Archivi categoria: experimental poetry

Matina Stamatakis’ and Carmen Racovitza’s “The ChongDong Misfits”

Avantexte has finally produced its first book,
Matina Stamatakis‘ and Carmen Racovitza‘s The ChongDong Misfits. Herein
Stamatakis and Racovitza slash, slice and brutalize a series of feral, lithe
prose poems, producing a semantic carnival full of funhouse mirrors, elephant
men and coldly mechanical/electrically infused sex.

The ChongDong Misfits is available in a full-color print version, or as a very
affordable digital download (PDF). You can pick up one or both here:
http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/AvantextePress

Jennifer Scappettone all’American Academy di Roma (21 e 28-29 aprile)

Nelle prossime due settimane Jennifer Scappettone presenterà il suo lavoro, sia ‘scientifico’ che ‘poetico,’
all’Accademia Americana di Roma (Via Angelo Masina 5)

Over the next two weeks Jennifer Scappettone will be presenting critical and creative work
at the American Academy in Rome (Via Angelo Masina 5)

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Giovedì 21 aprile, h. 18:30
Stanza as Prison, Homicile, Cube, Sphere: Emilio Villa, Amelia Rosselli, and the Spaces of Post-Fascist Ytalyan Poetry
lecture room all’Accademia Americana (criptoportico)

Giovedì 28 aprile, h. 20:00
Vernissage di un’installazione collaborativa di AGENCY Architecture, Paul Rudy e Jennifer Scappettone
cortile dell’Accademia Americana

(L’installazione sarà visibile anche il 29 aprile alle 20)

qualche prosa (più o meno) recente

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– enhance 41, in “OR”, n.5, nov. 2010, p.6 (dopo una prima pubblicazione in http://pganickz.livejournal.com/78697.html);
– 32 dichiarazioni inverificabili sul lavoro di Alfredo Anzellini, segnatamente su: La piega, in: Alfredo Anzellini, La piega, La camera verde, Roma 2011, pp. 333-338;
– book (text from anachromisms), in «Capitalism Nature Socialism», vol. 22, issue 1, 2011, p. 119;
– four texts from anachromisms, in Blue & Yellow Dog, issue 4, Spring 2011, link: http://blueyellowdog.weebly.com/marco-giovenale.html;
– CVD, in alfabeta2 dal 7 apr. 2011;
– Anabasi, in alfabeta2 dal 14 apr. 2011

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pre-festival event in Manchester

Featuring Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Maggie O’Sullivan, Phil Minton and Ben Gwilliam & Phil Davenport
@ The Green Room, Manchester
Friday 15 April 2011
In a pre-festival partnership event with the Green Room, Manchester, the Text Festival presents an evening of virtuoso vocal performance and groundbreaking sound art.
Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl is an Icelandic poet and author of three novels. He works with performance and sound-poetry, and regularly appears at poetry and music festivals, as well as dabbling in the dark arts of the concrete. In the recent years he has explored the possibilities inherent in the European and North-American avant-garde traditions, and focused on disassembling language into its visual, social and linguistic units. Nothing can prepare you for the power and dexterity of his performance, the sonically richness of his sound poems, and his amazing control of his material. His huge contortions twist his mouth to stun the audience.
Phil Minton is a dramatic baritone with a free-form style of “extended techniques” that are extremely unsettling. His vocals often include the sounds of retching, burping, screaming, and gasping, as well as childlike muttering, whining, crying and deep-throated drones; he also has an ability to distort his vocal cords to produce two notes at once. Phil Minton’s voice occupies a category apart, as joyously accessible as it is radical.
For over thirty years, Maggie O’Sullivan has been one of the leading figures of British innovative poetry. An international performer and visual artist, she is committed to excavating language in all its multiple voices and tongues, known and unknown, in visceral gestures that collage and pulverization at the service of a rhythmic vortex.
Phil Davenport & Ben Gwilliam are artists engaged in collaborative practice across different artforms: Davenport the poet and Gwilliam the sound artist merge experimental language through the infrathin processing of the silence between sounds.
Also featured performance artist Sarah Sanders, and sound works by Sarah Boothroyd and Matt Dalby

