Private, Issue #45
July 3, 2009
July 2, 2009
July 1, 2009
Testi installativi
Ci si trova sempre a dovere ma in fondo anche a volere (ri)definire e (ri)dire cosa si può intendere per testo installativo.
Un testo che non chieda necessariamente una lettura lineare. Un testo in cui l’impatto visivo configura già un oggetto estetico verso cui il lettore può dirigere uno sguardo non necessariamente analitico, geometrizzante, decrittante. Un testo che può indurre analisi e esplorazione minuta e che tuttavia persuade anche prima che questa si compia. Eccetera.
Più delle parole valgono gli esempi. Varie volte ho fatto quello de Il dramma della vita, di Valère Novarina, tradotto da Andrea Raos e uscito prima in Nazione indiana e poi in gammm. Qui il testo perfettamente leggibile eccede — per accumulo e ossessione elencativa felicissima quanto spiazzante e sfiancante — le possibilità e qualsiasi buona volontà di un classico ‘lettore lineare’, di ogni lettura sequenziale.
Un altro esempio potrebbe essere l’anonimo Abacuz pubblicato in marzo su http://hotelstendhal.blogsome.com: clic su http://www.box.net/shared/ohduc7zh3q. Ovviamente il dato installativo-visivo è totalizzante, in questo caso. E, prima ancora, spicca in primo piano (escludendo altri piani) il fatto che il meccanismo in gioco sia puramente ottico, ininterpretabile: accumulo da vedere, installazione senza alternative.
Infine, si può pensare al "solid language" di Veil, di Charles Bernstein, uscito nel 1976 e leggibile online qui: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/books/veil/index.html (nonché acquistabile come libro da Xexoxial Editions a questo indirizzo: http://xexoxial.org/is/veil/by/charles_bernstein)
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June 29, 2009
G.Bortolotti da Empiria: presentazione di “Tecniche di basso livello” a Roma
Libreria Empiria (via Baccina 79, Roma)
mercoledì 8 luglio 2009, alle ore 19:30
Tecniche di basso livello
di Gherardo Bortolotti
Lavieri, 2009
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302. Le villette a schiera, i quartieri periferici ci parlavano di un benessere continuo, di una forma socialdemocratica di eternità. Rimanevamo assorti, a volte, fumando fuori dalle pizzerie.
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Sarà presente l’autore, che leggerà alcuni brani.
Introduce l’incontro Marco Giovenale
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libreria EMPIRIA, v. Baccina 79 (Rione Monti), Roma
June 27, 2009
June 26, 2009
promemoria: oggi: Camera verde (Roma): Locandine + Bouquet + Fusco
Venerdì 26 giugno, dalle ore 20:30
presso il centro culturale La camera verde
(Roma, via G. Miani 20)
Locandine d’artista
immagini e/o testi di
Francesco Forlani, Andrea Inglese, Florinda Fusco, Michele Zaffarano, Renata Morresi, Marco Giovenale, Jennifer Scappettone, Alfredo Anzellini,
Zeno Tentella, Antonio Semerano, Giuliana Laportella, Giuliano Mesa, Manuela Sica, Giacomo Leopardi, Pierre Martin
inoltre:
presentazione del libro
Dictionnaire de cet homme
di Stéphane Bouquet
(La camera verde, collana Calliope)
introduzione e traduzione italiana di Andrea Inglese
e:
segnalazione dell’uscita (+ breve lettura) del nuovo libro di
Florinda Fusco, Tre opere
(Oèdipus, 2009, collana “i megamicri”)
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gli autori saranno presenti
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La camera verde è in Via Giovanni Miani 20 – 00154 Roma
(quartiere Ostiense)
tel. 340-5263877
e-mail: lacameraverde [at] tiscali [dot] it
pagina (provvisoria): http://www.lacameraverde.com/
June 25, 2009
Matina L. Stamatakis : Grapyrus
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Xerolage 43—Matina L. Stamatakis
Grapyrus
Matina Stamatakis has "arrived" even if the rest of the world has been too slow to realize it. Her newest "art/non" textscape is a veritable plum pudding of ruthless extravagance, a cryptological scherzo written in "sanscript", so to speak. Teasing out texture from text, this most recent offering from the Xerolage series has a haunting aspect that unites papyri and the phantom after-effects of words in constant stochastic exile. In essence, Stamatakis "writes" perpetually double, the reflection upon a surface of "lin/geist" that judders with an ekphrastic motion of the cinematic or photographic double-take.
