Reading Others & Ourselves: A Tarot-Esque Workshop with Emmy Bright
About the workshop
This is an online workshop and will take place on Zoom.
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Time: 7-8pm EST (1 hour)
Capacity: 20 participants
Cost: Free ($5 suggested donation to support programming at Wendy's Subway)
SOLD OUT [To join the waitlist, email sanjana@wendyssubway.com]
Please join artist Emmy Bright for a workshop on reading images for ourselves and others, and, as Emmy Writes, using your intuition to “upend normative good sense in order to find something more complex, gnarly, and real.” Drawing from her recently published book and accompanying deck of images, MORE STUPIDS, Emmy will discuss how she came to her own tarot-esque genre, and how you can use the deck - or any deck - to create your own spreads for readings. Following a brief demonstration of how we can read images, cards, meaning and each other, Emmy will guide participants in small groups to practice reading cards for one another. The workshop encourages play, intimacy, and failure.
For this workshop, we recommend having the deck on hand in advance. MORE STUPIDS can be purchased during registration via Eventbrite, through 3 Hole Press, or ordered through your local bookstore. (If you do not have the deck, we will pair you in a group with someone who has the physical deck and will draw cards on your behalf.)
About the publication
MORE STUPIDS is a book and accompanying card deck of images that commingles autobiography, critical theory, diagrams and dumb jokes. You may use the set in many ways. None are correct. Published by 3 Hole Press, 2020.
A queer post-modern tarot-esque deck that serves up hilarious and sensual fodder for foresight and insight that comes from the often overlooked encounters in life. Visual wordplay lays bare a paranoid awareness of how impossibly exposed we are, yet makes clear that, in this, we are not alone. — Paula Wilson
What if you left aside the symbols and narrative forms of a traditional Tarot deck, but kept its weird revelations? If you embraced a kind of reading in which not only are no interpretations incorrect but also, as Emmy Bright writes, “none are correct”? MORE STUPIDS is a collection of scrawled diagrams, homemade Rothkos, and the most affecting blobs you ever saw. Their insights are canny and uncanny at once. Whether you play alone or with other people, or simply look and read, they will rearrange your feelings about thinking and your thinking about feelings. — Lara Cohen
MORE STUPIDS is not. Emmy Bright’s visual pleasures, clarity, sense of fun are matched by her textual probity and intelligence. MORE STUPIDS illuminates. Bright’s art is, in my humble opinion, brilliant. — Lynne Tillman
About the author
Emmy Bright works in drawing, writing, print and performance. She investigates the problem of empathy and the problem of boundaries in projects combining comedy, psychology, art history and philosophy. She holds a BA in Art History from University of Chicago, an M.Ed from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art where she co-chairs their Print Media Department. She currently lives in Detroit where her work is represented by David Klein Gallery.
Partner
3 Hole Press is a home for performance in book form and everyday life. We publish titles and offer programs that expand our understanding of being together.