Plastic Words — Publishing Models and Technologies of Publication

<p>Event as part of <em>Plastic Words</em> at Raven Row — a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art.</p> <p>Panel discussion with Chris Kraus, Helen DeWitt and Jeremy Akerman about the forms of publication best suited to writing in an expanded field. Chaired by Antony Hudek.</p> <p>Jeremy Akerman is a London-based artist, curator, lecturer and co-director of Akerman Daly, an organisation that commissions and publishes writing by artists.</p> <p>Helen Dewitt is a Berlin-based writer. She is the author of <em>The Last Samurai</em> (Talk Miramax/Chatto & Windus, 2000), <em>Lightning Rods</em> (New Directions, 2011/And Other Stories, 2012), and, with Ilya Gridneff, of <em>Your Name Here</em> (in limbo since 2006).</p> <p>Antony Hudek is Curator and Deputy Director, Raven Row, and co-director of Occasional Papers, London.</p> <p>Chris Kraus is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. She is the author of four novels, most recently <em>Summer of Hate</em> (Semiotext(e)/Native Agents, 2012).</p>