Mappemunde: Lee Ann Brown

May 17, 2012

Pattern Variants at AC Institute: Nine Poets and OuLiPo and You

Directed by Buzz Evers

In collaboration with:

Marcella Durand, Paolo Javier, Joanna Fuhrman, Vincent Katz, Anselm Berrigan, Tim Trace Peterson, Adeena Karasick, Jena Osman, Lee Ann Brown

and

Daniel Levin Becker/Writer
Roman Muradov/Illustrator
Max Giteck Duykers/Composer

May 3-May 26, 2012

Writing Installation:
May 24, 10am-1pm
May 25, 6pm-9pm
May 26, 10am-1pm

All exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Contact: [email protected]

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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March 28, 2011

Intro for Lee Ann Brown, 3/20 at Zinc Bar

The breezy, conversational élan of Lee Ann Brown’s poems may convey an air of ease, but her deft, discerning ear is hard at work hearing subtleties of diction amid the flow of song. In fact, the very question of whether the work is spontaneous or studied artifice “Undoes Itself on an organic twittering machine.” In Brown’s poems, as readers we are often placed as the third term in an overheard exchange of intimacy, creating a triangle we may choose to collapse into a “Menage a deux” depending upon how much we believe it at a given moment. And we have permission to do as we like, Brown’s soundplay modeling exploration and experiment through its tone-leading, “women or men, we are well we are sore sonnets” that learns from Stein but is more voiced like Bernadette Mayer or O’Hara, and which seems hooked on a you, alternately a lover, a reader, or an exchange between mother and daughter. Her poems written in collaboration with her daughter are surprising and chatty, “Are the buds for leaves or for flowers? / They are Arrow Buds and we will check back tomorrow.” At other moments, she is able to hear kinds of sounds that are uniquely moving, precariously balanced at a catachresis yet scrambling over lines breaks with a WCW-like gangliness, “Yes I feel familiar / to you yet don't know / you at all / yet totally look forward / to getting to know the / Specifics.” I could listen to this song all spring. Please welcome Lee Ann Brown.