Film-lectures pour le livre Écrire l'art – Dossier des ouvrages exécutés

 Les Playlists sont LIVE/ The film playlists are LIVE--films made to celebrate the launch in 2019 of the book:

Écrire l'art – Dossier des ouvrages exécutés

Kunsthalle/Presses du Réel 2019. This book collected together 10 years of unpublished writing written and performed during a series of mini residencies at la Kunsthalle-Mulhouse, residency co-curated by Sandrine Wymann and Jennifer K Dick.// // Cet ouvrage rassemble les œuvres littéraires inédites composées autour des expositions de La Kunsthalle Mulhouse à l'occasion de la résidence « Écrire l'art » co-organisé par Sandrine Wymann et Jennifer K Dick. 

Playlists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6GYgknXohI&list=PLsdfAR5vlpRAkcguGiDq-F0nolQS-i3MF

https://soundcloud.com/user-208583780/sets/ecrire-lart-residence-dauteurrices-poetes

SUMMARY of the book below, in French, which Sandrine Wymann and I assembled and introduced as our "Ecrire l'Art" mini residency series came to a close after its 10 year run. But no worries! As this book arrived in our (your?) hands in Sept 2019 we began our second series: Ecrire l'Art 2--taking a new form of inviting a single author to write during multiple expos over the year. The first publications related to this second Ecrire l'Art will appear this June--with a book by Laura Vasquez and one by Vannina Maëstri. Our third EA2 resident, Nicolas Tardy, began his visits to Mulhouse this month and will return in the fall to catch the tail end of the next big show at the Kunst. 

 

BOOK AVAILABLE: CLICK HERE

 Véritable mémoire de dix années d'expositions, ce livre reflète la créativité et la diversité d'un lieu ouvert à de multiples pratiques artistiques.

 

Pendant 10 années, répondant à l'invitation de Jennifer K Dick et Sandrine Wymann, 21 poètes se sont succédé à La Kunsthalle. Exposition après exposition, en immersion au cœur des œuvres, Jérôme Mauche, Virginie Poitrasson, Frédéric Forté, Véronique Pittolo, Jean-Michel Espitallier, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Michaël Batalla, Stéphane Bouquet, Cécile Mainardi, Martin Richet, Eric Suchère, Hyam Yared, Anne Portugal, Andrea Inglese, Christophe Fiat, Dominique Quélen, Frank Smith, Christophe Manon, Sandra Moussempès, Deborah Heissler, Luc Bénazet se sont emparés de l'invitation et ont composé une œuvre inédite.

Elles sont à présent rassemblées dans un Dossier des ouvrages exécutés. Véritable mémoire de dix années d'expositions, ce livre reflète la créativité et la diversité d'un lieu ouvert à de multiples pratiques artistiques.

 

PLAYLISTS INCLUDE:

Andrea Inglese

https://youtu.be/p6GYgknXohI

https://soundcloud.com/user-208583780/andrea-inglese-discours-sur-un?in=user-208583780/sets/ecrire-lart-residence-dauteurrices-poetes

Anne Portugal

https://youtu.be/Vaqo5LJ2umc

https://soundcloud.com/user-208583780/anne-portugal-2016?in=user-208583780/sets/ecrire-lart-residence-dauteurrices-poetes

Deborah Heissler

https://youtu.be/XG4sEDn96OA

https://soundcloud.com/user-208583780/deborah-heissler-noeuds-n?in=user-208583780/sets/ecrire-lart-residence-dauteurrices-poetes

Virginie Poitrasson

https://youtu.be/8mzslNQlxm4

https://soundcloud.com/user-208583780/virginie-poitrasson-figures?in=user-208583780/sets/ecrire-lart-residence-dauteurrices-poetes

 A great thanks to Stéphanie Fischer for getting these online!

