Poësy matters and other matters

• Date de parution : 12/10/2019
• Editeur : Blank Forms
• EAN : 9781733723503
• Série : (-)
• Support : Papier

• Nombre de pages : 760
• Collection : (-)
• Genre : Allemand
• Thème : Ouvrages de littérature allemands
• Prix littéraire(s) : (-)

La première publication complète de l'oeuvre écrite de l'artiste, compositrice, écrivaine et théoricienne d'avant-garde, en deux volumes.
Le premier volume, Poësy Matters, est divisé en deux sections, poésie et théâtre, chaque section contenant également des commentaires de Hennix ou de son... Voir plus

La première publication complète de l'oeuvre écrite de l'artiste, compositrice, écrivaine et théoricienne d'avant-garde, en deux volumes.
Le premier volume, Poësy Matters, est divisé en deux sections, poésie et théâtre, chaque section contenant également des commentaires de Hennix ou de son collaborateur de longue date, Henry Flynt. Le deuxième volume, Other Matters, contient d'une part des notes programmatiques et des essais portant sur un large éventail de sujets (dont la musique, la psychanalyse et les mathématiques) et d'autre part une reproduction de l'ouvrage de Hennix, The Yellow Book, publié en 1989.
Poësy Matters and Other Matters illustre la profondeur et la variété de ses contributions à la musique contemporaine, à l'art, à la littérature et aux mathématiques. Les textes reflètent la formation diversifiée de Hennix ainsi que ses intérêts personnels de longue date pour la psychanalyse lacanienne et les formes poétiques japonaises et du Moyen-Orient et témoignent de l'importance, longtemps sous-estimée, de l'oeuvre d'une figure essentielle de l'avant-garde.


This two-volume set, Poe¨sy Matters and Other Matters, presents selected texts by the Swedish polymath Catherine Christer Hennix. Volume one, Poe¨sy Matters, is divided into two sections: poetry and drama, with each section also containing pieces of commentary by Hennix or her longtime collaborator Henry Flynt. Volume two, Other Matters, is divided into two sections: first, program notes and essays about a wide range of topics (including music, psychoanalysis, and mathematics), and second, a reproduction of Hennix's 1989 work The Yellow Book. The first comprehensive publication of Hennix's written work, Poe¨sy Matters and Other Matters illustrates the singular depth and variety of her contributions to contemporary music, art, literature, and mathematics.
Best known as a composer, Catherine Christer Hennix has, throughout her fifty-plus-year career, produced innovative work in the fields of not just minimal and computer music, but psychoanalytic theory, intuitionist mathematics, poetry, and prose as well. Born in Stockholm in 1948, Hennix became involved with the local jazz and electronic music communities while in her teens, meeting visiting musicians such as Eric Dolphy and Albert Ayler, studying with trumpeter Idrees Sulieman, and becoming a member of the Elektronmusikstudio. In the late 1960s Hennix traveled to New York City, where, through A°ke Hodell, she met Dick Higgins and, in turn, many other members of the New York avant-garde, including La Monte Young, who would become a formative figure for Hennix and introduce her to both Henry Flynt and her eventual guru, Pandit Pran Nath. In the ensuing decades Hennix has continued to compose and perform music in a variety of formations, including in Flynt's Dharma Warriors, a quartet with Arthur Rhames, and more recently, with her own Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage. Hennix's ongoing explorations of mathematics, meanwhile-namely, the work of L.E.J. Brouwer-have led to teaching positions at SUNY-New Paltz and at MIT, and an extended collaboration with Alexander Esenin-Volpin.
The texts in Poe¨sy Matters and Other Matters reflect Hennix's diverse training as well as her long-standing personal interests in Lacanian psychoanalysis and Japanese and Middle Eastern poetic forms, resulting in a rich, diffuse collection of writings that reveal one of the avant-garde's most implacable, not to mention overlooked, creative minds.