hi gabriel,
maybe in this context the point of view of a professional from the outside,
someone who has to establish what art is (i think that within a new context
of post-avant-garde for example, poetry is contaminated with art) might be
important.
i am thus attaching the link to the interview i did to francesco bonami, let
me know,
http://www.poetrybay.com/fall2002/ballardini_interview.html
i personally identify with the notion of the artist as a cannibal he gives,
i am literally omnivorous when we talk of art, poetry or culture in general,
i even like biology, law texts, encyclopedias, any language, astrology,
astronomy and i am terribly sorry for myself that i didn't have time to
develop any studies in mathematics
take care, anny
> Hello All. I know this is an ever-present issue, but I've been wondering
> the past few months where we can find that real "far-out" edge, that edge
> (sorry for the tired "pioneering" metaphor) where poets are *making with
> and from and through infrequently explored media of language.
>
> The term "post-avant" has been popping up here and there recently. And I
> think it's an interesting term, insofar as it (to my mind) hints to a
> recognition that what we'd previously called the avant-garde has gotten,
> well, mainstreamed. Alan Golding has argued that the four or six massive
> and widely-purchased "postmodern" and avant-garde anthologies of the 90s
> really put an end to thinking that there was anything marginal anymore
> about what had once been marginal. Am thinking here not merely of langpo
> and post-langpo work, but of so much work labeled, often "postmodern."
>
> And I know this question and this issue pops up every now and then, but I
> haven't seen it pop up in a while -- and I've not really heard much talk
> about the following in regards to these issues:
>
> 1. Digital poetry.
> 2. Code work (a term invented, I believe, by Alan Sondheim).
> 3. Hyperauthorship.
>
> Are there other areas/modes being explored? Where is that field of current
> belatedness???
>
> Gabe
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