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MATERIAL WORLDS is an ongoing series at Evergreen where contemporary video artists and experimental animators discuss their relationship to tools, technology, and the history of art.

The creator of the popular video sketchbook, Erik Winkowski conducts mixed-media imagery like an orchestra. He uses vintage footage, paper cutouts, photography, drawings, and paintings for his wide output of animations and digital experiments that reference play, openhearted experimentation, the history of art, and daily living. He’s screened work in New York and Paris through CADAF, and he’s made experimental digital art for Prada, Gucci, Hermès, and the Rolling Stones. He lives and works in New Orleans.

Miracle Jones talks with novelist and conspiracy expert/enthusiast Robert Guffey (author of Chameleo and Bela Lugosi's Dead) about the true origin of QAnon and its goals after the 2020 election. They also discuss taboos in movies and conspiracy theory as both an existential challenge and an art form.

On the first day of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, five Asian women writers read from their work and address the rise of anti-Asian bigotry in the United States. Coming from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds, Jerrine Tan, Paula Mendoza, Celina Su, Devi S. Laskar, and Pauline Park together throw a powerful light on the past and present of American racial capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism. They draw from intimate personal experience and strong political convictions to propose an intersectional and international feminism as the way forward. Reading co-presented by The Evergreen Review and Singapore Unbound.

Dale Peck talks with Jeanne Thornton, author of the novel The Dream of Doctor Bantam and the collection The Black Emerald. They discuss Thornton’s relationship with the editing process, her experiences growing up in Texas, Ayn Rand, and Dirty Dancing. Her forthcoming novel Summer Fun is set to be released this summer, published by Soho Press. Thornton’s story “The Fountainhead” appears in Evergreen's Spring/Summer 2019 issue.

Mariam Bazeed reads “Found Poem Composed in Dearborn, Michigan” and its lineage. The poem appears in Evergreen's Fall/Winter 2020 issue. Mariam Bazeed [they/them] is a nonbinary Egyptian immigrant, writer, performer, and cook living in a rent-stabilized apartment in Brooklyn. An alliteration-leaning writer of prose, poetry, plays, and personal essays, Mariam received an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College in 2018.

Editor-in-chief Dale Peck has a conversation with Chicago-based writer, academic, and activist Yasmin Nair. The two discuss the concept of genre, love and identity in activism, unconscious and structural racism in Chicago, and more. Nair is the co-founder of the radical queer editorial collective Against Equality, editor-at-large at Current Affairs and a member of Gender JUST Chicago. Her most recent essay, "So Long, and Thanks for Nothing," appeared in Evergreen’s summer 2020 issue. Her work can be found at yasminnair.net.