Poet and interdisciplinary artist David Abel to visit Carthage this week!
Poet and interdisciplinary artist David Abel will visit campus this week! Attend a talk titled “What is the Zetaqop?” from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in the Niemann Media Theater.
Join us also for his Visiting Writers Series event at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in the Niemann Media Theater.
“What is the Zetaqop?”
David Abel will present a guided tour through his history of experiments with language, exploring how immaterial pre-occupations can take material form. He will present the results of his frequent collaborations with book artists to make eccentric material and physical realizations of eccentric texts, reading, performing, and showing a selection of unique textual objects. And he will narrate how this life of collaboration and experiment led him intuitively to his career as a bookstore proprietor and collector, distributor, and scholar of artists’ books, small press poetry, and other experiments on paper.
About David Abel
David Abel is a writer, editor, and curator, and the proprietor of Passages Bookshop in Portland, Ore. A founding member of the Spare Room reading series, now in its twenty-second year, he was also a cofounder of Thirteen Hats, a collective of Portland writers and artists; a member of the Four Wall Cinema collective; and an inaugural Research Fellow of the Center for Art + Environment of the Nevada Museum of Art. His recent publications include a chapbook of poems, “Equifinality,” from Crane’s Bill in Albuquerque, N.M.; two books based on verbal performance scores — “XIV Eclipses,” published by Couch Press in Portland, and “Selected Durations,” published by the Black Rock Press at the University of Nevada in Reno — and a new edition, published by Redfoxpress in Ireland, of the visual narrative “Carrier,” which was first released in a limited edition by Portland’s c_L Books. The first volume of an ongoing hybrid serial work, “Sweep,” is forthcoming from Chax Press in Tucson.
Media mentions/resources
- Performance videos:
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- Recent episode of (Bainbridge Island Museum of Art) devoted in part to “Selected Durations” (10:34)