Forum #20 - Daniela Cascella with Jennifer Hodgson via Zoom
Monday 19th April, 6-8pm
Daniela Cascella will present an excerpt from her ongoing project on Chimeric Writing, along with extracts from Voice of Hearing by Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Squint Press, 2020 (1984) and Mundus imaginalis, or The Imaginary and the Imaginal by Henry Corbin (1972).
Forum #20 will be held via Zoom.
The accompanying texts will be made available in the week prior to the forum. If you would like to participate, please sign up via the CHASE booking form and you will be supplied with a link to the conference call on the day of the forum. All are welcome to attend, regardless of affiliation.
Reading beforehand is welcome, but not mandatory, we will read texts together at the start of the discussion.
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Further information as follows:
Daniela Cascella is an Italian writer whose texts articulate tensions and points of contact between the literary and the sonic, and propose a range of approaches to creative-critical writing through experiments with form and voice. She is the author, in English, of Singed (Equus Press, 2017), F.M.R.L. (Zer0 Books, 2015), En Abîme (Zer0 Books, 2012); and in Italian, of The Cure: The Edge of the World (Arcana, 2008), and Scultori di suono (Tuttle, 2005). Daniela lectures and publishes internationally, and often collaborates with musicians and artists in readings and editorial/curatorial projects. She is an Associate Lecturer in the MA Sound Arts at LCC / University of the Arts London, and is completing her Ph.D. at Sheffield Hallam University where she has been developing a project around Chimeric Writing that will result in two books, the former of which is forthcoming on Risking Education / Punctum Books.
Jennifer Hodgson is a writer and editor based in London. She is Editor-at-large at The White Review and the programmer and host of Humbermouth Literature Festival, Hull. In 2018 she published The Unmapped Country, the collected short stories of the sixties writer, Ann Quin. She is currently working on a hybrid non-fiction project based on Quin's life that explores narrative and non-narrative forms of living, expanded experiences of consciousness and our attachments (and resistances) to writers and their work. She was previously Research Fellow at Hearing the Voice (Durham University) a Wellcome Trust-funded project investigating the phenomenon of auditory vocal hallucinations, where she led a study into voice-hearing and creativity. Prior to that, she was UK Editor at Dalkey Archive Press.