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Jhave articulates a concern of "This Ain't Your Daddy's Concpo"

Concrete is a technological substance: a synthetic hard surface, impermeable, roadworthy. The intention of concrete poetry's founders (Eugen Gomringer in Switzerland and simultaneously the Noigandres group in Brazil) was to differentiate and distance *concrete* from the soft, emotional, labial ambiguity of traditional poetry; an inadvertent side effect of the initial intention is that a residual machismo clings to concrete poetry's exposition. —Aesthetic Animism, p. 26

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Protest Signs as Concrete Action Poetry

In this season of darkness & light, I’ve been thinking about the care people put into making protest signs. Whether we make them on a computer or with pens and paints on placards, we’re thinking about language objects in space, and treating language as something to look at as well as read. We also create conditions for multiple language object compositions to be in relational space with one another. This is the way I think about concrete poetry, but in the case of protest signs, the term concrete also suggests tangibility and direct action. Of course, this sense of the word is often immanent with concrete poetry. Next time you participate in or happen by a protest, rally or other public action where people are carrying signs, consider yourself in the presence of concrete action poetry, and see what that does to your sense of language, writing and the world.

Here are a couple signs I made for the February 4, 2017 Stonewall rally, along with a photo of an anthology of concrete action poems installed in front of the Stonewall Inn at the end of the rally.

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still images from »material studies« by claire donato

have a look at the videos here: https://vimeo.com/clairedonato

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Language Abjects: Claire Donato’s Material Studies

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language diagram plan view

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from David Gissen’s The Appearance of the Letters of the Hollywood Sign in the Smog and at a Distance – An Experimental Text (Exhibition, Wuho, Hollywood, CA, April, 2016)

where degree of smogginess correlates to textual misreading

See also:

Courtesy RuggyBearLA Photography

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Mike Borkent, Patrick Collier, Gleb Kolomiets, Jesse Glass, and Jeff T. Johnson

Another illuminating entry in a fine series curated by Nico Vassilakis.

#bpnichol #david baptiste chirot #gleb kolomiets #jeff t. johnson #jesse glass #nico vassilakis #johnson #vassilakis #nichol #morrissey #jeffery

Was there an experience, a specific interaction with visual poetry that infected your brain, made you see language...

Was there an experience, a specific interaction with visual poetry that infected your brain, made you see language differently or drew you toward exploring vispo further? Is there a vispoem that captured your imagination. What piece first awakened in you the possibility of a visual alphabet/language alternative? That was the general question posed and here are the results. Though this query is overly reductive, the poets were kind enough to choose, for the most part, a singular vispoem as example of this phenomenon. The over forty posts will be rolled out in groups of five each. Enjoy!

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