>> "Could poets here collaborate with artists,
>>or do it themselves, to produce "gallery-standard"
>>visual work with words (or are there phobias against
>>that as against commerce, hanging over from the
>>70s?)?"
>
I've no phobias about this.
Some already did this, and did it here.
How about Dom Sylvester Houedard, Tom Edmonds
(ok that's going back). David Antin's 'Sky Poems'
written by aeroplanes? Henri Chopin (there's a
Chopin retrospective in Norwich Gallery from Jan 14th).
Aram Saroyan?
Agree with Tony 100% about Jenny Holzer. She's a
strong writer. Susan Hiller and her 'automatic writing'
and 'dream rooms'?
Or Drew Milne's 'How Peace Came' for
the installation with Andrew James? How about
Marshall Reese and Nora Ligorano's book video works?
How about those poets who are also, or who have,
practiced as visual artists:
Allen Fisher, Ulli Freer, Maggie O'Sullivan, Bob Cobbing,
Carlyle Reedy. Harry Hoogstraten, Franco Beltrametti,
Michael Gibbs, Kenny Goldsmith, Tom Raworth and many others ?
and those for whom the book was a gallery, the page a stage.
Put Clark Coolidge's 'Space' or 'The So' or sections
from 'Polaroid' in White Cube.
What about visual poetries such as those of Brigid McLeer,
Wendy Kramer?
Newer collaborations emerging such as that between
Gregg Whelan and Gary Winters.
The answer is that the models are there now, Ira
pick up on the spaces they are opening. That 'gloss'
might be your sylthane shadow.
Or have we got a problem agreeing on a definition
for visual work?
love and love
cris
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