Research Catalog

Title

Speech/acts / curated by Meg Onli ; organized and presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania.

Publication

• Philadelphia, PA : Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania ; New York, NY : Futurepoem Books, [2017]
• United States : Shapco Printing Inc.
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Onli, Meg
• Sadao, Amy
• University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art, host institution, publisher.
• Futurepoem Books, publisher.

Description

175 pages : illustrations; 19 cm

Summary

Speech/Acts' brings together new and recent works by a generation of artists influenced by black experimental poetry. Recognizing language as a primary method of expressing and maintaining power, these artists use poetry as a tool to manipulate the conceptual and structural elements of language and the social contexts in which language is employed, appropriated and abstracted. Artists Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Steffani Jemison, Tony Lewis, Tiona Nekkia McClodden, Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Martine Syms all use experimental poetry in their work as a means to interrogate the power structures of language, rendering the experience of blackness more physically and affectively exact. In this volume, their work is presented alongside their poetic forerunners (seminal texts by Fred Moten and Harryette Mullen are reprinted), newly commissioned poetry by Morgan Parker and Simone White, and a new essay by curator Meg Onli.

Alternative Title

Speech acts

Subjects

• Poetry
• Poetry and the arts > Exhibitions
• American poetry > African American authors > Influence > Exhibitions
• Experimental poetry, American > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• poetry.
• exhibition catalogs.
• illustrated books.
• Exhibition catalogs.
• Illustrated works.
• Poetry.
• Poésie.
• Catalogues d'exposition.
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• Published on the occasion of the exhibition Speech/Acts held at the Institute of Contemporary Art at University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, September13-December 23. 2017.
• Edition of 1000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Amy Sadao -- Acknowledgements / Meg Onli -- Cracks between what we are and what we are supposed to be / Harryette Mullen -- Speech, acts. / Meg Onli -- Four / Simone White -- Blackness and poetry / Fred Moten -- Toward a new theory of negro propaganda / Morgan Parker.

ISBN

• 9780884541431
• 0884541436

OCLC

• on1021024045
• 1021024045
• SCSB-9135292

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library