BARETT WATTEN / CARLA HARRYMAN
16.05.2006 Lesung / Reading
Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006, 20 Uhr
Kochhannstraße 14 B
The two American experimentalists, known both as pivotal figures of the
Language Poetry movement of the early 1970's and as continuing innovators
in the exploration of language not simply as a vehicle for preexisting
meanings but as a system with its own rules and operations, will read current
prose, poetry, plays and genre-crossing texts.
Carla Harryman is known for her genre-disrupting experimental writings,
available in recent collections such as There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn
(City Lights), The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul
Sartre (O Books), Gardener of Stars (Atelos), and Baby (Adventures in Poetry).
One of the original innovators of San Francisco Poets Theater, her avant-garde
theater pieces have been staged in San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Montreal,
Auckland, Austria, the U.K., and Germany. She is a contributor to and
co-editor of the recently released volume of essays, Lust for Life: On the
Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso). Harryman teaches at Wayne State University
in Detroit. // http://performingobjects.com/
Barrett Watten's collected earlier poems, Frame: 1971-1990, appeared from
Sun & Moon in 1997; Bad History, an experimental work on poetry and history,
from Atelos in 1998; Progress/Under Erasure, a collection of two long poems,
from Green Integer in 2005. He has collaborated on two multi-authored
experimental works: Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (Mercury
House, 1992) and The Grand Piano, now being written online; as well as edited
the influential language-centered magazine This and co-edited Poetics Journal.
His critical study The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural
Poetics (Wes˙leyan, 2003), received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. He teaches
modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University, and was recently a
Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2005.
He is residing in Berlin in May and June 2006. //
http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten
Kochhannstraße 14 B
The two American experimentalists, known both as pivotal figures of the
Language Poetry movement of the early 1970's and as continuing innovators
in the exploration of language not simply as a vehicle for preexisting
meanings but as a system with its own rules and operations, will read current
prose, poetry, plays and genre-crossing texts.
Carla Harryman is known for her genre-disrupting experimental writings,
available in recent collections such as There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn
(City Lights), The Words: After Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories and Jean-Paul
Sartre (O Books), Gardener of Stars (Atelos), and Baby (Adventures in Poetry).
One of the original innovators of San Francisco Poets Theater, her avant-garde
theater pieces have been staged in San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Montreal,
Auckland, Austria, the U.K., and Germany. She is a contributor to and
co-editor of the recently released volume of essays, Lust for Life: On the
Writings of Kathy Acker (Verso). Harryman teaches at Wayne State University
in Detroit. // http://performingobjects.com/
Barrett Watten's collected earlier poems, Frame: 1971-1990, appeared from
Sun & Moon in 1997; Bad History, an experimental work on poetry and history,
from Atelos in 1998; Progress/Under Erasure, a collection of two long poems,
from Green Integer in 2005. He has collaborated on two multi-authored
experimental works: Leningrad: American Writers in the Soviet Union (Mercury
House, 1992) and The Grand Piano, now being written online; as well as edited
the influential language-centered magazine This and co-edited Poetics Journal.
His critical study The Constructivist Moment: From Material Text to Cultural
Poetics (Wes˙leyan, 2003), received the René Wellek Prize in 2004. He teaches
modernist studies and poetics at Wayne State University, and was recently a
Senior Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany, in 2005.
He is residing in Berlin in May and June 2006. //
http://www.english.wayne.edu/fac_pages/ewatten
MAURICE DOHERTY
13.05.2006 Ausstellung / Exhibition
Part 5
Maurice Doherty
Ausstellungseröffnung Samstag, 13. Mai 2006, 20 Uhr
Maurice Doherty’s works are minimalist, modest and laconic engagements with
the complex but ordinary issues of everyday life. Despite an underlying ironic
distance and the embraced likelihood of failure, the works nonetheless involve
the sincere search for meaningful artistic intervention.
Maurice Doherty
Born in 1972 in Northern Ireland, Maurice Doherty studied Fine Art at the
University of Ulster in Belfast and at the Glasgow School of Art.
He currently lives and works in Glasgow.
Maurice Doherty
Ausstellungseröffnung Samstag, 13. Mai 2006, 20 Uhr
Maurice Doherty’s works are minimalist, modest and laconic engagements with
the complex but ordinary issues of everyday life. Despite an underlying ironic
distance and the embraced likelihood of failure, the works nonetheless involve
the sincere search for meaningful artistic intervention.
Maurice Doherty
Born in 1972 in Northern Ireland, Maurice Doherty studied Fine Art at the
University of Ulster in Belfast and at the Glasgow School of Art.
He currently lives and works in Glasgow.