
Discussion on Mathopoetics
Fred Moten Fernando Zalamea
A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
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A back and forth between Fred and Fernando on the transits and obstructions between mathematics and poetics, and how both help us to think from the other side.
Can we use sound, repetition and difference to personally and collectively engage with space, time and labour?
Live ISDN drone performance resonating between Dundee and an empty Montreal Grain Silo.
An audio and video investigation of gender cults, Catholicism, hauntings and nuns’ use of audio devices…
What does it mean to listen with the mind as well as the ears? A solo performance from the great avant-garde pianist.
For day five of Ultra-red’s project, the investigation will review the previous work undertaken together, and perhaps draw up a summary of reflections and pose some future questions.
Jandek performing at the Scottish Rite Theatre in Austin, Texas with Juan Garcia, Nick Hennies and Chris Cogburn.
Torrential, wrenching wordless wails, guttural screams and roars, a Haino solo vocal performance.
Akio Suzuki and John Butcher performing in a remote sea cave near Durness.
A somehow hyper-modern, ancient and folkloric lip-synced, made-up, fashioned performance.
A short chat about what we (Arika) might be trying to do with our program for the Biennial.
“Mackey composes realist-mythic layering of lyrical prose unlike anything being written today.” — New York Times. “Our greatest living epic poet…Mackey’s poetry and criticism have reinvented modernism for our time.”— LitHub