
SIREN (Some Poetics)
Dancing Foxes Press
Published on 18. July 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-954947-05-4 (ISBN)
Description
Poetics as artistic practice and world-making: practitioners from Bernadette Mayer and Sky Hopinka to Liliane Lijn and Shanzhai Lyric explore the wilder, parapoetic shores of language
Through work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies, as well as additional thinkers and artistic contributors, SIREN considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists in works that trouble the line between language as a literary practice and language as a visual one. Both human and nonhuman forms of language-making and poetics are insisted upon, from precolonial myth to scientific speculation, fungal networks to gut bacteria, text to textile, poem to algorithm.
Contributors include: Ruth Estevez, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Don Mee Choi, Anais Duplan, Katja Aufleger, Patricia L. Boyd, Bia Davou, Sky Hopinka, Liliane Lijn, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Nour Mobarak, Senga Nengudi, Rivane Neuenschwander, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro, Aura Satz, Ser Serpas, Shanzhai Lyric, Jenna Sutela, Iris Touliatou, Christa Wolf and Dena Yago.
Through work by artists and poets of various generations and geographies, as well as additional thinkers and artistic contributors, SIREN considers the ways in which language is increasingly employed by artists in works that trouble the line between language as a literary practice and language as a visual one. Both human and nonhuman forms of language-making and poetics are insisted upon, from precolonial myth to scientific speculation, fungal networks to gut bacteria, text to textile, poem to algorithm.
Contributors include: Ruth Estevez, Hana Noorali and Lynton Talbot, Don Mee Choi, Anais Duplan, Katja Aufleger, Patricia L. Boyd, Bia Davou, Sky Hopinka, Liliane Lijn, Bernadette Mayer, Rosemary Mayer, Nour Mobarak, Senga Nengudi, Rivane Neuenschwander, Mayra A. Rodriguez Castro, Aura Satz, Ser Serpas, Shanzhai Lyric, Jenna Sutela, Iris Touliatou, Christa Wolf and Dena Yago.
Reviews / Votes
Assembles media-spanning work from the 1970s to the present to explore poetry in the expanded field, a form of language-making that - like the Sirens' song - traffics in the unknowable and unutterable. -- Cassie Packard * Frieze * In a sense, the imagined grotesquerie of the Homeric Sirens was yet another way for patriarchs to repress the ambivalence of other voices. These artists claim the possibility that an incantation could be so powerful. -- Travis Diehl * The New York Times * Instead of situating the siren call as a sound that is only perceptible by and exclusive to humans, Latimer posits a mode of listening that is metaphorical, contingent-and at the same time, often pleasurable. -- Wendy Vogel * Art Agenda * Produces a profoundly sensual experience in which reading, looking, listening, and moving become one...No artificial cohesion has been enforced, no top-down epic narrative exerted, but harmonies and resonances have been found, creating polyphony. -- Elvia Wilk * 4Columns *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
NY
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
125 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
814 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-954947-05-4 (9781954947054)
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