Julie Harrison, FF Alumn, launches book October 30th.
DEBTOR'S PRISON
published by Granary Books (in association with Visual Studies Workshop).
BOOK PARTY
There will be a book party (celebrating numerous Granary titles) on October
30th, 7-9 (readings @ 7:15), Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 5 Union Square
West, New York City. For more information contact Granary Books @ 212-337-9979
or info@granarybooks.com.
Debtor's Prison is the first collaboration between poet/novelist Lewis Warsh and video/visual artist Julie Harrison, in which skewed and closely-cropped black & white video stills from Harrison¹s primitive-style documentary and performance tapes of the 1970s are paired with stark lines of text written in response by Warsh.
"Debtor¹s Prison combines the intelligences and sensibilities of two compelling artists, Lewis Warsh and Julie Harrison, and through their ways of seeing and observing, investigates the strange call and response between forms. The ambiguities of meaning, life¹s pleasures and anguish, find a beautiful and disturbing home here." -Lynne Tillman
Harrison has exhibited her work extensively. Her videos have aired on PBS stations nationally and have been featured in festivals such as the Toronto Film Festival, The World-Wide Video Festival in The Hague, La Video Fameuse Fete in Quebec and Video Roma in Italy. She is the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, a Gold Apple Award from the National Educational Film & Video Festival, and 1st Prize from the Athens Film and Video Festival.
Warsh is the author
of over twenty-five books of poetry, fiction and autobiography, including Part
of My History, A Free Man, Money Under the Table, The Origin of the World and
Touch of the Whip. He is co-editor of The Angel Hair Anthology (Granary, 2001)
and co-founder and publisher of United Artists Books.