October 20, 2016
Madrid General
2873 NM-14, Madrid, New Mexico 87010
October 25th at 8pm
Some Serious Business and Madrid General present MADRID HUNGERS, an intimate reading and performance with the duo Quintan Ana Wikswo (writer, poet) and SSB Artist-in-Residence Arthur Kell (composer/upright bassist).
Accompanied by Kell on bass, Wikswo reads her provocative prose poems and stories set in 1930s Madrid – lesbian prostitutes, shapeshifting miners, and vigilante cannibalism. Excerpts from Quintan’s collection in progress, OUT HERE DEATH IS NO BIG DEAL and her recently completed novel, A LONG CURVING SCAR WHERE THE HEART SHOULD BE.
“Quintan Ana Wikswo juxtaposes dreamy, surreal prose with shadowed, ambiguous, occluded dreamscapes to haunting effect—heady, euphoric, and full with loss. Wikswo’s singular lines strike like the tone of a bell while her beautifully composed images echo the surprising twists of language. [Her work] defies genre or distillation and instead takes the reader/viewer on a journey where myth, mystery, and the impossible have never seemed more real.”
– Publisher’s Weekly
“Arthur Kell pushes the lines and learns what lies beyond the norm by breaching boundaries of composition and volunteering a freer conversation. This is music beyond the chart; it is sentient art, challenging listeners with incongruent lines and exhilarating, exacting conversations. It is volatile, daring jazz…”
– Jordan Richardson, Blinded by Sound
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Arthur Kell (bassist, composer) is one of the most original voices on today’s New York jazz scene. For the past twenty-five years, he has played with an amazing cross-section of the most influential contemporary jazz musicians in New York City and around the world. He has released multipple highly acclaimed albums and is the co-Director of renound Bed Stuy club Bar LunÀtico. www.ArthurKell.com
Quintan Ana Wikswo (writer, visual artist) is the author of several books include the acclaimed collection of photographs and prose poem stories “The Hope Of Floating Has Carried Us This Far” (Coffee House Press) as well as anthologies, artist books, and exhibition catalogues. Other work appears in magazines such as Tin House, Guernica, Conjunctions, The Kenyon Review, and many more. She is a Creative Capital grantee and a multiple resident at Yaddo, and performs her work live at venues including(le) poisson rouge, Dixon Place, Bowery Poetry Club, St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery.