UWP Lecturers At the Getty: "Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry"

[John Ganim]

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>From: "Nancy Perloff" <NPerloff at getty.edu>
>To: "Allison Pultz" <APultz at getty.edu>
>Subject: "Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry"
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>Dear Colleague,
>
>It is with great pleasure that I invite you to attend the performance
>Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry (Wednesday,
>February 4) and the symposium and roundtable, The Book as Such in the
>Russian Avant-Garde (Thursday, February 5) held in conjunction with the
>exhibition Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde,
>1910-1917 (through April 19) curated by myself with Allison Pultz. The
>attached fliers describe these events, their speakers and performers.
>For your convenience I've included the information below, which you may
>also access in more detail on our website at
>http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html .
>
>We hope to see you in February!
>
>Best wishes,
>
>
>Nancy Perloff
>
>Dr. Nancy Perloff
>Curator of Modern and Contemporary Collections
>Getty Research Institute
>1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
>Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
>Tel. 310-440-7462
>Fax. 310-440-7779
>nperloff at getty.edu
>
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>PERFORMANCE
>Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry
>Wednesday February 4, 2009
>Reception and Gallery Viewing: 5:00 - 6:45 p.m., GRI Exhibition
>Gallery
>Performance: 7:00 - 8:45 p.m., Museum Lecture Hall
>
>This event provides a rare opportunity to hear both dramatic readings
>by the Russian scholar Oleg Minin of Russian Futurist zaum’
>(“beyonsense”) and performances by Christian Bök and Steve
>McCaffery of their own contemporary sound poetry. Gerald Janecek, an
>expert on twentieth-century Russian avant-garde poetry, will introduce
>the evening. By invoking the revolutionary zaum’ poetry of the Russian
>avant-garde - as exemplified by the great poets Velimir Khlebnikov and
>Alexei Kruchenykh - this evening's performance explores the link between
>early sound experiments and what came to be known, in the post-Word War
>II era, as sound poetry--a movement very much alive today.
>
>SYMPOSIUM
>The Book as Such in the Russian Avant-Garde
>Thursday, February 5, 2009
>9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
>Museum Lecture Hall
>
>Talks and a roundtable address the graphic techniques, the newly
>invented poetic language called zaum' ("beyonsense"), and the visual and
>literary tensions between parodic humor and apocalypse, the primitive
>and the urban, the sacred and the profane. Speakers will consider the
>early reception and the influence of the Russian avant-garde book on
>visual poetry and the aesthetics of book production in the later decades
>of the twentieth century.
>
>For more information on the performance, symposium, roundtable, and its
>speakers please visit our website
>http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html
>
>NOTE: Admission to both events is free. Please make a reservation by
>visiting www.getty.edu/research or by calling (310) 440-7300.
>
>
>
>
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