[-empyre-] Tr[-empyre]

[Maria Damon]

Oh I adore the work of David-Baptiste Chirot! We used one of his 
RubBeings as the cover for Poetry and Cultural Studies: A Reader.


On 11/15/16 10:29 AM, Murat Nemet-Nejat wrote:
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> Of course, Ana is one of these persons on Empyre list, and I assume 
> there are others.
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> Here, I would like to evoke the name of another amazing thinker, 
> writer, collagist who lives in Milwaukee and unfortunate can not be 
> part of these discussion. He is David Chirot. His collection of 
> discarded objects in the streets of Milwaukee, basically junk, to make 
> his art is very similar to the process. From what I understand, he was 
> under constant surveillance while he lived in Europe.
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> Ciao,
> Murat
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> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Craig Saper <csaper at umbc.edu 
> <mailto:csaper at umbc.edu>> wrote:
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>     Following the discussion closely. And, the tech-nic-al bre-ak dow-
>     on the listserve.
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>     One thread I hope continues in new week — w/ new moderators and
>     participants — the role of e-x-arts in -empyre —in a time when
>     many are confronting Exile, Escape, …
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>     Here is something I shared with Alan Sondheim as a sidebar (off
>     the list) using the sound track (by Azure Carter, voice and song
>     Luke Damrosch, programming, recording, engineering and Sondheim on
>     flute … [their CD will be released with Public Eyesore]. … as the
>     soundtrack for this excerpt):
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>>     non-fiction allegory and escape manual :: both literally and
>>     figuratively
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>>     An excerpt from my book [play the soundtrack that Sondheim
>>     posted: http://www.alansondheim.org/protoborrow.mp3
>>     <http://www.alansondheim.org/protoborrow.mp3>]:
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>>     In literary histories of modernism, the word expatriate has,
>>     until recently, referred to a group of American writers and
>>     artists living in Paris and the Côte d’ Azur in the 1920s. Ernest
>>     Hemingway immortalized this supposedly high-living crowd in his
>>     novel A Moveable Feast (1964), as did Gertrude Stein and F. Scott
>>     Fitzgerald, but counter to the mistaken view of a decadent and
>>     politically detached expatriate group, many of these same
>>     expatriates, including Rose and Bob Brown, began by fleeing,
>>     penniless, through Mexico and into Latin America in 1917 (often
>>     to avoid jail for sedition or draft dodging). In their actions,
>>     they broadened the definition of expatriates and stressed
>>     the literary and artistic vanguardists?connections to loss,
>>     exile, violence, and narrow escapes. These were not just themes
>>     in later avant-garde art; these were the lived experience of a
>>     generation, where a poverty-induced make-do resourcefulness
>>     reinforced collages of found, often discarded, objects; where
>>     exile led to a fascination with otherness
>>     and displacement; where their disgust with the xenophobia
>>     sweeping the United States and Europe, in the late teens and
>>     early 1920s, led to their flaunting diversity, difference,
>>     internationalism, and otherness; and where the necessity to avoid
>>     arrest fueled an interest in masquerade, coded allusions, and
>>     inside jokes. (from Chapter 4: Exile, Escape, and World Travels)
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