In conjunction with A Space for Monsters, Maryam Hoseini, Kaveri Raina, and Anjuli Rathod will speak about their works in the exhibition and the intersections in their artistic practices. The program highlights how the artists use abstraction and color in their works to process grief, anxiety, dislocation, and precariousness. The discussion will also consider the alchemical nature of internal processing, the relationship between the self and shadow, and time. The conversation is moderated by curator Ambika Trasi. This event will have automated closed captions through Zoom.

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As part of the exhibition, A Space for Monsters (on view through April 11), curator Ambika Trasi and Twelve Gates Arts are pleased to present an audio contribution from Bhanu Kapil:

Now that it's too late: Incubation: A Space for Monsters

These notes were recorded at dusk, in England, on the grounds of Churchill College (Cambridge), on the last day of March 2021. I'm reading from new essays that comprise "the back" of a new edition of Incubation: A Space for Monsters. Hello, artists. I made this recording for you. Thank you for your own gestures, which were not too late. They crossed time, they made time, they stopped time. They were timely. Here in the accompanying note, it feels possible to say something else, to use first names, to write on the floor. Only writing this note, do I remember, actually, that this is how I wrote the book (as it was). I'd drop my son off at pre-school, drive home, strip down, wrap myself in a table-cloth, drink a tablespoon of espresso, sit on the floor and write. It was an anti-maternal ritual. My son is twenty now, yet here I am, sitting on the earth as the tawny owls initiate their chorus, and the daffodills close their astonishing beaks. You should have seen it! I burst out of the house to be outside, and then to sit down, to make this recording for you. This is all I know about art. This is all I know about the night.

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Bhanu Kapil is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College. After twenty years at Naropa University, where she taught a seminar called The Monster, she has now returned to the UK. Her newest book, How To Wash A Heart (Pavillion Poetry), won the TS Eliot Prize and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. She was also a recipient of a Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry from Yale University, as well as a Cholomondeley Award from the Society of Authors. Incubation: A Space for Monsters was her second book. It has been out of print for some years, but soon will be reprinted by Kelsey Street, in a new edition, with a preface by Eunsong Kim.