29.10.2012
Corner College, 8 pm


'WTF?!'
Nick Thurston

 


This evening of poetry readings will feature works from the loose and emergent
field known as 'conceptual writing'. Practioners in this field have come to
understand the conversations about conceptual writing as being unresolved somewhere
between poetics and aesthetics via new media theory. Following that trans-disciplinary
spirit, and in keeping with the Intermedia precedents for this kind of writing, Nick
will perform readings from his own published works and other's.
A renewed interest in the effects of networked technologies on the semantics, syntaxes
and labour processes of contemporary writing will be the focus, following Nick's basic
research project of writing on the inside of contemporary art onto the outside of the
register of literature. Any conversations about how these media also effect distribution
and reading experiences will be a very welcome bonus!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nick Thurston

is the author of two books plus some twenty journal articles and artists’ pages. He is also the co-author of two pocketbooks, the latest of which, Do or DIY (2012), is being translated into Spanish, Italian, French, and German.
Since 2006 he has been Co-editor of the independent artists’ book publishing imprint Information as Material (York), with whom he was Writer in Residence at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) 2011-2012.He has been an Associate and Visiting Lecturer at various art academies in the UK since 2007, and in September 2012 joined the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds.

http://www.informationasmaterial.org/