12/12/2005

NYC

POETICS BECOME LAW: A SCREENING AND CONVERSATION BETWEEN ATTORNEY LYNNE STEWART & ARTIST PAUL CHAN

Thursday, December 15, 7:00 p.m.
$8, FREE for all students and TNS alumni with ID

LOCATION: The New School, Wollman Hall
65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor(entrance at 66 W. 12th bet. 5th & 6th Aves)
Enter at 66 W. 12th, proceed through courtyard to elevator in adjacent building, 65 W. 11th.

TICKETS: Tickets can be purchased by phone with a credit card (212)229-5488; in person at The New School Box Office, 66 West 12th Street, main floor
Monday-Thursday 1-8 p.m., Friday 1-7 p.m.
Inquiries at boxoffice@newschool.edu.

INFORMATION: For more information or special needs requests, please call (212) 229-5353 or email: specialprograms@newschool.edu. Event information is also available online at www.newschool.edu/publicprograms.

On February 10, 2005, Lynne Stewart was convicted of providing material support for a terrorist conspiracy. She is the first lawyer to be convicted of aiding terrorism in the United States. Stewart faces thirty years of prison and will be sentenced on December 22, 2005.

Artist Paul Chan, who has worked with a number of activist groups, has been working on a video with Lynne Stewart. The video focuses on the relationship between the language of poetry and the language of the law.

Stewart speaks both languages, and employs poetry as a "knotting point" to connect ideas of beauty and justice for juries and judges alike. The video takes Stewart's understanding of poetry and the law as a departure point to explore the possibilities of a poetics capable of articulating the pressures of terror and justice.

Chan will screen a work-in-progress of the video and a short selection of past work. He will then be joined by Stewart to talk about poetics and the law as well as the status of her case.

This discussion is presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics on occasion of its year-long program cycle on "Considering Forgiveness."

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