Month: January 2010

Caroline Bergvall- 2 events

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Speaking Out: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice

Saturday 6 February 2010, 10.30–17.30

This symposium focuses on the use of the spoken word in artistic practice and its manifestations in sonic and audiovisual art works. Taking the lead from the recently published anthology of works Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice, this event encompasses performances, talks and conversations by artists and researchers who employ spoken words as their material and inspiration.
Contributors include Tomomi Adachi, Caroline Bergvall, David Toop, Imogen Stidworthy, Brandon LaBelle, Oswaldo Macià and Trevor Wishart.
In collaboration with CRISAP, Creative Research into Sound Art Practice, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£25 (£15 concessions), booking recommended
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/symposia/20795.htm
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Sina Queyras:
Caroline Bergvall’s Lingual Scultpures
Lively posting on a few of Caroline Bergvall’s  pieces by Canadian poet Sina Queyras on the Poetry Foundation’s widely read blog, Harriet.
Includes a sound file.
Posted on 26 January 2010.
To be followed by a written Q&A to be published in the next few days.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2010/01/caroline-bergvalls-lingual-scultpures/#more-7722
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ntst: a continuation

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Geof Huth describes the huge overhauls in edits the wonderous book has seen to date –

For the past few days, I’ve been working on the text of my next book. And I have to use the word “text,” because what I’m working on is the layout of the book, but it is also the manuscript of the book. As I work on the book, I remember other poems, tucked here and there in my life, in my memory, in my house. And I pull them out and put them in. The text has grown to 775 words, still not the longest book of pwoermds ever, which honor belongs to the marvelous Finn Karri Kokko.

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Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions: Fact Sheet

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Fact sheet below.

See more emblems at onedit – LINK

Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:

Fact Sheet

“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries

“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All

EMBLEM

Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.

ARMCHAIR EMBLEM

The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.

PROSTHETIC MOTTO

An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.

TRANSCORPORATION

A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.

WALKING DEFINITION

An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’

BUILT INTERIOR

An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.

SOLICITATION

The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).

FORMS

Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).

FURNITURE

What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.

–THOMAS EVANS

BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

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We’ve already posted about this, but it’s well worth a reminder that Bill Griffiths’ Collected Earlier Poems (1966-80) is now available. Details of this and the upcoming Birkbeck launch event below, via Alan Halsey:

BILL GRIFFITHS: COLLECTED EARLIER POEMS (1966-80)

Published by Reality Street in association with West House Books

This volume brings together for the first time the late Bill Griffiths’ poetry up to ‘Building: The New London Hospital’. The text, edited by Alan Halsey in consultation with Ken Edwards, includes the full ‘Cycles’ and ‘War W/ Windsor’ sequences that so astonished readers when they first appeared, as well as much other poetry that was published by his own Pirate Press imprint, Writers Forum and other small presses during the 1970s; and also poems and performance texts that have only made fleeting appearances in ephemeral pamphlets and magazines, or have never been published before. The works are presented in largely chronological order. Comprehensive endnotes detail both the publishing history and (Griffiths having been an inveterate reviser) variations in texts and alternative versions.

368pp.
ISBN: 978 1874400 45 5
Publication date 29 January 2010
Pre-publication price £17.50 post free
(after January, £18 + post)

Orders to reality.street@virgin.net or info@westhousebooks.co.uk

LAUNCH at Birkbeck, Wednesday 17th February, 7.30
in Room 203, Clore Management Centre (Torrington Square, facing Birkbeck main entrance)
featuring a reading of the complete Cycles by Sean Bonney, Ken Edwards, Allen Fisher, Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk & Maggie O’Sullivan

The Snow Man

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One must have a mind of winter
To regard the frost and the boughs
Of the pine-trees crusted with snow;

And have been cold a long time
To behold the junipers shagged with ice,
The spruces rough in the distant glitter

Of the January sun; and not to think
Of any misery in the sound of the wind,
In the sound of a few leaves,

Which is the sound of the land
Full of the same wind
That is blowing in the same bare place

For the listener, who listens in the snow,
And, nothing himself, beholds
Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is

a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

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a noun sing e·ratio 13 · 2010 · featuring the Alan Halsey interview

with poetry by Laynie Browne, Jill Jones, Jane Adam, Jeff Encke, Joseph F. Keppler, Mark Cunningham, Jadon Rempel, Keith Higginbotham, Anne Fitzgerald, and Halvard Johnson

e·ratio editions e-chaps by Travis Macdonald and Carey Scott Wilkerson and featuring The Alan Halsey Interview

edited for real by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino

More here.