The Book of Na —”Intimate confession is a project”
Saturday, October 28, 2023
7:00pm
Artist & Curator Remarks: 6:30pm
Location:
Basket Books
115 Hyde Park Blvd, Houston, TX 77006
On Saturday, October 28 at 7pm, we celebrate the publication of The Book of Na by artist Na Mira, with a reading and exhibition of drawings, in collaboration with Blaffer Art Museum’s exhibition “Intimate confession is a project” supported by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.
Na Mira’s art practice uses intuition and perception to find emergent forms, particularly in language. Her recent publication, The Book of Na (published by Wendy’s Subway), features automatic writing and other divination practices used in creating her projects. After receiving the I Ching Hexagram 44: “Wind beneath Heaven: Coming to meet” for an exhibition, Mira used this as a form of bibliomancy, quoting from page 44 of various texts to structure the book.
Following Mira’s reading aloud from The Book of Na, this improvisation continues the story beyond any single author. Several writers and artists are invited to read aloud pg. 44 from texts of their own choosing. At Basket, Mira will be joined by readers Nancy Douthey, Lara Mimosa Montes, JD Pluecker, and Michael D. Snediker, among others.
An exhibition of new and recent drawings by Na Mira will accompany the event and will be on view at Basket Books & Art through November.
This event is part of the public programming for Intimate confession is a project at the Blaffer Art Museum, curated by Jennifer Teets, on view from October 27, 2023 – March 10, 2024.
Intimate confession is a project is a group exhibition that considers transmission, intergenerational life, and cultural inheritance through the prism of intimacy and infrastructure. Through the work of eleven multifaceted artists spanning generations and geographies, the exhibition thinks through infrastructure as an intimate holding cell, capable of affective and affirmative power.
Intimate confession is a project, is on view at Blaffer Art Museum October 27—March 10, 2024. The exhibition is curated by Jennifer Teets.