–Art is a series of perpetual differences.
Tristan Tzara, “Note on Poetry” [1]
It is fundamentally problematic,” writes Peter Bürger in his Theory of the Avant-Garde, “to assign a fixed meaning to a procedure.” […]
Before conceptual art became prominent in the late 1960s, there was already, so Craig Dworkin has suggested in his “Anthology of Conceptual Writing” for Ubu Web (http://www.ubu.com/), a form of writing identifiable as conceptual poetry, although that term was not normally used to discuss the chance-generated texts of John Cage and Jackson Mac Low or the “word events” of George Brecht and La […]
(Tivemos esta conversa por e-mail nas duas últimas semanas de agosto 2002. Eu lhe enviei algumas questões que ele respondeu de forma descontraída de acordo com seus interesses. Achei as respostas ainda mais estimulantes do que esperava. […]
This conversation took place by email during the last two weeks of August, 2002. I sent Kenneth some questions, which he attacked in a free- wheeling way, according to his interests. I found the answers even more stimulating than I had expected. […]
This conversation took place by email during the last two weeks of August, 2002. I sent Kenneth some questions, which he attacked in a free- wheeling way, according to his interests. I found the answers even more stimulating than I
In the 1980s, “language poetry” was such a dominant force in U.S. avant-garde circles that we are only now beginning to realize that something we might designate as “post-language” poetry has come into its own. Peter Gizzi and Elizabeth Willis, for example, studied at Buffalo and Brown with Charles Bernstein, Susan Howe, and Rosmarie Waldrop, yet Gizzi’s […]
I used to be an artist, then I became a poet; then a writer. Now when asked, I simply refer to myself as a word processor.[1]
Exactly thirty years ago, John Cage received a commission from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to write a piece of music in celebration of the American Bicentennial and devised his remarkable Lecture on the Weather, the parent text—but also the foil–of Kenneth Goldsmith’s 2005 book called The Weather. […]