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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
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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.”

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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

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Event 09: I Met (Louisville)

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
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“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

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“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.

 

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“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

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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

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“The House of Language: Laura (Riding) Jackson’s Rational Meaning
          and the Truth of Experience”

10 AM–12 PM, Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Laura Riding Jackson House/Environmental Learning Center, Vero Beach, Fla.
Sponsored by Florida Atlantic University and the Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation

Installation of text from Rational Meaning at the Laura (Riding) Jackson House, Orchid Island, Fla., November 2009. Copyright (c) Barrett Watten 2009.

On 18 November 2009, I lectured on Laura (Riding) Jackson’s culminating work, Rational Meaning, which she wrote with Schuyler B. Jackson until his decease and then finished herself. … More

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Thanks to Aldon Nielsen for posting links to the 2009 MLA Offsite Reading. Here is the YouTube video of my section, one section of Grand Piano 9, preceded by Eric Selland’s reading of translations from the Japanese:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GwV4QSeQSQ

For all the videos of the reading:

http://heatstrings.blogspot.com/2010/01/mla-off-site-reading-2009-video.html

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