Video Readings and Projects

Here are a few links to recent videos of me reading:

 

1) April 2020: In lieu of reading in Ypsilanti, MI, I made an in-quarantine reading of ASM (Arctic Shield Mission) with background sounds. This is from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__KKaL4v2WQ&feature=youtu.be

2) In lieu of reading in Athens, GA at Avid Books, I made this in-quarantine reading of Timber Hitch, a poem which appears in Jacket2 HERE. This poem is also from SHELF BREAK, a manuscript in process. Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpWjrk8rbc

3) A reading by my of my translation of the amazing poet Virginie Poitrasson. Here we are on stage for the Paris Lit Up launch in Fall 2015. https://youtu.be/5L8TBT5MplE

4) A snippet from the middle of salon house reading in New Orleans, LA at the end of February, before Lisa Pasold and I set off on the road across the south reading and doing workshops. Filmed by Bremner Duthie. (this gets a bit better sound quality wise towards the end). I am reading an extract from LILITH: A Novel in Fragments (Corrupt, 2019). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVGD0a2yqMU&feature=youtu.be

5) A section of LILITH: A NOVEL IN FRAGMENTS (Corrput, 2019) recorded in lieu of reading on the 19th of April in Athens, GA though only posted up online in April 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWlvbLyjhrM

6) Participation as filmer in LE FILM DES INSTANTS / THE FILM OF MOMENTS, collaborative project orchestrated by Frank Smith where 52 people filmed 1 minute from their windows on 29 March 2020 during set times to make this 12-12:53 film. : on VIMEO at: https://vimeo.com/404007303

OLDER VIDEOS:

7) A not-new reading video, but for your interest for anyone who has not seen it, made by Lisa Pasold in 2017. Radial. At: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhFqjW0hruw

8) I am also one of the voices and poets reading during the film LE MOULIN, by Gilles Weinzaepflan. My reading part begins at 8m50. I am reading an extract of the poem Collectif: that appears in my forthcoming book THAT WHICH I TOUCH HAS NO NAME (Eyewear, Oct 2020):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjd83luhmtw&t=37s 

9) LECTURE pour remue.net en français: https://remue.net/Nuit-remue-11-Jennifer-K-Dick

10) Reading at the Tears in The Fence poetry festival, Fall 2014. Introduction by David Caddy. Filmed by Tom Kiziewicz and Georgie McGregor, Produced by Andrew Henon with thanks to Somerset Film. In this video I do calm down a bit after those first few nervous minutes. I read the poems "Animal Logic", "The Memory Machine", taken from by book CIRCUITS (Corrupt, 2013) and a selection of CERN poems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJp1qq8hf3Q

11) Also: film of my installation in Basel at the SBB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmye8THGxww&t=75s

The Great Launch Kunsthalle Ecrire l'Art 20 Sept 2019

photo: La Kunsthalle.DOSSIER DES OUVRAGES EXECUTES

OUI it's THE GREAT LAUNCH
on 20 Sept 2019: 
20h 
Soirée Ecrire l'Art. 
for our book containing
10 YEARS of
writing extracts,
traces of, remnants of
and recollections of the mini residences of 21 authors!
DOSSIER DES OUVRAGES EXECUTES
A La Kunsthalle, La Fonderie, 16 rue de la Fonderie, Mulhouse, France.

The GREAT launch of the 10 year anniversary volume DOSSIER DES OUVRAGES EXECUTES (éditions la Kunsthalle Mulhouse, distribué par les presses du réel, 2019) from the Ecrire l'Art residency which I helped co-organize over this decade with the art center's director, Sandrine Wymann. 

Including our "avant-propos" in which we reflect on the experiences of having these authors in to write immersed within the exhibitions, this book designed by graphic artist Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié brings together works by 21 authors in ways that visually and textually leave a trace of the time spent and the language which emerged during their brief stays in Mulhouse, immersed, each one, in one of the exhibitions at the Kunsthalle art space. Jérôme's creative design makes this a true object-souvenir.

