Sinopsis
Clockshops Counter-Inaugural is a series of talks addressing the misogyny, hate speech, and climate change denial that dominated the 2016 presidential campaign.Radio Imagination celebrates the life and work of Pasadena science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler (19472006). Organized by Clockshop, the program centers on ten contemporary art and literary commissions that explore Butlers archive at the Huntington Library. New work will premiere alongside performances, film screenings, and literary events throughout the year.
Episodios
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![Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive]()
Radio Imagination: Artists in the Archive
17/08/2016 Duración: 17minRadio Imagination artists Mendi + Keith Obadike and Connie Samaras dive into Octavia E. Butler's archive, gleaning inspiration from her notes to produce new work of their own. For more information about the Radio Imagination exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts, click here: https://clockshop.org/event/radio-imagination-the-exhibition/
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![Radio Imagination: Heading to Work With Octavia E. Butler]()
Radio Imagination: Heading to Work With Octavia E. Butler
01/08/2016 Duración: 16minButler rode the bus for nearly an hour everyday to get to the Central Library downtown—reading, writing and researching. What does her dedication to public libraries tell us about who she was as a writer?
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![Radio Imagination: Archiving a Writers Life]()
Radio Imagination: Archiving a Writer's Life
29/06/2016 Duración: 13minOctavia E. Butler died unexpectedly at 58. After her death, a group of curators and writers have sorted through her papers, working to reveal the writer and thinker we didn't come to know in her lifetime.
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![Radio Imagination: Devil Girl as Anti-Muse]()
Radio Imagination: 'Devil Girl' as Anti-Muse
01/06/2016 Duración: 11minHow a kitchy sci-fi film became a source of inspiration for Octavia E. Butler and the writers who came after her.
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![Radio Imagination: A Writer and Her Agent]()
Radio Imagination: A Writer and Her Agent
23/05/2016 Duración: 20minMerrilee Heifetz met Octavia E. Butler as a young agent looking for writers. What followed was 20 years of letters, conversations and insights into someone breaking the borders of fiction.
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![Radio Imagination: Writers Premiere New Works]()
Radio Imagination: Writers Premiere New Works
01/05/2016 Duración: 59minWriters Tisa Bryant, Lynell George, Robin Coste Lewis, and Fred Moten premiere new works of poetry and creative nonfiction under the stars in the Clockshop courtyard. For these commissions, each writer spent an extended period of time working in the Octavia E. Butler archive at The Huntington Library.
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![Welcome to Radio Imagination]()
Welcome to Radio Imagination
22/04/2016 Duración: 57sJoin us as we use the archives of Octavia E. Butler to examine the work, influence and legacy of the world's most unique voices.
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![6. Bitter mask]()
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![10. More barriers]()
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![9. Barriers]()
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![8. The power line sublime]()
8. The power line sublime
17/04/2015 Duración: 03minRosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
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![7. Survivors]()
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![5. A non-native landscape]()
5. A non-native landscape
17/04/2015 Duración: 03minRosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
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![3. What is a river?]()
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![2. A native landscape]()
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![1. Intro + Labeling the world]()
1. Intro + Labeling the world
16/04/2015 Duración: 02minRosten Woo's guided tour of the Bowtie Project.
