David Palumbo-Liu has just presented on the interplay between history and the poetic as we narrate lives. He focused on the stories surrounding the now-demolished International Hotel (I-Hotel) in San Francisco, which was an important site in the struggle for low-income housing in SF. The various artistic response to this past include historical fiction, film, community readings, and a remarkable artistic installment which makes use of the dust (more dust) of the original hotel.
Palumbo-Liu pointed out that these artistic responses generate a remarkable circulation of narratives that crosses various locations. Poetic activity, in this case, becomes an evolving archive still in the process of composition.
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