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New Visions Programs
&
The University of Rochester
present
Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
in
SUMERICABACHBONEs
Tuesday, April 29
7 p.m.
Gowan Room in Wilson Commons
on the U of R Campus
Free and open to the public
Sumericabachbones features poet/scholar/translator Pierre Joris and
performance artist Nicole Peyrafitte in the most timely, provocative and
exhilarating cultural event currently touring the states. U of R
organizing co-sponsor Dimitri Anastasopoulos describes the event as
follows:
Sumericabachbones is a nomadic performance that roams across a range of
media, metamorphosing from a poetry reading into a spectacle of sound
and
scene as Nicole Peyrafitte and Pierre Joris present the work of Iraqi
dissident poets, Joris' poems which have been influenced by Bedouin
culture, and Peyrafitte's often eerie incantations and startling digital
images.
Amidst a controversial political backdrop, Joris and Peyrafitte present
poetry across a global landscape: poems that question not just cultural
misreadings, but the act of reading itself - of how language can be used
to
highlight as well as undermine boundaries between peoples and genres in
the act of making meaning.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS:
Pierre Joris left Luxembourg at eighteen & has since lived in the US,
Great Britain, North Africa & France. He has published over 20 books &
chapbooks of poetry, among them, WINNETOU OLD (Meow Press, Buffalo, NY),
TURBULENCE (St. Lazaire Press, Rhinebeck), and BRECCIA, SELECTED POEMS
1974-1986 (Editions Phi / Station Hill), as well as several anthologies
and many volumes of translations, both into English & into French, the
most recent being Paul Celan's Breathturn, Maurice Blanchot's The
Unavowable Community & Edmond Jabès's From the Desert to the Book (both
from Station Hill Press). In 1992 he returned to the Mid-Hudson valley &
teaches in the Department of English at SUNY-Albany. With Jerome
Rothenberg he has published a two volume anthology of 20th Century
Avant-Garde writings, POEMS FOR THE MILLENNIUM: A UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA BOOK OF MODERN & POSTMODERN POETRY, (University of California
Press) the first volume of which received the 1996 Pen Oakland Josephine
Miles Award for Excellence in Literature. Rothenberg's & Joris's
previous collaboration pppppp: Selected Writings of Kurt Schwitters
(Temple University Press, 1993) was awarded the 1994 PEN Center USA West
Literary Award for Translation. A new collection of poems entitled
POASIS was published by Sun & Moon Press, as was a theoretical volume,
TOWARDS A NOMADIC POETICS, from Spanner Editions in England. Rothenberg
& Joris are presently co-editing & co-translating the collected writings
of Pablo Picasso for Exact Change publishers in Boston.
For more on Pierre Joris visit: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/joris/
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Nicole Peyrafitte was born & raised in Luchon, French Pyrenees.
Peyrafitte left her hometown, where she was a cook, in 1981, to live in
Toulouse & Paris where she modeled, cooked and worked for theater and
local television. She arrived in the United States in 1987, first
settling in Southern California and then moving to Albany, New York in
1992. Each step of Peyrafitte's work attempts to fulfill her compulsion
to learn through a process of immersion that generates performances
incorporating voice/paintings/drawings/collages/
writing & even cooking. Peyrafitte performs locally, nationally and in
Europe.
For more on Nicole Peyrafitte visit: http://www.nicolepeyrafitte.com/
Don't miss SUMERICABACHBONEs! |
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