Tango With Cows is an exhibition by the Getty Museum of the book art of the Russian avant-garde from 1910 to 1917, which included a performance of sound poetry,
all captured on video, both of Futurist poems, other historical sound poems, and contemporary works. Among performers are Christian Bök and Steve McCaffery. The exhibition takes its name from
the book of ferro-concrete poems, one of
21 books can be downloaded as PDFs, most are by Alexei Kruchenykh but there are also works by Roman Jakobson, Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk, Andrei Kravtsov, Vasily Kamensky and Velimir Khlebnikov. These were all Futurists.
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posted by Kattullus
on Feb 2, 2010 -
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Owen Hatherley, has three blogs where he expounds on culture and architecture from an English Leftist perspective,
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy,
The Measures Taken (which has longer essays than the previous blog) and the group film blog
kino fist. To give you an idea of the range of subjects he covers, here's a sampling of his blogposts:
Towards a Communist Couture? Sartorial Socialism from Huey P Newton to Honecker,
Zuckendes Fleischer (on pre-WWII American cartoons),
Industrial Island Machine - Vorticism and the absence of an English Avant-Garde,
Hurrah for the Black Box Recorder (on songwriter Luke Haines and The Daily Mail),
The Children’s Book as a Revolutionary Object (with a bunch of pictures from Soviet avant-garde children's books),
Architectural Drawings of the 1960s,
Art is a branch of Mathematics (Taylorism and Russian SF classic
We),
Brechtian Productivism in an age of Mechanical Stagnation and
Notes towards an attempted refutation of the 'Associational Fallacy' (on architecture). All of the blogs are heavily adorned with pretty pictures, some not safe for work.
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posted by Kattullus
on Nov 13, 2007 -
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