#Geof Huth

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the archives of disrepair 62 | control test target / geof huth. 2024

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[marcogiovenale]

the archives of disrepair 47 | 1901 oct incorp / geof huth

The Archives of Disrepair 47 | 1901 Oct INCORP

[ablackbrick]

Geof Huth

As the Knight Considered the Past Progress of his Life as a Portal to Another Life or Another Soul, He Began to Rewrite or Redraw His Future, before He Replicated His Past Once Again, and in His Redrawing, This Time, He Added the Red Representing the Deaths He Made—and All He Could See Was the Red

[alphabetcompletionist]

evil and terrible thoughts crop up in my mind like holding a tournament for the letters of the english alphabet. maybe a few others too for an even 32

ABCDEFGHI KLMNOP RSTUVW Y

22/26

[totaleditorial]

A visual poem is one that must be seen to be fully understood, where the verbal and visual draw strength from each other to produce greater meaning. As such, visual poetry invites us to consider not just the typographic elements of verse—the shape of letters, the spaces between words, the overall composition of a page—but also the poetic potential of images.

In our workshop on visual poetry we followed a progression of ever more acutely visual forms, from technopaegnia (a tradition of “shaped poems,” of which George Hebert’s “Easter Wings” is an oft-cited example) to asemic writing, where the semantic function of language is removed entirely, as in works by mIEKAL aND or Rosaire Appel. Defining a collage-centric lineage of intermedia practices from Dada to Lettrism to Situationism and Fluxus, we lingered on specific works with roots in those traditions: the “typewriter poems” of Dom Sylvester Houédard, Sarah J. Sloat’s diagrammatic erasures augmented by collage, the swirling “tangle of language” in Ava Hofmann’s “[A woman wandered into a thicket],” the typographic abstraction of Andrew Topel’s “Black on White on Black,” and Tony Fitzpatrick’s multimedia collages, with their densely layered personal and social iconographies. We also discussed several visual artists who employ text, among them Ray Johnson and Deb Sokolow, whose work, while not necessarily poetic in intent, nevertheless contains some gnomic inscrutability that seems to tune our awareness to the frequency of poetry.

As with any practice that operates across arbitrary borders of medium and technique, the possibilities offered by visual poetry can make a blank page extra intimidating. The following prompts were inspired by questions from workshop participants, and each represents a potential starting point for exploring the intersection of words and images.

Prompt 1: Diagram a sequence

Choose a diagram you find visually interesting. Instruction manuals and science textbooks are an excellent source.

Remove or cover all the labels and captions.

Now consider something you wish would happen. What are the steps between here and there? What does the end result look like? 

Describe each on a sheet of paper. Be as florid as you like.

Cut out each “step” and assign it a position on the diagram. Don’t think too hard about this part.

For inspiration, see Nance Van Winckel’s Book of No Ledgeor Flat-Pack by Anney Bolgiano.

Prompt 2: Visualizing voices

Start a collection of interesting words or phrases cut out of newspapers and magazines.

Choose one of these at random (draw from a hat, or close your eyes and pick one up). Paste it down in the center of a piece of paper.

Now choose the cutout that feels most like a response. Where does it belong in relation to the first? Does it agree? Disagree? How would that look visually—is it close or far away? Intersecting? Overlapping? Think about the different voices implied by differences in typography. Is the reply louder? Quieter? Paste it in place.

Repeat, with the phrase that seems to respond to what you just pasted down. Keep repeating.

For inspiration, see the work of Douglas Kearney.

Prompt 3: Finding images in letters

Start a collection of large text: newspaper and magazine headlines, chapter titles. 

Cut out individual letters or words. 

Now choose some of the most interesting letterforms and slice them further, vertically and/or horizontally.

Put several of these into your hands, a bag, or a hat, and shake them up. Drop them onto a blank sheet of paper. 

Glue a few of these down where they landed. Now begin filling in the gaps, finding points of connection. Try to think of these as purely visual objects.

For inspiration, see the work of Geof Huth and Cecil Touchon.

Prompt 4: Score an event

Choose a situation that involves a series of repeating events or gestures. This could be a sporting event, the traffic passing by your window, the sounds you hear in a cafe.

Observe for a few moments in order to choose 6 to 16 “events” that are likely to recur. Design a mark or symbol to represent each event. For example, if you are watching traffic, create symbols for cars, trucks, motorcycles, bicycles. Consider how you can represent the direction a vehicle is traveling, its color or sound.

Decide on a time frame you’ll observe and divide a sheet of paper into units. For our traffic example, we could sample ten minutes by drawing ten lines on a sheet of paper.

Observe, using your system of symbols to record events as they occur.

For inspiration, see the drawings of Lee Walton or Rosaire Appel’s “Unsettled Scores.”

