[New York, NY]

Robert Fitterman Performing in the CUNY Prelude Festival
October 13, 2011, 9:00 pm
at CUNY Graduate Center

Extreme Appropriation ROBS Robert Fitterman ADAM PENDLETON'S "BLACK DADA MANIFESTO" Will Holder DICK’S JOKES Donelle Woolford Robert Fitterman will be reading from several of his works—all of which highlight repurposed language from the web-- spun together in a Colin Powell-like Power Point presentation. Robert Fitterman is the author of 12 books of poetry. He grew up in a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, called Creve Coeur. His boyhood street is still flanked by a Shell gas station on one side and a Mobile station on the other. His writing is kinda conceptual and sorta involves identity issues that are complicated by the web. And the Mall. Recent titles include: now we are friends (Truck Books), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books), and Notes On Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse). He has collaborated with several visual artists including Tim Davis, Nayland Blake, Cheryl Donegan, Penelope Umbrico, Klaus Killisch and others. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies. The Collective Task will be performing at MoMA in early 2012 as part of the Modern Poetry Series. ABOUT PRELUDE.11 The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center at the Graduate Center, CUNY is pleased to present PRELUDE.11, the eighth annual PRELUDE festival dedicated to artists at the forefront of contemporary New York City theatre, dance and visual art performance. PRELUDE will offer over 20 short performances, readings, and open rehearsals—a completely free sneak-peek into the work being prepared for the 2011/12 season, as well as new commissions and daily panel discussions with artists and performers. PRELUDE is the annual three-day festival organized by the Martin E. Segal Theater Center at CUNY Graduate Center. It was established in 2003 with the remit of showing the best in New York-based theater and performance. Each year Frank Hentschker, director of the Martin E.Segal Theater Center, assembles a curatorial team to select and organize the program. All presentations will be held in the James Gallery and the Segal Center at CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue at 34th Street. A closing night party will be held on Friday 14 October at The Gershwin Hotel, 7 East 27th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues. All programs are subject to change. More info.