—Kane X. Faucher
Tombstones and footprints, prehistoric imperial Chinese silk distressed and preserved in airtight tombs, Sapphic papyrus scrolls used as winding sheets for the human dead: languaged shapes (letters, glyphs, cuneiform, runes) layer each other on multidimensional, neonic, poly-textural surfaces that glow through the eras, aeons and ages. Evocative of sound, syntax and melismatic intution, these works are endlessly resonant through time, space, and mind, expanding them all.
—Maria Damon
In Matina Stamatakis’ Grapyrus, an utterly fresh light unveils antiquities. Under the cold glare of the photocopier’s bulb new thoughts are seared onto the richly textured venerability of the page. Here is a vibrantly dark art that does not merely mimic or ape antediluvian roots, but consciously honors and revises them, relentlessly refreshing deep-seeded threads of thought. Flourishing gestures of contemporary graffiti no longer deface or elide, but honor; the visually brutalizing process of Xeroxing accentuates, antiques. Xerolage 43-Matina StamatakisHere papyrus and spray paint conspire to create a Rosetta stone for the hermetic communiqués scribbled on bathroom walls. The "reader" wanders through a nonexistent city, inexplicably entranced by the tattered posters pasted to crumbling edifices, and couldn’t be happier to be so utterly lost.
—John Moore Williams
more at:
http://xexoxial.org/is/xerolage43/by/matina-l-stamatakis
The primary investigation of Xerolage is how collage technique of 20th century art, typography, computer graphics, visual & concrete poetry movements & the art of the copier have been combined. Each issue is devoted to the work of one artist.
24 pages, 8.5 x 11, $6 includes postage
Subscriptions: 4 issues/$20
XEXOXIAL EDITIONS
10375 Cty Hway Alphabet
La Farge WI 54639
June 24, 2009
A Catalogue of Rare Movements by Monica McFawn & Curtis A. Rhodes
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A Catalogue of Rare Movements by Monica McFawn & Curtis A. Rhodes
from the introduction:
Making art is hard. The empty page or canvas seems limitless and glorious, one of the few places where anything can happen. But the moment a word is written or a mark made, what can happen is suddenly—violently—limited.
A line is a barrier, and words silence all other words that could have been said. To commit to a course of action in art is, paradoxically, to commit to not-doing the infinite anything else. Making art is the bold relinquishing of possibility.
In the larger world of art, every art movement is a theory of how to get free—how to get free of the influence of earlier artists, how to get free of public expectation, and how to get free of the limitations of what one has already done. In the insular world of this Catalogue, each of our art movements likewise describes how a drawing tried to transcend itself. The following work is an example of what can happen within, or as a result of, narrow constraints. Each drawing was created using a strict set of rules: they were collaboratively drawn with the same pens, using a postcard-sized rectangle as a starting point. The box is the first limitation, the other person’s contribution another.
Within this insular process, the subtitles, deviations, and variations took on particular import. A Catalogue of Rare Movements depicts twenty-four art movements that flourished and flared out in this tight space of possibility. Xerolage 42- Monica McFawn & Curtis A. RhodesEach drawing itself became a theory of art, rising up and burning out within the course of its creation. But by the time each art movement was identified, it was already obsolete, and only another drawing could get us free of it.
more at:
http://xexoxial.org/is/xerolage42/by/monica_mcfawn_and_curtis-a-rhodes
The primary investigation of Xerolage is how collage technique of 20th century art, typography, computer graphics, visual & concrete poetry movements & the art of the copier have been combined. Each issue is devoted to the work of one artist.
