tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68301014576984855362024-03-05T02:08:00.771-08:00VLAK magazineVLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-56601276374574210552011-12-15T04:52:00.001-08:002011-12-15T04:54:26.559-08:00PF 2012<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VLAK</span> </span>wishes you all the best for the season and the New Year! <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />V3</span> will be launched during the <a href="http://www.praguemicrofestival.com/">Prague Microfestival</a>, 12-16 May, 2012. Come and join us!</span><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-52526913999327663232011-11-28T08:29:00.000-08:002011-11-28T08:38:04.331-08:00VLAK 2 ONLINE<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" >Read the latest issue of <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VLAK </span>online at <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://issuu.com/litteraria">issuu.com/litteraria</a> </span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">or order a deluxe print edition, 424 pages, from </span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/index.php?a=journals&j=1">Litteraria Pragensia Books</a><span style="font-family:arial;">. <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><br /><br />VLAK </span>can also be found at quality bookstores--in Prague: Shakespeare & Sons, The Globe; in New York: St Marks Books, Spoonbill & Sugartown, Unnameable Books; in Amsterdam: Boekie Woekie; in London: LRB Bookstore; in Melbourne: Collected Works; in Paris: Shakespeare & Co.</span><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-42673589186234966972011-11-23T20:29:00.000-08:002011-11-23T20:31:09.919-08:00V2 QR<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCla67hzSe53j51vtmE_nnAkyHLRCVDhIml6gmCeKKmxxWZVc9LGDUUFtOB0Sp58X1QxI1cBKL8HUKu6Jqsx6LwBZN38HRXd_L9P4e9jZs1a6k1VMKukKCZIfeofnqTvYBDCwFGQon_g/s1600/vlak_url.php.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmCla67hzSe53j51vtmE_nnAkyHLRCVDhIml6gmCeKKmxxWZVc9LGDUUFtOB0Sp58X1QxI1cBKL8HUKu6Jqsx6LwBZN38HRXd_L9P4e9jZs1a6k1VMKukKCZIfeofnqTvYBDCwFGQon_g/s200/vlak_url.php.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5678415045002584066" border="0" /></a>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-89755301997289120512011-11-22T18:08:00.000-08:002011-11-22T18:12:38.901-08:00VLAK in NY<span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:85%;" ><span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">VLAK 2</span> launched in New York at the Zinc Bar, 20 November, featuring readings by Charles Bernstein, Damien Ober, Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin, Bruce Andrews, Francesco Levato, Amy King, MacGregor Card, Pierre Joris, Corrine Fitzpatrick, John Coletti, Vincent Katz, Holly Tavel, Brendan Lorber, Vincent Farnsworth, and Arlo Quint.</span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-33077550987071212232011-11-09T04:58:00.000-08:002011-11-22T18:13:22.769-08:00VLAK in LONDON<span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">VLAK </span>will be hosting a launch party on 10 November, </span><span class="dtstart" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="value-title" title="2011-11-10T20:00:00"> </span>20:00</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> - </span><span class="dtend" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="value-title" title="2011-11-10T23:00:00"> </span>23:00, at</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> </span><a style="font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.carnivale.co.uk/Carnivale/HOME.html">CARNIVALE</a><span style="font-family:arial;">, 2 White Church Lane, London E1 7 QR. The event will include readings by Louis Armand, Sean Bonney, Andrea Brady, Vincent Dachy, Thor Garcia, Stephen Mooney, Andrew Nightingale, Holly Pester, Lawrence Upton, John Drever, Johan de Wit, and performance by </span></span><span class="commentBody"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">THE MIND SHOP (with David Miller, John Gibbens and Armorel Weston). Everyone welcome!</span></span><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-56380364525539711662011-09-24T01:43:00.000-07:002011-11-09T05:04:04.103-08:00VLAK at the London Small Publishers Fair<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <h6><span class="messagebody"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >VLAK</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" > Magazine, in conjunction with Equus Press and Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be represented at this year's London Small Publishers Fair, Friday 11th and </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >Saturday 12th November 2011</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >, Conway Hall, </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >Red Lion Square</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >, </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >London</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" > </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >WC1R 4RL</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >. The </span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" >SPF</span></span><span class="messagebody"><span style="font-weight: normal;font-family:Arial;font-size:8pt;" > is international fair celebrating books by contemporary artists, poets, writers, composers, book designers, and their publishers; together with a programme of readings and talks (including the launch of VLAK 2 and Louis Armand's novel <a href="http://www.equuspress.com">Clair Obscur</a>).