Evan zimroth biography

          Evan Zimroth is Professor of English at the City University, New York.!

          Summary:
          Art installation of 1999 by Camille Utterback and Romy Achituv.

          Evan Zimroth is a writer whose first novel, Gangsters, won the National Jewish Book Award She has also published two collections of poetry.

        1. Follow Evan Zimroth and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Evan Zimroth Author Page.
        2. Evan Zimroth is Professor of English at the City University, New York.
        3. In Collusion, novelist and poet Evan Zimroth recounts her days as an adolescent ballet student and her completely inappropriate relationship with her ballet.
        4. Collusion: Memoir of a Young Girl and Her Ballet Master is Evan Zimroth's memoir about her unrequited love affair with, F., her middle-aged ballet instructor.

          5. To interact with the installation participants stand or move in front of a large projection screen. On the screen they see a mirrored video projection of themselves in black and white, combined with a color animation of falling text.

          Like rain or snow, the text appears to land on participants’ heads and arms. The text responds to the participants’ motions and can be caught, lifted, and then let fall again.

          Free of conventional moral judgments, Collusion tells of possession and surrender, of power and submission, of the bond between a young girl and.

          The falling text will “land” on anything darker than a certain threshold, and “fall” whenever that obstacle is removed. If a participant accumulates enough letters along their outstretched arms, or along the silhouette of any dark object, they can sometimes catch an entire word, or even a phrase.

          The falling letters are not random, but lines of Evan Zimroth’s poem about bodies and language, “Talk, You.” As letters from one line of the poem fall towards the ground they begin to fade, and differently c