24 pages, 8.5 x 11, $6 includes postage
Subscriptions: 4 issues/$20
XEXOXIAL EDITIONS
10375 Cty Hway Alphabet
La Farge WI 54639
June 23, 2009
26 giugno, Camera verde: locandine + Bouquet + Fusco
Venerdì 26 giugno, dalle ore 20:30 presso il centro culturale
La camera verde (Roma, via G. Miani 20)
Locandine d’artista
immagini e/o testi di
Francesco Forlani, Andrea Inglese, Florinda Fusco, Michele Zaffarano, Renata Morresi, Marco Giovenale, Jennifer Scappettone, Alfredo Anzellini, Zeno Tentella, Antonio Semerano, Giuliana Laportella, Giuliano Mesa, Manuela Sica, Giacomo Leopardi, Pierre Martin
inoltre:
presentazione del libro
Dictionnaire de cet homme
di Stéphane Bouquet (La camera verde, collana Calliope)
introduzione e traduzione italiana di Andrea Inglese
e:
segnalazione dell’uscita (+ breve lettura) del nuovo libro di
Florinda Fusco, Tre opere (Oèdipus, 2009, collana “i megamicri”)
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gli autori saranno presenti
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La camera verde è in Via Giovanni Miani 20 – 00154 Roma (quartiere Ostiense)
tel. 340-5263877 e-mail: lacameraverde [at] tiscali [dot] it
pagina (provvisoria): http://www.lacameraverde.com/
June 22, 2009
The reading at Th!nk Art: Graffi, Attanasio, Giovenale, Frene, hosted by Scappettone
this is the Italian Poetry reading and conversation at Chicago’s Th!nkArt Salon, broadcast on Chicago Public Radio
http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=34790
(Press "pop-out" and then the "play" button)
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Friday, May 29, 7:30pm
Bilingual reading and discussion/salon featuring Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone, Francesco Levato (Poetry Center) & Chris Glomski (UIC)
1530 N. Paulina, Suite F. Chicago, IL
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!! Thanks to Litmus Press !!
June 21, 2009
June 20, 2009
Addio Vito
Nella notte tra 18 e 19 giugno, Vito Riviello ci ha lasciato.
In questo breve pezzo, una nota di Franca Rovigatti (dal "Manifesto" del 20 giugno):
June 18, 2009
promemoria: oggi “I DIRITTI INUMANI”
Roma, OGGI, giovedì 18 giugno 2009, alle ore 20:00
presso il centro culturale La camera verde
(via G. Miani 20, quartiere Ostiense)
presentazione del libro di Carlo Bordini
I DIRITTI INUMANI
ed altre storie
collana felix a cura di Marco Giovenale
June 15, 2009
Bloomsday a Genova: 16 giugno
Bloomsday a Genova
16 giugno 2009
Ulisse di James Joyce letto nel Centro Storico di Genova.
In allegato il programma dettagliato
L’Ulisse di James Joyce racconta il 16 giugno 1904 a Dublino, con i viaggi paralleli di un giovane Telemaco, il letterato Stephen Dedalus (si pronuncia “Stiven Dedalus”!), e di un Ulisse di mezza età, l’agente pubblicitario Leopold Bloom, tradito dalla moglie cantante, la sensuale Molly. Tutto il mondo festeggia il 16 giugno, Giorno di Bloom, con letture e spettacoli ispirati all’Ulisse joyciano, ma solo a Genova si dà lettura integrale di tutto il capolavoro joyciano, dall’alba alle ore piccole.
Dopo i successi del 2006-2008, il Festival Internazionale di Poesia di Genova 2009 ripropone l’appuntamento con le peregrinazioni di Bloom e amici in spazi analoghi a quelli in cui si svolgono i diciotto capitoli, dalla Torre sul mare in cui Stephen fa colazione con amici goliardi, alla scuola dove insegna, ai numerosi pub dove Bloom viene tentato dalle Sirene (le bariste) o attaccato perché ebreo da un Ciclope nazionalista, alla camera da letto in cui Penelope-Molly pronuncia il celebre soliloquio conclusivo.
Come nelle precedenti edizioni, nella lettura si alterneranno studenti, scrittori, attori, lettori, studiosi, appassionati, esibizionisti….
Ulisse di James Joyce
traduzione di Giulio De Angelis (Mondadori)
Per dettagli e aggiornamenti vedi http://www.festivalpoesia.org/
Si ringraziano per la collaborzione e ospitalità i responsabili dei luoghi che ospitano il Bloomsday
a cura di:
Massimo Bacigalupo e Claudio Pozzani
Con il patrocinio di
Università di Genova - Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Associazione Piazza dei Ragazzi
The James Joyce Italian Foundation
Satura Associazione Culturale
Società "Vivere Santa Brigida"
Associazione Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino
Con il patrocinio di
Università di Genova - Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Associazione Piazza dei Ragazzi
The James Joyce Italian Foundation
Satura Associazione Culturale
Società "Vivere Santa Brigida"
Associazione Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino
Assistenza tecnica:
Gabriele Ferracci, Andrea Berardini
Gabriele Ferracci, Andrea Berardini
June 14, 2009
Roma, 18 giugno, La camera verde: il felix di Carlo Bordini
Roma, giovedì 18 giugno 2009, alle ore 20:00
presso il centro culturale La camera verde
(via G. Miani 20, quartiere Ostiense)
presentazione del libro di Carlo Bordini
I DIRITTI INUMANI
ed altre storie
collana felix a cura di Marco Giovenale
June 13, 2009
Protracted Type
PROTRACTED TYPE, by Nico Vassilakis, is a collection of visual poetry.
it’s b&w VisPo peppered with text . about 270 pages.
reviewers or the financially demur or the merely curious can find a free download.
blurbs?
