---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 04:25:40 From: Philip Meersman <[email protected]> Reply-To: Theory and Writing <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: The Underground Poetry Fest, Jette 19-21 september 2014. With academic Seminar, exhibition of Visual Poetry and lots of special performances Dear Alan, John, Nico e.a., please send this to interested poets and academics who work and research visual poetry and experimental poetry. Deadline call for papers on the topics, listed below, in the academic seminar is August 15th. The Underground Poetry Fest is an experimental poetry festival which celebrates different experimental forms of poetry like visual poetry, sound poetry and performance poetry. It will highlight the international exchanges between (experimental) poets and will present the following publications by the New York publisher Three Rooms Press(https://www.facebook.com/threeroomspress?fref=ts and http://threeroomspres s.com: ? ?This Is Belgian Chocolate?(http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Belgian-Chocolate-Manifestations/dp/19411100 10) and ? Maintenant #8, A Contemporary Dada Art & Literary Journal(http://threeroomspress.com/2014/04/preorder-now-maintenant-8-dada-journal/ ). The Underground Poetry Fest: Participants to The Underground Poetry Fest Academic seminar Deadlines papers = August 15th (presentation of paper = 10 min + Q&A), Skype presentation is possible. Confirmed: Key note speaker morning: Laura Lopez-Fernandez (New Zeeland) (via Skype) and Kila Van der Starre a) the morning session will be dedicated to defining visual poetry and the existing definitions on visual poetry and the relations between visual poetry, literature, art and music (noise, sound,...) and ways how to analyse and appreciate visual poetry. Keynote speaker will be Laura Lopez-Fernandez (New Zeeland) (via Skype) and Kila Van der Starre Round table discussion: Luc Fierens, Renaat Ramon, Helen White b) the afternoon session will be dedicated to Belgian Experimental Poetry and its place in the international scene. Topics here could be the belgian (neo-) avant-garde poets, Paul Van Ostayen, De Tafelronde, poesia visiva, Paul De Vree, Collage as visual poetry, the postfluxus series and other work by Luc Fierens, KriKri-festival and -organizers (Helen White, Maja Jantar and Jelle Meander), ... Participants to the Exhibition Visual Poetry: Renaat Ramon, Luc Fierens, Helen White, Maja Jantar, Lies Van Gasse (Hauser project), Frie J. Jacobs, Dirk Vekemans, Peter Wullen & Una Lee, Sandrine Verstraeten & Jean De Lacoste, Fork Burke, Alain Arias-Misson, Jaap Blonk, ACG Vianen, Rozalie Hirs, Heike Fiedler, Philip Meersman Performances at Maintenant #8 Peter Carlaftes, Kat Georges, Philip Meersman, Jaan ?Luulur? Malin, Fork Burke, Helen White, Renaat Ramon, Maja Jantar, Peter Wullen & Una Lee, Sandrine Verstraeten & Jean De Lacoste, Alain Arias-Misson, ACG Vianen, Tom Nisse, ?ditions Maelstr?m, Pascal Leclercq, Fjorton, Vincent Tholom?, winner Slam Braban?onne 2014. To be confirmed: Peter Waugh, Rozalie Hirs, Antoine Boute, Micha?l Vandenbril Recording the festival: Camera: Svend Thomsen (TVF; http://www.artvideo.tv) Camera: Sven De Swerts &co Photographer: JP (to be confirmed) Audio Recording: TnXR-Productions (to be confirmed) Provisional program The Underground Poetry Fest: Venue: GC Essegem, Leopold I straat 329 (entrance: A. Gomardstraat) Information on how to get there: http://www.essegem.be/contact Wednesday September, 17 Set up of exhibition Thursday September, 18: Arrival day Set up of exhibition, arrival of poets and transfer to venue or lodging place. Friday September, 19: This Is Belgian Chocolate day Arrival of poets and transfer to venue or lodging place. Seminar on (Belgian) Experimental Poetry (visual and sound poetry) 8.30: Welcome and registration 9.00: Laura Lopez-Fernandez (via Skype from New-Zealand (7pm local time) on "how to read visual poetry and the different units of signification in a visual poem." with Q&A 9.45 Kila Van der Starre on "Poetry off the page" with Q&A 10.30 coffee break 10.45 presentation of papers on defining visual poetry and how to research it + discussion 12.00 sandwich lunch 13.00 presentation of papers on Belgian experimental poetry, the international context and its influence + discussion 14.45 coffee break 15.00 round table discussion with Renaat Ramon, Luc Fierens and Helen White on the influence Belgian experimental poetry has had on the international (experimental) poetry scene + Q&A 16.30 conclusions of seminar Exhibition of visual poetry by contributors to Maintenant #7 & #8 and Belgian visual poets 17.00 Het Po?ziecentrum presents ?Vorm & Visie. Geschiedenis van de concrete en visuele po?zie in Nederland en Vlaanderen? by Renaat Ramon 17.30 opening exhibition of visual poetry by contributors to Maintenant #7 & #8 and Belgian visual poets This Is Belgian Chocolate: Manifestations of Poetry (a preview) Host of the evening: Fjorton & Philip Meersman 20.00 Short DAstrugistenDA performance 20.15 Introduction to "This Is Belgian Chocolate" by Three Rooms Press (Kat & Peter) and a critical reading by Kila Van der Starre, Xavier Roelens, Fjorton, (?)... 21.00 Preview "This Is Belgian Chocolate"(http://www.amazon.com/This-Is-Belgian-Chocolate-Manifestations/dp/19411100 10) with collaboration by DAstrugistenDA.... 22.00 chocolate at the reception, book signing... Saturday September, 20: Maintenant day Exhibition of visual poetry by contributors to Maintenant #7 & #8 and Belgian visual poets Maintenant #8 14.00 - 16.00 workshop visual poetry toddlers, primary school kids (Helen White) 14.00 - 16.00 workshop printing for toddlers, primary school kids (Pascal Leclercq) 17.30 Public Poem by Alain Arias-Misson including a DAstrugistenDA & Three Rooms Press procession to GC Essegem to honor Magritte, Duchamp, Surrealism, Dada, Chocolate, Languages and Sound- and Visual Poetry (Start: Fr?d?ric Mohrfeldstraat 65, Jette. Finish: GC Essegem) 18.30 short ghotic-underground-trash movie ?Dood aan de Powezie? (Death to Poetry) Host of the evening: Kat Georges & Peter Carlaftes 19.00 Presentation of Maintenant #8 A Contemporary Dada Art & Literary Journal by Three Rooms Press by Kat Georges and Peter Carlaftes. 19.30 - 22.15 every 15 minutes another performance by a poet and/or artist 22.15 Tom Nisse ?Cuv?e Illimit?e" 22.30 Apotheosis cooking performance by Peter Carlaftes and Philip Meersman 23.00 Messe Panique (?ditions Maelstr?m in collaboration with the audience and the spiritual presence of Fernando Arrabal) 23.10 Farewell diner with poets and invitees. (during the evening the netrelease of Unsung Minds will be presented by Peter Wullen & Una Lee.) (during the evening Peter Wullen will present the publication ?4Poems') Sunday September, 21: Departure day 10.00-12.00 workshop visual poetry for primary school kids age 6-9 years (Lies Van Gasse) Option to visit to Magritte Museum (http://www.magrittemuseum.be) or Option to visit to Muzeum Atelier 340 (http://www.atelier340muzeum.be/) Poets travel back home An organization by Spooninmybrain.org, concept Philip Meersman With the support of Three Rooms Press, GC Essegem, ?ditions Maeilstr?m, Thousand Poets for Change (100tpc.org), Het Po?ziecentrum, vzw Humus, ... -- Philip Meersman President of BAAZ (Belgische Afdeling Akademia Zaum) Co-ordinator Belgian Championship Poetry Slam Co-ordinator European Championship Poetry Slam Co-ordinator European Poetry & Slam Network Fr?d?ric Mohrfeldstraat 65 1090 Jette Belgium tel+32 (0)476 576 287 www.spooninmybrain.org www.myspace.com/spooninmybrain www.facebook.com/spooninmybrain www.youtube.com/spooninmybrain skype: Spooninmybrain [email protected]
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