#craig dworkin

[marcogiovenale]

aug 29th, 'encounters at the end of the book': alessandro de francesco and craig dworkin, an online conversation

Alessandro De Francesco and Craig Dworkin in conversation at Encounters at the End of the Book August 29th, 2024 10am MT / 11am GMT-5 / 6pm CET  online, hosted by punctum books Subscribe and join HERE August 29th at 11am CT / 6pm GMT+1 time for an Encounters at the End of the Book event between punctum authors Alessandro De Francesco and Craig Dworkin. Register…

[rbolick]

Review of "COUP DE DÉS (COLLECTION)"

[majestativa]

Meaning plunges from abyss to abyss until it threatens to become lost in the bottomless depth of language.

— Walter Benjamin, Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing, (2011)

[dunkelwort]

E I S - Voices from Iceland: 77, 78, C2

E I S – Voices from Iceland: 77, 78, C2

EIS, with an essay by Peter Schwenger, LN 2022, ISBN 979-8831231823 (Paperback), 979-8831204735 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-Se]  • buy: paperback: amazon.com | .it | .de | .se • hardcover: amazon.com | .it | .de | .se • read: archive | behance • listen: podcast • download: Peter Schwenger

[lapipaylafuente]

Una charla de Cinthya García Leyva sobre borradura y silencios a propósito de la intervención «Hoy el 70 % de los pobres en el mundo son mujeres», de Ghada Amer, en el MAZ

Algunas referencias que salieron en su plática/clase:

No Medium – Craig Dworkin

Jacob Kirkegaard – 4 Rooms

Susan Schuppli - Investigadora y artista en cuyo trabajo examina evidencia material de guerra y conflictos, desastres ambientales y cambio climático. Actualmente, su trabajo se concentra en la ciencia de los testigos de hielo y las políticas del frío

Breathing - Chaos and Poetry — Franco "Bifo" Berardi

Silence: Lectures and writings – John Cage

I was walking in silent streets – Elizabeth Veldon

«A canvas is never empty» —Robert Rauschenberg

The Aesthetic of Silence: Susan Sontag on Art as a Form of Spirituality and the Paradoxical Role of Silence in Creative Culture

Un lance de dados jamás abolirá el azar – Mallarmé

Concretismo

Listening to noise and silence. Towards a philosophy of sound art – Salomé Voegelin

[vibrantmattah]

in absentia

Absence emerges - continually and ever different(iating) - as difference &, through a / its mode of negation, affirms the existence of an inter-/intra-relational & at same time also (equally) separate, singular difference

Craig Dworkin at Penn Poetry & Poetics on October 9th, 2012 , presenting his book No Medium

!”. . . encountering an apparent absence there is always something interesting to say.”  Michael Leong

“Like Wallace Stevens’ snow man, who parses ‘nothing that is not there and the nothing that is,’ Craig Dworkin faces up to this exquisite challenge, following the lead of an old Provençal lyric ‘to make a poetry of pure nothing.’ With a mental agility commensurate with every unlikelihood it encounters, Dworkin is a connoisseur of details even where none would seem to exist. His keen eye (and ear) for the materiality behind non-appearance is a marvel: he is the Barnum of a peculiar new circus called No Medium.” —Jed Rasula

[atmospheric-minimalism]

Dworkin Craig Goldsmith Kenneth eds Against Expression An Anthology of Conceptual Writing

[experimentaltranslation]

2.2 Choose your own translation (syntactic translation) I

• The following is an experiment that I carried out using a sentence from P.T. Greach and Max Black’s translation of Gottlob Frege because it is the same text Craig Dworkin uses in his DEF, which adopts the Oulipian strategy of replacing each word in a sentence with its dictionary definition, and then replacing each word in the definitions with the definitions of those words and so on and so forth. Dwokin’s experiment is representative of a strong penchant in experimental translation for dictionary play, along with Jackson MacLow’s French sonnets and Tim Atkin’s Word Search #1 which all fell out of the holes in the basket of the above chapter. 

Materials

• A short source text

• Wordreference.com

Players

• This can be done alone, or the word lists presented to players as in the first “choose your own translation” variation.

Steps

• Select one word from each list of translations, without changing the order of the word. This can be repeated as many times as is necessary or possible. 

Examples

• List of wordreference.com translations for each of the words contained in P.T. Greach and Max Black’s translation Gottlob Frege’s sentence: 

Original : On the introduction of a name for something simple, a definition is not possible ; there is nothing for it but to lead the reader or hearer, by means of hints, to understand the words as is intended.

- From Gottlob Frege « On Concept and Object, » trans PT Geach and Max Black, Mind (Vol. 60, No. 2 » 8, April 1951) : 168-180, taking from Craig Dorkin, from DEF, in Paris (ed. Andrew Hodgson). 

1. allumé.e, sur, dessus, au bord de, dans, selon, suivant, pour, à, en, le

2. le, la, les, l’

3. introduction, lancement, présentation, initiation, insertion, recommandation, 

4. de, en, à, moins, d’entre, parmi, au sujet de, à propos de

5. un, une, les, certain, la, R, par, le

6. nom, prénom, patronyme, appeler, nommer, baptiser, mentionner, évoquer, citer, réputation, célébrité, personnalité, vedette, notoriété, renommée, connu, réputé, de marque, désigner, qualifier, dire, accuser, incriminer

7. pour, servir à, pour ma part, au goût de, pendant, depuis, à la place de, en faveur de, à cause de, en raison de, car, parce que, afin de, à destination de, de, malgré, à, que, sur

