We are excited to host a virtual Book Club with Karen Kraven and local artist Kim McCollum, on Anne Boyer’s Garments Against Women, which was influential in Kraven's current exhibition Lull at Latitude 53.

Garments Against Women is a book of mostly lyric prose about the conditions that make literature almost impossible. It holds a life story without a life, a lie spread across low-rent apartment complexes, dreamscapes, and information networks, tangled in chronology, landing in a heap of the future impossible. Available forms —like garments and literature—are made of the materials of history, of the hours of women's and children's lives, but they are mostly inadequate to the dimension, motion, and irregularity of what they contain.

The Book Club will take place through an open Slack discussion board and three Zoom meetings on Wednesday evenings: April 22, April 29 and May 6, at 5pm MST / 7pm EST. Three days before each Zoom meeting, main discussion prompts will be posted in the board on Slack, and Slack channels will remain open in between sessions for further discussion on themes.

Wednesday, April 22 Meeting Link: https://zoom.us/j/91438734699