In Protracted Type, Nico Vassilakis provides us with a stunning and extensive survey of the impressive variety of his visual and conceptual work with language over the past several years. The book is punctuated with thoughtful statements about the nature of creating that work, of “finding your aleatoric self among the pencils”; i.e., coming to grips with the paradox of working subconsciously with language which is generally experienced as a conscious medium. In one of his statements he describes his creative process as a kind of disassociation: “I let my brain do the thinking. I watch it think for me…it makes the associations…maybe my brain thinks I’m staring and is piecing the puzzle together for me.” This is an excellent description of the creative process at its best.
Vassilakis has explored the possibilities of visual poetry from the outer limits of the purely letteral to the purely graphic, and the results are consistently stimulating and resonant: from enlarged and manipulated photos of typewriter keys and printed letters, to collaged cut-ups, to glyphic drawings, to concrete poetry, to photocopier artifacts, Vassilakis has given us a tour-de-force of styles and approaches. This is an essential work, and would be a bargain at three times the price.
John M. Bennett
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the formula states, “a picture equals a thousand words.” what, then, is the formula when the image is itself language? and, that the language ranges from its initial formation slowly congealing afloat in the willful stage of conscious intent to its full and robust compositional form as a typographic-scape on a page?
to approach this collection, think first of a landscape artist’s precise use of topographic perspective at the marco level and the same artist as a still life painter at the micro level rendering the sensual curve of an apple in a tree within the macro-scape. then, transfer your trained eye and esthetic process onto and into vassilakis’ typographic-scapes and typographic-stills to wander with delight and wonder within one of the most comprehensive, serious and playful overviews and inner views of type and font with accents by hand to date.
Karl Kempton
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A tour de force through visual poetry, Protracted Type is a place where, according to the author, "letters are vulnerable and cant always stand on their own." Within, our thoughts become interlaced with Vassilakis’s perception of visual poetry from minimal to maximal with letters ranging from typewriter and digital through handwritten, shorthand, and altered text, text sometimes so overlayed as to become asemic. This is a thoroughly enjoyable and beautiful book.
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Kathy Ernst
It’s drizzling on Admiral Way. Cigarette smoke trailing through his black hair, the Captain stands stock-still at the window, his sea legs steady, framed by the world he’s framing. He sees this series of black and white visual poems–and these poems are seen, composed, more than they are written–particulates, letters, phrases, fields of words before and after they construct their meaning, some sharp, some fuzzy, some slipping over the edge. At the center point of the glass, where inside and outside are indivisible, these poems fuse, the Captain’s eyes seizing–seized by–the world he perceives. At the very instant of our dissembling, he nods, our language comes together.
Crag Hill
June 11, 2009
June 9, 2009
RUNBOOK: download the May issue
RUNBOOK////// mai /téléchargeable////// may /downloadable
Le mois de mai est téléchargeable :
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PARTICIPANTS // PARTICIPANTS
Takahiro Morotomi / Lynne Tillman / Jane Wodening / Patrick Rimond / Giulio Marzaioli / Gérard Haller / Alessandro De Francesco / Fabrice Pichat / Carol Müller / Sarah Venturi / Anonyme / Marc Johnson / Sophie Coiffier / Emmanuel Adely / Miguel-Angel Molina / Franck Fontaine / Fréderic Dumond / Wilfrid Rouff / Stefano Buda / Samuel Paugam / David Burty / Hélène Majera /
June 8, 2009
konkretourist: net-label for field recordings
http://konkretourist.de/ is a net-label which releases Creative Commons licensed audio.
the releases range from raw, unedited field recordings to processed compositions à la musique concrète.
birdsong, a walk through Paris-plage, remixes of Köln street sounds, & so on.
