Posted: November 14th, 2011 by James Maynard
LANGUAGE TO COVER A WALL:
VISUAL POETRY THROUGH ITS CHANGING MEDIA
Nov 17, 2011 – Feb 18, 2012
UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, North Campus
For more information, click here.
Opening reception Thur Nov 17, 5 pm to 7 pm:
5:45 pm Opening address by Marvin Sackner
6:15 pm Sound poetry performance featuring internationally acclaimed Canadian sound poets Paul Dutton, Nobuo Kubota, and W. Mark Sutherland
This exhibition of international scope will be one of the largest single gatherings of its kind, drawing upon language-art material from as early as a Pueblo Indian petroglyph (Galisteo Basin, New Mexico, ca. 1350-1680) up to the twenty-first century that contributes to an alternative tradition to standard linear poetry. Included are examples of seventeenth-century pattern poems, contemporary concrete, poesia visiva, eye poems, typestracts, poem-objects, and digital poems. Works by George Herbert, Lewis Carroll, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Barbara Kruger, Henri Chopin, Robert Lax, Dick Higgins, Daniel Spoerri, Alison Knowles, d. a. levy, Bob Cobbing, Siebren Versteeg, bpNichol, Bill Bissett, and Guy de Cointet are among a multiplicity on view.
Funding for the exhibition is gratefully acknowledged: UB Art Galleries, David Gray Chair of Poetry & Letters (UB), The Poetry Collection of the University Libraries, Canadian-American Studies Committee (UB), and the Government of Canada.
Generous support has also been provided by the Canadian Consulate, Buffalo, NY; Electronic Poetry Center (UB); Department of Media Study (UB); James H. McNulty Chair of English (UB); and Gaylord Bros.
For exhibition poster, click Language to cover a wall.



