CORINA COPP
teaching
The Poetry Project: ‘Tracing Political Commitment: A Five-Session Writing Workshop’
Wendy’s Subway: ‘Writing Toward an Aesthetic of Adaptation’
Poets House: ‘Text, Event, & Chorus: Intergenre Writing for Poets’
books
translation
my mother laughs, chantal akerman
writing
LUX New Artist Focus: ‘What’s the Time Being?’: on the Work of Deborah Stratman
Rotations Palestine Solidarity Statement
metrograph journal: ‘THE SHORT FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE, 1957–1981’
film comment: ‘grief in relief,’ on The Souvenir Part II
film comment: ‘head in the clouds,’ on Anne at 13,000 ft.
harriet, april 2020: ‘from today (tone)’
‘nowhere in mind: Chantal Akerman’s New York films’ in America: films from elsewhere
bomb: review of Wittgenstein’s WORD BOOK (Badlands Unlimited)
millennium film journal: ‘be mine, Barbara: remembering Barbara Hammer’
film comment: excerpt of thinking on Susan Sontag’s Duet for Cannibals
film quarterly: review of Morgan Adamson’s enduring images: a future history of new left cinema
frieze: on James Benning’s 31 Friends (October)
bomb: review of Shiv Kotecha’s the switch
hix eros: ‘on So Mayer’s ‘obsolute’
frieze: on Nellie Killian’s tell me: women filmmakers, women's stories
pelt v. 4: feminist temporalities: ’goodnight, chantal’
press / interviews
metrograph journal: interview with Babette Mangolte
song cave book page for My Mother Laughs points outward to reviews
*bomb: in which I interviewed BARBARA HAMMER!*
print screen: film society of lincoln center launches THE GREEN RAY
collaborations / performance / presentations
June 2024: Yannis Window: conversation with American Artist throughout the screening of Yannis Window, a series of artist moving-image works that draw inspiration from science fiction author Octavia E. Butler. Now Instant Image Hall.
April 2024: Introduction to Chantal Akerman’s La Captive. Book release for Christine Smallwood’s La Captive, Fireflies Press. Now Instant Image Hall.
Sept 2023: Mono Lake & Last Things: Q&A with Deborah Stratman. National Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, Part 2. LE JEU: home alone 2 (video excerpt)
The Whole Tragedy of the Inability to Love, Part 1. SUSANSWERPHONE: PRELUDE.12 (video 1) (video 2)
WALTZ, directed by Meghan Finn: 13th Street Repertory
film / video
Emotional Freedom Technique (2022)
Leavenworth (2020)
How to Cane a Chair by Hand (2020)
IQ 172 (2014)
A Letter (2013)
audio
Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble: Protecting Our SEMITONE Resources (a guided meditation)
The People Radio / Insert Blanc Press Ep 50: reading at 17:35
CORINA COPP AND DIANA HAMILTON: PROFESSIONS FOR WOMEN (The Euphoria of Acting a Part)
poemtalk #93: Helen Adam's 'Cheerless Junkie's Song'
I'd never disabuse my friends of their notions it is about love
triple canopy: Automatic Reading
programming / curating
Language Garden ~ 2023, 2024
The Language Garden Reading Series, now in its second season, is a summer-to-fall series of poetry readings and performance programmed by Corina Copp, Sophia Le Fraga, & Joseph Mosconi, with interventions and germinations from David Horvitz. All events take place at David Horvitz’s 7th Ave. Garden: 1911 7th Ave., Los Angeles, CA. Keep eyes on poeticresearch.com.
Rotations a film series ~ 2021-present
A resident member of 2220 Arts + Archives in Los Angeles with occasional ventures in venues elsewhere, Rotations is a PACBI-committed, occasional film series focused on experimental nonfiction filmmaking, artist and political cinema, and their detours, by living, transnational feminist practitioners and their collaborators. Founded late 2021.
Programmed and hosted by Corina Copp, unless stated otherwise.
