An evening of reflection, collaboration, song, image and acting (out) inspired by the book What I Know About Penises, by Shelly Silver. The event will be a collective ode to this oft-overlooked, overworked and humble part of a body. Intrepid contributors to the evening include: Anna Craycroft, Tom Kalin, Cassandra X. Guan, Kathy High, Pam Lins, Ulrike Müller, Brian Teare, Thomas Love, Terese Svoboda, Akram Zaatari, Lior Shvill, Maureen Connor, Jessica Ann Peavy, Steve Reinke, Ronnie Bass, Ulrike Mueller, Dennis Adams, Ellen Harvey, Robert Buck, Lydia Conklin, and more.  More.

In 2009, Shelly Silver wrote an essay for an artist book called “What I know about penises.” Based on Chapter 5, “It’s Easy to Draw a Penis.”, she invited a group of artists, poets, playwrights and otherwise interested parties to contribute. The book was published by onestar press in 2012, with contributions from: Dennis Adams, Ronnie Bass, Zoe Beloff, Sanford Biggers, Andrea Blum, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Robert Buck, Lydia Conklin, Anna Craycroft, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Rochelle Feinstein, Rainer Ganahl, Grady Gebracht, Gran Fury, Cassandra X. Guan, Barbara Hammer, Ellen Harvey, Kathy High, Emily Jacir, Jon Kessler, Dirk Lebahn, Young Jean Lee, Nora Ligorano, Pam Lins, Charles Long, M+M, Maureen McLane, Eline McGeorge, John Miller, Ulrike Müller, Eugene Ostashevsky, Jessica Ann Peavy, Jenny Perlin, Steve Reinke, Aura Rosenberg, Julia Scher, Mira Schor, Lior Shvil, Amy Sillman, Gabriel Silver, Gwen Smith, Michael Smith, Haim Steinbach, River Steinbach, Steel Stillman, Elisabeth Subrin, Kunie Sugiura, Terese Svoboda, Brian Teare, Momoyo Torimitsu, Thomas Witschonke, Bruce Yonemoto, Monica Youn, Akram Zaatari, and Florian Zeyfang. Click here for more info on the book, and here to download a pdf.

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