English department welcomes performance artist April 25-26

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Multi-media performer, poet and activist David Buuck will perform and discuss his work April 25-26. His Purdue University visit is organized by Daniel Morris, professor of English. It is funded by an INNOVATE grant from the College of Liberal Arts.

Buuck will present a multi-media talk and performance on San Francisco Bay area urban politics at 7 p.m. Monday (April 25) in Grissom Hall, Room 102. The talk covers the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics (BARGE), an art project that combines site-specific art and performance with investigations of militarized and gentrifying urban landscapes.

He will conduct two additional sessions. A poetry reading is at 9:15 p.m. at Star City Coffee and Ale House, 210 Main St., Lafayette. The reading includes poet Adriana María Garriga-López, the Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Associate Professor of Anthropology at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.

On Tuesday (April 26), Buuck and Garriga-López are guests for a 10 a.m. roundtable discussion in Rawls Hall, Room 2079, moderated by Morris.

The events are free and open to the public. The Department of English is the sponsor.

Buuck is a writer and activist who lives in Oakland, California. He is the founder of the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. Recent publications include "SITE CITE CITY" and "An Army of Lovers," co-written with Juliana Spahr. He is preparing to release his next book "A Swarming, A Wolfing." 

News Service contact: John Hughey, 765-494-2432, hugheyj@purdue.edu

Source: Daniel Morris, professor of English, dmorris@purdue.edu

Related website: davidbuuck.com