A Poetry Reading in Honor of Gerritt Lansing
Hosted by Kimberly Lyons and Lunar Chandelier Press
Friday, March 8 at 3 PM
Poe's Kitchen at the Rattlesnake
384 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116
readers:
Lynn Behrendt
Daniel Bouchard
Julian Talamentez Brolaski
Joe Elliot
Joanna Fuhrman
Brenda Iijima
Pierre Joris
Gerrit Lansing
Eileen Myles
Tim Trace Peterson
Nicole Peyrafitte
Elizabeth Robinson
Prageeta Sharma
Toni Simon
Christopher Stackhouse
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Pattern Variants explores the confluences found within the arts and sciences by harnessing the fundamental principles within poetic form: music, mathematics, and the creative processes of discovery and innovation. Developed as a demonstration project addressing the operating principles of creative exchange surrounding its parent project, Verse in the Circle of Fifths, Pattern Variants offers a menu of collaborative ventures across the visual, performing, and language arts while centered on an in-situ writing experiment grounded in the traditions of linked verse and the constraint driven propensities of the OuLiPo group of poets and writers.
This writing process itself serves as protagonist with the poets converging in strategic word play immersed in the poetics of imaging, game theory and linked verse. Executed over three days (May 24-26), in three hour sessions, the writing exercise brings together nine landmarks chosen by our nine poets, including Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; The Puppet; The Chrysler Building; The Book of Formation; The Hays Code; Moveable Type; New French Feminism; "Sayings Of the High One" from The Poetic Edda; & Breton's 'L'amour fou'.
Charted over nine rotations and composed under the influence of Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity, and Consistency, coupled with our two additional memos, Symmetry and Obscurity, Pattern Variants sets in motion an experiment in creative writing with the liberating uses of form as the catalyst for enabling creative discourse. The writing installation also features our sound design in identifying particular patterns found within the writing schematic added with an undercurrent of percussive vowels in building resonance. The exhibition also features another collaboration involving a series of 3x3 combinative flash fiction grids illustrating our eight memos.
Buzz Evers is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, arts administrator, director, and producer. He attended Pitzer College receiving a degree in organizational studies and gravitated toward the arts based on his interest in collaboration and the creative process. His diverse list of experiences include works in the visual, performing, and language arts.
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AC Institute
New York, NY 10001
Gallery Hours: Tues-Sat: 1-6pm, Thurs: 1-8pm
www.artcurrents.org / [email protected]
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