Karin Bolender

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Email:  KBolender@GSC.Edu

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Karin Bolender’s work in embodied/incarnated poetics explores the seams between landscapes (all the faunal, floral, and mineral forms that inhabit them) and human acts of memory and imagination. Her main mode of investigation involves collaborative roadside journeys with assorted humans and other spectacular animals (very especially two American Spotted she-Asses, Aliass and Passenger) in the rural American South (including “The Dead-Car Crossing” in 2004 and the “’Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?’ MYSTERY TOUR” in 2006). She got a B.A. from Bard College in 1996, followed by an M.A. in Creative Writing from Hollins University in 2003, and she recently received an M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. She’s taught English, creative writing, and American literature at the University of Georgia, Blue Ridge Community College, and James Madison University in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. Presently, she’s teaching Art Appreciation and English at GSC, and secretly practicing her slow-ass roping and trick-riding skills for an ongoing series of time- and place-based performance events known as “The Dive Rodeo.”

Artist website: www.aliassxing.net

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