1/4/2011
Saturday Sessions
MoMA PS1, New York
Hosted by Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive Press. Featuring 'An Afternoon of Failure'.
Triple Canopy and Dalkey Archive Press host an afternoon of failure to celebrate the release of the Review of Contemporary Fiction's 'Failure' issue, guest-edited by Joshua Cohen. The program includes attempted readings from the issue by Eileen Myles, Helen DeWitt, Sam Frank, Travis Jeppesen, and Keith Gessen; a botched tribute to the classics of American literature by John Collins and Scott Shepherd of the theater group Elevator Repair Service; mangled covers of pop songs by US Girls; and an attempt to resurrect William Gaddis. The experimental program is structured on collaboration and focuses on engaging MoMA PS1 visitors in a unique, two-hour-long experience. Each session features a different host and will occur every other Saturday of the month in the Third Floor Main Gallery (image: The first fatal airplane crash in history, September 17, 1908. Photo courtesy the Associated Press).