# Event Details - **Event Name**: The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT List Visual Arts Center co-present a reading of Cream Psychosis.About this Event“When an empire is lurching to a halt at its very end, it might be the moment when it begins, or is forced, to re-imagine its relationship to a national insanity.”—Mary Walling Blackburn“XOXO, Insanity, Institution” (2011)The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT List Visual Arts Center co-present a reading of Cream Psychosis (Sternberg Press, e-flux Journal, 2026), a collection of essays spanning the 2010s to the present by artist and writer Mary Walling Blackburn, followed by a conversation between Walling Blackburn and artist and writer David Levine.Moving with near psychedelic precision across American time and its surrounding spaces, Cream Psychosis begins near the annals of the Arkansas Lunatic Asylum, March 1883. In the 1990s, a scholarship kid meanders with inescapable difficulty through Northeastern boarding schools. Conspiring sugar planters, descendants of missionaries, overthrow Indigenous Hawai’i in 1893. A child learns how to split screens: hard core film, documentary, destruction, and queer care in both 1970s Times Square and 1980s Salt Lake City SROs. Archeological digs, nuclear plants, and horrors of predation collide. California crumbles through the decades into the smog and sea. In 2020, all over, protestors meet BORTAC-trained soldiers under skies choked with propellers and noxious propellants. By 2025, peach pits, trench art, and war waste heap together.Facing a spiraling empire, Blackburn insists on showing volumes of teeming, vibrant, life. The essays and works collected here are movies of America in parallax view.—Kaye Caine-NielsenAdapted from the introduction to Cream Psychosis (2026)Copies of the book will be available for sale at the event from the MIT Press Bookstore.This event is organized by Marina Caron (Assistant Curator, MIT List Visual Arts Center) and Danni Shen (Senior Curatorial and Public Programs Assistant, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts). - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cambridge/the-lumpen-and-the-miscreant-mary-walling-blackburn-presents-cream-psychosis/100001987157560757 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Cambridge - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: 201 Amherst St - **lat**: 42.3577239 - **long**: -71.09581829999999 - **full address**: 201 Amherst St, 201 Amherst Street, Cambridge, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/649941e555d2eb9254276397820bf9bf570b569fdd436d0fdf4d26d267dc71e6-rimg-w959-h540-dcd1c9d8-gmir.jpg?v=1776172348 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis being held? - **A:** The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis takes place on Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm at 201 Amherst St, 201 Amherst Street, Cambridge, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis? - **A:** The Lumpen & the Miscreant: Mary Walling Blackburn presents Cream Psychosis is organized by MIT List Visual Arts Center. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at MIT List Visual Arts Center's events? - **A:** Attendees have given MIT List Visual Arts Center a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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