June 7, 2009
Lo specchio: un convegno a Salerno
Dipartimento di Scienze della Comunicazione
Università degli Studi di Salerno
SPECCHIO, SPECCHIO DELLE MIE BRAME
Secondo congresso interdisciplinare del
Centro Studi delle Rappresentazioni Linguistiche dell’Ateneo di Salerno
17-20 giugno 2009
Aula Multimediale Dipartimento Scienze della Comunicazione, Università di Salerno
Hotel-Convento San Michele, via Bastioni 8, Salerno
PROGRAMMA
(more…)June 3, 2009
June 2, 2009
May 30, 2009
Conceptualism and Craft _ with K. Silem Mohammad
Conceptualism and Craft _ with K. Silem Mohammad
Workshop
by Small Press Traffic
July 6-9, 2009 6:00pm - 9:00pm
California College of the Arts 1111 8th Street San Francisco, CA
email: smallpresstraffic [at] gmail [dot] com
$125 fee ($100 for students and SPT members)
This four-day workshop will begin by examining and rehearsing various techniques central to Conceptualist poetics, broadly considered so as to encompass appropriation, transcription, and other versions of what Kenneth Goldsmith has called “uncreative writing,” as well as the deliberately awkward and expressively debased gestures associated with Flarf. We will then look at these techniques in relation to older and more traditional notions of craft: can there be coherent criteria for craft-based evaluation of texts written using blankly conceptual or intentionally “bad” methods? Do any of the familiar aesthetic categories still apply, and if so, how?
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K. Silem Mohammad is the author of three books of poetry: Breathalyzer (Edge Books, 2008), A Thousand Devils (Combo Books, 2004), and Deer Head Nation (Tougher Disguises, 2003). His work has been featured in numerous journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 2004, Bay Poetics, and A Best of Fence, as well as the forthcoming Flarf: An Anthology of Flarf, which he is co-editing with Sharon Mesmer, Nada Gordon, and Gary Sullivan. With Anne Boyer, he edits the poetry magazine "Abraham Lincoln". He is Associate Professor of English and Writing at Southern Oregon University in Ashland.
May 27, 2009
May 28-29: in Chicago
Thursday, May 28, 5:30pm
Bilingual Reading with Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
Translator: Jennifer Scappettone
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Room: Rosenwald 405
FREE
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Friday, May 29, 1pm
Poesia Ultima: A Symposium on Contemporary Italian Poetry and Translation
Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone & Raffaello Palumbo
1:15-2:30 Roundtable on translation with Lisa Barca, Jacob Blakesley, Ryan Gogol, Eirik Steinhoff, and Joshua Adams
2:45-4 Roundtable on contemporary Italian poetry and poetics with Maria Attanasio, Milli Graffi, Marco Giovenale, and Giovanna Frene
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Room: Classics 110
FREE
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Friday, May 29, 7:30pm
Bilingual reading and discussion/salon featuring Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene,
Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone, Francesco Levato (Poetry Center) & Chris Glomski (UIC)
Th!nkArt
1530 N. Paulina, Suite F.
Chicago, IL
FREE
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May 26, 2009
Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale and Milli Graffi : in NY
Presenting Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
In conjunction with Aufgabe #7 and featuring Italy’s foremost experimental and emerging writers–poets, but also critics and translators–the following reading and panel discussion will bring an array of new poetic voices to US readers to reveal points of confluence and conflict within Italian and global poetries.
Curated by Aufgabe #7 guest editor Jennifer Scappettone and co-sponsored by Litmus Press, Poets House, the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, University of Chicago Arts Council and Departments of Romance Languages and Creative Writing, Northwestern University Department of French and Italian, Chicago Poetry Center, and Th!nkArt Gallery.
Tuesday, May 26, 6 pm
Panel discussion & short readings with Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
Moderators: Jennifer Scappettone & Carla Billitteri
Italian Cultural Institute of New York <http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/IIC_Newyork>
686 Park Avenue (bet. 68th and 69th Streets)
NYC
FREE
Wednesday, May 27, 8 pm
Bilingual Reading with Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
Translators: Jennifer Scappettone & Carla Billitteri
St. Mark’s Poetry Project <http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/readings?ec3_after=today>
131 E. 10th Street
New York City
$8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for Poetry Project members, free to Poets House members and sustaining Poetry Project members
Visit our website for complete event information: http://litmuspress.org/pages/italyfest09.html
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Litmus Press/Aufgabe
PO Box 25526
Brooklyn, NY 11202-5526
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But the strange thing about the realization of existence is that like a train moving there is no real realization of it moving unless it moves against something.