</span></span></h6>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-11923314824515648752011-09-03T08:19:00.000-07:002011-09-24T01:47:12.826-07:00In Memoriam<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <h3><span style="font-size: 8pt;">VLAK</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"> mourns the death of </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">ALI</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;"> DAGHMAN</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">, killed in </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">Syria</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">15 August, 2011</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">. His essay on power and resistance, published in </span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">VLAK 2</span><span style="font-size: 8pt; font-weight: normal;">, can be read here: <a href="http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/ali_daghman" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/ali_daghman</a>. Ali was an intellectually fearless and committed man, and it was our great honour to have known him. Our thoughts go out to his family and his fiancée. May he rest in peace.</span></h3>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-33419011788877711182011-05-25T11:22:00.000-07:002011-05-25T11:26:07.682-07:00VLAK at the Bauhaus<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/index.php?a=journals&j=1"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwzeoOMjL4A6sW8cJXcaLa4ZhfhZG8bta1mrRR1e7H-6Th7WL8lD-W5JTwzmzGUmxLS27UKCyawoCHTy6dKDBtwIIODlkImFjaDBBxU6MfnPxlNkqGAVe8n_CL8zsJ4I-jJ4B3yNILnI4/s200/VLAK+at+the+Bauhaus.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5610721143275975842" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family:arial;"></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-49634047403743788622011-05-11T04:54:00.000-07:002011-05-25T11:20:08.458-07:00VLAK 2 EST ARRIVÉ<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Copies of <span style="font-weight: bold;">VLAK 2</span> can now be ordered direct from the publisher, <a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/index.php?a=journals&j=1">Litteraria Pragensia</a>.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> V2 </span>features:</span></span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >DAVID HAYMAN on Robert Motherwell</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by VINCENT KATZ<br /></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Excerpts from PHILIPPE SOLLERS’ H</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >NIALL </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >LUCY</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > on Jacques Derrida</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by ALICE NOTLEY </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Excerpts from EMMANUELLE PIREYRE’s General Spectacular </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >JEROEN NIEUWLAND on Monika Cichon</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Fiction by HOLLY TAVEL</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >JOHN KINSELLA & </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >URS</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > JAEGGI’s Tractortatus Illogico </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >LOUIS ARMAND on Pierre Joris</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ADAM</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > TRACHTMAN’s photoessay on </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Morocco</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >Excerpts from LEÏLA SEBBAR’s Mon cher fils </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Excerpts from DORRA CHAMMAM Reefs & other consequences </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by MONCEF GACHEM </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >JANE LEWTY on Mahmud Darwish</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >STEPHAN DELBOS on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;">Ali Ahmed Said (Adonis)</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" ></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ALI</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > DAGHMAN on Power & Resistance </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >Poetry by MEHDI MAHFOUDH </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >DAWN FOWLER on David Greig</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Performance text by KEN