Archivi tag: vispo

giovanni fontana. un classico dell’avanguardia

Performer travolgente, critico e teorico delle arti e della poesia, vincitore nel 2021 del Premio Dubito International alla carriera.

Giovanni Fontana è uno dei maestri internazionali della poesia sonora e visiva. Con le sue opere ha profondamente segnato gli sviluppi di poesia e arti visive degli ultimi quarant’anni. Le sue performance sonore e le opere visive sono state presentate in teatri e musei di tutto il mondo, collaborando con molti esponenti delle Nuove avanguardie e scrivendo per musicisti come Ennio Morricone e Roman Vlad. La sua opera è stata capace di fondere le acquisizioni delle avanguardie storiche e i generi letterari, spaziando dal romanzo alle installazioni visive, dalla poesia lineare a quella sonora, mantenendo sempre una sua cifra stilistica caratterizzata da uno sguardo originale sulla tradizione. Questo volume, introdotto da un fitto dialogo tra i curatori, propone un’antologia critica di testi inediti e prime traduzioni di alcuni degli studi più importanti che gli sono stati dedicati, sia da autori delle ultime generazioni sia da alcuni tra i maggiori critici, poeti e artisti della sperimentazione internazionale.

Un volume a cura di Patrizio Peterlini e Lello Voce.

Con scritti di: F. Aprile, J. Blaine, J. Pierre Bobillot, E. Brethless, M. Carlino, F. Cavallo, C. Rinne, H. Chopin, M. Ciaco, L. Cingolani, D. Di Stasi, S. Docimo, E. Escoffet, P.L. Ferro, P. Garnier, L. Giuliberti, P. Guzzi, B. Hedsieck, M. Lunetta, R. Manica, F. Muzzioli, G. Niccolai, M. Palladini, P. Peterlini, S. Pey, L. Pignotti, J. Prifti, A. Spatola, G. Stera, K. Thòt, L. Voce, J. Zhara, P. Zumthor.

https://www.agenziax.it/index.php/giovanni-fontana

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vou: visual poetry tokyo, 1958-1978

Sandro Ricaldone

VOU
Visual Poetry
Tokyo
1958-1978
edited by Taylor Mignon
Isobar Press, 2022

Taylor Mignon has lived in Tokyo for many years, and during that time he has built up an important collection of copies of the avant-garde magazine VOU, edited by the legendary Kitasono Katue. Although the magazine, originally founded in 1935, had long included visual images (the earliest one reproduced here dates from 1958), in the decade or so before Kitasono’s death in 1978, the magazine became notable for the amount and quality of visual poetry it printed. VOU: Visual Poetry, Tokio, 1954–1978 is Taylor’s selection of work by nine leading contributors, along with his commentary on the poets and Eric Selland’s introduction placing the work in its historical, cultural and political context.

From Eric Selland‘s Introduction to the book: This long-overdue publication fills a gap in the understanding of postwar Japanese poetry and the role of visual poetry in the avant-garde of Japan’s postwar period. It is a highly welcome book. The VOU Club was a group of outsider poet-artists with their roots in Japan’s Modernist avant-garde of the 1930s who were an active part of Japan’s tumultuous 1960s and 1970s.…The work included in this selection has been cared for and preserved by Taylor Mignon and a handful of other people without whose efforts it would have fallen into oblivion. It is hoped that this publication will bring about more awareness of Japan’s dynamic experimental tradition in poetry during the twentieth century.

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

 

david-baptiste chirot – in memoriam

https://www.lulu.com/en/us/shop/david-baptiste-chirot-and-david-baptiste-chirot-and-c-mehrl-bennett-and-john-m-bennett/poet-on-the-right-side-of-history/paperback/product-4g6nyv.html

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After a five month stay in hospital, well-known international artist and poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (birth name, David Harris) began, in the late 1980’s, a new phase in his artistic journey at River View apartments in Milwaukee Wisconsin with artworks, films, writing, only to have it interrupted in early June 2021 by his untimely death. Friends and fellow artists/writers helped piece together this in-memoriam from notebooks, files, loose pages and artworks, salvaged from his apartment, and with works inspired by his art, writings, and their memories of father, brother, friend, artist, writer, poet & visual poet, David-Baptiste Chirot (b.1953 – d.2021).

Eds: Tom Hibbard, John M. Bennett, Catherine Mehrl Bennett

errata/corrige: some recent links by jim leftwich

sonntets:

ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com/2021/12/jim-leftwich-sonnets.html

interview:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-interviewed-by-burak-s.html

examples of a certain kind of thinking #2:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-examples-of-certain-kind.html

5 Books of Visual Poetry & Asemic Writing (2021):

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-5-books-of-visual-poetry.html

writing against itself:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/writing-against-itself-jim-leftwich-2016.html

jim leftwich: some recent links

sonntets:

ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com/2021/12/jim-leftwich-sonnets.html

interview:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-interviewed-by-burak-s.html

examples of a certain kind of thinking #2:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-examples-of-certain-kind.html

5 Books of Visual Poetry & Asemic Writing (2021):

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-5-books-of-visual-poetry.html

writing against itself:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/writing-against-itself-jim-leftwich-2016.html

nico vassilakis: “letters of intent” (visual essays)

LETTERS of INTENT
by Nico Vassilakis
A book of visual poetry
120 pages in full color
Available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/8182538548

LETTERS of INTENT

  • is a collection of visual essays designed to explore the interior space of language material;
  • unfolds in chapters that investigate the methods, processes, manifestos and potentials of visual poetry;
  • attempts to blend the verbo-visual concept of reading seeing with the position that letters and their visual properties keep the germ of language afloat and operating while word formations are merely a convenience we’ve become accustomed to.