The book will be launched by Jessica Wilkinson

WHEN:  Sat 3 May at 2pm

WHERE: La Mama Theatre, Faraday Street, Carlton, Melbourne


RSVP: news@puncherandwattmann.com

Palace of Culture is a dream diary, leading the reader into a personal and surreal engagement with the bewildering complexity of contemporary popular culture. Like her previous work Red Roses, Palace is a freewheeling work drawing the reader in to participate in its very construction. The layering of the oneiric on top of popular culture results in an intriguing interweaving of symbolic meanings (the notation and enactment of inner-states of feeling and being) with the arbitrary marketing decisions of our broader cultural stage. The language of Palace of Culture is not only the subject’s medium, but a source of revelation itself, a phantasm – something dreamt by its author and its reader, in the palace, at four a.m.

“Ania Walwicz’s work has always moved across genres, modes and registers, bringing self-reflexivity and metapoetics as material presences into the scene of the production, staging the subject in process, the subject in progress… Inspired by the great fabulists like Kafka and Dostoevsky [she] reactivates the avant-garde traditions from Stein, Joyce, Schwitters through the multiple lenses of psychoanalysis.”

Marion Campbell

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Ania Walwicz was born 1951 in Swidnica, Poland (Palace of Culture is a building in Warsaw). She studied at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, and has been teaching in the area of creative writing since 1981. She is also involved in visual art, theatre and performance, and is currently completing a Phd at Victoria University and teaches at RMIT.

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