Monday 23 May, 2011 tagged Online, Recordings in Christian Bök, Christopher Fox, Florian Kaplik, Jaap Blonk Video of Ursonate performance/installation project featuring Jaap Blonk, Christian Bök, Christopher Fox and Florian Kaplik at Warth Mill Industrial Estate, Bury, 1st May 2011.
via The Other Room
Thursday 5th May, 6 - 6.50pm
Birkbeck Centre for Poetics welcomes Christian Bök.
The Xenotext is my nine-year long attempt to create an example of 'living poetry'. I have been striving to write a short verse about language and genetics, whereupon I use a 'chemical alphabet' to translate this poem into a sequence of DNA for subsequent implantation into the genome of a bacterium (in this case, a microbe called Deinococcus radiodurans - an extremophile, capable of surviving, without mutation, in even the most hostile milieus, including the vacuum of outer space). When translated into a gene and then integrated into the cell, my poem is going to constitute a set of instructions, all of which cause the organism to manufacture a viable, benign protein in response - a protein that, according to my original, chemical alphabet, is itself yet another text. I am, in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also an operant machine for writing a poem - one that can persist on the planet until the sun itself explodes...
Birkbeck University, London (venue TBC)
Admission is free, all welcome.
Read an Observer article about the project.
Saturday 30 April, 2011 tagged London Events in Christian Bök, Dan Scott, Emmanuelle Waekerle, Frances Kruk, Lydia White ;)
Sunday 13 March, 2011 tagged International Events, Online in A. Rawlings, Adeena Karasick, Charles Bernstein, Christian Bök, Fred Wah, Jeff Derksen, Jordan Scott, Lisa Robertson, M. Nourbese Philip, Nicole Brossard, Sarah Dowling, Stephen Collis PennSound has made available videos from North of Invention: A Canadian Poetry Festival, organised by Charles Bernstein and Sarah Dowling, featuring:
Paradigm of the Tinctures by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey is now available as a free PDF download.
This revised and expanded edition of “Paradigm of the Tinctures” by Steve McCaffery and Alan Halsey revisits the classic humanist idea of the Sister Arts where poetry is understood to be a speaking picture and a picture a silent poem. The revisitation, however, is bluntly revisionary and the result is a fresh text-graphic dialogue.
via Christian Bök via Derek Beaulieu
Late notice:
Wednesday 27th January, 6.30pm (workshop), 7.30pm (reading)
Landon Branch Library, 167 Wortley Road, London
Admission is free.
