July 31, 2022: THIRTEEN MILLION PILLARS OF GRASS: THE TENNIS COURT OATH AT 60 & JOHN ASHBERY AT 95

 

From The Flow Chart Foundation:

Call for Presentations

On the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ashbery’s The Tennis Court Oath, and what would have been Ashbery’s 95 birthday, The Flow Chart Foundation will be hosting an inaugural Gathering at its Ashbery Resource Center and Flow Chart Space (348 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534—see below for more information about Hudson). We will take a new look at The Tennis Court Oath, and at how Ashbery at 95 continues to inspire, confound, and entrance. How might Ashbery’s work continue to be relevant and inspirational in this moment and beyond?

The Gathering will take place on Sunday, July 31, 2022, pandemic-permitting, following The Flow Chart Foundation’s annual “Night of Neo-Benshi (click to see last year’s event) at Hudson Hall opera house, located across the street and taking place the evening of July 30th.

We invite poets, writers, scholars, artists, performers, and readers to submit proposals for presentations of any kind about, in response to, or in dialogue with The Tennis Court Oath and/or Ashbery’s work now and going forward. One may propose presentations for either or both. These may include papers, performances, readings, or showings, and should be conceived to be approximately five – ten minutes in length.

Submit proposals HERE.

DEADLINE: April 15, 2022 (all will be notified by May 15th)

2018.10.19 Tracie Morris & Abigail Lang, festival Littérature, Puissance, etc., Lille

MORRIS LILLE 1

Tracie Morris sera à Lille le vendredi 19 octobre avec sa traductrice Abigail Lang, pour lire des extraits de Hard Korè, poèmes / Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, livre traduit par Vincent Broqua et Abigail Lang, avec une postface de Majorie Perloff, publié dans la collection américaine des éditions joca seria. Lecture-performance à 20h30 à l’église Marie-Madeleine, 27 rue du Pont Neuf, Lille.

Dans le cadre du festival Littérature, Puissance, etc, et en partenariat avec le festival D’Un Pays l’Autre organisé par La Contre Allée

MORRIS LILLE 2

2018.9.5 “Sound off the page”: Tracie Morris, Vincent Broqua, Abigail Lang, Centre Pompidou

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La poète Tracie Morris fera une lecture-performance avec ses traducteurs Vincent Broqua et Abigail Lang

le mercredi 5 septembre 2018, à 19h30

Forum -1 – Centre Pompidou, Paris

Entrée libre

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/cpv/resource/cbEoxKB/rqEoMoM

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Son livre, Hard Korè, poèmes / Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, traduit par Vincent Broqua et Abigail Lang, avec une postface de Marjorie Perloff, a été publié fin 2017 dans la collection américaine des éditions joca seria.

2018.7.13-17 Festival Ecrivains en bord de mer, La Baule

2018.7 Ecrivains en bord de mer

In July 2018, the Literary festival of La Baule welcomes Tracie Morris, on the occasion of the 2017 publication of Hard Korè, poèmes / Per-Form: Poems of Mythos and Place, translated by Vincent Broqua and Abigail Lang, with an afterword by Marjorie Perloff, joca seria.

Poet and Translator Nicolas Pesquès will also talk about his translation of a selection of poems by Ann Lauterbach, published under the title Alice en terre vaine et autres poèmes (translated by Maïtreyi and Nicolas Pesquès, joca seria, 2018).  

The presence of the poets is made possible by a collaboration between the festival Ecrivains en bord de mer, the collective double change and the Poetry Foundation.

Details can be found at : http://ecrivainsenborddemer.fr/

31.5.18 Seminar with Marjorie WELISH, followed by a reading with Marcel COHEN and Marjorie WELISH, atelier Michael Woolworth, Paris

Welish so whatThe research seminar “Textualités Numériques et Contemporaines” (Paris 8), the research project “Poets and Critics” (IUF/ Paris 8/ UPEM / Paris Diderot), Double Change and Michael Woolworth invite you to a seminar with Marjorie Welish (May 31 5:30-7:30) and a reading with Marcel Cohen and Marjorie Welish (May 31, 7:30) at Atelier Michael Woolworth:

« Thinking criticism: textuality, words and images”
A discussion and seminar with Marjorie Welish, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm

When on a Fulbright to the Edinburgh College of Art to lecture on the situated nature of art criticism, Marjorie Welish toured the Inverleith House, she said to its director Paul Nesbitt: ‘I could diagram this.’  What she meant and he understood did come about in some form. She proposed to create art to capture the changing function from 18th-century residence to 20th-century project space for art. PUSH BAR TO OPEN is the short video component of this project.
Our discussion will be based on a video of hers PUSH BAR TO OPEN, in which text and image are simultaneously questioned in relation to the history of an art space and an art exhibition. We will approach the topics of how to rethink criticism in relation to textuality. If everything has become textual how to think criticism and pedagogy? How do the word and image modalities affect textuality in our contemporary moment? And how do we talk about the assumption that signage activates space? In the same way, does language activate anything at all?
(contact : vincent.broqua@univ-paris8.fr)

The seminar will be followed by a reading with

Marcel Cohen
and
Marjorie Welish

Both events are open to the public. The seminar is conducted in English, the reading will be bilingual.

