Vanessa Place

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Full Name	Vanessa Place
Occupation	Writer
Date Of Birth	May 10, 1968(1968-05-10)
Age	56
Birthplace	Stratford
Country	United States
Horoscope	Taurus

Vanessa Place Biography

Vanessa Place is one of the most popular and richest Writer who was born on May 10, 1968 in Stratford, United States. Place also faced criticism for her Twitter art project in which she retyped the entire book from the novel Gone with the Wind in attempt to draw attention to the book’s racism as in a bigger work, Gone with the Wind by Vanessa Place, designed to raise questions about copyright, ownership of literary works and the continual character of white imagination and the role of social media in generating antagonism. Based on Place’s own statement regarding the project: The novel’s true love story doesn’t lie about Rhett Scarlett and Rhett Scarlett but rather the relationship of white America with itself as a self that exists only through the possession of property as the most important way to achieve white supremacy.”

The controversy surrounding Place’s Tragodia series began when the literary critique Marjorie Perloff described the work as “a superb piece of conceptual writing,” and then presented an overview of the work in the 2010 Rethinking Poetics conference held at Columbia University. There were a number of American poets then debated the value of the book on several forums and blogs as a response to her comments. The critic Steven Zultanski writes that Place was being asked for her to “explain the intent of her work […] of course, refused to do so, which has partially allowed for the book’s retention of its initial provocative appeal.” Poet Juliana Spahr wrote: “Does Vanessa’s book mean to suggest that rape is largely a socio-economic problem?” In 2014, George Mason University Professor David Kaufmann wrote: “When Juliana Spahr asks about Place’s intentions and alliances — a question the text poses in its very essencethere’s no response that Place can provide that will make sense of the gap the text opens up to its readers. In the absence of being aware of what author is trying to tell us to make of the subject matter, we do not have any idea what to make of the book. We’re here. The perps, the victims and the survivorsThey are all here in many ways, not just one.”

Place is associated with the Conceptual Art movement and has lectured and performed at events including at the Sorbonne in Paris, London’s Whitechapel Gallery, and the Andre Bely Centre for Experimental Writing in St. Petersburg, and the Getty Villa in Los Angeles. In 2012, Place was the first poet to perform as part of the Whitney Biennial. In 2013, Place had her first solo art exhibition, The Lawyer is Present, a response to Marina Abramović’s The Artist Is Present, at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, in which she listened to confidential confessions from volunteers and then performed them for the public. In 2014, Place exhibited her work Last Words alongside Andrea Fraser’s Tehachapi at Kings Road at the MAK Center for Art and Architecture/Schindler House. Critic Sharon Mizota, writing for the Los Angeles Times, notes the two artists “filled the Schindler House, a landmark of 20th century modernism, with nothing but sound. Emptied of all but a few pieces of furniture, the house becomes both a setting and a listening device: an echo chamber reverberating with history and ideology.”

Psychoanalytic and philosophic thinkers, such as Jacques Lacan and Immanuel Kant, often figure in Place’s critical writing and performances. In her 2013 lecture “Conceptualism is Feminism,” Place used Lacan’s pronouncement “la femme n’existe pas” [there is no woman] to argue that “woman” as a category “only exists contextually — one can only be woman relative to man…” “Conceptualism,” she says, “like feminism, asks one equally to consider the ‘=.’ How does A become equivalent to B, why does it seem (or seem to be proven to be) B’s equal, and at what cost does this equivalency work to A, and for that matter, B?” In “A Poetics of Radical Evil,” an essay published in 2010, Place modifies Kant to argue: “There must be an art […] that is willing to be affirmatively evil, not immoral exactly, but as a work of malfeasance, not for the polemic or didactic turn, showing that certain things are bad, stupid, etc, that’s easy enough, and sadly it seems one is expected to say these things, which is another form of obscenity, but for a more primal acceptance.”

The year 2005 was the time that Place founded Les Figues Press in 2005. The press “publishes experimental writing and literature in translation with a focus on feminist and queer authors,” in Los Angeles. Les Figues partnered with the Los Angeles Review of Books in 2017 to be a part of the imprint’s new the series LARB Books. Place is currently the editor of the publication’s Global Poetics Series.

Vanessa Place Net Worth

Vanessa Place is one of the richest Writer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vanessa Place 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vanessa Place (born 1968) is a famous American journalist and criminal appeals attorney. Place received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as well as the MFA from Antioch University, and a JD at Boston University. She is the co-director of the Los Angeles-based Les Figues Press. Place has also served as screenwriter on television shows like Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as well as Xena: Warrior Princess with producer Liz Friedman.

Place is an attorney in criminal defense who represents indigent sexual offenders in appeals. She has published and performed work made using courtroom documents. For instance her performance piece, Last Words, reproduces the final statements of every inmate executed in Texas in the years since 1982. Naomi Toth, writing about Last Words for Jacket2, says that the piece takes place “in a context in which, the listener realizes, speaking becomes the pronunciation of one’s own death sentence.” Place’s trilogy Tragodia (Statement of Factual Information (Statement of Facts, Argumentation Argument, Case) was an auto-appropriation of portions from her appeals briefs for the benefit of sexual offenders, as a reaction to the Dante’s Commedia.

In her 2010 book The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality, and Law (Other Press), Place reflects on an experience when a court clerk asked her, “How can you live with yourself?” during a “particularly gruesome” child rape case. “I said that I don’t,” Place wrote. She goes on: “My job is not predicated on innocence. In our famously adversarial system of justice, we the actors play parts that are as important as the play. It’s a cliché that a society is judged by how it treats its most despicable members, a cliché that mindful people accept in the abstract and reject in practice. But freedom of speech is relevant only when the opinions are vile, and due process meaningful only when applied to the daddy who rapes his son.”

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Critic Naomi Toth notes that Place “prefers hot items,” subjects that generate unease and discomfort among audiences: “the legal defense of criminals, rape jokes, racist realist novels, the last words of death row convicts.” Toth suggests Place takes up the discourse “of the suspect, the one we’ve designated as guilty, the one we’re going to execute, the one we consent to push off-scene: the person and the narratives many of us would prefer to suppress to shore up our identity, to found our own innocence.” Toth states that Place’s project can be understood as “one which makes this innocence suspect, for the duration of her performance at the very least. And for this choice, listeners hold her responsible in turn.”

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