Myung Mi Kim Weekend

Myung Mi Kim swept through the Bay Area this weekend, leaving gaping maws and blown minds in her wake. Saturday evening she performed a super focused reading that completely devastated the Meridian Gallery; starting with a swatch of new poems from a manuscript-in-process called Civil Bound, she moved through Dura, Commons, and Penury only to return to the poems with which she began, reheasrsing a single trajectory while tuning the room to her project in toto.

Sunday afternoon we reconvened at Nicole Hollis Studios for the Nonsite Collective conversation, a super, super interesting open discussion about Myung's project, set to a soundtrack of raunchy synths and the incessant pounding of bass thanks to the Folsom Street Fair.

Here're are some pics from the long weekend:

 



Myung drinking martinis and eating fries rather than enjoying a balanced meal.





The backs of heads at the Meridian Gallery









Elise Ficarra & Wilda































Erin Morrill & Erika Staiti





Myung smiling









The crowd listening attentively; Jocelyn Saidenberg hiding





Myung gesturing





David Brazil, Sara Larsen, Tanya Hollis, Chris Nagler





More Myung





Anne Lesley Selcer & Chris Nagler





SLRSN & Erin





Steve Dickison & Aaron Shurin





Hugo Garcia Manriquez



Wendy Kramer & Tanya Hollis