&Now 2015: Blast Radius

A reading and Q & A featuring fiction writing that is in one way or another acutely aware of art; that either takes art and art making as its subject, and/or is deeply, intentionally and formally indebted to another art form. The meeting of fiction and art opens up a generative window onto narrative – how best to tell a story, what story (if any) is to be told. Fiction also performs an important worlding function (often, but not always satirical), with the potential to render the “art world” anew. While as critic Maria Fusco rightly observes, “the bridge between fiction writing and visual art making is a wide one, too broad in fact to traverse with any real surefooted assurance,” this panel will hone in on five different pathways and their intersections.