Christine Herzer– artist, writer poet in Paris Ivy Writers 14 Feb. 2017

headerivyblogspot14th FEBRUARY from 19h30: Ivy Writers Paris welcomes guest poets Christine Herzer (France/Germany though writing primarily in English) and Charlemagne Ganashine (France)—let us know you are coming!

MARDI 14 février 2017 à 19h30
Au bar / 1er étage :
Delaville Café, 34 bvd Bonne Nouvelle 75010 Paris
M° Bonne Nouvelle (ligne 8 ou 9)

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Christine Herzer: is a visual artist, poet and teacher. Having lived, worked and studied in different cultures [France, USA, India, Germany] and environments [corporate marketing, higher education, spirituality, art/performance] she draws on a multitude of experience in developing her works and programs. Her artworks have been exhibited in Paris at La Cité des Arts Internationale, Galerie Evi Gougenheim/Artplace, Gallery Grace Teshima, and the Gallery Arnaud Lefebvre. ‘Gefuehlspakete 2016’, a gift-set of ‘feelings’ in various containers is currently on display at UP ART Gallery in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, Germany.

 

Herzer is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: ‘i cheated on Chanel N°5’ [Dancing Girl Press, 2013], and ‘i wanted to be a pirate’ [h_ngm-n eBooks, 2009]. Her writing appears in numerous literary journals, art reviews and online publications such as Fence, The Offending AdamThe Volta, Aesthetica Magazine, Drunken BoatBlackbox Manifold, and The New York Quarterly. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Bennington College.
Working across mediums [drawing, video, language-objects, installation, workshop], her practice employs accumulation and gestures of ‘over-layering’, ‘covering up’, ‘erasing’, ‘interrupting’ and ‘complicating’ in order to address/process questions of invisibility and meaning — in other words, love:
How to make visible loss and feeling? What is the role of containers in protecting/exposing/shaping meaning? Do feelings expire? How to cultivate ‘flow’ in one’s practice?
Herzer ‘s ‘Language Objects‘, for example, is a series of toasted breads covered in paint, embroidered, or written on with a marker, which invite visitors to contemplate what is meant to nourish us.
In 2012, she was awarded a visual arts fellowship from Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral for La Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She served as Guest Lecturer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (India, 2011-2013) and was Scholar-in-Residence at Symbiosis School of Liberal Arts, Pune (India, 2013), where she taught Creative Writing to undergraduates. Her essay ‘Against Knowing‘ provides background on her artistic calling. Recently, Herzer has been leading Creative Writing Workshops in Germany in variety of settings including academic institutions, medical centres, and art spaces.

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