EDWARDS</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Photoessay by VADIM ERENT</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >CARLA HARRYMAN’s Mirror Play / Spiegelspiel </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Fiction by ANDRÉ JAHN </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Fiction by TRAVIS JEPPESEN</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Graffics by KAREL JERIE </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >STEVE McCAFFERY on James Joyce</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by HANK LAZER </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >PHIL COATES on Ian Hays, Joyce & Duchamp</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ANN</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > HAMILTON on Montage or the Will to Power</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >MARJORIE PERLOFF on Gertrude Stein</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >DAVID VICHNAR on Michal Ajvaz</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >MICHAL AJVAZ Interviewed</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >Artwork by LUCIE SKŘIVÁNKOVÁ </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by PAVEL NOVOTNÝ, ONDŘEJ BUDDEUS, JONÁŠ HÁJEK &</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >ADAM</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" > BORZIČ </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Collages by MARK MELNICOVE </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ADRIAN CLARKE on Karen Mac Cormack</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Collages by J/J HASTAIN </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ALI</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > ALIZADEH on Avant-Gardism in the </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Antipodes</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" ></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poems/texts by ANIA WALWICZ, CLAIRE POTTER, FELICITY PLUNKETT, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >GIG</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >RYAN</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >, JELTJE, JUSTIN CLEMENS, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >MATT</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > HETHERINGTON, MICHAEL FARRELL, NICOLE TOMLINSON, PiO, PAM BROWN, SEBASTIAN GURCIULLO, CHRIS EDWARDS, </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >MATT</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >HALL</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >, DJ HUPPATZ </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >TEREZA STEJSKALOVÁ on Czech 1990s Photography</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poem by CHARLES BERNSTEIN </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Performance text by STEVE BENSON </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >KATARZYNA BAZARNIK on Liberature</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ZENON FAJFER on Liberature</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Artwork by MICHAL ŠANDA </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by ANDREW NIGHTINGALE </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="EN-US" >Collaboration by<span style="text-transform: uppercase;"> Amaranth Borsuk</span></span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >, KATE DURBIN, ZACH KLEYN </span><span style="text-transform: uppercase;font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="EN-US" ></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by REDELL OLSEN, JANE LEWTY, CLODY CLEVIDENCE, ELEZA JAEGER, MEGAN M. GARR, SARA NICHOLSON, AMY DE’ATH </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >LOUIS ARMAND on Vincent Farnsworth</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by LARRY SAWYER, PETRA GANGLBAUER, AMY KING, BRENDAN LORBER, CHRIS MARTIN, CORRINE FITZPATRICK, JASON MORRIS, MACGREGOR </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >CARD</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >, NINA ZIVANCEVIC, NOAH </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >ELI</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" > GORDON </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Fiction by JOHAN DE WIT & </span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" lang="FR" >DAMIEN OBER </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Poetry by STEPHAN DELBOS, KAMIL BOUŠKA, CRALAN KELDER, ROBERT SHEPPARD, FRANCESCO LEVATO</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:9pt;" >Texts/photography by JOSHUA MENSCH & VINCENT DACHY</span><span style=";font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;" ></span></span></p> <span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-22850254547092711382011-04-20T08:13:00.000-07:002011-05-02T03:24:38.256-07:00Coming soon in VLAK 2<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" >David Hayman, Vincent Katz, Philippe Sollers, Niall Lucy, Alice Notley, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Jeroen Nieuwland, Holly Tavel, John