Selma,
In Selma, I ask, essentially, what is life like with the experience of manic-depression? The project’s main focus is the novel-length manuscript by the same name. Told as a series of ethnographer’s field notes, Selma, explores sites of illness and narrative. Part of the text documents a journey to Johns Hopkins University hospital to meet with Kay Redfield Jameson, a leading researcher of the illness, and Selma, uses Jameson’s own memoir on the diagnosis as its ethnographer’s starting point. At the non-profit gallery Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood I hosted a Dust Jacket Signing for the work, as Selma Avenue, a backstreet of Hollywood Boulevard and adjacent to the gallery, is a character in the text.
Dust Jacket Signing, performance, 2007
