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Murat Nemet-Nejat muratnn at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 03:15:04 AEDT 2016


Yes Maria, he is in my opinion an amzing artist and writer. Have you read
his "Lieutenant" pieces. Absolutely amazing. We did a collaboration
together on Bushes "surge" in Irak (interestingly the same title as Alan's
"surge"). Chirot also write very nice things about my work, including an
very insightful review of my essay/book *The Peripheral Space of
Photography*.

Ciao,
Murat

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Maria Damon <damon001 at umn.edu> wrote:

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> 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.
>
> Ciao,
> Murat
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:23 AM, Craig Saper <csaper at umbc.edu> wrote:
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>> Following the discussion closely. And, the tech-nic-al bre-ak dow- on the
>> listserve.
>>
>> 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, …
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> An excerpt from my book [play the soundtrack that Sondheim posted:
>> 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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