About the book:

Flacofolio fosters the mystery of this haunting hero who so briefly graced and enraptured NYC. Replete with insightful spirit-treasures, this book throws up the bones of the many nourishing cultures from across the world, housed in one resilient city. Humor and tragedy interweave here. Flacofolio soars with luminous artwork, bringing passed wings flapping again into a vibrant Now. With a beak at the peak of acuity, Flaco perches atop urbanity with a wide Third Eye, and homes in on scintillating souvenirs. From the locked-down apartment window, who is the voyeur and who is the lantern-eyed? From the cage of constraint, who is the liberator, and who is being liberated?

About the speakers:

Heide Hatry is a NYC-based German artist and former rare bookseller best known for her work employing animal parts or other discarded, disdained, or “taboo” materials. Besides having curated many exhibitions and shown her work all over the world, she has produced more than 200 artist’s books, edited dozens of art catalogues, and four of her larger projects (Skin, Heads and Tales, Not a Rose, and Icons in Ash) have been documented in monographic books. She is the founder of ICONS IN ASH, a social art project devoted to helping people contend with loss, and of POLAR BEAR FEST, a Lumbung art initiative created to foster community while fighting the climate crisis.

Leonard Schwartz is the author of numerous books of poetry, including, most recently, Actualities I: Transparent, to the Stone, Actualities II and III: Two Burned Hotels, and Actualities IV/V Comic Earth (2021, 2022, 2023, Goats & Compasses). His three books with artist Simon Carr, Horse on Paper, Not a Snake, and Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press, 2017), are also out and about.

Location and time:
Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
Friday, May 9, 2025 5:30-7pm
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/flacofolio-an-evening-with-heide-hatry-and-leonard-schwartz-tickets-1297200925889?aff=oddtdtcreator