[syndicate] Re: epoetry2007

[A. G-C.]

A. G-C. a écrit :
> Hello Anna, where are you?!
>
> Unfortunatly as a lot of inside unusual things has happened to me so I 
> was not available to follow the e-poetry week in Paris... By this way 
> I was just able to join Annie Abrahams and her girl's band as it was 
> promised. So I'm discovering the global event through your review and 
> Bjørn Magnhildøen's evocation.
>
> Coming out of a stress from my home, the object of the show for me 
> became to meet the girls of the band (a part of them just known 
> online) and to assure my friendship to Annie whose cut up extracted 
> from her installation online was really great.
>
> After the show that was a pleasure to discuss round a second good 
> botle of vodka... Then it staid tto come back home by driving the car 
> with a lot of precaution -- without speed:) I shall remember this 
> crazy short party that was not the previous one:)
>
> But I have no regret on the week, because I was afraid of the daily 
> program of expert conferences, so much plenty of critical and analytic 
> interventions. It appeared to me that it was mostly working as proper 
> object of communication of the festival during the week before, 
> instead of the performances, and at last holding the place of proper 
> poetry in acts, at my view it could not be a good sign of the FR 
> version of this international celebration... My regret stays having 
> missed a personal meeting with Jim, Bjorn, and you;-)
>
> I hope for bare performances in the city something as events instead 
> of performances may be... something that moves the city into virtual 
> view and sounds in real dimension and real time of the walk.. real 
> Babylon.
>
> As for the code, I'm not sure that nowaday returning to pure tech 
> arts, at the moment the web has become a question of full bandwist  it 
> is to say a pure question of multi-communication in real time, as 
> digital algorythms to tribute conceptual artificial appearences, or 
> code poetry, or whatever else more, they could be yet more something 
> without it's own academy;-) the question becomes an expert target. But 
> the realization of them in real outside dimension of the city, not as 
> representation or spectacle, but environment.
>
> Sorry for my bad english spoking.
>
> All my best,
>
> Aliette
>
> epistolaris at freemail.hu a écrit :
>>> codework never existed anyway, kitsch has a long established 
>>> tradition in
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>> which they >should reign as the new masters
>>
>> well, I just read  some codeworks from 1968, the Algol poems of Noel 
>> Arnaud.
>> Poetry is  in a simple definition the art of combining the words. And 
>> where do
>> they come the words? From a larger or smaller vocabulary. Noel 
>> Arnaut  took the
>> words of a very restricted artificial vocabulary to exploit its poetic
>> potential: he made up a whole algolitic delirium of it. As he 
>> explained why
>> would that be a question at all, when the French  authors classic 
>> tragedies for
>> instance abstained themselves from using any synonimes of the word 
>> glaive ( they never said épée; sabre; lame; fleuret; braquemart; 
>> estramaçon;
>> flamberge, claymore; colichemarde, cimeterre, yatagan etc instead of 
>> glaive).
>> Nowadays we hardly have ro deal with any pure medium, they are all 
>> mixed, it is
>> more and more difficult to call something cinema, poetry, dance <when 
>> visual
>> signs, sound, music is included in the same work>, though pastry is 
>> not a bad
>> word, i have to admit.
>>
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