Tiziana La Melia: Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect launches Tuesday March 22

TIZIANA LA MELIA
ORAL LIKE CLOAKS, DIALECT
Selected Writings: 2005-2015

Edited by Steffanie Ling
Published by Publication Studio Vancouver

Publication Studio Vancouver
222 East Georgia
Tuesday, March 22
7pm

Readings by Jo Cook, Kara Hansen and Tiziana La Melia.

Please join us at Publication Studio Vancouver for the launch of Oral like Cloaks, Dialect a selection of writing by poet and artist Tiziana La Melia. This collection of her texts includes poetry, scripts, reproductions of short-run publications, and writing for exhibitions and artists, as well as an array of collaborative writing conducted over the past decade. In referencing Hollywood cinema, literature, costume history, insect anatomy, La Melia’s texts exercise dialects, changing outfits and modes of inquiry. In the way clothing inflects language in the pursuit of style or a role, ways of elaborating oral and text based codes is as much a way to inhabit identities as a form of inquiry. The texts in Oral Like Cloaks, Dialect articulate the texture of speaking, reading and writing as vibrations, feelings and pulses translated into English.

Image above: from the series Summer Diagrams (2014 – ) by Katie Lyle