ANNOUNCEMENT:
The Modern Poetics Program at the University of Notre Dame wishes to
announce an
upcoming event free and open to the public: "TEXTSOUNDS: a
mini-conference" will
take place in the campus's brand new Center for the Performing Arts from
November 18th through the 20th. Organized by Romana Huk, Gerald Bruns
and
Stephen Fredman, these three days of lectures, performances and
audience-driven
discussion will focus on the work of Steve McCaffery, Caroline
Bergvall, cris
cheek and Charles Bernstein. It will open with a lecture by Marjorie
Perloff
(5 pm, Nov. 18th) and its ensuing discussions will be led by both
Perloff and
the Program's December visiting-lecturer, Joan Retallack. These two
days of
events will involve the poets in what at Notre Dame we are archiving and
calling "pedagogical performances," or ones that slowly unfold over the
course
of an hour with interpolated explanation and/or history of the artist's
developing project. Substantial discussion-time with our students and
faculty
are planned after each session, and lengthy sessions devoted to papers
and
other kinds of prose interventions by the poets are scheduled for the
late
afternoons of the 19th and 20th. On the 19th, NDCinema has planned a
night of
avant-garde film shorts with pieces by 20th-C figures from Duchamp to
Brakhage/Cage to Henry Hills; on the 20th, we will have a night of
performances
open to the public. Both of the evening events require a small fee of
6 dollars
for visitors from outside the Notre Dame community. Most of the above
takes
place in the 100-seater black box theater in the PAC. Please contact
Romana
Huk on [log in to unmask] if you would like to attend and have questions about
accommodations in town. As seating is so limited, it is important that
you let
us know of your plans so that we can set aside space for you. Further
information will be available by November 5th on either of two
university
websites: www.nd.edu/~english or performingarts.nd.edu.
apologies for cross posting
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