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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Visual [f]luxus poetry -Intermedia- fürs ZKM Karlsruhe

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Battle for Libya

6 March 2011 Last updated at 04:23 GMT
Battle for Libya: Gaddafi troops engage Zawiya rebels
Col Gaddafi's heavy armour is poised outside the town of Zawiya
* Eyewitness: Tripoli in fear
* Global diplomacy

Fierce fighting has rocked Libya's Zawiya, 50km (30 miles) west of Tripoli, as rebels repelled government efforts to retake the key city.

Pro-government forces were pushed out of the city centre in heavy fighting on Saturday morning, but regrouped for a fresh assault.

Early on Sunday, heavy gunfire was heard in the capital.

Rebels fighting Col Muammar Gaddafi have taken control of the port of Ras Lanuf to the east of Tripoli.

The rebels have pushed further west towards Sirte, Col Gaddafi's heavily guarded hometown, and captured the town of Bin Jawad, 160km (100 miles) from Sirte.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12654670
-visual poem by Litsa Spathi

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Happy Birthday Poetry

Happy Birthday Visual Poetry by Litsa Spathi

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A new book of visual poetry by Litsa Spathi

LITSA SPATHI (GERMANY)
"Oxid"
2009, 40 pages, 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK Sterling

A new book of visual poetry by Litsa Spathi from the Fluxus Heidelberg Center,
the 27th in our collection "C'est mon dada"
http://www.redfoxpress.com/dada-spathi.html
order by email at info@redfoxpress.com

Since this month the complete collection is also available at MoMa, New York and ICA, London

The name of the collection "c'est mon dada" is a french saying
meaning it's my favourite thing, it's my hobby.
Dada in french children language means horse.
That's apparently where the dadaists got their name from.

This book collection is available in following bookshops
>> Printed Matter, New York
>> MoMa, New York
>> Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
>> ICA, London
>> Bookartbookshop, London
>> Regard Moderne, Paris
>> Librairie le Lievre de Mars, Marseille
>> Kenny's Bookshop - US export, Galway
>> Gibbon's Bookshop, Westport
>> On Sundays, Tokyo
>> Post poetics, Seoul

REDFOXPRESS
Francis Van Maele
Dugort, Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland

Sunday, June 22, 2008

New Trilogy by Litsa Spathi

Litsa Spathi published a new set of three books today. The complete set is part of the Performance with title "Balla Balla". The performance itself resulted in a collection of visual poetry that is published as part of the performance.

The books are available for others as well at the link: http://stores.lulu.com/fluxusheidelberg.

A colour-version is to be published as well.

Sunday, June 1, 2008

Help Needed

I need some help with definitions from you. I call the above a Fluxus Poem or Visual Poem.

Someone told me though that it is Mail-Art. The question is simple: "What would YOU call this?". Please leave a comment and an explenation.

Conceptual Poetics

An Editorial Pause by Kenneth Goldsmith

On a recent radio interview, Language poet Bruce Andrews talked about how, back in the early 70s, using a paper cutter radically changed his work, breaking up his writing into a modular process. It was the correct response for the time. Today, we have immense information moving capabilities at our fingertips and new movements like Conceptual Writing or Flarf are the correct responses for our time. If writing is not taking these new conditions into its poetics, it simply cannot be considered contemporary. If nothing else, what the Conceptual Poetry and Its Others conference did was codify this tendency for the record.

The other significant notion that emerged from the conference was that conceptual poetics is a many-headed monster, showing itself wildly adaptable to a wide variety of interests and agendas, the baseline of the practices being floated by technology. In a sense, what the conference did was to bring the field of poetics up to date and in line with other art forms and long-established cultural trends.

Words like "sampling," "appropriation," "cut-and-paste," "mixing" and "remixing" were in constant use as were frequent references to technology, globalization and multi-lingualism. The papers and discussions were very much focused on the concept of poetry off the page, bleeding into galleries, performances, sound installation, on the airwaves, interventionist strategies, websites and blogs, all of these not being the traditional spaces where poetry happens. Yet all the poets got up and "read," and all have published numerous books. Conceptual poetry is a poetry that, in fact, knows no bounds; in this, its wildly contemporary. As respondent Brian Reed put it, "Genres don't evolve, they get more confused over time." Reed claimed that the poet is now a post-production studio, enabling new notions of collaboration fueled by distributed agencies and sites of production.

During one of the discussions, an audience member queried one of the panelists on the use of the term "avant-garde," a term that the audience member claimed was retrograde. The respondents countered this claim by saying that perhaps a reclamation of the avant-garde was possible as the interdisciplinary spaces reintroduced by technology made it possible for poetry to inhabit them comfortably; where poetry meets technology, its hard to keep poetry in its box as only "poetry" and only "poetry."

Notions of what constitutes subjectivity were discussed. Following my theory of "unboring boring," Marie Smart introduced the idea of "unsubjective subjectivity," as a reversal of the creative process. Rather than perceive this as a negation, Smart suggested that we think of this as a "canned subjectivity." In conceptual writing, choices are made by the writer, denying its machine-like tendencies, suggesting instead a non-robotic unsubjective subjectivity. Most everyone agreed that subjectivity is impossible to erase in this writing. Similarly, Jesper Olsson of Sweden's OEI magazine introduced the idea of an "editorial poetics," claiming that the actions of massive tendencies these days toward archiving could, in itself be construed as a poetic act. Translation and multi-lingualism were frequently discussed topics. Several of the respondents claimed that the act of translation and moving between languages could be construed as a forms and methods of conceptual writing. Both Charles Alexander and Jonathan Stalling cited procedural and conceptual ancient Chinese poetry as antecedents to current conceptual practices.
Laynie Brown had audience members read the results of her survey asking dozens of women what they thought conceptual poetry was. The results were varied and claimed up a heretofore absent space for a feminist conceptual poetics. Vanessa Place, in her respondent paper, read such a text -- conceptual, procedural and bodily -- instructions on how to insert a tampon. Place and Rob Fitterman both proposed that a genre of post-conceptual poetics was already in place, allowing for more explicit political agendas as well as an opening up conceptual poetics to an absorption of more conventional formal and subjective tropes.

Throughout the weekend, hundreds of audience members, panelists and respondents were in accord as to the general principles of conceptual poetics. Only one respondent, Graca Capinha, expressed contempt for the genre, claiming that words shouldn't be made into "objects" or "commodities" for a hungry market, something she felt was swiftly happening. She lamented the fact that these writers have not made active political change as poets in Portugal (her country) did during the dictatorship where they were instrumental in change. She refuted the idea of an "unsubjective subjectivity," suggesting that by abandoning subjectivity, poetry was in danger of losing its function.

The last notes of the conference were sounded by various audience members who suggested that conceptual poetics is a contemporary way of writing that can be adopted almost any variant. Christian Bök seconded that notion by saying that the genre has evolved from something invented by three guys drinking beer in a bar in Buffalo a decade ago to widespread way of writing poetry today, reiterating that conceptual poetics is, in fact, the right poetry for the right time.

Source:Conceptual Poetics: An Editorial Pause by Kenneth GoldsmithPoetry Foundation - Harriet: a blog from the Poetry Foundation

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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Visual [f]luxus poetry -Intermedia- fürs ZKM Karlsruhe

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Battle for Libya

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Happy Birthday Poetry

Saturday, March 14, 2009

A new book of visual poetry by Litsa Spathi

Sunday, June 22, 2008

New Trilogy by Litsa Spathi

Sunday, June 1, 2008

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