TFANA and Saint Flashlight present The Will of the City, poems inspired by playwright and poet William Shakespeare, launching today and running through the fall. Spotlighting the work of over a dozen writers, this activation will transform the streetside and outdoor screens at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (262 Ashland Place, Brooklyn, NY) Theatre for a New Audience's home in Fort Greene into a bi-weekly updated anthology of poems inspired by Shakespeare's plays.
Mónica De La Torre.
Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists studios to bring Americas Society s Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every other Wednesday, contemporary artists will dialogue with our Visual Arts department about their work and practice. Check out the series playlist.
About the writer:Â
Repetition Nineteen (Nightboat). Other books include
The Happy End/All Welcomeâa riff on a riff on Kafka s
Amerikaâand
Public Domain. With Alex Balgiu, she co-edited the anthology
Women in Concrete Poetry 1959â79 (Primary Information) and teaches at Brooklyn College and Bardâs MFA program.
Art by Matt Chase.
The law of imitative representation, aka mimesis, reigned supreme in Western art for so long that its resistors sometimes found
it hard to stop battling it, even when and where it had lost its grip. Consider, for example, some responses to so-called concrete poetry on the part of advocates of so-called conceptual art. The writer and critic Lucy Lippard differentiates between concrete poetry’s naive strategies of linguistic resemblance “where the words are made to look like something, an image” and conceptualism’s more sophisticated liberty “where the words are used only to
avoid looking like something, where it doesn’t make any difference how the words look on the page or anything.”