Complete list of screenings:
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June 2, 202: Prismatic Ground: West Coast Showcase. Presented by Rotations and LA Filmforum, programmed by Inney Prakash; co-organized with Zaina Bseiso, Adam Hyman. Feat films by Suneil Sanzgiri, Razan AlSalah, Sarah Maldoror, Basma AlSharif, Nehal Vyas, Kamal AlJafari, Isaac Sherman, more.
May 22, 2024: Leila and the Wolves (1984), Heiny Srour; and A Slippage in Five Movements (2024), Valentina Rosset (in person). Rotations proceeds went to the Palestinian Feminist Collective’s work with MECA (Middle East Children's Alliance).
Nov. 11 & 12, 2023: Political-Psychic Praxis & Palestinian Solidarities. Feat. films by Rosalind Nashashibi, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Mohamed Bourouissa, Larissa Sansour + Søren Lind, Jocelyne Saab (1948–2019), and The Otolith Group. Part II of a program in collaboration with Perwana Nazif.
Oct. 26, 2023: Potential history of Francesc Tosquelles, Catalonia and fear (2021), Mireia Sallarès. In-person conversation between director Mireia Sallarès, co-writer Joana Masó, Éric Fassin, and Camille Robcis. Part I of a program in collaboration with Perwana Nazif.
July 20, 2023: Deborah Stratman’s Framed Views: The Illinois Parables, For the Time Being (LA Premiere!) & Companion Works. In-person conversation with Stratman and Corina Copp. Co-presented with LA Filmforum.
May 11, 2023: Launching Steffani Jemison’s A Rock, A River, A Street feat. films by Jemison, Yvonne Rainer & S. Pearl Sharp. In-person readings from Jemison, conversation with Jemison and Taylor Renee Aldridge. Co-presented with Poetic Research Bureau.
May 4, 2023: Human Flowers of Flesh (2022), Helena Wittmann. In-person conversation between Helena Wittman and Nina Menkes. Co-sponsored by MUBI.
March 9, 2023: A Los Angeles Stop Cop City Solidarity Screening & Fundraising Event, feat. Stanya Kahn, Kevin Jerome Everson, and Alanis Obomsawin. Programmed with Stanya Kahn. Rotations proceeds went to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. Donations provided by Online Ceramics.
February 11, 2023: Calamity Jane & Delphine Seyrig: A Story (2020), Babette Mangolte. In-person conversation between Mangolte and Corina Copp.
January 26, 2023: Bunker (2021), Jenny Perlin + Swamp (1971), Nancy Holt + Robert Smithson. Virtual introduction from Perlin.
Nov. 17, 2022: Under the Skin, a Fruit: Short Film & Reading Program for The Book of Na. Readings by Na Mira and Australian poet Elena Gomez. Feat. films by Mira, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tracey Moffatt, and Marie Menken.
Oct. 28, 2022: LIGHT, BLAZE, FULGOR — Auguries for a Non-Hierarchical Framing and Flourishing (2018–ongoing), Sílvia das Fadas. Live performance and projection by das Fadas and musician Robert Blatt. Essay by das Fadas published in conjunction by Poetic Research Bureau.
Sept. 22, 2022: Riotsville, USA (2022), Sierra Pettengill. Special preview screening. In-person conversation with Pettengill and Jackie Wang. Co-sponsor: Magnolia Pictures.
April 20, 2022: The Tramp’s New World (2021), Zoe Beloff. In-person conversation with Zoe Beloff and Alexander Stewart.
April 10, 2022: El Lado Quieto/The Still Side (2021), Miko Revereza + Carolina Fusilier. Virtual, live conversation with the directors and Patricia Ciccone.
Feb. 26, 2022: ALEPH (2021), Iva Radivojević. In-person conversation between Iva Radivojević and Eszter Zimanyi.
Dec. 12, 2021: Victoria (Belgium, 2020), Sofie Benoot, Liesbeth De Ceulaer, Isabelle Tollenaere. In-person introduction from protagonist Lashay Warren.
Oct. 27, 2021: Terra Femme (2017–2020), Courtney Stephens. Live performance by Stephens.