Triple Canopy Symposium 2023

On the first weekend of April, Triple Canopy will inaugurate an annual convening of artists, writers, musicians, technologists, and scholars. In dialogues and performances, polemics and festivities, they’ll address the role of culture in responding (or contributing) to the most pressing problems of the day.

This year’s gathering, hosted by the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery and presented in collaboration with Critical Minded, will draw on the themes of the magazine’s current issue, True to Life. The issue asks how we record our lives and compose ourselves through memoir, autobiography, biofiction, and video diaries, and how the proliferating forms of “life writing” reflect our uncertain political and ecological futures. Over the weekend, Triple Canopy’s contributors will consider why certain perspectives, idioms, plotlines, and genres are established as natural, while others are said to be unfaithful to reality. And they’ll ask: how are our lives composed and consumed through stories, songs, databases, and bioengineering? How do those forms enable us to understand—and, perhaps, alter—the conditions of life?

More information about participants and ticketing will be made available soon on Triple Canopy's website.