Living, as I do, some 800 yards from the site of the conference, in a
conspicuous example of 'architecture', I think my thoughts are best left
untranslated from Russian
except that I couldn't really afford the price of a ticket, it's curious
sort of avant-garde that charges itself to meet itself.
I never knew the conference organiser nor his studious school existed till I
saw the flyers for the conference, that's what I call 'reaching out to the
community'.
david bircumshaw
----- Original Message -----
From: kent johnson <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: Language/Poetry/Performance Conference
> Peter Riley asked, responding to David Kennedy:
>
> >b) "Forward" is exclusively conceived within the parameters set by the
> >European artistic avant-garde of circa 1914. Can you think of anything
> >discussed or presented at the conference which sought any other sense of
> >direction?
> >
>
> And David Kennedy had said:
>
> "Steve Mac Caffrey and Karen Mac Cormack both described how they are
> increasingly turning to architectural theory for ways to push their work
> forward. This topic seemed to provoke the liveliest set of questions and
was
> referred back to by other speakers on several occasions."
>
> The "architectural-theory" direction is very interesting. I may be jumping
> to conclusions, but little doubt, I'd bet, that this "new turn" is
> consistent with the "avant-garde's" inherited and generalized desire to
> build futuristic poetry skyscrapers that will last until the asteroid
hits.
>
> To this, the Russians (since we've been talking aobut them) have a sort of
> riposte that is little-known in the West, and it would be an example of
the
> "another sense of direction" Peter asks for: The Paper Architecture
school,
> which arose in the 1980's and produced (sometimes three-dimensional)
visual
> text-works unlike anything ever seen. There was some important
> cross-fetilization between this group and Moscow poetry Conceptualism.
>
> But the after-wash of Language is much more ambitious: The neo-liberal
drive
> is to make World Trade Center Towers in college towns; building nomadic
> cities of huts is for losers.
>
> Kent
>
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