Talk

In the age of McCarthy and the beats, a controversial African-American artist, Archer Aymes, became an overnight sensation following the publication of his first novel: Mother and Son, only to be found dead in a prison cell ten years later. Decades later, an academic conference is formed to debate the importance of Aymes's life. Through Rux's vivid imagery, expert research, crackling dialogue and poetically constructed debate, we become the conference participants, listening closely, achingly, as Rux skewers our reverence toward celebrity and academic authority and dismantles our confidence in our own memory and how we record history.