– Gertrude Stein, Portraits & Repetitions
May 25, 2009
Synapsis - European School for Comparative Studies 2009 - Shadows
Synapsis - European School for Comparative Studies 2009 - Shadows
(Bertinoro, Forli’, 6-13 September 2009)
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
Students and scholars in Comparative Literature are invited to participate in the 2009 edition of Synapsis, European School for Comparative Studies, jointly sponsored by the Universities of Bologna and Siena. As in other years, the activities will take the form of a week-long residential course, that will be held at the Castello di Bertinoro (Forlì), from Sunday, September 6th to Sunday, September 13th. This year’s topic is "Shadows".
Lectures by
Silvia Albertazzi, Matteo Baraldi, Helena Buescu, Remo Ceserani, Simona Corso, Massimo Fusillo, Orsetta Innocenti, Anna Masecchia, Simona Micali, Christopher Prendergast, Giorgio Pressburger, Victor Stoichita, Emilio Varrà, Marina Warner, Paolo Zanotti
Seminars by
Ferdinando Amigoni, Federico Bertoni, Ian Christie, Marco Formisano, Giulio Iacoli, Donata Meneghelli, Florian Mussgnug, Helmut Pfeiffer, Gian Piero Piretto, Héliane Ventura
Theatre Workshop Directed by
Laura Caretti
Deadline for Applications: June 10th 2009
Please circulate the news among the graduate students who might be
interested.
For further information and application form please visit the web-site:
www.unisi.it/synapsis
or write to: synapsis2009 [at] gmail [dot] com
Cari Amici e colleghi, sono aperte le iscrizioni per Synapsis 2009, che si
terrà a Bertinoro dal 6 al 13 Settembre sul tema "Ombre/Shadows".
Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 10 giugno 2009.
terrà a Bertinoro dal 6 al 13 Settembre sul tema "Ombre/Shadows".
Le iscrizioni sono aperte fino al 10 giugno 2009.
Per maggiori informazioni: www.unisi.it/synapsis
email: synapsis2009 [at] gmail [dot] com
Lezioni del mattino a cura di
Silvia Albertazzi, Matteo Baraldi, Helena Buescu, Remo Ceserani, Simona Corso, Massimo Fusillo, Orsetta Innocenti, Anna Masecchia, Simona Micali, Christopher Prendergast, Giorgio Pressburger, Victor Stoichita, Emilio Varrà, Marina Warner, Paolo Zanotti
Seminari pomeridiani a cura di
Ferdinando Amigoni, Federico Bertoni, Ian Christie, Marco Formisano, Giulio Iacoli, Donata Meneghelli, Florian Mussgnug, Helmut Pfeiffer, Gian Piero Piretto, Héliane
Ventura
Laboratorio teatrale
Diretto da Laura Caretti
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May 24, 2009
27 maggio, Roma: “Suburra”, di Giulio Marzaioli
27 maggio 2009 - ore 19:30
presso
Tuma’s Book Bar
Roma, Via dei Sabelli, 17
Giancarlo Alfano e Lucio Saviani
introducono
Suburra
di Giulio Marzaioli
Giulio Perrone Editore
collana inNumeri diretta da G. Alfano
sarà presente l’autore
nel corso della serata proiezione del video Suburra
[ dalla bandella: “Uno dopo l’altro, strascicando i passi lungo la linea che unisce un luogo (una casa) al limite del pericolo. Uno via dall’altro, stillando i versicoli giù per la verticale che dal piede precipita nell’ossido. Con Suburra Giulio Marzaioli presenta al lettore un’opera sonnambolica, esposta al rischio della vertigine: si attraversa un antico quartiere di Roma, e al tempo stesso si ripercorre una storia personale, presente solo per accenni, per accenti. Vita del tempo e tempo del soggetto: lunga durata dello spazio urbano e durata istantanea dell’esperienza, di cui l’individuo può diventare preda indifesa. È nello specchio della ruggine che si scioglie il senso di questo incrocio tra i tempi, come rivelano le fulminee sequenze di apertura e chiusura: tra «il piede | che batte | nel sonno» e quell’«ossido » che «è aria | che resta | e dice | di sé | che esiste». Alla verticale aerea di Suburra segue l’orizzontalità ctonia di Ipogei. Alla superficie si contrappone la profondità, ai versi il testo detto in prosa, alla singolarità di una voce che si trova còlta innanzi alla propria storia risponde la pluralità di una vicenda condivisa ma vuota: una sola moltitudine che ricicla il proprio parlato, impastandosi nei cliché del quotidiano, di una comunicazione spenta, che pure ci lascia, ancora una volta, presi sopra al bordo, nell’attimo, lì dove, ancora una volta, ci dimostriamo incapaci di decidere” ]
Giulio Marzaioli (Firenze, 1972) ha pubblicato diverse sillogi di poesia, tra le quali In re ipsa, Anterem Edizioni, e Trittici, Edizioni d’if, e la raccolta di prose Quadranti, Oedipus Editore. Ha inoltre scritto testi per il teatro, raccolti nel volume Appunti del non vero, Editrice Zona. Collabora con il Centro Culturale La Camera Verde, per le cui edizioni ha pubblicato varie opere in dialogo con la fotografia. Suoi testi sono pubblicati presso riviste e opere collettive e sono tradotti in Francia, Stati Uniti, Germania, Spagna e Svezia.
