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Joys and Spool Oven Present: CAFÉ SPRINKLE V: Sight at Mercer Union
🔵Friday, July 24 - Screening of Blue (1993) by Derek Jarman, 7 - 8:30 pm (doors at 6:30) **Sold Out**
🔵Saturday, July 25 - Readings by Vida Beyer, Richard Fung, and Erdem Taşdelen, 7 - 8:30 pm (doors at 6:30) Tickets
Joys and Spool Oven invite you to Café Sprinkle 5: Sight, a two-part program. For this iteration of our series — which promotes new work written in response to a sensorial prompt — readers will reflect on sight. 👁️
On Friday, July 24, we present Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993). Jarman’s final film, Blue is a meditation on life and spirituality told through the prism of memory, sight and its slow departure. Created as Jarman was losing his vision due to AIDS-related complications, the film refracts grief, rage, love, illness, and dying through a field of blue.
On Saturday, July 25, we are beyond delighted to present an evening of readings by Vida Beyer, Richard Fung, and Erdem Taşdelen, focusing on and around vision in dialogue with Blue.
About the Readers:
Vida Beyer is an artist, witness, friend, ex-lover, conduit and absolute entity. Sometimes they write. Their creative work has, in recent times, appeared at Art Metropole, Hearth, Galerie Nicholas Robert, Open Space Victoria and in The Capilano Review. They are always looking for new formats where they can functionally “do karaoke”. They are playful but rigorous, candid but private and hold the belief that most granular and meaningful information should be obtained conversationally. Feel free to inquire within.
Richard Fung is a video artist/filmmaker and writer, and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. His work probes the intersection of queer sexualities and pan-Asian identities, the history and politics of Caribbean/Canadian culture, global justice, and his own multi-generational, multiracial Chinese Trinidadian family. Among other honors, Richard is the recipient of the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art, the Kessler Award for significant contribution to LGBTQ Studies and the Bonham Centre Award for distinguished contribution to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada.
Erdem Taşdelen is a visual artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Borrowing from a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, he builds semi-fictional narratives in various forms including video, audio, installation, print media and performance. His projects over the past 15 years have explored themes such as life under authoritarian rule; the theatricality and public spectacles of political discourse; migration, displacement and the haunting presence of the past in contemporary contexts; and the possibilities for self-expression and the limits of authorship within culturally inherited forms.
On Friday, July 24, we present Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993). Jarman’s final film, Blue is a meditation on life and spirituality told through the prism of memory, sight and its slow departure. Created as Jarman was losing his vision due to AIDS-related complications, the film refracts grief, rage, love, illness, and dying through a field of blue.
On Saturday, July 25, we are beyond delighted to present an evening of readings by Vida Beyer, Richard Fung, and Erdem Taşdelen, focusing on and around vision in dialogue with Blue.
About the Readers:
Vida Beyer is an artist, witness, friend, ex-lover, conduit and absolute entity. Sometimes they write. Their creative work has, in recent times, appeared at Art Metropole, Hearth, Galerie Nicholas Robert, Open Space Victoria and in The Capilano Review. They are always looking for new formats where they can functionally “do karaoke”. They are playful but rigorous, candid but private and hold the belief that most granular and meaningful information should be obtained conversationally. Feel free to inquire within.
Richard Fung is a video artist/filmmaker and writer, and Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Art at OCAD University. His work probes the intersection of queer sexualities and pan-Asian identities, the history and politics of Caribbean/Canadian culture, global justice, and his own multi-generational, multiracial Chinese Trinidadian family. Among other honors, Richard is the recipient of the Bell Canada Award for outstanding achievement in video art, the Kessler Award for significant contribution to LGBTQ Studies and the Bonham Centre Award for distinguished contribution to the public understanding of sexual diversity in Canada.
Erdem Taşdelen is a visual artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. Borrowing from a wide range of historical and contemporary materials, he builds semi-fictional narratives in various forms including video, audio, installation, print media and performance. His projects over the past 15 years have explored themes such as life under authoritarian rule; the theatricality and public spectacles of political discourse; migration, displacement and the haunting presence of the past in contemporary contexts; and the possibilities for self-expression and the limits of authorship within culturally inherited forms.