Gary Barwin delivered an excerpt from his score of Local Colour this weekend at St.Catharines’ Niagara Arts Centre — and explores the generation of the score and performance here.
Full Stop has just posted a review by Sam Rowe of Local Colour, Silence and How to Write. Check it out…
American visual poet Geof Huth has reviewed Gary Barwin’s “Four Panels” and “Six Panels”, both recently published by No press.
Please join us in St. Catharines, ON for a Roundtable Discussion on Contemporary Poetics, led by Steve McCaffery (Buffalo, NY), Karen Mac Cormack (Buffalo, NY), derek beaulieu (Calgary, AB), kevin mcpherson eckhoff (Kelowna, BC), Gary Barwin (Hamilton, ON), bill bissett (Toronto/Lunaria, ON/?), and Honey Novik (Toronto, ON), and hosted by local poet and professor Gregory Betts. Coffee and snacks will be provided.
Where: The Niagara Artists’ Centre, 354 St. Paul Street
When: 10am Saturday 12 March 2011
Cost: Free, courtesy the Department of English Language and Literature, Brock University
Eric Schmaltz at the Grey Borders Reading Series has interviewed me in advance of the Bird is the Word exhibition and perfrmance at the Niagara Arts Centre. I’ll be St.Catharines, ON March 11-13 for a series of readings, talks and round-tables in association with the exhibition…
Karis Shearer has just reviewed How to Write in Montreal’s finest literary magazine, Matrix. Click on the image for the entire review.
Zswound (a blog dedicated to heteroglossia, mixed speech, hybridization, distortion, glossolalia, linguistic mestizaje, slang, frontier-words, pop translation, dysfunctional or diverted translation, stolen languages, […]) has recently reviewed Local Colour here.
As part of the opening celebrations for “Bird is the Word” exhibition in St.Catharines this Spring, Gary Barwin will be performing a musical interpretation of my novel Local Colour. He has created a musical score (a page of which is excerpted on the left) ,where the Y axis is time; X axis is pitch. An excerpt from Gary’s “Local Colour” work-in-progress is available here.
Gary’s work can be found extensively online, including his Doctoral dissertation “Martin’s Idea“
On display from 9 March – 4 June 2011
Niagara Artists Centre
354 St.Paul Street,
St. Catharines, ON, Canada
The Bird is the Word
derek beaulieu • bill bissett • Judith Copithorne • kevin mcpherson eckhoff • Marinko Jareb • Travis Kirton • Kelly Mark • Steve McCaffery • a.rawlings • Laurel Woodcock • Hallie Siegel & Matthew Donovan & Gregory Betts
Opening Reception Friday 11 March 7pm
Readings beginning at 8pm by derek beaulieu, bill bissett & Honey Novick, a.rawlings, kevin mcpherson eckoff and Steve McCaffery & Jeremy Lessard. Musical Performance by Gary Barwin
This exhibit explores the territory where language and visual art intersect through the work of writers and artists. This common (play)ground has been covered by Concrete Poets, Cubists, Dadaists, Futurists, and Surrealists among others. Expanding semantic expression beyond the conventional structures of language includes the exploration of typography as imagery and engages philosophy, semiotics, and political and social commentary. The Bird is the Word will feature six poets and six visual artists from across Canada delving into the conceptual, spatial, and material presence of the written word. It showcases a multiplicity of media and disciplines including video projection, onsite installation, collage, sculpture, and micrography.
I am honoured to be named one of Broken Pencil‘s “50 Favourite Indie Arts People and Places” (I assume i’m one of the people and not a place… see article at left).
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