Alex Karpovsky has had a charmed run with SXSW – 2010 marks his third consecutive year in attendance as a festival filmmaker or actor – but pre-SXSW, the peripatetic Austinite will be at BookPeople Thursday night to perform from the Basho-inspired Ten Walks/Two Talks.
Karpovsky will join authors Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch as they perform excerpts from their well-reviewed collaborative book, which combines philosophy, relationship drama, and city-street travelogue. Or, as publisher Ugly Duckling Presse puts it:
“Ten Walks/Two Talks updates the meandering and meditative form of Basho’s travel diaries. Mapping 21st-century New York, Cotner and Fitch tap their predecessor’s collaborative tendencies in order to construct a descriptive/dialogic fugue. The book combines a series of sixty-minute, sixty-sentence walks around Manhattan and a pair of dialogues about walking—one of which takes place during a late-night “philosophical” ramble through Central Park.”
The event takes place March 11, 7pm, at BookPeople. And if you’re interested in what Karpovsky can do behind the camera, his terrific performance doc Trust Us This Is All Made Up (about improvists TJ Jagodowksi and David Pasquesi), screens Wednesday night (3/10) at 9:45pm at the Alamo Ritz with Karpovsky in attendance.
This article appears in March 5 • 2010.
