Performances
Selected audio and video clips:
Sun Valley Writer's Conference
August 24, 2008
Sun Valley, Idaho
Proceedings of the First Meeting of the World Aphorism Organization
March 14, 2008
Goodenough College, London, under the sponsorship of the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy
Waterstone’s Bookshop, Gower Street, London
March 13, 2008
Excerpts from a juggling aphorist...
2007
The Foreign Policy Association
Oct. 10, 2007
The Lester S. Morse, Jr. Lecture: Aphorisms and Diplomacy
LIVE from the NYPL
Oct. 9, 2007
Juggling Aphorisms (edited)
2006
The Falmouth Festival of Literature & Arts
Oct. 7, 2006
How Benjamin Franklin begat Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce...
The Ilkley Literature Festival
Oct. 1, 2006
Hear about aphorists Stanislaw Jerzy Lec and Nicolas Chamfort
Ways With Words Festival, Dartington Hall
July 8, 2006
Listen to some of the tricky questions from the audience and my attempted answers
Swindon Festival of Literature
May 2, 2006
See the Five Laws of the Aphorism explained — while juggling!
2002
The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Feb. 26, 2002
A panel discussion focused on some of the themes addressed in my earlier book The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses.
LIVE from the NYPL
Oct. 9, 2007
How can aphorisms change your life? Find out when James Geary brings his Juggling Aphorisms show — yes real live juggling of words and balls — to LIVE from the NYPL.
Geary presents a mix of memoir, literary history, audience participation — and live juggling, with words and balls.
Audience members are invited to randomly pick an aphorism from a globe and read it aloud; Geary then tells about that aphorism and the person who wrote it, weaving in personal and historical anecdote.
There are also several blank strips of paper in the globe. If an audience member draws one of these, they can name any theme and Geary must cite a related aphorism on the spot.
If he fails, they get a free copy of the book!
Click to view, edited (54:51) »
You can see the full, unedited show — including the contribution of NYPL artist-in- residence Flash Rosenberg — from the NYPL web site (110:15) »
