Entries tagged with readings
June 6, 2013
Reading @ Nuremberg
Bavarian-American Academy
Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg
7:30 PM, 27 May 2013
For my reading, I took as a model my 1999 presentation at Kelly Writers House, about which Brian Ang wrote perceptively [here]. In that event, I used stanzas from “Non-Events” as my guide, alternating between a regular progress through the poem as semantic and rhythmic baseline, while adding selections from Bad History and prose from The Constructivist Moment. … More
November 6, 2011
A scripted, multivocal performance based on excerpts from the ten-volume The Grand Piano will be delivered by eight of the project’s authors: Rae Armantrout, Steve Benson, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Tom Mandel, Ted Pearson, Kit Robinson, and Barrett Watten at UC Berkeley and Small Press Traffic, San Francisco. At Berkeley, the event will be moderated by Jasper Bernes; in San Francisco, it will be preceded by a 45-minute group discussion including the audience, moderated by David Buuck, on the values of collective art practice from the 70s to the present.
Holloway Reading Series
Maude Fife Room, Wheeler Hall
University of California, Berkeley
6:30–8:00, Friday, November 18
Timkin Hall, California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco
5:00–7:00, Sunday, November 20
I Met (Chicago)
House reading @ Jennifer Rupert/Chris Glomski
4 November 2011, Humboldt Park, Chicago
After On Kawara
Jennifer Rupert
Chris Glomski
Janet Wondra
Gina Buccola
Jeffery Gore
Alison James
Jorge Frisancho
Joyce Colton
Jinny Lim
Peter O’Leary
Michael O’Leary
Jen Karmin
A. D. Jameson
Robin Hursey
Emily Branch
Ryan Kenealy
Bertie Kenealy
September 25, 2010
Turing Machine
“Jackson Mac Low as Reading Machine: Stanzas for Iris Lezak, Sampling, and Print Culture,” presented at High and Low, European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernist Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland, 11 September 2010.
[From the introduction] In this paper, I propose a historical and cultural reading of postmodern practices of textual sampling and “reading through” in the poetry of Jackson Mac Low. To do so, I will position the methods and materials of his magnum opus Stanzas for Iris Lezak at the intersection of several concerns. The first is the imperative to rethink modernism and the historical avant-garde in relation to the content, forms, and media of mass culture. … 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.”
January 10, 2010
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
