Catherine YassStill from Descent 2002
Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery © the artist
16mm film on projected DVD
New Media Poetics: a collaboration of poetry and sound arts in two parts. In collaboration with the Experimental Sound Studio and the SAIC Department of Exhibitions.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 6:30pm
Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St., 7th floor
Part one: Reading
Featuring Bill Allegrezza, Ray Bianchi, Justin Cabrillos, Steve Halle, Philip Jenks, Simone Muench, and Lina Ramona Vitkauskas
This project is an artistic response to the Learning Modern exhibition, with particular attention to modernist trends in poetry and the manner in which design sensibilities translate across media and are even evident in our understandings of the sonic landscape. Building on the works on display, contemporary poets design texts, which are then read in the Sullivan Galleries. Subsequently, SAIC sound students engage these poems as material for further response, reframing the auditory elements of each poem's structure into a new sound score. The resulting projects will be presented in the lobby of the Sullivan Gallery as a temporary sound installation November 6 - 25.