BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:22851@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Object of Desire DTSTAMP:20260527T014837Z DTSTART:20260612T180000Z DESCRIPTION:In collaboration with the (Trans–) Sexualities + Psychoanalysis Summer School\,\nthis Evening is a program of readings by Elena Comay del Junco\, Shiv Kotecha\,\nand Basyma Saad. With an introduction by Maxi Wal lenhorst.\n\nHost: Marija Cetinic\n\nElena Comay del Junco is a writer and philosophy professor. Her work has\nappeared in The Point\, Post45\, Text e zur Kunst\, and Bæst. She recently published\na translation of Ibn Sīnā‘ s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2025) and a\nchapbook\, Second Na ture (2023). She is currently editing and translating a\ntenth-century Ara bic poem on cosmology\, and her book Innervation Tasks is\nforthcoming wit h La Barba Metafísica. She lives in New York.\n\nShiv Kotecha is a writer and editor living in New York. He is the author of four\nbooks of poetry: The Switch (Wonder\, 2018)\, EXTRIGUE (Make Now\, 2015)\, Outfits\n(Troll Thread\, 2012)\, and Paint the Rock (Troll Thread\, 2011). His writing\nap pears in publications including 4Columns\, Aperture\, BOMB\, Cultured\, fr ieze\,\nThe Nation\, and The Poetry Project Newsletter. For the Andy Warho l Foundation\nArts Writers Grant\, he co-edits Cookie Jar\, a pamphlet ser ies of experimental\narts writing\, and teaches writing at New York Univer sity and in the MFA program\nat Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts a t Bard College.\n\nBasyma Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of\nmourning\, spontaneity\, and surplus\, through film\, performance\, and sculpture\,\nalongside essays and fiction. Basyma ‘s work has been presented and screened at\nMoMA\, The Poetry Project\, CP H:DOX\, and other places. Her writing appears in n+1\,\nThe New Inquiry\, Protean\, Spike Art\, Jadaliyya\, FailedArchitecture\, X-TRA\, and\nThe Fu nambulist. She is currently working on a book of prose and poetry.\n\nMaxi Wallenhorst is a writer living in Berlin. She’s a doctoral researcher at\ nLeuphana University Lüneburg and a contributing editor to the Berlin Revi ew. She\nis also working on a fiction project about sex after the city. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/object-of-desire GEO:52.3689174;4.896321 LOCATION:Perdu - Kloveniersburgwal 86\, 1012 CZ Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,avond,books,burgwallen,english,experimental,fi lm,lecture,perdu programme,performance,poetry,rock,sculpture X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In collaboration with the (Trans–) Sexualit ies + Psychoanalysis Summer School, this Evening is a program of readings by Elena Comay del Junco, Shiv Kotecha, and Basyma Saad. With an introduct ion by Maxi Wallenhorst.

Host: Marija Cetinic

Elena Comay del Junco is a writer and philosophy professor. Her work ha s appeared in The Point, Post45, Texte zur Kunst, and Bæst. She recently p ublished a translation of Ibn Sīnā‘s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (2025) and a chapbook, Second Nature (2023). She is currently editing and translating a tenth-century Arabic poem on cosmology, and her book Innerv ation Tasks is forthcoming with La Barba Metafísica. She lives in New York .

Shiv Kotecha is a writer and editor living in Ne w York. He is the author of four books of poetry: The Switch (Wonder, 2018 ), EXTRIGUE (Make Now, 2015), Outfits (Troll Thread, 2012), and Paint the Rock (Troll Thread, 2011). His writing appears in publications including 4 Columns, Aperture, BOMB, Cultured, frieze, The Nation, and The Poetry Proj ect Newsletter. For the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant, he co-e dits Cookie Jar, a pamphlet series of experimental arts writing, and teach es writing at New York University and in the MFA program at Milton Avery G raduate School of the Arts at Bard College.

Basyma Saad is an artist and writer born in Beirut. Her work explores notions of mourning, spontaneity, and surplus, through film, performance, and sculpt ure, alongside essays and fiction. Basyma‘s work has been presented and sc reened at MoMA, The Poetry Project, CPH:DOX, and other places. Her writing appears in n+1, The New Inquiry, Protean, Spike Art, Jadaliyya, FailedArc hitecture, X-TRA, and The Funambulist. She is currently working on a book of prose and poetry.

Maxi Wallenhorst is a writer living in Berlin. She’s a doctoral researcher at Leuphana University Lüneb urg and a contributing editor to the Berlin Review. She is also working on a fiction project about sex after the city.

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