8. quelque chose, quelqu’un

9. facile, élémentaire, enfantin, simplet, simples

10. un, une, les, certain, la, R, par, le

11. définition, netteté, résolution, description, définition

12. est, a, se tient, fait, coûte, soit, se sent*

13. ne… pas, ou pas*

* these two to be taken as one obviously

14. possible, probable, crédible, éventuel, envisageable, faisable, réalisable

15. là, là-bas, il, là-dessus, sur ce point, voici, voilà, 

16. est, a, se tient, fait, coûte, soit, se sent

17. rien, zéro, vide, néant, nul.le, moins que rien, 

18. pour, servir à, pour ma part, au goût de, pendant, depuis, à la place de, en faveur de, à cause de, en raison de, car, parce que, afin de, à destination de, de, malgré, à, que, sur

19. il, elle, le, la, l’, lui, ça, ce, branché, chat, loup, ils, elles, le.a meilleur.e, le truc, un truc

20. mais, sauf, hormis, à part, excepté, ne… que, seulement, que, mais vraiment 

21. à, vers, en, sur, de, contre, pour, fermer, avec, envers, jusqu’à, quant à, en ce qui concerne, concernant, pour ce qui est de, dans, moins

22. conduire, guider, diriger, mener, causer, provoquer, amener, vivre, principal, premier, première, en tête, en l’air, plomb, mine, interligne, avance, piste, indice, introduction, exemple, direction, exemple, main, tour, première carte, fil, câble, laisse, client potentiel, vente potentielle, passer devant, attaquer, influencer, démarrer par, viser, faire avancer, devancer, démarrer 

23. le, la, les, l’

24. lecteur, lectrice, liseuse, relecteur, livre de lecture, maître de conférences

25. ou, ou bien, ou encore, soit… soit, ni… ni, ou alors 

26. auditeur, auditrice

27. de, par, près de, à coté de, devant, d’ici à, en, pendant, selon, après, fois, à, quart, sous, avec

28. signifier, vouloir dire, penser, penser vraiment, être sincère, parler de, avare, radin, méchant, piètre, simple, bas.se, mauvais.e, malveillant.e, usé.e, éliminé.e, super, sacré, d’enfer, du tonnerre, moyen, moyenne, moyens, vouloir, impliquer, être  

29. de, en, à, moins, d’entre, parmi, au sujet de, à propos de

30. indices, pistes, astuces, trucs, laisser entendre, faire allusion à, indications, soupçons, pointes

31. à, vers, en, sur, de, contre, pour, fermer, avec, envers, jusqu’à, quant à, en ce qui concerne, concernant, pour ce qui est de, dans, moins

32. comprendre, entendre dire que, croire, ratifier

33. le, la, les, l’

34. mots, paroles, formuler, bruits, nouvelles, ordres, mot de passe, évangile, 

35. aussi, comme, ce que, alors que, à mesure que, au fur et à mesure que, puisque, comme, bien que, en, en tant que, 

36. est, a, se tient, fait, coûte, soit, se sent

37. prévu, désigné, voulu, délibéré, promis, promise

Resulting translation and retrotranslation into English: 

Au bord du lancement, parmi certaines, accusées de quelque chose élémentaire, une définition ne se sent pas envisageable. Voici est rien, à la place du chat pour ce qui est attaquer la lectrice, ou encore, l��auditrice à côté du tonnerre parmi les soupçons, à croire les paroles en tant qu’est prévu. 

English translation : On the edge of the launch, among those accused of something elementary, a definition does not feel conceivable. Here is nothing, in the place of the cat for what attacks the reader, or even the listener next to the thunder amidst suspicions, which could be taken as words insofar as foreseen. 

[limpingarcadia]

The mine sinks, by steps, like an inverted ziggurat to some forgotten empire in theocratic thrall to the worship of annihilation. Stepped like a Mayan pyramid, climbed downward from the inside, one rung per day, to reach the level at which sacrificial blood leaches up through porous floors, filtered by the limestone sponge of lithic alveoli interceding in divinely breathed, elemental, alchemical exchange, the mine is a temple to negative space. The razing by its tracked pneumatic priests enshrines a geometry of absence.

“Helicography” Craig Dworkin

[marcogiovenale]

foto dal workshop del 7 luglio 2021, all'istituto svizzero di roma

foto dal workshop del 7 luglio 2021, all’istituto svizzero di roma

[rbolick]

Books On Books Collection - Inscription 3

[carvalhais]

At the same time, as I have tried to demonstrate here, Zen for Record makes clear that even the most abstract and cerebral works of conceptual art cannot be separated from those material and technical supports. There is no single medium, to be sure, but media are inescapable. Friedman’s record lays bare the structures that other audio works might seek to conceal, but which they can never elude or avoid. This is an important lesson, because after all the talk of “dematerialization” of the art object in the 1960s, and after the futile challenge made by “idea art” and “information art” to the institutions they opposed, conceptual art has been to often imagined as immaterial (in both senses of the word). Zen for Record proves both positions wrong.

Dworkin, Craig. No Medium. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2013.

[heard-journal-blog]

Samples from Craig Dworkin’s UbuWeb paper “Unheard Music”, featuring John Cage, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi, Yves Klein and more.

[dunkelwort]

E I S - Voices from Iceland: 31, 40, 42

E I S – Voices from Iceland: 31, 40, 42

EIS, with an essay by Peter Schwenger, LN 2022, ISBN 979-8831231823 (Paperback), 979-8831204735 (Hardcover)  [Eng-Ger-Se]  • buy: paperback: amazon.com | .it | .de | .se • hardcover: amazon.com | .it | .de | .se • read: archive | behance • listen: podcast • download: Peter Schwenger