CONVERSATIONS ON SILENCE

An invitation from Chimurenga

CONVERSATIONS ON SILENCE
A Chimurenga Session in collaboration with Glänta
@ The Chimurenga Factory (3rd Floor, Pan-African Market, 76 Long St.)
Wednesday February 16, 2011 from 6pm

Recently the Swedish literary magazine Glänta disguised themselves as Chimurenga and released a translation of Chimurenga 11: "Conversations with Poets Who Refuse to Speak". This issue revolved around the attempt to conceptualize silence not only as an expression of repression but also as a form of active resistance; as a refusal to speak (Read Eurozine’s review of Glänta’s versioning here.

In an effort to deepen and transform the collaboration with Chimurenga, three visiting editors from Glänta will give a multi-layered talk investigating the poetics of silence.

Hedvig Härnsten will present "Failed Encounters: Reasonable Inquiries and Unreasonable Answers" - a look at history, testimony and the stuttering of language.

Göran Dahlberg explains why "There Is Never Going to Be a Revolution by Ghosts" – an exploration of mimics and beliefs, expulsion and returning, gaps, cover ups and the lack of peace.

And Linn Hansén will uncover why "It Is Hard to Count All the Events of History but It Is Easy to Begin" – an examination of the smell of the north, what is historical and what is not, the chain of events, the deeds of great men and the importance of the potato.

Cash bar available.
Admission is Free.

About the Participants:
Linn Hansén is a poet and curator of the Göteborg Poetry festival in Sweden.

Hedvig Härnsten studied comparative literature at the University of Stockholm and is currently working on a project on literary form and formlessness.

Göran Dahlberg is the founder of Glänta and the author of books, in Swedish, on ghosts and secret cities.

Chimurenga is a pan-African journal of writing, art and politics based in Cape Town.

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