Poetry Experiments & The Artist’s Book

12 January 2011 / Making of

Experience Experiments (Poetry Experiments & The Artist’s Book)

L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book; Species of Spaces; Exercises of Style; 0-9; constraints and rules; artsy-fartsy
In class we will play around/make experiences in UbuWeb.

Readings:
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1978 — 1981: Bernadette Mayer: “Experiments”
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E 1978 — 1981: Bruce Andrews: “Text and Context”
Read together in class: Daniel Spoerri; AnAnecdoted Topography of Chance; Vito Acconci

Experiment: Everybody picks one: Please spend some time before the class finding one video, poem, or recording on UbuWeb which you can play for the class.

Excursion to barbara wien bookstore/gallery & Fluxus (Dieter Roth) collection