Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group
Led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani
Wednesday, January 8
United States: 1pm HST, 3pm PST, 4pm MST, 5pm CST, 6pm EST
Europe: 21:00pm GMT Australia: Thursday, January 9, 7:00am AWST
This is the inaugural meet up for the Fiction As Resistance, CliFi Book Group to be led by Aviva Alexandra Rahmani. From January 8 through June 11, this group will meet once a month for one hour to discuss three books to be read during the five months—first with the well known speculative fiction novel Parable Of The Sower (1993) by Octavia E. Butler situated in a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and social inequality, second a short post-apocalyptic novel Tentacle (2015) by Rita Indiana addressing climate change, technology, Yoruba ritual, queer politics, poverty, sex, colonialism and contemporary art, and third a science fiction novel The Water Knife (2015) by Paolo Bacigalupi about a place in the near future where drought brought on by climate change has devastated the Southwestern United States.
Mark your calendars:
January 8 - Parable Of The Sower
February 5 - Parable Of The Sower
March 5 - Tentacle
April 9 - The Water Knife
May 7 - The Water Knife
June 11 - The Water Knife
Led by
Aviva Rahmani's ecoart is multi-year and interdisciplinary. Her best-known work is Blued Trees (2015- present) a series of installations across miles of North America that addressed the legal system and ecocide. Ghost Nets (1990-2000) created a flourishing landscape and healthy habitat on degraded land. Both addressed environmental problems as opportunities to create new models for change. She has exhibited, published and been written about internationally, including at the Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Cyprus; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, CO; the Hudson River Museum, NY; the Cincinnati Center for Contemporary Art, OH; and the Joseph Beuys 100 days of Conference Pavilion, for the 2007 Venice Biennale, Italy. She received fellowships from NYSCA, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, NYFA, A Blade Of Grass and the NEA. Her PhD is from Plymouth University, UK. Her masters is from CalArts. Rahmani authored “Divining Chaos” and co-edited “Ecoart in Action” (2022 pub. New Village Press).
This series is $15 for members (only). All participants MUST REGISTER.
