poetry

Michael Basinski, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving

Wendy Kramer — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:06:49 -0400

Start: 05/24/2008 - 19:30

End: 05/24/2008 - 21:00

Timezone: US/Pacific

Artifact Reading Series
in collaboration with Nonsite Collective
hosts an evening of improvization, performance, and reading

Michael Basinksi, David Larsen, and Jeanne Heuving
Saturday, May 24th
6PM doors/6:30PM reading starts

The Oakland Art Gallery at Frank Ogawa Plaza
199 Kahn's Alley
Oakland CA 94612

Watch for related Nonsite events and curricular materials to be announced on this website soon!

Taylor Brady’s and Thom Donovan’s Nonsites || Rob Halpern's Introduction (Reading at Camerawork)

Nonsite admin — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:04:25 -0500

The following is a transcript of Rob Halpern’s introduction to Taylor Brady’s and Thom Donovan’s Nonsite/Camerawork reading on 7/25/07:

I want to introduce Taylor’s and Thom’s work by way of a little thought experiment. In the spirit of the Nonsite Collective’s commitment to turning the space between related projects into a kind of learning commons, I thought I’d talk about the commitments Taylor’s and Thom’s writing share, and I want to do this by way of the concept of the “nonsite” itself, insofar as this rubric has the potential to bring two projects into relation whose surface effects don’t resemble one another.

I should say, first, that while it’s difficult to dissociate the concept of the nonsite from the work of Robert Smithson, the Nonsite Collective isn’t interested in rehashing Smithson’s ideas. As Thom mentioned to me yesterday, the limit of Smithson’s notion of the “non-site” was made pretty clear recently by Tonya Foster. Responding to Smithson's fascination with Central Park, Foster remarked that his work on Central Park would have looked a lot different had he done a little bit of research regarding the impact of the park's construction on the African American community. Instead, that impact, and the various displacements that occurred around it, underwent a secondary erasure in Smithson's essay on “The Dialectical Landscape,” thus becoming a real, unacknowledged “nonsite.” And this touches on the way the collective wants to orient its attention, while testing the potential of such concepts for different kinds of critical and practical use.

NONSITE: Taylor Brady and Thom Donovan @ SF Camerawork

Nonsite admin — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 18:02:05 -0400

Start: 07/25/2007 - 18:00

End: 07/25/2007 - 20:30

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

A Nonsite/Camerawork co-presentation. Hosted by Camerawork at:
657 Mission St., Second Floor 
San Francisco, CA 94105 
(415) 512-2020
San Francisco-based Taylor Brady's Occupational Treatment (Atelos, 2006) continues the multi-volume cross-genre narrative work begun in his Microclimates (Krupskaya, 2001). Hopping from fragmented shards of poetry to cerebral prose to an odd and funny one-act play, Occupational Treatment sardonically explores the follies and momentary pleasures of existing in a jarring landscape saturated by media, detritus (real and imaginary), and other humans, a place where we occupiers find ourselves continually re-occupied by malevolent...well...unknowns.
Thom Donovan is a Ph.D. candidate at the SUNY-Buffalo Poetics Program. His books and chapbooks include: Sudden Miles (Potes & Poets Press, 1999), Tears Are These Veils (with Abby Walton; Wild Horses of Fire Press, 2004), and Mantle (with Kyle Schlesinger; Atticus/Finch, 2005). His book Soon-To-Be (For Interiority) is forthcoming with Cuneiform Press. Check whof.blogspot.com for ongoing projects, and works concerning Gordon Matta-Clark in the forthcoming issue of Sarah Campbell's P-Que.