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Liliana Greyf is a writer who spends most of their time in Providence, RI, USA. Their work — sometimes short fiction, sometimes poetry, always queer and unusual — has been published in The College Hill Independent, Dialogist, and HAD Magazine. Their work spirals the whimsical, the domestic, the holy, the soft, the obsessive, and the connective. They work in conversation with the Yiddish of their ancestors and the surfaces they sit on. They have been writing since before they could read.
In its enactment of interdependence and inheritances, Simo’s sculptural and performance work is interested in ritual as a social mechanic, ritual process as a mode of utility.
Simone Klein, often known as Simo, was born in Providence, RI, and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Simo makes sculptures and performances, primarily as a poet. They are interested in mechanisms, improvisation, and bodywork -- often all merging in contexts of ritual, collectivity, and spirituality. Simo is influenced by living in many co-ops.
The artists’ collaborative work, which primarily consists of poetic text, is a project of togetherness and distance, distance as intimacy, love-generated poetry and poetry-generated love. The artists write from separate hemispheres, towards and from their connection to one another as immaterial and material, sentient and dormant beings. Their work is interested in the dynamic between a theological and an ancestral yearning towards a downward/south sense of Source. The writers are curious about the possible misuse of spiritual potency. They aim to create questions that critique themselves. They aim to interrupt the automized, bureaucratic, and extractive. They speak in body, gratefully and with sludge.
This work has no climax and no resolution — this work is all climax and against resolution. It is always grieving; it is always beginning. It will be held through time’s liquids in various structures: here it is as a website, the birth of a third entity of the artists’ relationship in the digital space: an animated palm, a chiseled courtyard.
This work is the descendant and ancestor of a lineage of collaborative writing. Exchanges between Rachel Edelman and emet ezell, McKenzie Wark and Kathy Acker, Pat Parker and Audre Lorde, Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Emily Dickinson and Susan Gilbert, and Chava Rosenfarb and Zenia Larsson inform the writers (humbly); so too do the collaborative artworks of Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers, Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart, and André Breton, Paul Éluard, and René Char.