This evening will include presentations of films made of 5 of the authors and their texts, readings by Frédéric Forté, Mickaël Batalla, Frank Smith and Eric Suchère and a reading by the new Ecrire l'Art, mode 2, resident Laura Vasquez, coming to Mulhouse from Marseille.  Why "mode 2"? Because the new format will be having a single author in residence on 4 occasions, for 4 weeks, to accompany the 4 annual shows of art at La Kunsthalle. The author will spend time writing, will meet the public within the space of la Kunsthalle and will also give talks/readings on the UHA campus as part of the partnership with the ILLE labo de recherche partnership. We are all very much looking forward to seeing where the next version of writing art goes!

JOIN us--for this evening of readings, film projections and visit of the Kunsthalle, and pick up a copy of the book while you are at it.

As the Kunsthalle states on the FB event site: https://www.facebook.com/events/726731531120519/

"Pendant 10 années, 21 poètes se sont succédés à La Kunsthalle, exposition après exposition, pour écrire un texte. Jérôme Mauche, Virginie Poitrasson, Frédéric Forte, Véronique Pittolo, Jean-michel Espitallier, Daniel Gustav Cramer, Michaël Batalla, Stéphane Bouquet, Cécile Mainardi, Martin Richet, Eric Suchère, Hyam Yared, Anne Portugal, Andrea Inglese, Christophe Fiat, Dominique Quélen, Frank Smith, Christophe Manon, Sandra Moussempès, Deborah Heissler, Luc Bénazet, chacun s’est emparé de l’invitation selon son envie et tous ont écrit une œuvre inédite. Elles sont à présent rassemblées dans un DOSSIER DES OUVRAGES EXÉCUTÉS. Véritable mémoire de dix années d’expositions, ce livre reflète la créativité et la diversité d’un lieu ouvert à de multiples pratiques artistiques.

À l’occasion du lancement de l’édition, Frédéric Forté, Mickaël Batalla, Frank Smith et Eric Suchère, auteurs de la Résidence Ecrire l’art reviennent à Mulhouse pour lire leurs textes. D’autres seront présents par l’image. D’autres encore prêteront leurs mots à des lecteurs.

Cette soirée exceptionnelle sera aussi l’occasion de rencontrer et d’écouter Laura Vazquez, l’auteur-poète qui accompagnera La Kunsthalle tout au long de la saison 2019-2020."

New Video now online of me reading "RADIAL" 

extract of a longer text, written during the Collectif 2: Documenta / Spaghetti Western trip to Tuscania last summer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhFqjW0hruw

Filmed beautifully by Lisa Pasold in her casa, Paris, Dec 2016. 
Lisa Pasold, Canadian author, is doing a series of short films of her friends reading. This is the third in the series--do go check out the others as well: 
1) by American author Cecilia Woloc
2) by  Canadian author Megan Burns

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhFqjW0hruw This text, along with others written as part of this project, will be published online soon with the Collectif's work.

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Collectif 2 Documenta film by Gilles Weinzaepflan

For the second time, I was part of a summer collaboratif writing and art project with a set of French and Italian poets. This one, subtitled "Spaghetti Western" or, by me, Documenta, will be publishing various verbal and visual results over the nex months. One of the first available is the film that GILLES WEINZAEPFLAN made. I was honored to be part of the film--both during the final scene at the table and in the role as Veriano--one of the three converts who is martyred--in the black and white scenes here. The presence of the beautiful countryside of Italy and in particular of Piane di Bronzo where we lived and worked together, and of the ever present cats who refused to remain off camera as Gilles filmed, is an extra plus. Check out the film BEATI TUSCANI on Youtube!

Jeff Hilson, Richard Makin and Jennifer K Dick at Tears in the Fence Festival 2014 on What is Experimental Writing in the 21st Century?

