THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ DIXON PLACE



DIXON PLACE and the FLARF COLLECTIVE
Present MOVIE NITE

MAY 1 & 2, 2009 8PM

A Mini-Festival of Live Interactives, Musical Attacks, Neo-Benshi, Experimental Video and other damages to the World's Cinematic Legacy

A Benefit for Dixon Place

Advance Tickets: $12/show ($15 at the door) Both nights: $20

Advance Tickets Available (and highly recommended) at www.dixonplace.org

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

*Friday, May 1st*

Sharon Mesmer, Dainipponjin
David Larsen, Logan's Run
Edwin Torres, Five 1/2

*Intermission*

Nicole Peyrafitte, A Voyage to the Moon
Julian Brolaski (with Paul Foster Johnson), Another Man's Poison
Bruce Andrews (with Brandon Downing), Sip Girl

*Video by Konrad Steiner, Linh Dinh, Nada Gordon and Brandon Downing

*Saturday, May 2nd*

David Larsen, Troy
Nada Gordon, Navrang
Tisa Bryant, Untitled
Gary Sullivan, Darby O'Gill and the Little People

*Intermission*

Eileen Myles, Satyricon
Bruce Andrews (with Brandon Downing), Gossip Bruce
Drew Gardner and Risa Puno, Untitled

*Video by Konrad Steiner, Linh Dinh, and Brandon Downing

GORDON MESMER SULLIVAN @ SPACESPACE



8:00 PM, SAT, APR 25th
SPACESPACE
390 Seneca Avenue (entrance on Stanhope)
Free poetry, dirt cheap beer, spankings.

THE WHITNEY VIDS ARE IN



Nada has uploaded everything she captured from the Flarf vs. Conceptual reading at the Whitney on her YouTube page.

I took gold medals in both the "worst dressed" and "worst hair" categories.

Gooooo, me!

FLARF VS. CONCEPTUAL WRITING @ THE WHITNEY



An Evening of Contemporary Poetry: Conceptual Writing and The Flarf Collective
Friday, April 17 7:00 p.m.

Conceived and organized by poet Kenneth Goldsmith on the occasion of the exhibition Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT

This reading presents eight writers associated with two cutting-edge movements in contemporary poetry: Conceptual Writing and The Flarf Collective. The followers of both movements employ technology to write their works, often using strategies familiar to the visual arts: appropriation, falsification, insincerity, and plagiarism. Fusing the avant-garde impulses of the last century with the technologies of the present, these strategies propose an expanded field for twenty-first century poetry. This new writing is not bound exclusively between the pages of a book and it continually morphs from the printed page to the webpage, from the gallery space to the science lab, from the social space of the poetry reading to social space of the blog. It is a poetics of flux, one that celebrates instability and uncertainty.

Featured poets: Christian Bök, Nada Gordon, Kenneth Goldsmith, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, Kim Rosenfield, Gary Sullivan, Darren Wershler-Henry

This event is free with Museum Admission, which is pay-what-you-wish during Whitney After Hours on Fridays from 6-9 pm. Inquiries: public_programs@whitney.org or (212) 570-7715.

FOR KENNETH GOLDSMITH


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MOVIE NITE @ DIXON PLACE



On Friday and Saturday, May 1st & 2nd, 2009, join us as some of New York's most accomplished writers and performers take the movies to task. Featuring a mix of realtime commentary, collaged and re-edited fragments, Neo-Benshi (live film narration) and other perversions, this two-evening program should prove that all poets really want to do is create chaos and watch movies. Curated by Brandon Downing. Presented by the Flarf Collective and Dixon Place. A benefit for Dixon Place, a 501 (c) 3 organization.