Event overview
A symposium on the poet Mallarmé's experiments in writing and conception of an epochal book-performance, and their impact on philosophy, literature and the arts.
The poet Stéphane Mallarmé famously wrote, ’everything in the world exists in order to end up in a book’. He never managed to achieve Le Livre as the multi-volume tome, or the performance that would usher in a new age for which he left numerous notes, but in the process, he transformed the understanding and practice of writing and became a source of radical aesthetic practice for thinkers including Julia Kristeva, Jacques Rancière and Alain Badiou. We return to Mallarmé at a time when the book as codex and repository is challenged by the dispersal of the digital internet, and when 'book performance' has become a characteristic mode of art practice.
Tom McCarthy (novelist, essayist, artist) who will read from his novel Satin Island and discuss Mallarmé’s text ‘Conflict’.
Josh Cohen (ECL) will read Mallarmé’s prose texts.
Michael Newman (Art) will discuss Mallarmé’s conception of ‘Le Livre’ as a book performance and the film by Daniel Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub, Toute revolution est un coup de dés (1977)
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson (Art) will give a performance and discuss crypt-radio and the radio play 'Igitur Flotsam' by Reinier van Houdt (2017).
The audience will participate throughout in readings of Mallarmé's poems and prose texts.
Maladies of the Book Mallarmé seminar web page
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 3 Nov 2017 | 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
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