Kinsella, Urs Jaeggi, Louis Armand, Adam Trachtman, Leïla Sebbar, Dorra Chammam, Moncef Gachem, Jane Lewty, Stephan Delbos, Ali Daghman, Mehdi Mahfoudh, Dawn Fowler, Ken Edwards, Vadim Erent, Carla Harryman, Andre Jahn, Travis Jeppesen, Karel Jerie, Steve McCaffery, Hank Lazer, Phil Coates, Ann Hamilton, Petra Ganglbauer, Marjorie Perloff, David Vichnar, Michal Ajvaz, Lucie Skrivanková, Pavel Novotný, Ondřej Buddeus, Jonáš Hájek, Adam Borzič, Mark Melnicove, Adrian Clarke, j/j hastain, Ali Alizadeh, Ania Walwicz, Claire Potter, Felicity Plunkett, Gig Ryan, Jeltje, Justin Clemens, Matt Hetherington, Michael Farrell, Nicole Tomlinson, PiO, Pam Brown, Sebastian Gurciullo, Chris Edwards, Matt Hall, DJ Huppatz, Tereza Stejskalová, Charles Bernstein, Steve Benson, Katarzyna Bazarnik, Zenon Fajfer, Michal Šanda, Andrew Nightingale, Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin, Zach Kleyn, Redell Olson, Clody Clevidence, Eleza Jaeger, Megan M. Garr, Sara Nicholson, Amy De’Ath, Larry Sawyer, Amy King, Brendan Lorber, Chris Martin, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Jason Morris, Macgregor Card, Nina Zivancevic, Noah Eli Gordon, Johan De Wit, Damien Ober, Joshua Mensch, Kamil Bouška, Cralan Kelder, Robert Sheppard, Francesco Levato, Vincent Dachy...<br /></span><span style=";font-family:arial;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Launch: 15 May at the <a href="http://www.praguemicrofestival.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Prague Microfestival</span></a></span><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-38498001702550933322011-04-06T16:33:00.000-07:002011-04-14T19:12:36.216-07:00Prague Microfestival + VLAK 2 launch<div id="id_4d9cf80d4d49b0e87810355" class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">VLAK magazine (<a href="http://www.vlakmagazine.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.vlakmagazine.com</a>) and Psí Víno (<a href="http://www.psivino.cz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.psivino.cz</a>), in co-operation with Versal Magazine (<a href="http://www.wordsinhere.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.wordsinhere.com</a>) and VEER Books (<a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span>http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/</span>publications/veer-books</a>), invite you to the <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">3rd Prague Microfestival, 14-18 May, 2011.</span><br /><br /><span class="text_exposed_show">Venue: Krásný Ztráty, Náprstkova 10, Praha 1, Staré Město (<a href="http://www.krasnyztraty.cz/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.krasnyztraty.cz</a>)<br /><br />======================<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">PROGRAM</span><br />======================<br />[*Friday 13 May, pre-Microfest fiction evening at Klub Utopia, Bělehradská 45, Praha 2, from 7.30pm. Featuring Thor Garcia, Holly Tavel, Ken Nash, Louis Armand--with the launch of Thor Garcia's <span style="font-style: italic;">TUND </span>from Litteraria Pragensia.]<br /><br />*Saturday 14 May, Krásný ztráty<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show">6.00pm </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Discussion: "Poetics & Translocality"<br />8.00pm<br />Reading: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Carla Harryman, Keston Sutherland, Lenka Daňhelová, Alistair Noon, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Barrett Watten</span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br /><br />*Sunday 15 May, Krásný ztráty<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show">6.00pm </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Launch event: <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">VLAK 2</span><br /><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Ondřej Buddeus, Jane Lewty, Adam Borzič, Joshua Mensch, Carla Harryman, Stephan Delbos, Jeroen Nieuwland, Kasia Bazarnik, Zenon Fejfer, Megan M. Garr, Michal Šanda, David Vichnar</span><br /><br />*Monday 16 May, Krásný ztráty<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show">6.00pm </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Reading: </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Donna Stonecipher, </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Sean Bonney, Aodan McCardle, Stephen Mooney, Ulli Freer, Jan Těsnohlídek</span><br />9.00pm<br />Launch event: Maurice Scully, </span></span>Gilbert Adair<span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"> (Veer books).<br /><br />*Tuesday 17 May, Krásný ztráty<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show">6.00pm </span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />Reading: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Sylva Fischerová, Dagmar Pokorná, Megan M. Garr, Martin Skýpala, Jane Lewty</span><br />9.00pm<br />Launch event: Versal 9 (Versal Magazine)<br /><br />*Wednesday 18 May, Krásný ztráty<br />6.00pm<br />Reading: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Catherine Hales, Josef Straka, Laura Conway, Louis Armand, </span></span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">Karla Kelsey</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span class="text_exposed_show"><br />9.00pm<br />Launch event: David Vichnar, Louis Armand, and Stephan Delbos (Litteraria Pragensia Books)<br /><br />*All events are in both English and Czech.