Bio & Upcoming Performances
Adeena Karasick, Ph.D, is a New York based Canadian poet, performer, cultural theorist and media artist and the author of ten books of poetry and poetics. Her Kabbalistically inflected, urban, Jewish feminist mashups have been described as “electricity in language” (Nicole Brossard), “proto-ecstatic jet-propulsive word torsion” (George Quasha), noted for their “cross-fertilization of punning and knowing, theatre and theory” (Charles Bernstein) "a twined virtuosity of mind and ear which leaves the reader deliciously lost in Karasick's signature ‘syllabic labyrinth’” (Craig Dworkin); “demonstrating how desire flows through language, an unstoppable flood of allusion (both literary and pop-cultural), word-play, and extravagant and outrageous sound-work.” (Mark Scroggins). Most recently is Checking In (Talonbooks, 2018) and
Salomé: Woman of Valor (University of Padova Press, Italy, 2017), the libretto for her Spoken Word opera co-created with Grammy award winning composer, Sir Frank London and Salomé: Woman of Valor CD, NuJu Records, 2020, and Salomé Birangona, Salomé: Woman of Valor translation into Bengali (trans. Aritra Sanyal and Paulami Sengupta), Boibhashik Prokashoni Press, Kolkata, 2020. Karasick teaches Literature and Critical Theory for the Humanities and Media Studies Dept. at Pratt Institute, is Poetry Editor for Explorations in Media Ecology, Associate International Editor of New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, 2019 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Award recipient and winner of the 2016 Voce Donna Italia award for her contributions to feminist thinking. The “Adeena Karasick Archive” is established at Special Collections, Simon Fraser University. Forthcoming is Ærotomania: The Book of Lumenations.
Find her full website here: adeenakarasick.com
Wed. Sept. 6
AEROTOMANIA AND OPENINGS IN TIMES SQUARE
43rd and Broadway Stage (by big Flag), New York, NY
4:30 pm
Mon. Sept. 11
Boog City Fest, Bar 718
718 5th Ave, Park Slope, Brooklyn
7:00 pm
Sun. Oct. 1
P & T Bookstore (with Jeffrey Cyphers Wright and Heller Levinson)
Presented by Word Shed NYC
180 Orchard St., New York, NY
6:00 pm
Fri. Oct. 6
Ærotomania / Openings Launch Party
Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27th St. NY, NY
7:00 pm
Fri. Oct. 13
Read from Ærotomania and Openings for the New York State Communication Association. 81st Annual Conference: Communication in a Digital World
Villa Roma, Catskills, New York
Sat. Oct. 14
“On the Uncertain Certain: Negotiating Deepfakes and Shallow Discourse in the Counterpoise of the Unthought – As Read Through “Checking In 2” for the New York State Communication Association. 81st Annual Conference: Communication in a Digital World
Villa Roma, Catskills, New York
Thurs. Oct. 19
Dada Performance for Three Rooms Press, in celebration of the launch of Maintenant 17
Jefferson Market New York Public Library, 425 6th Ave, New York, NY
6:00 pm
Oct. 28, 2023
“On the Uncertain Certain: Negotiating Deepfakes and Shallow Discourse in the Counterpoise of the Unthought – As Read Through “Checking In 2”
The 71st Annual Institute for General Semantics Symposium
Players Club, New York
2:00 pm
Contact & Location
917-690-7912
adeenakarasick@cs.com
New York, US