Artists Space

F.R.DAVID, Issue #9

Journal Launch & Reading
March 11, 2012, 4pm

"This is not new, of course," the ninth issue of F.R.DAVID, finds “poetry” – the word and the product – NOT sacred, IS mutable, and SHOULD be replaced with "politics," "art," "baking," "film" and "cabinet-making" as one possible means to record life.

Edited by Will Holder, with contributions by Stan Brakhage, Adam Chodzko, Cid Corman, Maya Deren, Robert Duncan, Anja Kirschner / David Panos, Hilary Koob Sassen, Jackson Mac Low, Chris Mann, Charles Olson, Marjorie Perloff, C.H. Sisson, H.G. Widdowson and more.

A looseleaf sheet of paper with "Spring 2012 F.R. DAVID" printed on the top in red type. The page is filled with handwritten black text.
[A looseleaf sheet of paper with "Spring 2012 F.R. DAVID" printed on the top in red type. The page is filled with handwritten black text.]

F.R.DAVID is published by de Appel, Amsterdam, and is concerned with the position of reading and writing in the arts.

The launch at Artists Space will include a reading by composer, poet and performer Chris Mann. “Chris Mann specializes in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, described by [himself] as ‘the mechanism whereby you understand what I’m thinking better than I do.’” In his word-perfect performances the nature of such co-production is demonstrated and enabled, through the use of con­structivist terms such as “i mean” and “you know.” After seeing repeated performances of a previous work, it becomes clear that these (“i think”) are as determined as the words on the page, which Mann, incidentally waves about and occasionally pretends to refer to.