A Damn "Wish I Could Be There!" Squared: George Quasha, "Principle Art: The Poetics of Thinking"

The Theorizing Lecture Series presents: 
 
GEORGE QUASHA 
"Principle Art: The Poetics of Thinking" 
 
Tuesday, April 19th at 5:00 PM 
Max Kade Center room 329, A Wing 
3401 Walnut St. next to Starbucks 
 
Artist, poet, critic, and musician George Quasha works across mediums 
and disciplines to explore principles in common within language, 
sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. Solo 
exhibitions of "axial stones" and "axial drawings" include the 
Baumgartner Gallery in New York (Chelsea), the Slought Foundation in 
Philadelphia, and at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz. 
His lecture will present a theory of "principle" in art, poetry, music, 
thinking, and consciousness, and in particular the "axial principle," 
where "principle" is in contrast (and yet complementary) to "conceptual" 
art. 
 
His recent books are: /Verbal Paradise/ /(preverbs)/ (as the first of a 
6 volume work of "preverbs") (Zasterle Press, 2011); /An Art of Limina: 
Gary Hill's Works and Writings/, with Charles Stein, Foreword by Lynne 
Cooke (Poligrafa: Barcelona, 2010); /Axial Stones: An Art of Precarious 
Balance/ (North Atlantic Books: 2006). 
 
Quasha other books include poetry (/Somapoetics/, /Giving the Lily Back 
Her Hands/, /Ainu Dreams/ [with Chie Hasegawa]); anthologies (/America a 
Prophecy/ [with Jerome Rothenberg], /Open Poetry/ [with Ronald Gross], 
/An Active Anthology/ [with Susan Quasha], /The Station Hill Blanchot 
Reader/ [with Charles Stein]); and writing on art (/Gary Hill: Language 
Willing/; with Charles Stein: /Tall Ships, HanD HearD/liminal objects/, 
/Viewer/. Quasha's awards include a National Endowment for the Arts 
Fellowship in poetry and a Guggenheim Fellowship in video art in 2006. 
He has taught at Stony Brook University (SUNY), Bard College, New School 
University (Graduate Anthropology Department), and Naropa University. He 
is also the founder/publisher of Station Hill Press of Barrytown (New 
York) with Susan Quasha. 
 
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. 
 
/Generously co-sponsored by the Graduate Group in Comparative Literature 
and Literary Theory, the English Department, the Art History 
Department's Zero Fund, the Theorizing Reading Group, and the Graduate 
and Professional Student Assembly (GAPSA)./