Scrivener's Monthly: Lynell George and Julia Meltzer Discussing Radio Imagination

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Radio Imagination was a project initiated by the Los Angeles arts organization Clockshop that celebrates the life and work of science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler. The year-long program centered on ten contemporary art and literary commissions arising from research into Butler’s archive at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California.

This iteration of Scrivener’s Monthly invited Clockshop director Julia Meltzer to talk about Butler’s work and legacy. She was joined by journalist and essayist Lynell George who read an original text that took the form of an imagined posthumous interview with Butler assembled from her journals, notes, letters, fiction, and commonplace books.

Scrivener’s Monthly was a series of public presentations that explored the space between material practices and spoken words. Set alongside exhibitions at Western Front, this experiment in “not publishing” involved readings, performances, and other articulations.