Student Karole Langset reacts to Bhanu Kapil’s recent visit to EMU: If you arrived early to Sponberg Theater to listen to Bhanu Kapil reading from her book Humananimal, you would have noticed crowds of people flooding into the theater by human packs. It was an impressive turn out that placed strangers squeezed sitting together, anxiously…
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Alyssa Eckles reviews Yedda Morrison
EMU Student Alyssa Eckles offers her reaction to the Yedda Morrison BathHouse reading: After having read Girl Scout Nation, it was quite refreshing to hear Morrison read her text. When I personally read it, most of the language of the book seemed a bit self-righteous, but Morrison read with a very soft, cool voice. It allowed…
Alex Haber reviews Yedda Morrison
Student Alex Haber reacts to Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: Yedda Morrison’s recent reading at EMU was haunting and uplifting, inspiring and queerly abstract. On a stage swallowed almost entirely in darkness (lit only by a tiny lantern, which the author brought on stage herself and set at her feet), Morrison read selections from her…
Kelly McKinne reviews Yedda Morrison
Student Kelly McKinne reacts to Yedda Morrison’s BathHouse reading: As the sound of the microphone giving feedback resembled the crackle of logs on a fire, coupled with a conveniently placed Coleman lantern on the stage, Yedda Morrison read to us from Girlscout Nation and created an image of the audience sitting around a campfire making…
Paul Bone reviews Yedda Morrison
The Yedda Morrison reviews keep on coming! This one is from student Paul Bone: Yedda Morrison might just become the default person that comes to my mind from now on whenever somebody uses the word “artist”. I say this because of her impressive skills in multiple artistic fields. She is a writer, a visual artist,…
Brad Wozniak reviews Yedda Morrison
Student Brad Wozniak reacts to Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: The anti-object On December 1, 2009, in the auditorium of Eastern Michigan’s Student Center, Yedda Morrison spoke acutely of the relationship between the real and the artificial. From her perspective, Yedda Morrison assembles the culture of our world as one that is attuned less and…
Kasandra David reviews Yedda Morrison
Kasandra David reacts to Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: Being unfamiliar with Yedda Morrison’s work gave me a unique platform from which to experience her performance. There is something to be said for having negative space in one’s mind; I completely without preconceived impressions of her art. If I arrived at the Bathhouse performance empty,…
Dustin Wingett reviews Yedda Morrison
EMU student Dustin Wingett reacts to Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: Before Yedda Morrison even took the stage and began speaking at the Student Center Auditorium, I was struck by her name. I’ve never heard that name, Yedda, before and I liked the poetic way it sounded. Her name was really the only thing I…
Stacy Lorne reviews Yedda Morrison
Student Stacy Lorne reacts to Yedda Morrison’s recent BathHouse reading: On Tuesday, 01 December 2009 I attended the Yedda Morrison reading/lecture at the student auditorium in the Student Center at Eastern Michigan University. Aside from an excerpt from Girl Scout Nation, I was unfamiliar with Morrison’s work. I did not anticipate what I would see…
Jeff Keene reviews Bhanu Kapil
Another reaction from Jeff Keene, this time regarding Bhanu Kapil’s BathHouse reading: Bhanu Kapil says “creativity is her antidote for anxiety, possibly steaming from depression.” As she spoke very relaxed and calmly about her work Humanimal, I was entranced in her presence and fascinated with her insightful stories. Her words, voice pulled me into her…