Tickets: Free; no advance registration is needed
Join writers, poets, artists, designers, and performers for engaging and thought provoking talks and discussions in the galleries. Each presenter approaches objects on view through their unique lens and perspective.
On Friday May 16, join Amir Parsa, a pioneering and avant-garde multilingual writer, poet, and translator in the exhibition A Celebration: Acquisitions in Honor of the Morgan’s Centennial.
Amir Parsa is a pluri- and neo-disciplinary scholar/theorist and artist creating new ways to understand, represent, and operate in the world. Born in Tehran, he attended French international schools in Iran and the U.S., studied at Princeton and Columbia universities, and currently lives in New York. He is the author of more than twenty literary books, including Drive-by Cannibalism in the Baroque Tradition, Feu l’encre/Fable, Erre, and L’opéra Minora, a limited edition 440-page multilingual book that is in the MoMA Library Artists’ Books collection and in the Rare Books collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, as well as a host of innovative ebooks, new forms and radical literary and book-specific projects. He has also created, published and public-ed (made public) a plethora of artworks, performances, pieces and projects, as well as alternative literary ventures, such as {frst rvlt} on twine, and byk.ryd:dor.set, an epic digital scroll, as well as several ‘litstills’ and ‘textallations.’
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Amir Parsa. Photo by Nelson Hancock