[-empyre-] empyre last call: post your bio and projects

Mon Feb 1 11:09:10 AEDT 2016

Hi,

I am a poet, essayist and translator of Turkish poetry into English. I have
edited the anthology *Eda: An Anthology of C0ontemporary Turkish Poetry. *In
the last ten years, my poetry has focused on a long poem of seven parts *The
Structure of Escape*. I have written the first fours of them ("Prelude,"
"The Disappearance of Time," "Steps" and *The Spiritual Life of Replicants*.
The latter has been published by by Talisman Books in 2011. I am in the
middle of writing Part V which is called *things, real or unreal, objects,
living or unliving*. This will be a text around three hundred pages. A
completed section of it "Animals of Dawn" will be published by Talisman
Nooks in 2017.

My ideas of poetry and translation start from two essays I wrote in the
late nineties. One is "Questions of Accent" (*Thus Spake the Corpse: A
Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998*, Black Sparrow Press, 1998;
http://ziyalan.com/marmara/murat_nemet_nejat3.html) and *The Peripheral
Space of Photography* (Green Integer Press, 2004). In *The Peripheral Space
*discuss how photography is not basically a visual medium related to
painting, but a meditative medium related to words. Its primary actors are
the viewer and what is before the lens (the living or unliving subject),
their dialogue escaping the framing of the photography and pushing him/her
to the background. The result is an very unstable/ambiguous field of images
evoking thoughts (previously suppressed) to the foreground, to
consciousness in words.

*The Structure of Escape* in its totality applies this principle to poetry
by placing, conceiving language in an ambiguous visual space, thereby
escaping the automatic inertia of its syntax. In the last twenty years, my
poetry is consistently superimposed by a non-poetic (a non-verbal)
structure (for example, film or photography or philosophy or Talmudic
commentary, etc.) that becomes its organizing principle. In my poetry my
"original" work is interwoven with my translations or quotations from other
sources. They exist undifferentiaded in a continuous flat field.

Perhaps, nothing expresses my poetic project more clearly than a cation I
attached to the beginning of my poem "Steps": '"If they just could turn
poems into movies,' overheard complaint by a high school student."

Ciao,
Murat

On Sun, Jan 31, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Amanda McDonald Crowley <
amandamcdc at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Jan 31, 2016, at 8:45 AM, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:
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> Hello all,
> On the 1st of January we opened the empyre discussion board up to invite
> all of our subscribers to post their recent bio’s and project updates.  It
> has been great to hear from many of you.  Today is the last day to make
> those posts.  Hope to hear from more of you.
>
> Happy New Year empyre.
>
>
>
>
> Thanks Renate for this invitation. And here it is, Jan 31 already!! Where
> did the month disappear?
>
> Working as a freelance curator, as I have over the last few years, my hats
> are unsurprisingly varied, but here are some of the things that I am
> currently most excited about:
>
> *Art and Food:*
>
> For the last few years I've been working as an independent curator. One of
> the topics on which I have been focussing my attention is art that
> intersects with our food systems. I've done this under the umbrella of what
> I've titled ArtTechFood <http://publicartaction.net/arttechfood/>.
>
> Next month (next week, actually), I'm opening an exhibition called food
> nostalgia <http://publicartaction.net/food-nostalgia/> at Radiator
> gallery in Long Island City, Queens New York. Its a super fun take on
> looking at American junk food and food trade. Not actually all new media
> art at all, but I believe, a relevant conversation and some great artists.
> Please come along to the opening, New Yorkers!!
>
> I will also be working with the artist Mary Mattingly over the next few
> months, helping her to develop and realize public programs for her Swale
> <http://www.swaleny.org/default.html> project: "a collaborative floating
> food project, is dedicated to rethinking and challenging New York City's
> connection to our environment". It will literally be a floating food
> forest that will be docking around New York City over the summer of 2016
> (and hopefully into the future).
>
> I'll also be working towards an exhibition to coincide with a conference
> in New York called Change Food <http://www.changefood.org/> later in the
> year, so that will, not surprisingly, look more at food justice issues.
>
> *Community Engagement:*
>
> My interest in community building also continues (in the real world, and
> online :) ). One of the projects I am currently working on is the
> development of an online community platform with PointB
> <http://pointb.org/>.  Having worked with them to help launch Point B
> Virtual <http://publicartaction.net/pointb-virtual/> platform and act as
> curatorial advisor on three (virtual) exhibitions in December last year,
> I'll be continuing to work with them as they vacate their physical space in
> Brooklyn and move towards an international network of physical locations,
> and further develop their online network.
>
> *Residencies and Related Programs:*
>
> I guess related to community engagement is that I continue to have a deep
> passion for fostering and developing various residency programs and
> opportunities for artists to develop new bodies of work, as they also
> engage with diverse communities. I am in the final throws of writing up a
> report for Kathy High and the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New
> York, as they develop a sustainable model for their truly brilliant NATURE
> Lab <http://www.mediasanctuary.org/naturelab> initiative. (Kathy, if
> you're lurking here, its nearly done, I promise!! -- its overdue, I know!)
>
> There are other projects that are related to these areas that are still a
> bit more nascent, or in development, but hopefully that gives a bit of a
> broad view on some of the things that currently preoccupy my thinking and
> my time.
>
> *Super Brief Bio:*
>
> Amanda McDonald Crowley is a cultural worker and curator who creates new
> media and contemporary art events and programs that encourage
> cross-disciplinary practice, collaboration and exchange. Her current
> research at the intersection of art, food and technology, ArtTechFood,  has
> been conducted as residency projects at Santa Fe Art Institute (2015), New
> Media Scotland, (2014),Helsinki International Artists Program (2013)
> and Bogliasco Foundation (2012).
>
> Many of you probably also know me from previous roles with organizations
> such as Eyebeam, ISEA, Adelaide Festival or the Australian Network for Art
> and Technology, so you'll know I have a long history of working in the art
> + technology sector. If you'd like a link to a more fulsome bio, you'll
> find one here <http://publicartaction.net/amc-brief-bio/>.
>
> And in a shameless plug, I'm in the process of building an email list for
> *occasional* updates on things I'm working on, so if you're interested,
> please do sign up here <http://publicartaction.net/contact/>.
>
> Happy 2016 everyone! May it be BRILLIANT AND SHINY
>
> Amanda
>
>
>
>
> --
> Amanda McDonald Crowley
> Cultural Worker / Curator
> http://publicartaction.net
>
> @amandamcdc
>
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