LPP+ Residency: Tom Comitta / Closing Reading

For the month of September the LPP+ Resident is LA based Tom Comitta. In partnership with Et al.etc. Tom will do a reading for the closing of his residency with LPP.

The reading will be at Et al. etc. Gallery in Minnesota Street Projects and will also serve as a closing event for Cybele Lyle’s solo exhibition ‘Bring me here, now take me away’

For this event, Comitta will read from his novel-in-progress The City of Nature, for which he has collected nature descriptions from over a hundred novels into one “Frankenstein” of a nature novel. All characters have been removed apart from chirping birds, trotting horses, and the whale from Moby-Dick. Doubling as a kind of data analysis, the book documents how novels exploit nature to carry human drama through its peaks and troughs. Clouds and rain bring gloom (“the ground sobs”) and thunder brings rage, but when the sun returns it’s all smiles.