UPDATE: Sandra Simonds needed to cancel. We'll reschedule soon. Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington will still be reading so come on out!
The Poetic Research Bureau presents two great events this week:
- Friday, March 15: Natalia Fedorova with Vanessa Place hosted by Les Figues Press
- Saturday, March 16: Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington
Both events will begin around 7pm (though if you have attended
our events in the past, you know we are not exactly punctual -- we try
to allow some time for latecomers and the usual bad Los Angeles
traffic).
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Natalia Fedorova with Vanessa Place
Hosted by Les Figues Press
Friday, March 15, 2013
Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading @ 7pm
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Sandra Simonds, Jared Stanley & Laura Wetherington
Saturday, March 16 2013
Doors open @ 6:30pm, reading starts @ 7pm
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The Poetic Research Bureau @ Telic Arts
951 Chung King Rd.
Los Angeles, CA
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Natalia Fedorova is a new media
artist, writer, literary scholar and translator. Natalia holds a PhD in
literary theory from Herzen State University (St-Petersburg). She is an
author of publications on avant-garde poetry, kitetic poetry, concrete
poetry, hyperfiction, literary text generators and video poetry, as well
as a curator and creator of VIDEO.txt, videopoetry festival in St-
Petersburg. During 2011 – 2012 Natalia was a Fulbright postdoctoral
researcher at the Trope Tank, MIT. Natalia is an author of hyperfiction
piece with multiple endings «7», and a boutes-rime novel Madame Ebaressa
and a Butterfly, co-written with Sergeij Kitov, and a number of short
prose fragments. In collaboration with Taras Mashtalir she founded
Machine Libertine, a media poetry project (Snow Queen, In Your
Voice,Machine Poetry Manifesto, Whoever You Are, Light Duty, Memory).
Currently Natalia is a SPIRE postdoctorate researcher with the ELMCIP
group at the University of Bergen (Norway) and an editor of e-lit and
new media writing column in Rattapallax magazine (NY).
Technologies
of Conceptualism Moscow conceptualism is classic. There is Prigov room
in the Hermitage 20/21. Conceptualism is alive in the Innovation
Contemporary Art Prize’s shortlist (Boris Groys Moscow Symposium:
Conceptualism Revisited and Jury Albert Moscow Conceptualism. The
Beginning). Laboratory of Poetic Actionism is realizing poetry in the
collective action borrowing Moscow conceptualists’ language to translate
it via video into repoliticized poetry. Native of St-Petersburg
conceptualism is more abstract, prone to asciiticism, performed by the
matrix printer (Ivan Khimin Abstract Conceptualism). With a mirror of
iPad or notepad, microphone or video editing Natalia Fedorova is
collecting the collective by means of writing on the languages she finds
herself in.
View some of Natalia's videos online:
Memory
SnowQueen
In Your Voice
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Sandra Simonds is the author of Warsaw Bikini (Bloof Books, 2008) and Mother Was a Tragic Girl
(Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012). She is assistant
professor of English and Humanities at Thomas University in Thomasville,
Georgia.
Jared Stanley is the author of two books of poetry, The Weeds and Book Made of Forest,
both from Salt Publishing. He is a member of the public art group
Unmanned Minerals, and co-edits Mrs. Maybe, a Journal of Skeptical
Occultism. Stanley is a 2012-2014 Research Fellow at the Center for Art +
Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art and he lives in Reno.
Laura Wetherington's first book, A Map Predetermined and Chance (Fence Books 2011), was selected by C.S. Giscombe for the National Poetry Series. She co-founded and edits textsound.org. Wetherington teaches creative writing at Sierra Nevada College and is at work on a series of fake translations.
