For this eposide we’re delighted to share with you a reading by LA Warman and Clara Pacotte that took place in December 2023. This will be our first bilingual episode featuring excerpts of Whore foods in it’s original English interspered with Clara Pacotte’s French translation which was published by RAG editions in 2022.

LA Warman is a poet, sound artist, and teacher currently based in New York City. Her most recent poetic novella titled Dust was published in 2022 by Inpatient Press. Warman is the author of Whore Foods, an erotic novella which received a Lambda Literary Award in 2020. She is the founder of Warman School, a non-accredited and body based learning center. where teaches courses on topics such as erotics, death, depression, and god. Warman is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers and Poets at University of Massachusetts in Amherst. She has had performance and installation work in shows at MOCA Cleveland, ICA Philadelphia, Time-Based Art Festival, Poetry Project, and Open Engagement.

Clara Pacotte is a writer, videoist and researcher. In her work, she develops potential social alternatives by mixing documentary and fiction, middle age and time extrapolation. She thinks about her films and texts as archives of a better future. Pacotte co-founded the group EAAPES in 2017 with Charlotte Houette to investigate feminist and queer issues in science-fiction literature and experimental feminist translation.

This episode is edited by Ros Del Olmo. Check our events via the website www.rile.space or visit us in Brussels.