Address:
Atelier Michael Woolworth
2 rue de la Roquette
Passage du Cheval Blanc
Cour Février

75011 Paris France
M° Bastille

Biographies :
Artist /critic / poet  Marjorie Welish received her first solo show thanks to Laurie Anderson, then curator of the Whitney Museum Art Resources Center; she has exhibited most recently in New York, Paris, Vienna, and Cambridge, England. She received many grants and fellowships, including: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, The Fifth Floor Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding (supporting an exchange between the International Studio Program, New York and the Artists’ Museum, Łódź, Poland).  In 2006, she received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship to teach at the University of Frankfurt, where she also worked on a limited-edition constructed art book, Oaths? Questions?  in collaboration with James Siena, published by Granary Books in 2009 (in the collections of the Beinecke Library at Yale, Columbia University, Getty, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art); in 2010 with a Fulbright, she was at Edinburgh College of Art. In 2015 she was nominated for the award Anonymous Was a Woman. Writing on her work may be found in Of the Diagram: The Work of Marjorie Welish (Slought Foundation, 2003) compiles papers given at a conference on April 5, 2002, at the University of Pennsylvania: https://slought.org/resources/store#of_the_diagram_the_work_of_marjorie_welish   Welish’s book of art criticism is Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960 (Cambridge University Press, 1999). More information on Welish may be found at http://marjoriewelish.com/Home.html. Her poetry books include: Isle of the Signatories (2008), In the Futurity Lounge / Asylum for Indeterminacy (2012), and So What So That (2016).

Marcel Cohen
Often regarded as a prose writer by poets and as a poet by fiction writers, Marcel Cohen is the author of nine books of short texts with no mention of their genre. They were published by Éditions Gallimard. Over the last few years, Marcel Cohen published a trilogy: Faits, Lecture courante à l’usage des grands débutants (2002), Faits, II (2007), Faits, III, Suite et fin (2010), as a manifesto against any form of fiction.
In Sur la scène intérieure (2013), he gathered the rare recollections he has from his family, who was deported during the war. It was published by J.-B. Pontalis in his series « L’un et l’autre ». Le Grand-paon-de nuit, followed by Murs, and Métro gather extremely short texts published previously by Gallimard and other publishers.
In 2017, he published Détails (Gallimard) and Autoportrait en lecteur (Eric Pesty), which is entirely made of quotations.
His books were translated into eight languages and, among others, in the USA by Cid Corman (The Peacock Emperor Moth, Burning Deck), as well as by Jason Weiss (Mirrors, Green Integer), and by Brian Evenson and Joanna Howard (Walls, Black Square Editions). He was also translated by Raphael Rubinstein (In Search of Lost Ladino), published by Editions Ibis in Jerusalem in a biligual version.
Marcel Cohen also published a book of interviews with Edmond Jabès, translated by Pierre Joris as From the Desert to the Book (published by Station Hill Press in the USA).
In 2013-2014, he was awarded the Wepler-Fondation La Poste prize, the Jean Arp prize, the Roger Caillois Prize, the Bernheim prize awarded by the Fondation du Judaïsme Français, and the Eve Delacroix prize awarded by the Académie Française.

15 March 2018 Allen Fisher lecture on “Decoherence Aesthetics” / Poetry reading with Allen Fisher and Jean-Charles Depaule

978-0-8173-5872-3-frontcoverThe University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture, l’Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée and the association double change welcome you to join us for a conference by Allen Fisher, ‘Decoherence Aesthetics’, from 18:30-19:30, followed by readings from Allen Fisher and Jean-Charles Depaule from 19:45.

This evening has been organised as part of the University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture’s Thursday lecture series, in conjunction with the group Poets & Critics and with the support of l’Institut Universitaire de France.

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The University of Kent Paris School of Arts and Culture, l’Université Paris Est Marne-la-Vallée et l’association double change vous invitent,

le jeudi 15 mars 2018, à

une conférence d’Allen Fisher, « Decoherence Aesthetics », 18h30-19h30

suivie d’une lecture d’Allen Fisher et de Jean-Charles Depaule, à 19h45

Entrée libre

Reid Hall,
Grande salle
4, rue de Chevreuse
75006 Paris

Soirée organisée dans le cadre de la série de lectures et conférences de l’Université de Kent à Paris (University of Kent – Paris School of Arts and Culture Thursday Lecture Series), et des travaux du groupe Poets & Critics, avec le soutien de l’Institut Universitaire de France.

Allen Fisher

9781874400721Born in London in 1944, Fisher is a poet, painter, publisher, teacher and performer. He has exhibited widely and has work in the Tate collection, King’s College Archive, Living Museum Iceland, and Hereford Museum. He participated as poet, performer and installation artist with the English Fluxus group in the 1970s. He started professional work as a painter in 1978. After twenty years in lead and plastics industries he started teaching art, art history and poetry at Goldsmiths’ College in the eighties. He started work at Herefordshire College of Art & Design in 1989 and in 1998 became Head of Art at Roehampton University. In 2002 he was appointed as Professor of Poetry & Art and in 2005 became Head of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is Emeritus Professor of Poetry and Art. Last year saw a reprint of his volume PLACE and the publication of the collected Gravity as a consequence of shape, from Reality Street and a collection of essays, Imperfect Fit, published by University of Alabama.

