Open Session #6: Hosted by Benjamin Krusling

Poet and artist Benjamin Krusling collapses video, text, and sound to explore structures of surveillance, dispossession, and the constitution of public space. Through new poetry and collaged audio, Krusling uses performance as a method to weave together violent textures of experience expressed through both humor and dread. Alongside this, presenting remixed stolen footage from the municipal archive of the NYPD, Krusling will convene guests to think about what it means to disturb and put into friction, the systems of domination that organize our city.

Benjamin Krusling is a poet and artist, the author of Glaring (Wendy’s Subway, 2020) and two chapbooks, most recently It got so dark (UDP, 2022).