<br />*Free entry.<br /><br />Supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland, the Centre for Critical & Cultural Theory, and Centre for Irish Studies, Charles University.</span></span></div>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-47458381153983685062011-03-23T15:54:00.001-07:002011-03-29T14:30:50.867-07:00V2<h3 style="font-weight: normal;font-family:arial;" class="UIIntentionalStory_Message"><span class="UIIntentionalStory_Names" style="font-size:85%;"> </span><span class="UIStory_Message" style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Coming soon in VLAK 2</span>: Marjorie Perloff on Gertrude Stein, Adrian Clarke on Karen Mac Cormack, Niall Lucy on Jacques Derrida, Louis Armand on Pierre Joris, David Vichnar on Michal Ajvaz, Kasia Bazarnik on Liberature, Jeroen Nieuwland on Monika Cichon, Ali Alizadeh on Australian poetry, David Hayman’s unpublished intervi<span class="text_exposed_show">ews with Robert Motherwell, translations of Philippe Sollers, Dorra Chammam, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Mehdi Mahfoudh, Moncef Gachem, Leila Sebbar, Ondřej Buddeus, photo essays by Adam Trachtman and Vadim Erent, poetry by Alice Notley, Pam Brown, Charles Bernstein, Ania Walwicz, Vincent Katz, Urs Jaeggi, John Kinsella, Hank Lazar, Ken Edwards, Larry Sawyer, Amy De'Ath, Megan M. Garr, Amy King, Steve Benson, Francesco Levato... <span style="font-style: italic;">& much much more!</span></span></span></h3><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);font-family:arial;" >VLAK 1</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> online at </span><a style="font-family: arial;" href="http://issuu.com/litteraria">issuu.com/litteraria</a><br /><br /></span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-86464624725034383182010-12-28T21:00:00.000-08:002011-03-23T15:59:26.302-07:00VLAK 2<strong>V2</strong> will be launched during the <span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Prague Micro Festival</span>, 14-18 May<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50mHqXViwEuJMsK5r6aZZyYpQ4AMkMXd3JUsT_Rj36FXA2rUKXMp0xdzNAFAgAhTMF2W10LVQp8n_spcRaOWuyknQqXWQedF5Way3kTdHuo6AmbtiQljV_QM34o6hnrRHSCyxhj_qpDk/s1600/V2pastoral.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 191px; float: left; height: 200px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5555964908199237730" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg50mHqXViwEuJMsK5r6aZZyYpQ4AMkMXd3JUsT_Rj36FXA2rUKXMp0xdzNAFAgAhTMF2W10LVQp8n_spcRaOWuyknQqXWQedF5Way3kTdHuo6AmbtiQljV_QM34o6hnrRHSCyxhj_qpDk/s200/V2pastoral.jpg" border="0" /></a> 2011<br /><div></div>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-52461587327378324152010-12-14T18:52:00.000-08:002011-01-11T12:35:21.225-08:00VLAK ONLINEVLAK 1 is now available online in PDF format to read or download at <a href="http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/vlak1_september_2010/1">issuu.com/litteraria</a> or by selecting the FULL TEXT option at <a href="http://issuu.com/litteraria/docs/vlak1_september_2010/1"></a><a href="http://litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/VLAK1_read.html">litteraria.ff.cuni.cz/books/VLAK1_read.html</a>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-49617759943275483102010-09-20T20:41:00.000-07:002010-10-09T03:24:24.147-07:00VLAK EXPRESS<span style="font-family:arial;">Copies of <strong>VLAK </strong>are now available from the Litteraria Pragensia website </span><a href="http://www.litterariapragensia.com/"><span style="font-family:arial;">www.litterariapragensia.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial;"> (under "Journals") and from selected bookstores: St Marks Books, Nicky's Smoke & Magazine W 11th & 6th (New York); DOX, The Globe, Shakespeare & Sons (Prague).</span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-44811662262175438412010-07-30T05:36:00.000-07:002010-10-25T12:43:12.206-07:00V + L - A = K<span style="font-family:arial;"><strong>VLAK <span style="color:#cc0000;">1</span></strong> will be launched in London at Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square, on the <span style="color:#cc0000;">29th of October</span>, from 6pm, featuring readings by <strong><span style="color:#666666;">Allen Fisher, Caroline Bergvall, Sean Bonney, Holly Pester, Carol Watts, Richard Tipping, Lawrence Upton, </span></strong> <span style="color:#666666;"><strong>Benedict Taylor</strong></span> & <strong><span style="color:#666666;">Louis Armand</span></strong>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Previous launch events took place in Prague and New York. In Prague at Shakespeare & Sons Bookstore, U Luzickeho seminare 10, on the 6th of October, 6pm, with readings by <strong><span style="color:#666666;">Thor Garcia, Catherine Hales, David Vichnar, Louis Armand, Stephan Delbos</span></strong> and <strong><span style="color:#666666;">Holly Tavel</span></strong>. And in New York </span><span style="font-family:arial;">at the St Marks Poetry Project, 131 E. 10th St., New York, on the 27th of September, 8pm.