Syndicate: project by Dmitry Bulatov

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From: "Marta Smolikova" <marta.smolikova@osf.cz>
To: syndicate@aec.at
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 16:45:37 +0000


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Date:          Sat, 9 Jan 1999 14:20:30 -0500 (EST)
From:          Inna Tigountsova <itigount@chass.utoronto.ca>
To:            marta.smolikova@ecn.cz
Subject:       info

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> DEPARTMENT OF SLAVIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (U OF T, TORONTO, CANADA)
> NATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART (KALININGRAD BRANCH, RUSSIA)
> CENTRE FOR RUSSIAN AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES (U of T, TORONTO, CANADA)
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> P         R         E         S         E         N         T
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> a project by Dmitry Bulatov, contemporary Russian poet and
> artist, "A POINT OF VIEW. VISUAL POETRY: THE 90s." The exhibition of works
> by artists from all over the world will take place on the first floor of
> Robarts Library in the University of Toronto from January 2 to January 19,
> with the official opening on Thursday, January 7 at 5:00 p.m.
>
> Mr. Bulatov will also present the anthology "A POINT OF VIEW. VISUAL
> POETRY: THE 90s" (Chief editor - Dmitry Bulatov, Simplisii, Kaliningrad,
> 1998 - 592 p., 546 ill). This anthology, containing such amount and
> range of information, is published in Russia for the first time. It is
> dedicated to the marginal spheres of contemporary poetry. Besides the
> works characterizing the contemporary state of international experimental
> and poetic process, the book includes the articles on the history and
> theory of non-conventional literature. The works are created by
> representatives of concrete and minimal, sonor and action, object,
> tactile, and vacuum trends of contemporary poetry. These works may help to
> the reader (spectator) to determine the existing POINT OF VIEW on the
> problem of VISUALITY in literature. They are also an evidence of creative
> activity of famous poets, that may inform the reader (spectator) about
> various poetic schools of the world, Fluxus of the 60-70s, PostFluxus and
> Mail art of the 70-80s, International Network Culture of the 80-90s.
>
> Mr.Bulatov will also speak on "Contemporary Visual Poetry: Problems of
> Genre" on Thursday, January 14 at 4:00 p.m. in the Common Room, 21 Sussex
> Avenue, Rm.204, Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, University of
> Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At the opening of the exhibition
> and after the lectures, the anthology will be on sale; it can also be
> purchased by e-mail order (itigount@chass.utoronto.ca). There will be
> other lectures by Mr.Bulatov on experimental art and literature, time and
> place to be announced.
>
> If you have any questions, please, do not hesitate contact us at the
> address: itigount@chass.utoronto.ca
> home phone: (416) 927 1576.
>
> Dmitry Bulatov,
> project curator
>
> Inna Tigountsova,
> project coordinator

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