OPEN STACKS | #47 All Things Poetry: Thing – Cecilia Vicuña & Jen Bervin
April 15th, 2018
This week on Open Stacks, we're taking a look at poemthings that point to truths beyond the given names of things contained within them. First, a performance from Cecilia Vicuña, the artist behind PALABRArmas, an exhibition at Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society free and open to the public until June 3rd, 2018. Then, combining scientific structure and poetic form, Jen Bervin explores the complexities of silk imagined inside the body.
Cecilia Vicuña. Precarios, 1966-2017; site-specific installation of 117 found object sculptures (stone shells, glass, wood, plastic, debris). Courtesy of the Artist and the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans. Photo: Alex Marks (via)
Be sure to look at this week's poetry picks, over on the blog.
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In conjunction with Tufts University's Silk Lab's cutting-edge research on liquified silk, Jen Bervin wrote a poem composed in a six-character chain that corresponds to the DNA structure of silk; modeled on the way a silkworm applies filament to its cocoon. This poem, written from the perspective...
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