</span><span style="font-family:arial;"> The launch featured readings by <span style="color:#666666;"><strong>Abigail Child</strong>, </span></span><span style="color:#666666;"><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Pierre Joris</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Eileen Myles</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Elizabeth Gross</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Marjorie Welish</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Vincent Katz</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, <strong>Stephanie Barber</strong>, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Arlo Quint</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Stacy Szymaszek</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">John Wilkinson</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Jess Fiorini</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong style="FONT-FAMILY: arial">Joshua Cohen</strong><span style="font-family:arial;">, </span><strong>Stephanie Strickland</strong> <span style="color:#000000;">and</span> <strong>Christine Wertheim</strong></span><span style="font-family:arial;">. For more details see <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,102)">http://poetryproject.org/program-calendar/vlak.html</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Contributors to VLAK 1.1 include Abigail Child, Holly Tavel, Marjorie Perloff, Alexander Jorgensen, Joshua Cohen, Eileen Myles, Stephanie Barber, John Wilkinson, Matt Hall, Stephanie Strickland, Allen Fisher, Marjorie Welish, Catherine Hales, Mez, Karen Mac Cormack, Robert Sheppard, Bill Mousoulis, Ali Alizadeh, Ron Padget, Brandon Downing, Pam Brown, Thor Garcia, John Coletti, Jessica Fiorini, Bruce Andrews, Richard Tipping, Vincent Farnsworth, Mark Terrill, Elizabeth Gross, Douglas Piccinnini, Stephan Delbos, Arlo Quint, Vincent Katz, Veronique Vassiliou, Vadim Erent, Pierre Joris, Habib Tengour, Aaron Lowinger, Darren Tofts, Ian Haig, Louis Armand, John Kinsella, Steve McCaffery, Stacey Szymaszek, Mike Farrell, Andrea Brady, Edwin Torres, Alli Warren, Jess Mynes, Tim Gaze, Jen Hofer, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Ales Steger, Betsy Fagin, Amande In, Jena Osman, Henry Hills, Keith Jones, Octavio Armand, John Godfrey, Allyssa Wolf... and more!</span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-79861691242915748682009-10-27T08:32:00.000-07:002009-10-27T16:04:58.692-07:00WHAT ARE TOMORROW’S QUESTIONS?<span style="font-family: arial;">“What is lost in abstraction? What is signified by a long work? By a serial work? What are its limitations? How might multiple voices reflect reality? Infect reality? And how sustain such a work? How does the world enter the work? How is the inside destroyed or transformed into ‘another’ space? How end a work? How reshape parts of the world, and is that what we aspire to anyway? Are we breathing easier, feeling better, glutted with our ‘contemporary practice’ digested? Or fiercely unsatisfied, curious, anxious, asking, ‘What are tomorrow’s questions?’”</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Abigail Child, </span><em style="font-family: arial;">This is Called Moving</em>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6830101457698485536.post-25597575073506808562009-10-12T06:42:00.000-07:002009-10-29T15:50:53.062-07:00SIGNAL CROSSING<span style="font-family:arial;">VLAK is an international curatorial project </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, art, film, philosophy, music, science, design, politics, performance, ecology, and new media.</span> <p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" ><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt;font-family:arial;" class="MsoNormal" >Our global-local environment is defined by intersections, hybrids, transversals: realities that are contested, interactual and always in the process of taking new forms.<br /></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; FONT-FAMILY: arial" class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt" class="MsoNormal" face="arial"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:100%;">VLAK invites contributions that extend our understanding about what is possible; which pose questions about the prevailing attitude of norms; which explore the ramifications of contemporary culture and attempt new critical and creative methods.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;"><em></em></span><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:100%;">VLAK stands for the drive to experiment, to synthesise, to extend—holding to the principle that a vital culture is always experimental and thus always “at a crossroads.”</span>VLAK - poetics & the artshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15180620726833424511noreply@blogger.com0