Thursday, January 29, 2026 at 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM
2220 Arts + Archives, Los Angeles
The Poetic Research Bureau and Wendy's Subway present a book launch for *A Grammar Built with Rocks*, edited by Shoghig Halajian and Suzy Halajian. Featuring readings, film screenings, and discussion with the editors, Mashina Firunts Hakopian, and filmmaker Rene Gabri. ∆ Featuring writing and artistic practices that trace the racialized and gendered relationship between bodies and land, *A Grammar Built with Rocks* explores artists’ engagement with sites of physical dispossession and socio-ecological crisis, highlighting how creative research methodologies can serve as radically new place-making practices. The publication brings together a range of feminist-decolonial texts and visual contributions that explore how movement, transience, and improvisation offer alternative ways of being-together while being-in-place.