WINTER 2017 - THE SPECTRE OF THE POETIC HAUNTING CONTEMPORARY ART? - SOLD OUT
NAUMAN’S ART OF SAYING ‘NO’
NEGATION, NEGATION, AFFIRMATION: AN INFINITY OF WAYS OF SAYING ‘NO’
POETIC POLITICS? REVISITING ‘THE POET ASSASSINATED’ IN LIGHT OF THE GENERALISED POETICAL CONDITION OF CONTEMPORARY ART
THE PRODUCTIVITY OF INCOMPREHENSIBILITY? FRAGMENTS OF MISUNDERSTANDING / MISUNDERSTANDING FRAGMENTS: T.W.A: FRAGMENTS OUT OF CONTEXT POETRY; OR, POETRY AFTER AUSCHWITZ?
IT IS FINE AND NECESSARY TO ABANDON ONESELF UTTERLY TO THE IMPRESSION A POETIC WORK MAKES … AND PERHAPS ONLY IN PARTICULAR CASES TO CONFIRM ONE’S FEELING THROUGH REFLECTION AND TO RAISE IT TO THE LEVEL OF THOUGHT … AND COMPLETE IT?
LANGUAGE-LIKE STRUCTURES THAT ACTUALISE THEMSELVES VIA FORMAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE NOT THEMSELVES EITHER SIGNIFYING OR CONCEPTUAL BUT WHICH ARE NONETHELESS CONSTITUTIVE OF ARTISTIC EXPERIENCE? ADORNO’S NOTION OF NON-CONCEPTUAL SPEECH/DISCURSIVITY
THE CONTORTED, AWKWARD, AND EMBARRASSING RECODING OF POETRY AS ‘CONCEPTUAL WRITING’ (IN ORDER TO BE ALLOWED TO EXIST IN ART SPACE)
SEIZE THE DEAD? WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE - THE QUICK AND THE DEAD POETS SOCIETY
‘ONE DOES NOT MAKE POETRY OUT OF IDEAS, BUT OUT OF WORDS’: THE POETRY OF THE PRESS RELEASE - ROMANTICISM WITH A VENGEANCE? OR: ‘MORALISING INFORMATION’: INTERNATIONAL ART ENGLISH
THING001254 (FOR POK): ARE INSTRUCTIONS MERELY AN IDEA FOR AN ART WORK, OR ALREADY ITS EXPRESSION? (THE ARTWORK BETWEEN IDEA AND ACTUALITY)
CLASTICITY? (CARL ANDRE’S NEOCLASSICAL POETIC CONSTRUCTIONS)
CONFERENCE: INFORMATION AND CRITICISM: POETRY AND JUDGEMENT (OR; THE DISPLACEMENT OF THE ‘LITERATURE’ FROM THE EARLY GERMAN ROMANTIC CONCEPT OF ART IN GENERAL TO A SPECIFIC DISCIPLINE OF CRITICISM OF THE HUMANITIES)
NEWS: BOB DYLAN’S NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE? PART OF MUSIC SUBSISTS WITHIN POETRY? POETICS CONTAINS THE MUSICAL ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE?
NEWS: POET IN SAINT-POL-ROUX PUTS SIGN ON BEDROOM DOOR EVERY NIGHT BEFORE SLEEP: ’THE POET IS WORKING’
‘VILE’ AND ‘VULGAR’: UNREFLECTIVE REFLECTIONS: THE CHAPMAN BROS. NEW DEGENERATE ART?
RACHEL WHITEREAD - TATE BRITAIN