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Readings & Events
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Redefining Art in Public Space: Service Media
Saturday, March 16, 2013 - 4:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor
Green Lantern Press
Panel Discussion & Book Release:
Inspired by The Green Lantern Press' 30th title, Service Media: Is it "Public Art" or is it Art in a Public Space?, this panel, , a Poetry Center of Chicago Heap of Language Series event, will discuss unconventional art works and practices that take place outside of galleries. As such, the panel extends a conversation that Service Media begins, from text-on-the-page to an evening of public discourse. Service Media: Is it "Public Art" or is it Art in a Public Space? is a collection of essays that investigates socially engaged art. Editor Stuart Keeler strives to reexamine the terminology surrounding this discipline, just as ensuing contributors explore and critique a range of socially minded projects as artists, administrators and critics. It's a collection that deserves attention for its careful assessment of a once-radical practice that has since become a staple in contemporary art practices and institutions alike.
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Taps on the Walls: Major General John Borling Reading & Book Signing
Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 7:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor [No Ticket Needed]
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the release of the Hanoi Hilton POWs—and the new book TAPS ON THE WALLS: Poems from the Hanoi Hilton (Master Wings Publishing, an imprint of the Pritzker Military Library) reveals a remarkable companion that sustained them through their darkest days: Poetry.
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Rehearsal Of A Grand Opera For One Person and Two Other People
Thursday, April 11, 2013 - 7:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor
Pulling from toy theater and the operatic tradition of regietheater, combined with the effect of streaming media in the present day, Caroline Picard and Devin King's Rehearsal of a Grand Opera for One Person presents a momentary installation, interrupted for 2 hours by improvisatory guitar, a reading from Laura Goldstein and a sound performance from Mark Booth. Laura Goldstein presents a performative translation of the title poem of her forthcoming collection and Mark Booth presents Flags, an audio composition in the form of a spoken list that begins with the line "The flag of your love is shaped like a snail copulating with a creme filled pastry" and continues describing a series of flags.
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The Book That Was To Come
Saturday, April 13, 2013 - 1:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
A discrete waypoint in our understanding of what the book might become, where it is (no longer) bound. Featuring poets and artists whose work concerns the past and future of literary forms, including recipients of the Envisioning the Future of the Book commission from the Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College. Interventions may include artists' books, works between page and screen, poems made from google books marginalia, and Orlando re-written by the vibrations of an oak tree.Featuring Doro Boehme, Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin, Lindsey French, Ian Hatcher, and Krissy Wilson. Curated by Judd Morrissey.
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Bad Rabbit
Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 6:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, 4th Floor Conference Room
Bad Rabbit presents an evening of performances that examine the relationship between organized and ambient sound as a way to uncover any connection language and aesthetic experience might share. To that end Grajeda presents her work Spatialization Study: Chapters, during which several performers read separate chapters of the same novel simultaneously. Benjamin Chaffee will present his study for a longer work of situated music. Jessica Speer and Caroline Picard will screen an original video paired with a soundscape comprised of sampled poetry and found sounds called Coyote Umwelt. Peter Speer will play a set on the modular synthesizer and oscilloscope.
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Talking Text/Texting Talk: A Performance Panel
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 - 6:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Claudia Cassidy Theater
if someone came up and started talking a poem at you how would you know it was a poem? ~ David Antin Though talk and text are always already bound up with one another, talking is not writing and writing is not talking. The ways in which they entail, exceed, and exclude each other are both obvious and ambiguous. This hybrid performance-panel brings together artists from disparate backgrounds whose practices entwine talking and writing in a variety of ways. Performance demonstrations from each panelist will be followed by a discussion, moderated by panel curator Ira S. Murfin, about the relationships between language in the body and language on the page. Fittingly, this panel will have two lives - first as a live event, and then as a special performance section of the journal Requited.
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SAIC's Lyric Voice - A Reading & Performance
Friday, May 10, 2013 - 3:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Randolph Cafe, 1st Floor
Students from the School of the Art Institute's Lyric Voice course, taught by writer Leila Wilson, will read, show, and perform their poetry, film, monologue, and comic projects.
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Verse/Chorus - an afternoon with 80 Foots Per Minute
Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 3:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor
Join us for an afternoon of music set to the texts of Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, and other found texts. Verse/Chorus is Emmy Bean, Troy Martin, and Chris Schoen.
Emmy Bean is a theater artist, musician, and puppeteer living in Chicago. She has performed most recently in "The Carter Family Family Show" at Rhino Fest with Neo-Futurists Chloe Johnston and Joe Dempsey, and in "Wake: A Folk Opera" with the Whiskey Rebellion. Her original puppet shows have been seen in Providence, Vermont, New York City, and Quebec. Since moving to Chicago, Emmy has worked as a performer, musician, and clown with Theater Oobleck, Abraham Werewolf, the Laboratory for the Development of Substitute Materials, and Chi-Town Clown at the Neo-Futurarium. She holds an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She sings songs and plays instruments with Chicago Lutherans, Tom Shaner, Annie Winkler, John Szymanski, and a rotating cast of persons under the age of 5.
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Leila Wilson & Averill Curdy - Poetry Reading & Book Release
Thursday, May 23, 2013 - 6:00pm
Chicago Cultural Center, Millennium Park Room, 5th Floor
Leila Wilson (The Hundred Grasses,
Milkweed Editions) and Averill Curdy (Song & Error, FSG) read from
their recently released poetry collections.
This is a free and public Poetry Center of Chicago event. Connect with us, and RSVP (optional) at facebook.com/PoetryCenter
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