fotográfico, o intensamente pessoal e o académico. Nesta estreia, o autor domestica figuras canonizadas, como o cantor e compositor nascido em Zanzibar, Freddie Mercury, e o fotógrafo nigeriano Rotimi Fani Kayode. Simultaneamente ponderada e elástica, a poesia de Moses atrai essas figuras, e o leitor, para uma atmosfera tão expansiva quanto as paisagens interiores que delineia com cada poema. No primeiro lançamento mundial do livro, Serubiri Moses irá ler alguns dos poemas da coleção, introduzindo-a em conversa com Alice dos Reis, co-editora da Pântano Books. O evento será conduzido em inglês.

Serubiri Moses é um curador e autor do Uganda que vive e trabalha em Nova Iorque. Atua atualmente como professor de História de Arte no Hunter College e como professor convidado no Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. Anteriormente, ocupou cargos na New York University e no New Center for Research and Practice, e deu palestras no Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, base voor aktuelle kunst e University of the Arts Helsinki. Como curador, organizou exposições em museus como MoMA PS1, Nova Iorque; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlim; e o Hessel Museum, Bard College, Nova Iorque. Anteriormente, foi investigador com bolsa pela Universidade de Bayreuth; completou o mestrado em Estudos Curatoriais no Bard College; e é ex-aluno do Programa Internacional de Arte Àsìkò. Moses faz parte da equipa editorial do e-flux journal. Publicou poesia nas revistas online Jalada e Badilisha Poetry Exchange, bem como nas revistas impressas Kwani? 7, Kuani? 8, e READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation (2022). A sua poesia recebeu uma crítica pelo The New Inquiry. THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK é o seu primeiro livro de poesia.

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The Moon Is Reading Us a Book 26th May | 18h00

Book launching by curator and poet Serubiri Moses

THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK is Serubiri Moses’ debut collection of poems, in which he displays a wide-ranging palette of storytelling and folklore in a suite of narrative poems. The collection is built around an ensemble of characters that range from known to unknown. Serubiri crafts visually-inspired poems that combine the photographic, the intensely personal and the scholarly. In this debut, he manages to domesticate larger-than-life figures, including Zanzibari-born singer-songwriter Freddie Mercury and Nigerian-born photographer Rotimi Fani Kayode. In the book’s first world-wide release, Serubiri Moses will introduce THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK in conversation with Pântano Books co-editor Alice dos Reis, and read some of its poems. The event will be held in English.

Serubiri Moses is a Ugandan curator and author based in New York City. He currently serves as faculty in Art History at Hunter College and visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College. He previously held positions at New York University and the New Centre for Research and Practice, and delivered lectures at Williams College, Yale University, University of Pittsburgh, The New School, basis voor aktuelle kunst, and University of the Arts Helsinki. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions at museums including MoMA PS1, New York; Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; and the Hessel Museum, Bard College, NY. He previously held a research fellowship at the University of Bayreuth; received his MA in Curatorial Studies at Bard College; and is an alumni of the Àsìkò International Art Programme. He serves on the editorial team of e-flux journal. He has published poetry in the online journals Jalada and Badilisha Poetry Exchange, as well as in print in journals Kwani? 7, Kwani? 8, and READ: A Journal of Inter-Translation (2022). His poetry has been reviewed online in The New Inquiry. THE MOON IS READING US A BOOK is his first book of poetry.

The Moon Is Reading Us a Book