Roundtable on Writing + Art

Roundtable on Writing + Art Tuesday, April 19 11 a.m.-11.45 a.m. Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, Conference Room Visiting Artists Nick Thurston and Angus McCullough, along with KSC Film faculty member Jo Dery and Art Faculty member Marin R. Sullivan discuss the connections between visual art practice and critical/creative writing. This information roundtable is held in conjunction with Prof. Sullivan’s ART315: Contemporary Art course, but all are welcome.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Nick Thurston Tuesday, April 19 12pm-1pm Thorne-Sagendoroph Gallery, Conference Room

Nick Thurston is a poet and non-fiction writer who makes (and supports others to make) artworks with and about language. Working in what Gerald Bruns calls "literature's elsewheres", he is interested in what contemporary art can allow people to think, write and read. Combining writing, object- and exhibition-making, and editorship, both his artistic work and teaching revolve around an idea of publishing as a mode of praxis – an idea of making language public (to publish) in a socio-poetic spirit, one perfectly articulated by Robert Filliou when he said "art is what makes life more interesting than art".

To combine these interests, he has written, exhibited and performed extensively. Projects in 2015 included: exhibitions or performances at the Peltz Gallery (London), the Museum of Manuscripts (Mont Saint Michel) and Raven Row (London); interviews or essays for Literature and the Image in Maurice Blanchot (Könisghausen & Neumann, due 2016) and Publishing as an Artistic Practice (Sternberg, due 2016); anthologisations in The New Concrete (Hayward); and assisting the Electronic Poetry Center (University of Buffalo & University of Pennsylvania) to compile a sample archive of his poems, short writings, interviews and book extracts (2006-14). In 2014 he was an Artist in Residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin) and is currently working on a first book of essays as the Visiting Fellow in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia). This spring his guest-edited issue of the journal Amodern (CA) will be published; this summer a second edition of his most recent book of poetry, Of the Subconctract, will be digitally released by Coach House Books (Toronto); and later this year his edited collection of Pavel Büchler's selected writings will be published by Ridinghouse (London, due winter 2016).