In week 10 there was an introduction of
Conceptualism and unoriginality. There are some writers like: Kenneth
Goldsmith, Christian Bok, Caroline Bergvall and many more.
In this blog I have just given brief
introduction of Goldsmith’s work from ModPo course.
Click on the below image for information about all weeks:
1) “Soliloquy”
by Kenneth Goldsmith
In ModPo course “Act 1” has discussed well.
It is a book which contains poetry. Here is one description of the book by
author,
Author description:
Soliloquy is an unedited document of every word I spoke during the week
of April 15-21, 1996, from the moment I woke up Monday morning to the moment I
went to sleep on Sunday night. To accomplish this, I wore a hidden
voice-activated tape recorder. I transcribed Soliloquy during the summer
of 1996 at the Chateau Bionnay in Lacenas, France, during a residency there. It
took 8 weeks, working 8 hours a day. Soliloquy was first realized as a
gallery exhibition at Bravin Post Lee in Soho during April of 1997.
Subsequently, the gallery published the text in a limited edition of 50. In the
fall of 2001, Granary Books published a trade edition of the text. The web
version of Soliloquy contains the exact text from the 281-page original
book version, but due to the architecture of the web, each chapter is
sub-divided into 10 parts. And, of course, the textual treatment of the web
version is indeed web-specific and perhaps more truly references the
ephemerality of language as reflected by the book's epigraph: "If every
word spoken in New York City daily / were somehow to materialize as a
snowflake, / each day there would be a blizzard." In order to achieve this
effect, the web version is available only to users of Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Netscape 6+. Unfortunately, none of the prior versions of Netscape
support the CSS tag used here: "a { text-decoration: none }" ; to
view the piece in web form without this function enabled would be to ruin the
intended experience of this work.
The “Act 1” is very long and for further reading
you can visit Modpo websites. I suggest enrolling the course for interesting
poetry reading and understanding.
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