[Brooklyn]

Matvei Yankelevich and others
September 15, 2012, 2:00 pm
at Corrected Slogans: A Publication in Four Acts

Act 1: Poems for AmericaOn September 15, Triple Canopy will host the first half of Poems for America, a pair of symposia on poetics and conceptual art. Participants for this first symposium include Michael Corris, Aaron Kunin, Margaret Lee, K. Silem Mohammad, Ken Okiishi, Katie Raissian, Gretchen Wagner, and Matvei Yankelevich. (Details regarding the second part of the symposium, to be held in late October, will be announced on Triple Canopy’s website soon.) Poems for America will consider the ways in which acts of unoriginal composition—quotation, appropriation, transcription, and so on—create an aesthetic milieu in which certain modes of cultural production become legible, both historically and with reference to contemporary experience. How do the strategies inherited from conceptual art permit writers and artists to narrate the construction and projection of the self in relation to lived experience (rather than emphasizing abnegation of the self in favor of engagement with abstract concepts)? How do artists and poets engage with systems of language and thought to investigate the construction of historical and political identity, even while rejecting traditional modes of self-expression? How is conceptual writing and art published, and how is it shaped by changing technologies and related approaches to publication? 2:00—3:00 p.m., À Rebours 1. In the sense contrary to natural or habitual sense. 2. In a manner contrary to common sense, reason, or usage. 3. In reverse; inversely. Aaron Kunin in conversation with Ken Okiishi, moderated by Katie Raissian. 3:30—4:30 p.m., Conceptual Art History Black-and-white debates, gray matters, and red herrings. Michael Corris in conversation with Matvei Yankelevich, moderated by Lucy Ives. 5:00—6:00 p.m., Commonplaces A talk about excerption and arrangement; anagrams, buildings, and food. Margaret Lee in conversation with K. Silem Mohammad, moderated by Gretchen Wagner.   Click here for more information about Corrected Slogans: A Publication in Four Acts