[Vwoolf] Kabe Wilson Discussion

[Susan Friedman]

Hi Woolfians, You might be interested in Kabe Wilson's Zoom discussion of
his new work, represented in his paintings and writing in "On Being Still,"
published recently in the Modernist Review. Here is the link:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/book-woolf-season/kabe-wilson__;!!KGKeukY!knmxDchOECfYpqsEWwW6nGw1D16kz4Bn1-EjcjFV4HOm3Rf4T8aXYQ1Bj2qq9ObgFPg$ .
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"On Being Still" is a powerful mediation on the pandemic, Black Lives
Matter, especially in the UK context, and his paintings inspired by Vanessa
Bell and Duncan Grant.
     For those who have not seen or heard about his work, in 2014, in a
Bloomsbury drawing room, he performed in drag "The Dreadlock Hoax," in
which he discussed the 5 year project he did, cutting up A Room of One's
Own, using only those words and the number of times Woolf used them to
write a novella, *Of One Woman or So*, by Olivia N'Gowfri, about a mixed
race, scholarship, queer woman at Cambridge who faces racism, reads US
Black Power literature (ie, Mary Carmichael becomes Stokely Carmichael),
starts burning the libraries and the MSS for A Room on display. The MSS
won't burn, and Olivia realizes that she can re-word, recycle, and re-fresh
Woolf for the 21st Century.
     Kabe's work, discussed in a marvelous YouTube interview) inspired a
conference in France, called Recycling Woolf (run by Monica Latham,
Anne-Laure Regarde, and Caroline Marie, forthomcing as a volume with
Routledge in 2021. Kabe's recylcing also inspired my edited collected,
Contemporary Revolutions: Turning Back to the Future in 21st Century
Literature and Art (Bloomsbury 2019), which has essays on Woolf by Margaret
Homans and Elizabeth Abel, as well as my essay on Kabe's project.
     Susan Friedman

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