About this Event
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Books available for purchase and signing!
“But one may ask: What is there at the bottom of these heaps of money and guns? Is there a point of zero accumulation? Is this a place, theoretical, or utopian, where we can stand?”
4Columns is thrilled to announce an evening of conversation and revelry celebrating the publication of Repetition and Ruins: The Art of Radical Political Thinking, a collaboration between the magazine’s own Julie Evanoff and University of Ottawa Professor Dalie Giroux, out now as an edition of 300 artist books published by Rakish Light. We warmly invite you to join us at Giorno Poetry Systems for a discussion between Evanoff and 4Columns Senior Editor Ania Szremski, followed by merriment and communion!
A bold, unusual, and radically generous adventure in theory and image, Repetition and Ruins contemplates and questions our current shared condition as twenty-first-century earthlings living in, by, and against power accumulators: capitalism and the state. The book’s images and concepts are an invitation to notice and interpret the connection between these power accumulators and daily life.
Repetition and Ruins is based on a lecture by Giroux that Evanoff first learned of in a panel discussion following a screening of Moyra Davey’s i confess, which included footage of Giroux’s accompanying chalkboard drawing. The original talk freely used terms and ideas from critical theory, philosophy, and political theory, which Evanoff and Giroux have translated here into democratic, accessible language and images. Evanoff’s comics draw from a deep well of inspirations ranging from the art-historical to the pop-cultural, all rooted in her raw, compulsive, spontaneous drawing practice, and often including her characteristic philosophical-eyed animals as illustrative interlocutors.
The result is a sly, incisive, and urgent intervention slicing through our current political climate of obfuscation, uncertainty, and fear.
DALIE GIROUX is a full professor in the Institute of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa, where she has been teaching political theory for more than twenty years. Her research program explores the many ways in which space, language, and power interact in contemporary America. She defines her work as both art and science, bringing philosophical, historical, geographical, and social perspectives into practices including creative nonfiction, public speaking, and collecting artifacts. She has published numerous books, the latest being The Eye of the Master (McGilll-Queens University Press, 2023), Une civilisation de feu (Memoire d’encrier, 2023), and “Penser croche” (Meìmoire d’encrier, 2026).
JULIE EVANOFF is a Brooklyn-based artist, and a founding member of 4Columns. Her work has been included in several exhibitions in the US and Europe. She received her MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, where she was selected for the Paul Robeson award. From 2016–20, Evanoff cofounded and codirected the Tri-Try-Again artist studio and residency space in Ridgewood, Queens.
4COLUMNS is a weekly online magazine of arts criticism based in New York City. Find us at https://4columns.org
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Giorno Poetry Systems, 222 Bowery, New York, United States
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