Doomsday Story Hour
Presented by the Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research
Friday, October 30, 6-7:30pm (Eastern Time)

Doomsday Story Hour, presented by the Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research, will introduce a series of short narrative segments each exploring the theme of "doomsday" from various frameworks, including ecological, religious, conspiratorial, and fictional perspectives. In conversation with these segments will be a series of short videos by the artist Paul Heyer. These presentations are the result of explorative, visual, and interdisciplinary approaches to researching and critically thinking about the end times, and the times we live in now.

The Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research (CCSSSR) is a not-for-profit publishing organization dedicated to facilitating collaboration between artists, writers, and researchers with projects centered around ecology, natural history, and environmental activism. The Center's programming during 2020 has revolved around considerations of disaster, calamity, and catastrophe in visual and cultural representations and manifestations of Doomsday.

Jessica K Baer received their MFA from Brown University in 2017. They were born in Georgia and grew up beneath southern power plants. They have a poetry chapbook with Magic Helicopter Press (Holodeck One, 2017), a science fiction chapbook with Essay Press (At One End, 2020), and have been included in journals such as Prelude Mag, Pinwheel, the tiny mag, Baest, and Bone Bouquet. Their first book, Midwestern Infinity Doctrine, is forthcoming from Apocalypse Party Press in 2021. They love horses.

Justin Chance is an artist, writer, and co-founder of the Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research. He is based in New York.

Hunter Foster is an artist based in Little Rock, AR, and is a co-founder of the Collaborative Center for Storm, Space and Seismic Research.

Paul Heyer (b.1982) was born and currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. In 2009, he received his MFA in painting from Columbia University. He has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2018); Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2013, 2016, 2019); and Chapter NY, New York (2014, 2016, 2020). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at Perrotin, New York (2019); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2017); Park View/Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2017); Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (2016); Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago (2016); Rodeo Gallery London (2015); Young Art, Los Angeles (2013); 356 Mission, Los Angeles (2015); and Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York (2012).

Gabrielle Octavia Rucker is a writer, community arts organizer, and literary radio experimentalist from the Midwest. Her work has appeared in various media and publications, including the Sundance Film Festival, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Vogue Magazine, The Rumpus, and more.

Gabrielle Rucker's Are.na Reading List: https://www.are.na/gabrielle-rucker/ccsssr-doomsday-story-hour-cue-art-foundation

For more information, please visit: https://cueartfoundation.org/events/doomsday-story-hour