Prompt 5: Simple asemic writing

Coat the palm or side of your dominant hand with ink, paint, or graphite.

Now hold an imaginary pencil and write about a memory you don’t want to forget. Aim for five minutes, replenishing the ink or graphite at the end of each stanza or sentence.

[graywyvern]

( geof huth on fb / via )

George Washington Bridge.

Steamboat for abased. Vedas abort foam beast.

A busy screen.

   glass of dark turquoise sky of clouds no rain relief    forty-year-old song

smoke in downtown Manhattan filtered through the twitter feeds

Defragmenting.

[xexoxial]

THE ACTS, THE SHELFLIFE

Polyartistry

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Volume 2: Polyartistry. Madison WI: Xexoxial Editions, 1988. First Edition. Small quarto. Illustrations. Stiff cardboard covers printed in green and purple (Probably all publ.; a modest first volume had been published 2 years earlier).

EUR 200.00

Visual poetry. And, Miekal & Elizabeth Was (editors). Contributors include Bern Porter, Richard Kostelanetz, Geof Huth, Crag Hill, Luc Fierens, Jurgen Olbrich, Ruggero Maggi among others. Maggi's contribution is signed by him and numbered 31/200.

via John Benjamins Antiquariat B.V.

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utsanga.it, #27, marzo 2021

utsanga.it, #27, marzo 2021

http://www.utsanga.it Cheryl Penn, Andrea Astolfi, Cristiano Caggiula, Gianluca Garrapa, Antonio Francesco Perozzi, Francesco Aprile, Geof Huth, Tim Gaze, Nico Vassilakis, Volodymyr Bilyk, Beppe Piano, Francesco Massaro, Nicolò Gugliuzza, Cristina Flores Pescoran, Davide Galipò, Elena Cappai Bonanni, Wellington Amancio Silva, Meryl Marchetti, Julien Blaine, Martina Stella, Joel Chace, Leo Barth,…

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Just Pinned to Your Pinterest Likes: Thirty-seven seconds of Claire Watkins' kinetic sculpture "Flock of Needles" recorded by Geof Huth on 7 November 2010 at Central Booking in Brooklyn,… https://ift.tt/3f47QV0

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ToCall No.7 contributors

Arnold McBay (Canada)

Caroline Kha (UK)

Claudia de la Torre (Mexico & Germany)

Eric Zboya (Canada)

Geof Huth (USA)

Giuseppe Calandriello (Italy)

Gregory Betts (Canada)

Iris Colomb (UK)

James Knight (UK)

Julia Nakotte (Germany)

Marco Gioconvale (Italy)

McMurtagh (USA)

psw (Germany)

Robert R. Thurman (USA)

Robin Tomens (UK)

SJ Fowler (UK)

Susan Connolly (Ireland)

[glyptolite]

“Junior.”

[Choerm 5]

[wakest]

a convenience skip (Day 8 of 2017)

Met up with tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE and his friend at Little Skips so we could successfully ketch up in a place less loud then the night before. Had many conversations and then we went to The Strand to meet up with Geof Huth but he was late and I didn't get to see him. Then my phone died and went across the street to charge it at The Bean for like half an hour. Was feeling frustrated and sad. The cold was getting to my bones. I had found a bag of clothes on the ground and put on a pair of slacks over my jeans. Made me feel like a huge person or like I was wearing a fat suit but I wore them anyway because it was so cold. That night I had a Tinder date with Catalina, a graphic designer from Argentina. We met at Molasses and talked about life and anarchism for many hours. I wanted to watch this weird arabic movie I had recently torrented but we didn't get through much of it before we started making out.

[totaleditorial]

"The child of both poetry and the visual arts, visual poetry has a double set of interests and its forms are myriad."

Click through for a Portfolio of Twelve (12) Works that exemplify this form...

[graywyvern]

( geof huth on fb / via )

Haunted Church.

   trees' lacy shadows punctuate the concrete bright    with wrong November

now you're only one trick deep one trick deep & i'm drowning

Here is the most complete list possible of Gurdjieff's Order of Idiots.

"...The broken glass in the corner, even though you cut your foot upon it, seems only a moment of confused sunlight in a room without windows."

--William Virgil Davis

Dancing dots.

[smackmellon]

<DECODE> Artists Policing Data November 28, 2018 – January 18, 2019 Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery John Jay College of Criminal Justice 524 West 59th Street, NYC

Curators: Jayanthi Moorthy and Daria Dorosh, PhD.

Artists: Hasan Elahi, Ann Pachner, Sandy Gellis, Gayil Nalls, Geof Huth, Noah Kalina, Laurie Frick, Amelia Marzec, Beatrice Glow, Jayanthi Moorthy, and Daria Dorosh