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May 25, 2010
I Met (Exchange)
13–24 May 2010
Modernity, Mobility, and Displacement:
Transnational Perspectives from Detroit
Wayne State University
(after On Kawara)
Heike Paul
Meike Zwingenberger
Harald Zapf
Alexandra Ganser
Barbara Hahn
Costinela Dragan
Katharina Gerund
Katharina Erhard
Tanja Aho
Sarah Bernhard
… More
May 1, 2010
post_moot 2KX / poetry + performance: a convocation
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio), 22–25 April 2010
Meetings, encounters, events, various types of collaboration between people, games, festivals, and places of conviviality, in a word all manner of encounter and relational intervention thus represent, today, aesthetic objects likely to be looked at as such, with pictures and sculptures regarded here merely as specific cases of a production of forms with something other than a simple aesthetic consumption in mind.
—Nicolas Bourriaud, Relational Aesthetics (les presses du réel, 2002), 28–29
Nicolas Bourriaud’s account of new forms of aesthetic practice is simple enough: after Pierre Bourdieu and Jacques Rancière, he identifies a range of “outer-directed” art practices that have emerged since the 90s in alternative venues. While originating in conceptual art, site-specific sculpture, installation, and performance from the 60s and 70s, these new forms translate the earlier ones into modes of social interaction. We are no longer speaking of “genre” per se, as with the position of painting and sculpture above. The aesthetic becomes the location of open interaction that connects artwork and community—to become a model, even instigator, of sociality. The open forms of formerly distinct genres—conceptual art, site-specific sculpture, installation, and performance—are further dismantled and recombined toward a horizon of social engagement as art practice.
April 25, 2010
I Met (post_moot)
22–24 April 2010
post_moot convocation
Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
(after On Kawara)
cris cheek
Catherine Wagner
Alan Golding
Maria Damon
Lisa Samuels
Chris Mann
Rodrigo Toscano
Adeena Karasick
K. Lorraine Graham
K. Silem Mohammad
Rod Smith
Mel Nichols
… More
April 12, 2010
Sampling The Grand Piano
@noon, 12 April 2010, with Marie Buck
Department of English, Wayne State University
Today I read samples from The Grand Piano to an appreciative group of faculty and students at Wayne State. The samples followed the position of my section in the volumes, not the volume number. For instance I began with the opening two paragraphs of section 1 from part 2, with an additional paragraph for counterpoint, and then read the third through fifth paragraphs of section 2 from part 1. I think of these reading sequences as compositions in their own right, and so will record the order of selections here:
1. Part 2, pp. 11-12, “On May 1, 1975, I attended a public meeting . . .” to “There was no money, and few agreeable jobs”; p. 17, from “Kathleen Cleaver met with an impromptu group . . .” to “. . . but all I saw there was a modern airport.”
2. Part 1, pp. 13-15, “I remember talking with the editor at UC Press . . .” to “This writing is his tombstone; we survived.”
March 13, 2010
I Missed (Paris)
11–13 March 2010
John Ashbery in Paris
Université Paris VII
(after On Kawara)
Michael Davidson
Lori Chamberlain
Bob Perelman
Francie Shaw
Donna Stonecipher
Hélène Aji
Sarah Riggs
Omar Berrada
Joshua Clover
Abigail Lang
Antoine Cazé
Olivier Brossard
Nicholas LoLordo
Paul Grimstad
Jennifer Dick
Françoise de Laroque
Gilles Weinzaepflen
Florence Manlik
February 20, 2010
I Met (Louisville)
18–20 February 2009
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900
University of Louisville
(after On Kawara)
Alan Golding
Andrew Engel
Chinmayi Kattemalavadi
Julianne Newmark
Kristine Danielson
Michael Fournier
Julius Lobo
Dee Morris
Lynn Keller
Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Mark Scroggins
Norman Finkelstein
Mary Jo Bang
Marthe Reed
… More
February 12, 2010
“Berlin Exhibitions: Between Destruction and Community
(Tod—Kein Tod, Palast der Republik, 2005)”
Panel C-2, “Exhibition/s” (organized by Barrett Watten)
Friday, 9:00–10:30 AM, Room: 207
with renée c. hoogland, “Imploding Communion: Actualized Alienation
in Rineke Dijkstra’s ‘Family of Man'”
and Sarah Ruddy, “Documenting Disappearance: Exhibiting Community
in the Work of Nan Goldin”
The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900
18-20 March 2010, University of Louisville
For the complete program, see:
http://thelouisvilleconference.com/program_2010.pdf
January 30, 2010
“Presentism and Periodization in Language Writing, Conceptual Art,
and Conceptual Writing”
Panel on “Post-Presentism” with Jonathan Eburne
ASAP/Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present
23–24 October 2009, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Knoxville, TN
On Kawara, Oct. 23, 1989, oil on board.
January 29, 2010
“The Expanded Object of the Poetic Field; or, What Is a Poet/Critic?”
Keynote address, Poetry and Public Language, University of Plymouth, U.K., March 2007; in Poetry and Public Language, ed. Tony Lopez and Anthony Caleshu (Exeter, U.K.: Shearsman Press, 2007). Publicity flyer/ordering information here; the essay can be accessed in pdf here.
In March 2007, Lyn Hejinian and I were invited by U.K. poet Tony Lopez to lecture at a poetics conference at the University of Plymouth (see links above). My talk addressed transformations in the nature of the poem as object, and employed in terms of the relation of poet and critic, using a series of works from my own oeuvre. The claim that one could speak as both poet and critic proved to be controversial in England, where distinct roles must be perserved as, respectively, object-producing and value-conferring. … More
January 17, 2010
Johnson County Courthouse, Iowa City.
I am reminded by Rod Smith’s move to Iowa City of my own arrival in January 1970. I had driven a driveaway Buick from California with several other students; stopped over in Iowa City to drop off my things and just miss an encounter with Alice Notley, then moving to New York; and brought the car to its owner near Kosciusko Boulevard in Chicago, returning by bus. That first night in Iowa City I slept in the car in front of the Johnson County Courthouse, a building renowned for its stolid but eerie architecture. In the morning, when I awoke, I saw farmers dragging fox carcasses up the stairs of the courthouse for bounty. … More
