Event and Ticketing Details
Dates & Times
Monday 05 March
6:15 PM - 7:15 PM
Location
The Wheeler Centre and wheelercentre.com
176 Little Lonsdale Street Melbourne Victoria 3000
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‘Every line in every poem is the orphaned caption of a lost photograph.’
Teju Cole is an artist whose work embraces ambiguity and enigma. We see this in his fiction (especially his acclaimed 2011 novel, Open City) and in his essays for the New Yorker. We see it in his photography columns for the New York Times and in his Twitter and Instagram storytelling experiments. It’s evident, too, in Cole’s absorbing new book combining photography and prose, Blind Spot.
Cole is based in New York, but Blind Spot brings together hundreds of photographs from his extensive travels across the globe – featuring scenes from Switzerland, Lebanon, Nigeria, Jamaica and across America. Each photograph is accompanied by Cole’s reflections in writing; short fragments that are lyrical, intriguing and oblique.
At the Wheeler Centre in March, this inimitable man of letters and pictures will discuss peripheral visions and artistic obsessions. #tejucoleblindspot
Event image: Rivaz (Teju Cole, 2017), courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery.
Metropolis Books will be our bookseller at this event.
This event was live-streamed (audio only) – watch it below.
Featuring
Teju Cole
Teju Cole is a critic, novelist, photographer, and the author of four books: Every Day is for the Thief (novella), Open City (novel), Known and Strange Things (essays) and Blind Spot (photography and text).
He has been awarded the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Windham Campbell Prize, the Internationaler Literaturpreis, the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the New York City Book Award.
He has been shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Aperture/ Paris Photo Photobook Award, the PEN/Jean Stein Award and many others, and has presented several solo exhibitions in the US, Italy, India and Iceland.
He is the photography critic of the New York Times Magazine, where his column was shortlisted for a National Magazine Award. His solo multimedia performance piece, 'Black Paper,' was featured at the 2017 Performa Biennial.
Anwen Crawford
Anwen Crawford is the author of No Document (2021), shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize, and Live Through This (2015). Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The White Review and Sydney Review of Books, and in 2021 she won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism. She is a long-time zine maker and collaborative visual artist. She lives in Sydney.
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