Zoom Tuesday, April 20, 2021 - 7:00pm Talk Val Jeanty, who performed and presented at Ciné in a February 2020 DJ Summit, will collaborate with author and artist (and 2021 Windham Campbell Prize recipient) Renee Gladman for an April 20 event in the Willson Center's 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series. "Conjurations: Composing at the Intersections of Sound, Line, and Language," a conversation with composer, percussionist and DJ Val Jeanty and author and artist Renee Gladman. Part of the 2021 Global Georgia Initiative public events series of the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts. The discussion will be moderated by Nicholas Allen, who holds an endowed Professorship in the Humanities and is director of the Willson Center. Also participating in the conversation will be writer Christina Wood Martinez, PhD student and instructor in the UGA department of English. The event is presented in partnership with the Institute for African American Studies, the department of English, and the Creative Writing Program. Gladman and Jeanty will discuss their plans for a collaborative creative project that they will undertake throughout 2021, supported by the Willson Center. Jeanty is a Haitian-born New Yorker whose musical practice combines modern electronic and traditional acoustic instruments for improvised performances and installations she refers to as “Afro-Electronica.” Gladman is a writer and artist preoccupied with lines, crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out in the interstices of poetry and prose. She is the author of eleven published works, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians. Gladman was recently awarded a 2021 Windham Campbell Prize in fiction. Advance registration for the event, which will be conducted via Zoom webinar, is required and available here.
