Segue Series Presents "Poetry & Architecture" with Vito Acconci, Benjamin Aranda & Robert Kocik
Saturday, April 25, 2009 ** 4PM SHARP**
Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, NYC
$6 admission
hosted by Kristen Gallagher & Tim Peterson
What is the nature of the conversation between poetry and architecture today? In this event for the Segue Reading Series, poets and architects will present works exploring a dialogue between these two disciplines.
Vito Acconci will show an image-stream of built & unbuilt spaces & instruments as he reads:
1) about furniture & houses (80's), cities & landscape (90's);
2) from rules for assemblage & incursion (00's);
3) architecture in words only (00's).
Benjamin Aranda will present images and talk around the issue of self-assembly, where top-down methods for determining form and making decisions are complicated and sometimes replaced by bottom-up rules of formation. As in natural systems, the architectural structures up for discussion are not carved or composed in a traditional sense; they are grown through simple interactions to produce complex patterns that are both useful and buildable.
Robert Kocik will present a plan for the Prosody Building, a note on mercenary poetry (without which business is biocide), Missing Civic Services, and a few architectural plans made entirely of words.