Ticket Prices:
£9.50/£6.50
Venue:
Green Room
54-56 Whitworth St West
ManchesterM1 5WW
0161 615 0500
http://www.greenroomarts.org/

Art Detox 2010

ART DETOX 2010

DOCUMENTATION / DOCUMENTAZIONE

In the tradition of the Decentralized Networker Congresses, of the Incongruous Meetings and of the Obscure Actions, 2010 saw the international diffusion of a collective open project, that lasted twelve months, aimed at a shared detoxification from the art toxins that oppress our daily life (how many invites to exhibitions, events and presentations do we get every day?).

Hundreds of people in various parts of the world took part in the course of 2010 in ART DETOX therapeutic group meetings, they carried out “Insulation Tests” by visiting art galleries and museums with their head hidden in a paper bag or they practiced “Relaxation Tests” by sticking curative ART DETOX patches on their bodies, by playing water football in a small basin or by “combing dolls”. Are your ARTeries clogged with toxins too?

The final documentation of the ART DETOX 2010 project is finally ready, an illustrated booklet of 32 pages (texts in English and Italian) with inserts and original souvenirs (including the “Art Detoxed” badge created by Gumdesign), plus a multimedia cd-r with an ample selection of texts and images and an ART DETOX EP: five tracks of artherapeutic music exclusively recorded by Rod Summers (Vecdor featuring Korka Helgadóttir), Gina Pritti Tutti al Lago, Ratto Goal, Gianluca Becuzzi and Le Forbici di Manitù.

The cost of a copy of the publication with cd-r, air mail postage included, outside Italy is of € 15,00 or $ 20,00. Send International Postal Money Order (or cash hidden in a envelope) to: Vittore Baroni, via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio, Italy.

The contents of the documentation will be also available soon online, inside the blog http://artdetox2010.ning.com.

The most active collaborators to the project will receive a special free copy of the documentation.

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Nella tradizione dei Congressi Decentralizzati del Networker, degli Incontri Incongrui e delle Azioni Oscure, il 2010 ha visto la diffusione internazionale di un progetto collettivo aperto, della durata di dodici mesi, finalizzato ad una disintossicazione condivisa dalle tossine artistiche che opprimono la nostra esistenza quotidiana (quanti inviti a mostre, eventi o presentazioni riceviamo ogni giorno?).

Centinaia di persone in diverse parti del mondo hanno preso parte nel corso del 2010 a sedute terapeutiche di gruppo ART DETOX, hanno compiuto “Test di Isolamento” visitando gallerie e musei con la testa nascosta dentro un sacchetto di carta o praticato “Test di Rilassamento” applicando sul corpo cerotti curativi ART DETOX, giocando a calcio acquatico in una bacinella e pettinando bambole. Anche le tue ARTerie sono intasate di tossine?

La documentazione conclusiva del progetto ART DETOX 2010 è finalmente pronta: un libretto illustrato di 32 pagine (testi in italiano e inglese) con inserti e souvenir originali (tra cui il badge “Art Detoxed” creato da Gumdesign), più un cd-r multimediale contenente un’ampia selezione di testi e immagini e un ART DETOX EP: cinque brani di musica arterapeutica registrati in esclusiva da Rod Summers (Vecdor featuring Korka Helgadóttir), Gina Pritti Tutti al Lago, Ratto Goal, Gianluca Becuzzi e Le Forbici di Manitù.

Il costo di una copia della pubblicazione con cd-r, spedizione inclusa, è di € 10,00 da inviare con vaglia postale (oppure francobolli o contanti occultati in busta chiusa) a: Vittore Baroni, via C. Battisti 339, 55049 Viareggio, Lu.

I contenuti della documentazione saranno presto disponibili anche online, all’interno del blog http://artdetox2010.ning.com.

I più attivi collaboratori al progetto riceveranno una speciale copia omaggio della documentazione.

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