#craig dworkin

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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)

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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

[atmospheric-minimalism]

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

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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

[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.

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Books On Books Collection - Inscription 3

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

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Michael Cross' beautiful press Compline has a new website, with many free PDFs of work by Sara Larsen, Craig Dworkin, Joan Retallack and so many more!

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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

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The present volume continues to explore the potential of writing that tries to be “rid of lyrical interference of the individual as ego” (as Charles Olson famously put it).49 Our emphasis is on work that does not seek to express unique,  coherent,  or  consistent  individual  psychologies  and  that,  more-over, refuses familiar strategies of authorial control in favor of  automatism, reticence, obliquity,  and modes of noninterference. With minimal intervention, the writers here are more likely to determine preestablished rules and parameters—to set up a system and step back as it runs its course—than to heavily edit or masterfully polish. Indeed, the exhaustive and obsessive nature of many of these projects can be traced back to an unwillingness to intercede too forcefully; to use the entirety of a data set, or to rehearse every possible permutation of a given system, is to make just one choice that obviates a whole host of other choices. The one decision removes the temptation to tinker or edit or hone. Frequently, we had to admit that works we admired were not quite right for this collection because they were simply too creative—they had too much authorial intervention, however masterful or stylish that intervention might be.

Craig Dworkin, Against Expression (2011)

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Inscription: The Journal of Material Text - Theory, Practice, History

Contributor, with The Roland Barthes Reading Group, to issue 1 of Inscription, a new academic journal of the study of material texts.  

The Roland Barthes Reading Group has been parsing Roland Barthes’s The Preparation of the Novel [Trans. Kate Briggs] for four years. His text repeatedly lays out the conditions for beginning without ever quite starting his novel project.

The Roland Barthes group include: Emma Bolland, Julia Calver, Helen Clarke, Louise Finney, Suzannah Gent, Sharon Kivland, Debbie Michaels, Hestia Peppé, and Rachel Smith.

Issue 1 features Rebecca Bullard, Catherine Clover, Michael Durrant, John T. Hamilton, Alexandra Franklin, Kathryn James, The Roland Barthes Reading Group, Serena Smith, Alice Wickenden, Jérémie Bennequin, Craig Saper with Ian Truelove, Erica Baum, Craig Dworkin, Sean Ashton.