Archivi categoria: avanguardia

“walden” aka “diaries, notes and sketches” / jonas mekas. 1969

16mm, colour – filmed 1964 to 1968

Poet Jonas Mekas, born in Lithuania in 1922, invented the diary form of film-making. ‘Walden’, his first completed diary film, is an epic portrait of the New York avant-garde art scene of the 60s, is also a groundbreaking work of personal cinema.

The film features figures of the scene such as Jonas Mekas, P. Adams Sitney, Tony Conrad, Stan Brakhage, Carl Th. Dreyer, Timothy Leary, Baba Ram Dass, Gregory Markopoulos, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol, Jerome Hill, Barbet Schroeder, Jack Smith, Edie Sedgwick, Nico, Velvet Underground, Ken Jacobs, Hans Richter, Standish D. Lawder, Adolfas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Jud Yalkut, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow and Richard Foreman.

“Since 1950 I have been keeping a film diary. I have been walking around with my Bolex and reacting to the immediate reality: situations, friends, New York, seasons of the year. On some days I shoot ten frames, on others ten seconds, still on others ten minutes. Or I shoot nothing…. Walden contains material from the years 1964-1968 strung together in chronological order.” – Jonas Mekas

From: youtu.be/I5VghhMsIic

história da poesia visual brasileira _ 2019

Thanks to Yuri Bruscky

Here’s the PDF file of the catalog of the exhibition História da Poesia Visual Brasileira (History of Brazilian Visual Poetry), held in Sesc Bom Retiro (São Paulo/SP, Brazil), in 2019. Curators: Yuri Bruscky, Paulo Bruscky, Adolfo Montejo Navas. The expo also included a sound poetry section.

https://www.academia.edu/49351891/Hist%C3%B3ria_da_Poesia_Visual_Brasileira_Cat%C3%A1logo_Sesc_Bom_Retiro_2019_

This publication was linked to a second (and summarized) version of the exhibition, which was originally held in 2016 at the Museu de Arte Moderna ALoísio Magalhães/Mamam (Recife/PE, Brazil) — and resulted in a more extensive book in terms of compiled works and republished historical/anthological texts (to be digitally available soon).

The pdf also here:

https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/01/historia_da_poesia_visual_brasileira_cat.pdf

 

tutto su mio padre / fabiana sargentini. 2003

https://www.audiovisiva.org/it/documentary/tutto-su-mio-padre

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oggi al cantiere: musica minimalista, fabiana sargentini, paolo coteni

Con Paolo Coteni se ne va uno degli ultimi artisti totalmente scollegato da salotti & intrallazzi, molto legato invece ad una Roma popolare, trasteverina, ormai scomparsa, anche per la speculazione immobiliare che ha cacciato dal centro i romani, ma Paolo era anche un artista sperimentale (Roma negli anni ’60-’70 era un punto di riferimento della ricerca teatrale, musicale, artistica e non solo a livello nazionale): oggi, domani e dopodomani dalle 18 alle 21 al CANTIERE (via G.Modena), un film di Fabiana Sargentini, gli anni ’60 e ’70 all’Attico, e tra le altre cose si parlerà dei primi incontri di Musica Minimalista che Paolo Coteni conosceva molto bene, forse meglio di tutti.

Lorenzo Ciccarelli

“il novecento: la linea anti-lirica” @ centroscritture.it da domani, 13 dicembre, per 6 incontri + 1

https://www.centroscritture.it/service-page/iv-poesia-contemporanea-anti-lirica

inizia lunedì 13 dicembre, domani, il secondo ciclo online sulla poesia del Novecento, dedicato alla linea e alle tradizioni anti-liriche. tutte le informazioni a questo link.

(C) Nanni Balestrini

dalle avanguardie storiche di inizio Novecento alle sperimentazioni più recenti, la rottura con la tradizione, la prospettiva utopistica ed emancipativa di movimenti, autori e opere che hanno tentato di porsi al di là della lirica, della soggettività e della testualità poetica tradizionale.

oncurating issue 51: fluxus perspectives

Sandro Ricaldone

OnCurating, Issue 51
FLUXUS PERSPECTIVES
edited by Martin Patrick and Dorothee Richter
september 2021

contributions by Simon Anderson, Jordan Carter, Kevin Concannon, Ken Friedman, Natilee Harren, John Held Jr., Hannah B Higgins, Hanna B. Hölling, Natasha Lushetich, Billie Maciunas, Peter van der Meijden, Ann Noël, Martin Patrick, Dorothee Richter, Henar Rivière, Julia Robinson, Owen F. Smith, Weronika Trojanska, and Emmett Williams.

Although the Fluxus art (non-)movement is often read as a historical phenomenon, the breadth of its innovations and complexities actively thwarts linear and circumscribed viewpoints. The notion of Fluxus incorporates contradiction in challenging and enduringly generative ways. More than five decades after its emergence, this special issue of OnCurating entitled Fluxus Perspectives seeks to re-examine the influence, roles, and effects of Fluxus via a wide range of scholarly perspectives. The editors Martin Patrick and Dorothee Richter asked notable writers from different locations, generations, and viewpoints, all of whom having written about Fluxus before, to offer their thoughts on its significance, particularly in relation to contemporary art. With its emphasis upon events, festivals, and exhibitions, Fluxus may also be interpreted as an important, prescient forerunner of contemporary strategies of curating.

sandro ricaldone per slowforward

Un benvenuto particolarmente caloroso e felice a Sandro Ricaldone, uno dei maggiori studiosi italiani di arte contemporanea, avanguardie materiali verbovisivi e situazionismo, che – come visto nei giorni recenti attraverso vari post suoi – ha accettato di offrire la propria collaborazione come redattore a slowforward.

“the velvet underground”: a todd haynes documentary

Sandro Ricaldone

THE VELVET UNDERGROUND
Documentary Film, USA, 2021, 110′
Directed by Todd Haynes
Produced by Todd Haynes, Christine Vachon, Julie Goldman, Carolyn Hepburn, Christopher Clements, David Blackman
Cinematography: Edward Lachman
Edited by Affonso Gonçalves, Adam Kurnitz
Distributed by Apple TV+
Release date July 7, 2021 (Cannes)

The Velvet Underground is a 2021 documentary film directed and produced by Todd Haynes that chronicles the life and times of the rock band The Velvet Underground.

The Velvet Underground was an influential band that arose from the music, art, and film avant-gardes of early-1960s New York City. Although not a commercial success at the time, it had a significant impact on underground, experimental, and alternative music and the development of punk and new wave music. Its core members were Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison, John Cale, and Maureen Tucker. Artist Andy Warhol managed and promoted the band—convincing them to add German singer and model Nico to their line-up. Haynes’s film examines the cultural milieu of the band and its musical and cinematic influences. It tracks the band’s history from formation to the break-up of its original line-up in the early 1970s. Interviews with surviving band members Cale and Tucker and musicians the band influenced are woven with archival music and film material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_(film)

poemim / katalin ladik. 1978

Dalla mostra Tecniche d’Evasione. Strategie sovversive e derisione del potere nell’avanguardia ungherese degli anni ’60 e ’70, a cura di Giuseppe Garrera, József Készman, Viktória Popovics e Sebastiano Triulzi. Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, ottobre 2019 – gennaio 2020