Enter the Matrix: An Examination of Patrick Pound's The Great Exhibition

<p>This thesis considers the practice of New Zealand-born artist, Patrick Pound (b. 1962) through an analysis of his survey show, Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, which was staged at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne between 31 March and 30 July 2017. The Great Exhibition demonstrates the complexity and multiplicity of Pound’s practice, exemplifying the interconnectedness of his thinking and his use of an algorithmic approach to collecting, curating and categorisation. His depth of art-historical knowledge plays out as an intricate puzzle. The scope of The Great Exhibition is vast and, while it might appear to mostly involve the arrangement of more than 4,000 vernacular photographs and found objects, alongside 300 items from the NGV’s collection, the methodologies of collecting and curation employed by Pound are multifaceted. I consider the constancy of Pound’s interrogation of authorship and meaning throughout his practice, which is integrally related to his use of vernacular photographs and found objects within The Great Exhibition. I examine our relationship with vernacular photography and how this is exposed in The Great Exhibition. The practices of artists such as Erik Kessels, Joachim Schmid and Marcel Duchamp provide context here. Chapter Three asks how The Great Exhibition fits within a wider context of exhibitions by artist-as-curators such as Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum and Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man. This chapter also examines how computer algorithms can be applied as a framework for understanding The Great Exhibition’s curatorial logic. Pound’s complex system of sorting and categorising into matrices and intersections is considered in relation to writer Georges Perec and his understanding of Alan Turing’s conceptualisation of the ‘Automatic’ and ‘Oracle’ machines. My conclusion reflects on what can and cannot be learned from Patrick Pound’s The Great Exhibition.</p>

Enter the Matrix: An Examination of Patrick Pound's The Great Exhibition

<p>This thesis considers the practice of New Zealand-born artist, Patrick Pound (b. 1962) through an analysis of his survey show, Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, which was staged at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne between 31 March and 30 July 2017. The Great Exhibition demonstrates the complexity and multiplicity of Pound’s practice, exemplifying the interconnectedness of his thinking and his use of an algorithmic approach to collecting, curating and categorisation. His depth of art-historical knowledge plays out as an intricate puzzle. The scope of The Great Exhibition is vast and, while it might appear to mostly involve the arrangement of more than 4,000 vernacular photographs and found objects, alongside 300 items from the NGV’s collection, the methodologies of collecting and curation employed by Pound are multifaceted. I consider the constancy of Pound’s interrogation of authorship and meaning throughout his practice, which is integrally related to his use of vernacular photographs and found objects within The Great Exhibition. I examine our relationship with vernacular photography and how this is exposed in The Great Exhibition. The practices of artists such as Erik Kessels, Joachim Schmid and Marcel Duchamp provide context here. Chapter Three asks how The Great Exhibition fits within a wider context of exhibitions by artist-as-curators such as Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum and Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man. This chapter also examines how computer algorithms can be applied as a framework for understanding The Great Exhibition’s curatorial logic. Pound’s complex system of sorting and categorising into matrices and intersections is considered in relation to writer Georges Perec and his understanding of Alan Turing’s conceptualisation of the ‘Automatic’ and ‘Oracle’ machines. My conclusion reflects on what can and cannot be learned from Patrick Pound’s The Great Exhibition.</p>

Fictitious Meals, Culinary Constraints: The Recipe Form in Four Oulipian Texts

This article looks into fictitious meals and the use of culinary recipe form in experimental and procedural literature, namely, works of constrained writing associated with OuLiPo (Ouvroir de Littérature Potentielle). The recipe form is first scrutinized from the procedural, structural, and historical viewpoints, also concerning its lesser-known imaginative and esoteric genealogy. In addition, its connections to the notions of narrativity and fiction are discussed. The recipe's relationship to action is depicted by a simple procedural model. There is a metaphorical and conceptual, but also formal and operational, similarity between the coded procedures of cooking and writing. A recipe is a procedure, a script for an infinity of possible meals, and a literary procedure is a recipe for writing. It is not surprising, then, that Oulipian writers have utilized the recipe form in their food-related works. Four such literary recipes (by Georges Perec, Jacques Roubaud, Harry Mathews, and Alastair Brotchie) are closely examined, after discussion of key concepts of Oulipian poetics from the culinary viewpoint. The article's special point of reference is the parodic, satirical, absurd, and other humorous meanings that literary recipes often seem to produce, which is linked to the operational and structural dimensions of the recipe—its comically posited procedural form.

Les débuts de la maison POL

POL est connu pour avoir été autant un éditeur réputé, en soutien de la poésie et d’auteurs comme Charles Juliet ou Édouard Levé, qu’un éditeur à succès, couronné par des prix ou porté par des réussites avec des œuvres quelque peu grand public comme celles d’Emmanuel Carrère ou de Martin Winckler. Mais ses débuts dans les années 1980 en tant qu’éditeur indépendant ont été bien difficiles, et sur ces années d’apprentissage, entre Georges Perec et Marguerite Duras, des archives versées à l’IMEC ont permis d’avoir un regard neuf. Que nous disent ces documents ? Quels ont été les chances, les déveines, les risques, les soucis de la maison POL dans les années 1980 ? Comment l’éditeur d’Emmanuel Hocquard ou de Bernard Noël a-t-il gagné en solidité après avoir frisé le dépôt de bilan ? C’est à ces quelques questions que ce texte propose de modestes éléments de réponses.

Intersecções entre escrita e imagem em A coleção particular, de Georges Perec

O artigo tem como objetivo estudar as relações que se estabelecem entre literatura/escrita e pintura/imagem na novela A coleção particular, do escritor francês Georges Perec, de modo a perceber e analisar as intersecções entre elas ao longo da narrativa. A fim de compor seu labirinto, Perec retoma a polêmica do Ut pictura poesis (“Um poema é como um quadro”) e as disputas entre pintura e literatura no interior do campo artístico, buscando refletir sobre o jogo de poder nesse cenário. Neste sentido, literatura/escrita e pintura/imagem são, na novela de Perec, potencialidades que jogam juntas e se complementam mutuamente, oferecendo mais caminhos ao leitor.

Nichtstun als politische Praxis

In der Moderne gilt das Nichtstun gemeinhin als wertlos oder gefährlich. Im Gegensatz dazu betrachtet Agatha Frischmuth das Phänomen in einer völlig neuen Auslegung von Hannah Arendts Handlungsphilosophie als eine genuin politische Praxis, die die im westlichen Denken fest verankerte Binäropposition zwischen Handlung und Nichthandlung auflöst. Ihre literaturwissenschaftliche Studie zeigt in diskursanalytischen Lektüren der Romane von Robert Walser, Thomas Mann, Georges Perec und Mirosław Nahacz Überraschendes auf: eine bisher ungeahnt enge Verknüpfung des Nichtstun-Motivs mit einer Sehnsucht nach Gemeinschaft und die Darstellung des Nichtstuns als uneigentliches Erzählen und Sprechen.

Georges Perec e a gênese da literatura comparada

O objetivo deste artigo é estabelecer as diferenças entre dois textos que, aparentemente, têm muito em comum, Crítica literária, história literária, literatura comparada, do crítico Paul Van Tieghen, e A viagem de inverno, do escritor Georges Perec. Apesar das grandes semelhanças – que podem conduzir o leitor a pensar até na hipótese de plágio –, os dois textos são fruto de concepções de literatura muito diferentes, e a relação entre eles põe em prática um princípio de escritura caro a Perec, o da intertextualidade.