The Sun on the Tongue ― Performance Ideas

The fourth volume in PAJ's Performance Ideas series is a collection of literary texts, poems, plays, paintings, and drawings, accompanied by an interview on poetry and painting with the author. Etel Adnan is an award-winning, internationally admired writer and visual artist. Her poetry and painting was featured in an exhibit at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in April 2018.

Etel Adnan is the internationally admired writer and visual artist, who was born in Lebanon in 1925, and settled in California for several decades. She currently resides in Paris. In addition to more than fifteen volumes of writings and her work as a cultural journalist, her visual art was seen in dOCUMENTA 13 and the Whitney Biennial in 2014. Her books include To look at the sea is to become what one is, Master of the Eclipse, Sea and Fog, and The Arab Apocalypse. Her novel Sitt Marie-Rose is considered an anti-war classic and has been translated into numerous languages. Her writings have been made into operas, radio plays, theatre, and song cycles. London’s Serpentine Gallery celebrated her work in a recent major exhibit. In France, Adnan has been awarded l'Ordre de Chevalier des Arts et Lettres. In April 2018 MassMoCA will open an exhibit on her poetry and painting.