S.o.L. - L. Robertson / L.Shaw
Monday the 20th of May 2013
An afternoon with writer/artist Lytle Shaw and poet Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson and Lytle Shaw have both written on and through each others’ work on different occasions through the years. In his latest publication Fieldworks; From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics, for example, Lytle writes on the poetics of place and Lisa’s poetry; while Lisa has written on the correspondences between dandyism, clothes and wit, a.o. in relation to The Chadwick Family, whose historical collection of artifacts and documents Lytle Shaw (i.c.w. Jimbo Blachly) has brought to life. For this afternoon, Lisa Robertson and Lytle Shaw will share with us a montage of their writings and talk about different attempts to immerge oneself in the work of the other.
~
Lytle Shaw is a New York–based writer and poet. His writing on art has appeared in Cabinet, Artforum, and Parkett and in catalogues for Dia Art Foundation, the Drawing Center, De Hallen Haarlem and the Reina Sofía. With Jimbo Blachly, Shaw oversees the Chadwick family archive, which has been exhibited widely and is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York. Recently he published The Moiré Effect (2012) and Fieldworks; From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics (2013). Shaw is Associate Professor of English at NYU.
~
Lisa Robertson is a poet and essayist who lives in the Vienne region of France and teaches in Rotterdam at Piet Zwart Institute. Her most recent books are Nilling: Prose, (Bookthug) and Revolution: A Reader, which she edited and annotated with Matthew Stadler. (Paraguay Press/Publication Studio) Her book of essays on urban surface, walking and contemporary art, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from The Office for Soft Architecture, was first published in 2003, and has gone through several editions. Books of poetry include Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, R's Boat, The Men, and The Weather. She has shown her work as The Office for Soft Architecture at The Vancouver Art Gallery, and she recently collaborated with Vancouver artist Kathy Slade on a text image installation at 8, Rue Saint Bon in Paris.
~
This conversation takes place within the context of the ongoing program
‘School of Life: Things we do not learn in school’
and 'The Metaphysics of Youth'
generously supported by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.
~
REPORT by Taya Hanauer
An afternoon with writer/artist Lytle Shaw and poet Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson and Lytle Shaw have both written on and through each others’ work on different occasions through the years. In his latest publication Fieldworks; From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics, for example, Lytle writes on the poetics of place and Lisa’s poetry; while Lisa has written on the correspondences between dandyism, clothes and wit, a.o. in relation to The Chadwick Family, whose historical collection of artifacts and documents Lytle Shaw (i.c.w. Jimbo Blachly) has brought to life. For this afternoon, Lisa Robertson and Lytle Shaw will share with us a montage of their writings and talk about different attempts to immerge oneself in the work of the other.
~
Lytle Shaw is a New York–based writer and poet. His writing on art has appeared in Cabinet, Artforum, and Parkett and in catalogues for Dia Art Foundation, the Drawing Center, De Hallen Haarlem and the Reina Sofía. With Jimbo Blachly, Shaw oversees the Chadwick family archive, which has been exhibited widely and is represented by Winkleman Gallery in New York. Recently he published The Moiré Effect (2012) and Fieldworks; From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics (2013). Shaw is Associate Professor of English at NYU.
~
Lisa Robertson is a poet and essayist who lives in the Vienne region of France and teaches in Rotterdam at Piet Zwart Institute. Her most recent books are Nilling: Prose, (Bookthug) and Revolution: A Reader, which she edited and annotated with Matthew Stadler. (Paraguay Press/Publication Studio) Her book of essays on urban surface, walking and contemporary art, Occasional Works and Seven Walks from The Office for Soft Architecture, was first published in 2003, and has gone through several editions. Books of poetry include Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip, R's Boat, The Men, and The Weather. She has shown her work as The Office for Soft Architecture at The Vancouver Art Gallery, and she recently collaborated with Vancouver artist Kathy Slade on a text image installation at 8, Rue Saint Bon in Paris.
~
This conversation takes place within the context of the ongoing program
‘School of Life: Things we do not learn in school’
and 'The Metaphysics of Youth'
generously supported by Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst.
~
REPORT by Taya Hanauer
