Attention Past Present & Future Next Objectivists
Our Spring Meeting Schedule is now determined!
Please join us at the following events!
Tuesday 6 May 6-8pm Three Walls Gallery (119 N. Peoria) The Next Objectivists join film maker
Irina Botea @ her show, It is now a matter of learning hope. We invite YOU to join us as we rewrite these films into objectivist poetry.
Irina Botea’s It is now a matter of learning hope foregrounds how hope as an emotion is connected to imagination and the possibility of social change. The show features four films: Impersonation, a reenactment of Charles A Leale’s book Lincoln’s Last Hours featuring Abraham Lincoln presenters. Art historians-a conversation presents three art
historians expressing their emotional engagement with the artworks at the
Bruckenthal Museum in Sibiu, Romania. Photocopy/Fotocópia is a performance
stimulated through reprocessing experiences acquired during the 15 May
protests in Spain – in a space outside of the public realm of social
action – the studio.It is now a matter of learning hope presents artist
Ileana Faur learning and rehearsing fragments of written utopian
theories, set against the backdrop of Morii Island, one
of many failed utopian architectural projects that were never finished
by Nicolae Ceausescu, ex- dictator of Romania.
Wednesday 7 May 6-8pm Mozart Field House (2036 N. Avers Ave.) The Next Objectivists team up with Borderbend Arts Collective to present four writing workshops on four consecutive Wednesdays this May! We will be reading/discussing/writing together. Our general theme will be the Problem of the Individual for Political Poetics.Most writers prize their individuality, and we often value poems as expressions of "personal" perspectives and styles. Politics depends upon collaboration, a collective vision, an acknowledgement of one's place in constituencies. How have past writers working in the Objectivist Poetry tradition reconciled this contradiction? How shall we reconcile the "problem" of individualism in the future? Each workshop will be devoted to a particular aspect of these issues. The first workshop is devoted to "engaged irony." We will explore the difference between sincerity, irony and sarcasm, considering how each attitude negotiates the move from private to public discourse.
Wednesday 14 May 6-8pm Mozart Field House (2036 N. Avers Ave.)
Wednesday 21 May 6-8pm Mozart Field House (2036 N. Avers Ave.)
Wednesday 28 May 6-8pm Mozart Field House (2036 N. Avers Ave.)
Please note that all Next Objectivists Workshops are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! No experience necessary! You are invited to leave your expertise at the door.
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Spring Quarter Begins
It was a long winter. One for the record books. But spring arrives eventually & the Next Objectivists shake their shaggy pelt & go in search of blackberries of the sort described by Francis Ponge. Or, if I may be so bold as to quote N.O. Gene Tanta, "The nice temps will mobilize poets, put a bounce in their Schlitz."
There was NEVER a BETTER TIME to join or otherwise convert or reconvert yourself into an ACTIVE member of the Next Objectivists. Please recall that we are the world's only 100% autonomous poetry & poetics workshop dedicated to the study and reproduction of Poetry from the Outsidereal. We may not look like much "on the ground" but historically we are a rare & stimulating event. Plus, you may well be spending too much time watching TV on your laptop. It's springtime people, as in time to spring as in into action.
There are three or four items on our current agenda, which I enumerate by genre:1. A Invitation Accepted: The Next Objectivists @ Three Walls Gallery Tuesday 6 May, 6pm
There are many ways we might take advantage of this public space, but it's workshop custom to resist the neoliberal voice of the father, which seeks to distract the subject from the pain of alienation with multiple choices, otherwise known as opportunities. Therefore, I propose we use this venue for a project that has been percolating for several years: PLOP or Performative Lectures on Oppositional Poetics. As the name implies, this project is imagined as series of lecture/workshops about different oppositional practices or writing/editing/performing/
The dates/times of these meetings are:
- Wed. 23 April 7-10pm
- Sat. 3 May 4-7pm
- Wed. 14 May 7-10pm
- Sat. 17 May 4-7pm
a) Catching up and hanging out; we eat together, we drink together
b) Deciding upon and planning these upcoming events
c) Revisiting and re-invigorating a number of writing projects; currently there are three writing projects that we have begun but not concluded:
b) Deciding upon and planning these upcoming events
c) Revisiting and re-invigorating a number of writing projects; currently there are three writing projects that we have begun but not concluded:
i. Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mashups Chapbook: we produced many pages of Raw Or/e which could be revised into a new collection of poems.
ii. The Next Objectivists Anthology: the first 5 years. We have collected several hundred pages of poetic experiments and written an introduction. We need to find a publisher or determine how to publish it ourselves.Should we submit Next Objectivist poems to magazines?
iii. Into the Skilling, Into the Fire, or Here Comes Some eBad Whether: at our last regular meeting we conceived of an opera organized around the simple & profound fact that Tom Skilling, Chicago weatherman, & Jeff Skilling, of Enron infamy, are brothers. What were their family dinners like? Did Tom forecast gloomy or sparkling weather on the days when Jeff was indicted, tried, convicted? Can we write a libretto & if so why? What is the relation between a Tom, Dick and Harry & a Mutt and Jeff?
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