Explodity: An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry

[Allison Pultz]

Dear Seelangers,

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) to be held at The Getty  
Center in Los Angeles.

The events are held in conjunction with the Getty Research Institute
exhibition "Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910 -
1917", curated by Nancy Perloff with Allison Pultz.

For further information about the exhibition, performance, symposium  
and its speakers, please visit our website at http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html

Best regards,

Allison Pultz

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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 and ROUNDTABLE
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 www.getty.edu and search for Tango
with Cows or follow this link:  www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/tango_with_cows/events.html

NOTE: Admission to both events are free. Please make a reservation by
visiting www.getty.edu/research or by calling (310) 440-7300.


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