Event overview
A symposium on the poet Mallarm茅's experiments in writing and conception of an epochal book-performance, and their impact on philosophy, literature and the arts.
The poet St茅phane Mallarm茅 famously wrote, 鈥檈verything in the world exists in order to end up in a book鈥�. He never managed to achieve Le Livre as the multi-volume tome, or the performance that would usher in a new age for which he left numerous notes, but in the process, he transformed the understanding and practice of writing and became a source of radical aesthetic practice for thinkers including Julia Kristeva, Jacques Ranci猫re and Alain Badiou. We return to Mallarm茅 at a time when the book as codex and repository is challenged by the dispersal of the digital internet, and when 'book performance' has become a characteristic mode of art practice.
Tom McCarthy (novelist, essayist, artist) who will read from his novel Satin Island and discuss Mallarm茅鈥檚 text 鈥楥onflict鈥�.
Josh Cohen (ECL) will read Mallarm茅鈥檚 prose texts.
Michael Newman (Art) will discuss Mallarm茅鈥檚 conception of 鈥楲e Livre鈥� as a book performance and the film by Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Toute revolution est un coup de d茅s (1977)
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (Art) will give a performance and discuss crypt-radio and the radio play 'Igitur Flotsam' by Reinier van Houdt (2017).
The audience will participate throughout in readings of Mallarm茅's poems and prose texts.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Nov 2017 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
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