New video now up on Youtube of the Oct 2014 "On Tradition and Experiment" round table talk I lead with Jeff Hilson and Richard Makin from the Tears in the Fence Poetry Festival organized by David Caddy and the magazine Tears in the Fence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vfYKipPhI0

We ask questions like what is our "reponsibility" to tradition, in particular, in the case of Jeff Hilson's topic, to the tradition of forms like the sonnet? What is the relationship between alchemy and experimental procedures as authors and readers? On a more general note, so what is the new? What is tradition or experiment? How did we get to now? What are the limits of language? How are young people writing today inheriting from traditions and what techniques and perspectives are they bringing to the table? Why can we see awkwardness in writing as compelling? Underlying this are the unasked questions, the hinted at query about what space exists today for transformation, opacity, transparency, inspiration, intention, creation, or hybritdity in the new writing and writers of today? Are we, like alchemists, "journeymen of the soul"? Or something far less grandiose?

Jeff Hilson brings in issues on the sonnet and  perspectives on whether explorations of the sonnet can change, sharing some his own techniques as explored in his book In The Assarts (Veer Books, UK, 2010 ).

Richard Makin shares a talk on alchemy that in many ways might stand as a kind of metaphor on transformation. Makin speaks of this hybrid of art and science, of conversion, of transformation, from the dull to the luminous.  Makin also opens up a space for reflection on indeterminateness in reading (and perception), thus the space for reception in the making of art via this talk. For more on Makin's own work, check out his dense poetic novels Dwelling (Reality Street, 2011) or Mourning (Equus Press, 2015--read an excerpt at https://equuspress.wordpress.com/2015/02/09/mourning-2/ )

Jennifer K Dick looks back over the convoluted literary trends of tradition and experiment in the American cannon, the interweavings, the redefinitions, the limits of the obsession with the new and yet the sense that perhaps a new is still just about to arrive once more. Her reflections are based on a series of articles published in Tears in the Fence over the past 5 years.

Let me know what your thoughts are on this talk and our topics! Enjoy! --Jen

JUST about OUT! Benway series Folio 9! PLUS a film by Gilles Weinzaepflan of the VERBERIE moulin rouge poems!

Photo by Alessandra Cava of the BENWAY SERIES 9 folio--feel free to order one of your very own online!

The summer may already seem far far behind us, but one of the loveliest moments for me was the time spent in Verberie near Compiègne at le Moulin Rouge an old marberie (marble mill) with French and Italian poets and artists--Michaël Batalla, Gilles Weinzaepflan, Laurent Grisel, Marc Perrin, Anne Kawala, Andrea Inglese, Alessandra Cava, Mariangela Guatteri, Renata Morresi, Florence Manlik and myself, Jennifer K Dick. 

We were drawn together by Michaël Batalla and Andrea Inglese for a week-long intensive communal reflection on writing, performance, etc but also came to produce new writing and also then Gilles made a film and our week ended with a "BOOM" as the French say which we opened wth a reading performance of that work that we had all written and translated during those green, insect-laden days and those fireside reading-filled nights post bbq in the garden by flame and firelight. 

AND NOW the first of the publications linked to the time spent together is just about OUT--BENWAY SERIES 9! Presented this weekend at the EX.IT poetry festival and conference in Albinea, Italy!

It has extracts of each of the 10 authors poems --on one side in our native language, on the other in Italian translation--plus a drawing by Florence Manlik (seen in the photo of the folio above) representing in lines the interconnection of the 11 of us. Along one side is also a series of black and white photos by Mariangela Guatteri who is also responsible for the overall layout and editing of the publication of the Benway Folio series.

Keep your eye on the BENWAY site for the official publication announcement if you want to get your own copy mailed to you! http://benwayseries.wordpress.com/ or also keep up with them on their facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/BenwaySeries

For the movie--where each poet reads their extract in their native tongue and the background images and sounds are furnished and produced by Gilles Weinzaepflan, see the film at: http://vimeo.com/101581345 

http://vimeo.com/101581345 to see video made by Gilles Weinzaepflan