Can we put in words everything we see?
Deutsches Haus at NYU (42 Washington Mews, New York, N.Y.) will present "On Visual Writing. A Conversation between Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Cynthia Browne" on Friday, November 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Based on three short quotes from the Deutsches Haus writer-in-residence's novels – which will be read in English and in German – Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Cynthia Browne will try to elaborate ideas of the visual, comparing European and U.S. cultures: Why be sensual? What's wrong with modernism? How American is the vernacular? Can we put in words everything we see?
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler is a German fiction writer, author of essays, and an art critic. His novels are published by Suhrkamp in Germany. Ziegler once started out as a photographer and will exhibit Various Small Grunewalds - a series of night shots taken in Berlin's quarter of Grunewald in 2015/2016 - in the gallery of Deutsches Haus at NYU. Join us for the opening on November 10, at 6:30 p.m.
Cynthia Browne is a writer and anthropologist based in Cambridge, MA. She is currently completing her doctorate in social anthropology at Harvard University with a specialization in media. Recently published essays cover topics in contemporary art, photography and landscape, and social aesthetics.
Events at Deutsches Haus are free of charge. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to deutscheshaus.rsvp@nyu.edu. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited; please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!
"On Visual Writing. A Conversation between Ulf Erdmann Ziegler and Cynthia Browne" is presented with the generous support of the Deutscher Literaturfonds