Giulio Perrone Editore
www.giulioperroneditore.it
06.99709480
Tuma’s Book Bar
www.tumasbookbar.com
06.44704059
May 23, 2009
New : INTERNATIONAL FLUXHIBITION #3 : call for participation
Call for Works
FLUXHIBITION #3
JULY, 2009
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| Fluxhibition #3 - Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers |
Dear Cecil,
Fluxhibition #2 was a great success thanks to all of the great contributions see the catalog at: http://fluxmuseum.org/
I had planned on Fluxhibition #3 being in 2010 HOWEVER a venue become available for this summer. There is a current Collage Museum call out for an exhibition entitled Thinking Inside of the Box - A Survey of Box Assemblage Art see: (http://collagemuseum.com/thinking-box-call-for-works.html) Deadline May 15th ( PARTICIPATE IN THIS ONE TOO!).
I thought that, since I was able to secure the university venue, it would be great to invite my fluxfriends to contribute a fluxbox for Fluxhibition #3 and later I will combine the two bodies of box works for an additional exhibit later in 2009 or in 2010. So your Fluxbox contribution will get at least double exposure.
SPREAD THE WORD
Cecil Touchon
http://fluxmuseum.org
http://fluxmuseum.org
http://collagemuseum.com
http://fluxuslaboratories.org
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
INTERNATIONAL FLUXHIBITION #3 - Fluxus Boxes, Cases, Kits and Containers by Contemporary Fluxus Artists
Call for Works - Deadline: June 30th, 2009 (sooner if possible) No Jury, all works accepted.
Fluxhibition #3 will consist of Fluxus Boxes, Kits, Cases and Containers and/or Fluxus Objects (to be placed in containers or boxes by the museum staff for the exhibit). An exhibition will be held in July at The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas. Works contributed will become part of the permanent collection of the FluxMuseum (fluxmuseum.org) and will be used for additional future exhibitions. A catalog will be produced for the show and available for purchase after the exhibit. Additionally, images of all works will become a permanent exhibit on the FluxMuseum web site.
What to do:
1) Create a Fluxus box, case, kit or container - use classic themes or come up with something new.
2) Send Fluxboxes, Fluxcases, Fluxcontainers and/or Fluxobjects by June 30th, 2009
3) Come to the show if you can
4) if so inclined, write or contribute a related essay for the catalog
5) When available, buy a catalog of the show.
FluxMuseum
6955 Pinon Street
Fort Worth, Texas 76116
USA
817-944-4000
http://fluxmuseum.org
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May 21, 2009
Embargoed Voices: Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now: New York and Chicago, May 26-29
Aufgabe # 7 | Table of Contents | Embargoed Voices: Poesia Ultima / Italian Poetry Now
Presenting Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
In conjunction with Aufgabe # 7
Curated by guest editor Jennifer Scappettone and co-sponsored by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Litmus Press, Poets House, St. Mark’s Poetry Project, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Chicago Poetry Center, ThinkArt Gallery, Chicago Arts Council, with promotional support from Columbia University, NYU, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Schedule of Events
Tuesday, May 26, 6 pm
Maria Attanasio, Carla Billitteri, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale, Milli Graffi & Jennifer Scappettone
Featuring the best of Italy’s experimental and emergent poets, this panel discussion and reading will bring a diverse array of new poetic voices to U.S. readers. These poets are also respected critics, and their discussion promises to reveal intriguing points of conflict and confluence within Italian poetics and beyond.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York
686 Park Avenue (bet. 68th and 69th Streets)
NYC
FREE
Wednesday, May 27, 8 pm
Readings by Maria Attanasio, Giovanna Frene, Marco Giovenale & Milli Graffi
St. Mark’s Poetry Project
131 E. 10th Street
New York City
$8, $7 for students and seniors, $5 for Poetry Project members, free to Poets House members and sustaining Poetry Project members
