 
Notes on Conceptualism Lecture
Vanessa Place
Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
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Vanessa Place talks at The Friday Event series at the Glasgow School of Art about her practice as a writer.
 
“The miracle of Herman Melville is this: that a hundred years ago in Moby Dick…he painted a picture of the world in which we live, which is to this day unsurpassed.” – C. L. R. James
 
Transfeminist, communist, revolutionary poetry that refuses to flinch. Nat Raha presents new work in the nine.
 
The most sophisticated synthetic music around: timbrally otherwise body music as sonified fictions and auditive sociograms.
 
Kenneth Goldsmith reads extracts of his conceptual poetry and Achim Wollscheid manipulates mobile phone signals.
 
Dir. Nicolas Philibert
Documentary of La Borde clinic in France and its radical politics of experimentation, in which residents and staff reciprocate in a kind of entanglement, an opening up amongst themselves.
 
This set continues on from the Bud Neill inspired clatter using the contents of the Usurper twin’s pockets.
 
One of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation discusses practices of Indigenous Resurgence drawn from Nishnaabeg poetic knowledge.
 
A performed, open, public conversation about how we might think politics from the position of intuition, in which Denise and Valentina use un-reasonable tools to map out a hybrid poetical/ ethical reading of their own situations.
 
Four perspectives from people involved in different anti-capitalist and anti-racist struggles, considering how ideas of ‘ending’ have shaped their political thinking and praxis.
 
Chip will read some of his great literary pornography, which pushes sexuality to the point of extremity and exhaustion.
 
This event honoured those individuals who achieved the status of Icon during the period of 1986-1990.