Curated by Holly Crawford & Nico Vassilakis
JANUARY 22, 2015 – FEBRUARY 7, 2015
OPENING RECEPTION: THURS, JAN 22nd from 6 – 8PM, Speed Bump Trio
EVENT: THURS., FEB 5th from 6 – 8PM
PRESENTERS: Geof Huth, Erica Baum, Gary Barwin & Richard Kostelanetz
AC INSTITUTE
547 W 27th St #210, NYC, NY 10001
Work from The Last Vispo Anthology: Visual Poetry, COLDFRONT vispo and more.
Text-based art, or vispo, marries verbal and visual language. There are many ways to form this union: words and letters can dissolve into gestures, be obscured, faded or obliterated, or play with one another in ways that create multiple meanings. They can even evolve beyond legible text into shapes, forms and colors that only the imagination can read.
The intent of this exhibition is to share the various ways that text can transform into something far removed from the literal. Some contributors approach the work as poets, others as artists, yet each uses text, words, and gestural marks as compositional elements. In addition, their investigations playfully combine humor and wit, calligraphy and letters, participation and poetry, social commentary and linguistic ambiguity.
Featuring works by Martha Wilson, Richard Kostelanetz, Ray Beldner, Richard Humann, and many more.
NYC string trio SPEED BUMP will also perform in celebration of their first full-length album, WEDDING MUSIC, on opening night (January 22, 2014) starting at 7pm.
Among those showing:
COLDFRONT VISPO
Cia Rinne
Reed Altemus
Natalie Czech/derek beaulieu
Lucinda Sherlock
Marianne Holm Hansen
Stephanie Strange
Youdhisthir Maharjan
Gary Barwin
Tim Youd
Russian Visual Poetry/Olchar Lindsann & Gleb Kolomiets
Erica Baum
Theo Green
Anneke Baeten
Jean-Francois Bory
Volodymyr Bilyk
Jim Wittenberg
Lawrence Upton
Hank Lazer
Vittore Baroni
Ana Suarez
De Villo Sloan
Allan Bealy/David Seaman
Charles Bernstein
Philip Meersman
Stephen Vincent
Robert Grenier/Stephen Ratcliffe
Robert Zend/Camille Martin
Aram Saroyan
Alain Satie/David Seaman
a.rawlings
Lin Tarczynski
Ariel Gonzalez Losada
Fatima Queiroz
Martin Gubbins
Rosaire Appel
Jorg Piringer
Miriam Midley
Sven Staelens
Demosthenes Agrafiotis
bill bissett
Judith Copithorne
Hale Anbar & Gokhan Turhan
Jassim Mohammed Artis
Amarilys Quintero Ruiz
LAST VISPO ANTHOLOGY
Ross Priddle
Scott Helmes
Reed Altemus
Judith Copinthone
David Baptiste Chirot
Joseph Keppler
Suzan Sari
Gareth Jenkins
Tim Gaze
Cecil Touchon
Robert Grenier
James Yeary
derek beaulieu
endwar
Stephen Vincent
Gustave Morin
Dirk Krecker
Daniel f. Bradley
Despina Kannaourou
mARK oWEns
mIEKAL aND
Hartmut Andryczuk
Rea Nikonova
Jaap Blonk
Andrew Topel
Fernando Aguiar
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