MIT List Visual Arts Center, in partnership with Triple Canopy, presents a reading of Flare-Up, a novel in progress by Katie Kitamura with Goldin+Senneby.
The duo’s work, on view at the List Center’s exhibition of the same name, examines the language of autoimmunity as well as the risks and paradoxes that accompany efforts to defend against environmental threats through bioengineering.
The novel Flare-Up, commissioned and edited by Triple Canopy, shares its title with the artists’ List Center exhibition and moves alongside the artists’ work, threading together the stories of a pine tree with a supercharged immune system and a character seeking experimental treatments.
The event will feature a reading by Kitamura and conversation with David Levine.