Vanessa Place
| Vanessa Place | |
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| Born |
May 10, 1968 United States |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, lawyer |
| Nationality | American |
| Notable works | La Medusa, Tragodia |
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Vanessa Place (born 1968) is an American writer and criminal appellate attorney. Place earned a BA at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MFA at Antioch University, and a JD at Boston University. She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press. Place has also worked as an occasional screenwriter on television shows such as Law and Order: SVU and Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.[1]
Place is associated with the Conceptual Art[2] movement and has lectured and performed at events including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London's Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in St. Petersburg. In 2012, Place performed as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2013, Place had her first solo art exhibition, The Lawyer is Present, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art where she listened to confidential confessions from volunteers and then performed them for the public.
Place is CEO of VanessaPlace Inc., a poetry corporation, referred to as "a trans-national entity whose sole mission is to design and manufacture objects to meet the poetic needs of the human heart, face, and form." Its motto is "Poetry is a Kind of Money."
Criticism
Place has received criticism for her Twitter account, on which she is retyping text from the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind. The account's page includes a stereotypical African American mammy image as its banner. A film still of Hattie McDaniel as the character Mammy in the film version of the book is also used as the account's profile picture. Though some have argued that the account is meant to scrutinize stereotyping and racism in Gone With the Wind,[3] many have accused it of being racist and petitioned for Place's removal from the 2016 Association of Writers & Writing Programs conference committee on these grounds.[4] On May 18, 2015, the AWP announced that Place had been removed from the committee.[5]
Works
- Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press, 2005)
- La Medusa (FC2, 2008)
- Notes on Conceptualisms (Ugly Duckling Press, 2009), with Robert Fitterman
- The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law (Other Press, 2010)
- Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts (Blanc Press, 2010)
- Tragodía 2: Statement of The Case (Blanc Press, 2011)
- Tragodía 3: Argument (Blanc Press, 2011)
- Gone with the Wind (oodPress, 2011)
- Factory Work (Factory Works, 2011)
- ONE (Roof Books, 2012), with Blake Butler and Christopher Higgs
- Boycott (Ugly Duckling Press, 2013)
Translations
- Guantanamo (Les Figues Press, 2014), by Frank Smith
References
- ↑ "Vanessa Place". IMDB. Retrieved June 13, 2015.
- ↑ Craven, David. "Conceptual Art". Oxford Art Online (Oxford University Press).
- ↑ "On not repeating 'Gone With the Wind': Iteration and copyright" by Jacob Edmund. December 17, 2012.
- ↑ Change.org: Remove Vanessa Place from the AWP Los Angeles conference committee
- ↑ = Update regarding the AWP Los Angeles 2016 Subcommittee Retrieved May 18, 2015.
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