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Elisabeth Subrin and Ariana Reines in conversation
 

Sunday, January 26, 7pm


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Ariana Reines is a poet and playwright from Salem Massachusetts.  Her newest book, Wave of Blood, is out this month in the USA from Divided. In April, Graywolf will publish a new poetry collection, The Rose. A Sand Book (2019) won the Kingsley Tufts Prize and was longlisted for the National Book Award. TELEPHONE, her first play, was commissioned by the Foundry Theatre, winning two Obies in 2009, and later published by Wonder. Reines has created performances for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Swiss Institute, Stuart Shave Modern Art, Performance Space New York, and many others. After teaching at universities and community organizations across the world, she now runs Invisible College.

 

Reines joins Elisabeth Subrin on the occasion of The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, an exhibition including a new iteration of Subrin’s immersive multi-channel video and sound installation, The Listening Takes, and Manal Issa, 2024, shot in Beirut this September. The Listening Takes expands on Subrin’s 2022 cinematic recreation of a controversial 1983 television interview with the late French actress Maria Schneider in which actors Manal Issa, Aïssa Maïga, and Isabel Sandoval play Schneider in three distinct reenactments, producing a collective, cross-historical, intersectional portrait of actresses reckoning with consent, representation, and trauma. In the adjacent new video, Manal Issa, 2024, Subrin adds an affective, fourth reenactment culled from hours of subsequent conversations between Elisabeth in the U.S. and Manal in Lebanon, which intimately considers the role of the actor during the unfolding global conflict.

Images:

 Ariana Reines, Wave of Blood, 2025, paperback book cover, 5.5 x 1 x 8.5 inches, Divided Publishing [A digital rendering of a vertical book cover featuring an image of the sun setting over the ocean against an orange red sky; the image is set within a white border whose upper portion reads "Ariana Reines Wave of Blood."]

Elisabeth Subrin, The Listening Takes / Manal Issa, 2024, 2024, installation view; pictured Manal Issa, 2024, installation view, photo: Daniel Kukla. [A color installation view of a single-channel video projected on a wall, a bench with two sets of headphones in the foreground. The projected image consists of a cafe table with an empty chair sitting behind it, a window to the left, and, on the table, a cellphone, a glass bottle of dry flowers, a lighter, coffee, a lit cigarette in an ashtray, cigarettes, and a water glass. A title at the top of the frame reads, “MANAL ISSA SEPTEMBER 2024.”]