Poetry's Avant-Garde Return: Performers Remix Reality
A resurgence of poetry, drawing on avant-garde processes and remixing plastic forms, has moved beyond the literary sphere into strategies of derealization of an increasingly fictional reality. Poet-performers are deterritorializing the book by occupying new spaces and technologies, using body, voice, loops, samples, and samplers for live readings, video recordings, and CD editions, deliberately reducing sonic and textual material to its structure and blueprint. Among these writer-performers, Patrick Bouvet compresses real events in space and time, Christophe Hanna reorders and then dismantles signage and order, and Valérie Mréjen blurs boundaries between public and private space.
Key facts
- Poetry is returning via avant-garde processes and remixing of plastic forms.
- The movement moves beyond literature into derealization of a fictional real.
- Poet-performers deterritorialize the book using new spaces and technologies.
- Performers use body, voice, loops, samples, and samplers.
- Performances include live readings, video recordings, and CD editions.
- Material is reduced to its structure and blueprint.
- Patrick Bouvet compresses spatiotemporal events.
- Christophe Hanna reorders and dismantles signage and order.
- Valérie Mréjen blurs public and private space boundaries.
Entities
Artists
- Patrick Bouvet
- Christophe Hanna
- Valérie Mréjen
Sources
- artpress —