Thursday, May 28, evening
Poesia Ultima: a bilingual reading
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Time and Room TBA
Friday, May 29, afternoon
Poesia Ultima: a symposium
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Time and Room TBA
Friday, May 29, 7:30pm
Reading & Reception
Th!nk Arts
1530 N. Paulina, Suite F.
Chicago, IL
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May 20, 2009
the RUNBOOK project: download the April issue
RUNBOOK////// avril/téléchargeable////// april/downloadable
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PARTICIPANTS // PARTICIPANTS
Thierry Mouillé / Joël Baqué / Julien Nédélec / Katia Feltrin / Gilgian Gelzer / Sachiho Kondo / Vanessa Dziuba / Jon Cotner and Andy Fitch / Anonyme / documentation céline duval / Ulice Deborne / Elisabeth Jacquet / Aldo Caredda / Dennis Tedlock / Patrick Barron / Edouard Baribeaud / Gherardo Bortolotti / Hyun-ji Lee / Catherine Rechard / Pierre Escot / Jean-Philippe Bretin /
http://despaysages.fr/runbook.html
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May 19, 2009
FLUXUS NOW !
mail art and fluxus have been closely connected for over 40 years. as a celebration and exploration of the continuing vitality of both practices we are planning a mail art exhibit entitled FLUXUS NOW!
please send visual poems, soundworks, fluxus boxes, event scores, objects, images, books, booklets, TLPs, broadsides, manifestos, videos, and any other fluxus materials you find and/or create. critiques of this proposal are also welcome and will be included in the exhibit.
the exhibit will be presented as a part of the 2010 roanoke marginal arts festival.
dates for the festival are february 11 - 16, 2010.
the deadline for submissions is february 1, 2010.
Size/Medium/Technique: Free
No jury. No fees. No returns.
Documentation: on Flickr, the blog zine textimagepoem, and as a pdf of the blog zine (please include your email address for notification of documentation)
all work will become part of the textimagepoem archive of mail art and visual poetry.
send mail to
jim leftwich
525 10th st s.w.
roanoke, va 24016
usa
or
jimleftwich [at] gmail [dot] com
please disseminate
j.l.
j.l.
May 18, 2009
OGGI: Paul Vangelisti a Roma
Roma, lunedì 18 maggio 2009, ore 20:00
presso la Libreria Empirìa
in via Baccina 79 (rione Monti):
Presentazione del libro
di Paul Vangelisti
La vita semplice
(A Simple Life)
Emilio Mazzoli Editore, 2009
Traduzione di Brunella Antomarini.
Con una copertina di Enzo Cucchi.
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Interventi critici di
Brunella Antomarini, Marco Giovenale, Valentino Zeichen
Sarà presente l’autore
Paul Vangelisti è autore di circa venti libri di poesia, e attivo traduttore dall’italiano. La sua raccolta più recente, Days Shadows Pass, è uscita nel 2007 per Green Integer. Tra i premi e riconoscimenti ottenuti c’è il National Endowment for the Arts Translation (1981), "Poetry" fellowships (1988); il Premio Flaiano in Italia e — negli USA — il Pen Prize per la traduzione (2006).
Tra 1971 e 1982 è stato co-redattore, con John McBride, della rivista letteraria "Invisible City" e, nel 1993-2002, della pubblicazione annuale del College of Neglected Science. E’ il fondatore e direttore del Graduate Writing program dell’Otis College of Art and Design. Dirige inoltre la rivista semestrale di letteratura "OR" (progetto legato al writing program).
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Empirìa, via Baccina 79 - tel. 0669940850 - email: info [at] empiria [dot] com
May 17, 2009
May 16, 2009
Six differences: in “OR” #2
In issue #2 of the literary tabloid "OR", I edited a series of six Italian poets.
Read texts from Alessandro De Francesco, Andrea Inglese, Giulio Marzaioli, Renata Morresi, Lidia Riviello, Michele Zaffarano.
(Thanks to the precious work of the translators Noura Wedell, Laura Solomon, Kim Sambati.)
Click here to see the first lines of my intro.
