Events
I FEEL BOTH WAYS: Thoughts on Ambivalence
- 7:00pm Thursday, August 18, 2016
I feel ambivalent. That is, about many things—personal, political, cultural—I feel more than one way. Often, these ways seem to contradict each other, or worse, to cancel each other out. Then what’s left is a lazy hum. But the hum persists. And in its persistence, it becomes less lazy. It’s an earworm, it’s a generator. How might ambivalence be cast not as apathy but as engine?
In this lecture/slapdash powerpoint/conversation, Sara Jaffe will discuss examples of “productive ambivalence” in writing, music, and visual art, offering strategies for conveying a sense of both/and in form as well as content. Likely touchstones include George Nakashima, Nina Simone, Thomas Bernhard, more. She will conclude with a short reading of new work. Conversation to follow.
Sara Jaffe is a writer, musician, and teacher living in Portland. Her novel Dryland was published by Tin House Books in 2015.
This event is sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.
In this lecture/slapdash powerpoint/conversation, Sara Jaffe will discuss examples of “productive ambivalence” in writing, music, and visual art, offering strategies for conveying a sense of both/and in form as well as content. Likely touchstones include George Nakashima, Nina Simone, Thomas Bernhard, more. She will conclude with a short reading of new work. Conversation to follow.
Sara Jaffe is a writer, musician, and teacher living in Portland. Her novel Dryland was published by Tin House Books in 2015.
This event is sponsored by the Regional Arts and Culture Council.