 

Jean-Charles Depaule was born in Toulon in 1945. After spending his childhood in Nîmes and Paris, he lived in Cairo and Marseille before settling in Paris again. An urban anthropologist as well as a poet, Jean Charles Depaule taught at the School of Architecture of Versailles before pursuing his research on the spaces of the Eastern Arab world and on the words of urban life at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Besides his writing practices as scholar and poet, Depaule is also an artist who works with 2 or 3D images.

Jean-Charles Depaule has explored and practiced decasyllabic and irregular lines, quatrains, and sestina writing. He has also been working on translations, descriptions and portraits. He wrote several essays on what he calls the labor of poetry (on such topics as diverse as the new generation of French poets at the end of the 1990s, contemporary Arabic poetry, sound poetry, Charles Olson, Francis Ponge, Emmanuel Hocquard…)

A former member of the editorial board of the poetry journals Action poétique and If, he was also an editor of the art history and anthropology journal Gradhiva. A co-founder of Irrégulomadaire (a journal exploring the relationships between text and image), he is a regular contributor to CCP, Cahier Critique de Poésie.

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Selected Bibliography

  • Définition en cours, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2013.
  • A travers le mur (with Jean-Luc Arnaud), Parenthèses, 2014.
  • D’une vie avec, Contre-pied, 2015.
  • L’impossibilité du vide, une anthologie littéraire des espaces de la ville, Parenthèses, 2016.
  • D’écriture : je réponds, 7 + 1 extraits, contrat maint, 2017.

Shows

S.C.S.I.P.R. (with Susanna Shannon, 13 works – images and texts), Ferry 16, Paris, 1987.

Les fruits du matin (images on paper), cipM, Marseille, January-March 2017, accompanied by a text (Cahier du Refuge 257).

 

Allen Fisher

Né à Londres en 1944, Allen Fisher est poète, peintre, éditeur, professeur et performer. Ses œuvres, exposées dans de nombreux musées et galeries, font désormais partie des collections de la Tate, de King’s College Archive, du Living Museum Iceland et du musée Hereford. Dans les années 70, il a fait partie du groupe britannique de Fluxus. En 1978, Allen Fisher a commencé sa carrière de peintre. Après avoir passé vingt ans à travailler dans l’industrie du plomb et du plastique, il a obtenu un poste d’enseignant en art, histoire de l’art et poésie à Goldsmiths’ College dans les années 80. En 1989, il a commencé à enseigner à Herefordshire College of Art & Design, avant de devenir directeur du département d’art de Roehampton University en 1998. En 2002, il y est devenu professeur de poésie et d’art, et en 2005, il s’est vu offrir le poste de directeur des arts contemporains à Manchester Metropolitan University, où il est désormais professeur émérite de poésie et d’art. En 2017, son livre PLACE a été réédité, ses poèmes choisis ont été publiés par Reality Street sous le titre Gravity as a consequence of shape et son livre d’essais Imperfect Fit a été publié par les presses de l’Université d’Alabama.

 

Jean-Charles Depaule

Né à Toulon en 1945. Enfance à Nîmes, puis à Paris, où il habite – il a aussi vécu au Caire et à Marseille. Poète et chercheur en anthropologie urbaine. Il a enseigné à l’école d’architecture de Versailles avant de poursuivre au CNRS ses travaux sur les espaces de l’Orient arabe et les mots de la ville. Il exerce donc deux métiers d’écrire. Il fait également des images en deux ou trois dimensions.

Il s’est intéressé, théoriquement et pratiquement, aux ressources du décasyllabe, du quatrain puis du mètre impair et à la composition de la sextine. à la traduction, à la description et au portrait. Il a consacré des études au travail de poésie (une nouvelle génération de poètes français à la fin des années 1990, la poésie arabe contemporaine, la poésie sonore, Charles Olson, Francis Ponge, Emmanuel Hocquard…).

Il a été membre de la rédaction d’Action poétique et d’If. Et de la revue d’histoire et d’anthropologie des arts Gradhiva. Cofondateur d’Irrégulomadaire (« les rapports de l’image et du texte sur tous supports »). Collabore au cahier critique de poésie, CCP.

 

            A notamment publié

  • Définition en cours, Le Bleu du Ciel, 2013.
  • A travers le mur (avec Jean-Luc Arnaud), Parenthèses, 2014.
  • D’une vie avec, Contre-pied, 2015.
  • L’impossibilité du vide, une anthologie littéraire des espaces de la ville, Parenthèses, 2016.
  • D’écriture : je réponds, 7 + 1 extraits, contrat maint, 2017.
    Expositions

S.C.S.I.P.R. (avec Susanna Shannon, 13 planches – images et textes), Ferry 16, Paris, 1987.

Les fruits du matin (des images sur papier), cipM, Marseille, janvier-mars 2017, accompagnée d’un texte (Cahier du Refuge 257).