Speech/acts / curated by Meg Onli ; organized and presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Univesrity of Pennsylvania.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Onli, Meg, curator.

University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Experimental poetry, American--Exhibitions.

Experimental poetry, American.

American poetry--African American authors--Influence--Exhibitions.

American poetry.

Poetry and the arts--Exhibitions.

Poetry and the arts.

American poetry--African American authors.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Manufacture:

United States : Shapco Printing Inc.

Other Title:

Speech acts

Place of Publication:

New York, NY ; Philadelphia, PA : Futurepoem Books ; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, [2017]

Summary:

Speech/Acts' brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Martine Syms all use experimental poetry in their work as a means to interrogate the power structures of language, rendering the experience of blackness more physically and affectively exact. In this volume, their work is presented alongside their poetic forerunners (seminal texts by Fred Moten and Harryette Mullen are reprinted), newly commissioned poetry by Morgan Parker and Simone White, and a new essay by curator Meg Onli.

Contents:

Foreword / Amy Sadao

Acknowledgements / Meg Onli

Cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be / Harryette Mullen

Speech, acts. / Meg Onli

Four / Simone White

Blackness and poetry / Fred Moten

Toward a new theory of negro propaganda / Morgan Parker.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Speech/Acts held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September13-December 23. 2017.

Edition of 1000.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780884541431

0884541436

OCLC:

1021024045