**UNDER THE SKIN, A FRUIT: SHORT FILM + READING PROGRAM for THE BOOK OF NA**

In a conjunct effort to celebrate *The Book of Na*, a 240-page publication by LA-based artist Na Mira that engages border, obliteration, and dream, Rotations, Wendy’s Subway (Brooklyn), and Poetic Research Bureau co-present a program of short films—selected together with Mira and visiting Melbourne poet Elena Gomez—by film artists whose work is informed by translation and dislocation, both materially and in real time. “Under the Skin, a Fruit” takes a line from Mira’s book to convey the shared dual-textures and ineffable doubles, stone fruits, in otherwise diverging lines of straining “plot”: Aboriginal histories take place in theatrical reencounter, Clarice Lispector’s *Água Viva* is read aloud and fragmented, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s earthwork shifts its container. Shorts will screen in two parts, accompanying readings from Mira and Gomez of their own work. Books will be for sale.

**SHORT FILM PROGRAM**

- Nguyễn Trinh Thi, *Landscape Series #1* (2013, 5 mins)
- Na Mira, *Untitled (Água Viva)* (2013, 12 mins)
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, *Re Dis Appearing* (1977, 2.5 mins)
- Tracey Moffat, *Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy* (1989, 17 mins)
- *Tesseract* (test) (2020, 6 mins)
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, *Secret Spill* (1974, 27 mins)
- Marie Menken, *Eye Music in Red Major* (1961, 5.5 mins)

**READINGS**

Elena Gomez lives in Melbourne. She is the author of *Admit the Joyous Passion* of Revolt (Puncher & Wattmann, 2020), *Body of Work* (Cordite Books, 2018), and several pamphlets and chapbooks.

Na Mira’s autobody rites have been presented at sites including Seoul Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Portland Institute of Contemporary Art; Participant Inc., New York; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Mira earned an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. She grew up between the US and East Asia and teaches outside.

**ABOUT THE BOOK**

In *The Book of Na*, translation acts at the edge of perception. Tracing across projects in film, video, and performance, Na Mira reflects on the violent fragmentation of bodies while refusing the containment of geographic and corporeal borders. In 1977, a name is cut at an immigration office. This gap turns into an intergenerational score for becoming heat, hexagram, hologram. Using oracular and glitching technologies, Mira witnesses what escapes data: doppelgängers, dreams, endangered tigers, tesseracts, A. Turiyasangitananda Coltrane's stairs, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha in a theater, Korean shamanism, frozen ligaments, wildfires, borderlands, subatomic particles, and pink. Syncing to a clock with neither face nor hands, Mira’s hauntological permutations in time, death, and relation travel outside the symbolic order and draw energy from the void. More at wendyssubway.com.

Wendy’s Subway is a reading room, writing space, and independent publisher in Bushwick, Brooklyn, dedicated to supporting emerging artists and writers in making experimental, urgent work, and creating alternative modes for learning and thinking in community. More at wendyssubway.com.

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Image credit: Na Mira, *The Book of Na* (interior spread) published by Wendy’s Subway, 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Wendy's Subway, 2022. Photo by Justin Lubliner.

This is an age 21+ event

Presented by Rotations, Poetic Research Bureau & Wendy's Subway

Mask not required

Distancing not required

Negative test (24 hours), Proof of vaccination

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