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</b></span><b>This event has been postponed one week due to weather conditions. The new date is Tuesday, January 14<sup>th</sup>. The reading will begin at 8 pm.</b></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>BURIAL SITES – BOOK LAUNCH AND READING</b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Lydia Smith </p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><b><u><a href="https://twodollarradiohq.com/" id="OWA0cd824be-a065-02c3-c544-33cb78eddb04" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://twodollarradiohq.com/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Two
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Tuesday, January
<span style="color: red;">14<sup>th</sup></span>, 8:00 – 9:00pm</p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Reading and conversation with Michael Mercil</p>
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<i>Burial Sites</i> is an artist’s book and social practice project considering how burial landscapes reflect cultural rituals around death, mourning processes, and community politics. The book is a project of accumulation, grappling with the task of documentation
and the archive through images of monuments for the dead. Copies will be available for purchase at the event. You can also a virtual edition of the book here:
<span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><u><a href="http://www.burialsitesbook.com" id="OWA6cafad49-73cd-dd4b-4dec-c8883bad2dd6" class="OWAAutoLink" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">www.burialsitesbook.com</a></u></span></p>
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Lydia Smith (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Columbus, OH. Her practice focuses on the archive as a phenomenological site for understanding the remnants of the past and its links to our cultural understanding of death, time, and place. Smith
received an MFA from The Ohio State University with a Graduate Interdisciplinary Specialization in Folklore in 2022. She is currently a lecturer in OSU’s Department of Art and is a recipient of the GCAC Dresden Residency Exchange Fellowship to be completed
in summer of 2025.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif;"><b>Lydia Smith</b></span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 99, 193);"><u><a href="mailto:Smith.13109@osu.edu" id="OWA511708f8-704c-9539-329b-0927ce1aee8c" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(5, 99, 193); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Smith.13109@osu.edu</a></u></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light", sans-serif;">Department of Art, The Ohio State University</span></p>
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