We're delighted to host Lauren Bakst a writer, artist, and scholar working in experimental performance and queer studies for a reading of her forthcoming 'wetness x surround'. 

Whither lesbian public sex? wetness x surround is a reading of poetic essays and meditations on the submerged materiality of dyke-sex-in-the-city. Spinning centrifugally around research on the Clit Club, wetness x surround skims the ephemera and transmissions of this legendary-to-some 1990s party in New York City where “every single place in the club was for sex.” Through cycles of dissolution and reappearance, by way of withdrawals and refrains, the writing moves in the spirit of the dispossessive impropriety it studies.

Following the reading Lauren Bakst will be joined in conversation by Chloe Chignell an artist working between publication and performance. 

Schedule:
15:30 Wetness x surround reading
16:15 Conversation with Lauren Bakst and Chloe Chignell  

About
Lauren Bakst is a writer, artist, and scholar working in experimental performance and queer studies. She is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Pennsylvania, where her dissertation focuses on the socio-poetics of lesbian sex and erotics. She curates and organizes the School for Temporary Liveness, a para-site for performance and collective study, the next iteration of which will take place at the Kitchen in July 2025. Her writing on the Clit Club is forthcoming in TDR/The Drama Review. She lives in Brooklyn with her dog Riot.