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Caption: Detail, Detail, "du jarry" series, 2004

"Joyce and Duchamp: Our Accumulation of the Trivial"
Featuring Ian Hays

Slought Foundation | Saturday, December 11, 2004; 2:00 - 2:40 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Jean-Michel Rabaté, Aaron Levy
Anastasi Symposium Series



Project Website (with 35 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11289/

Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/


Ian Hays is a lecturer at the Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University. Current visual and textual work revolves around the enterprise of reading Joyce reading Duchamp. He recently presented at the James Joyce Bloomsday Symposium (Dublin, June 14th 2004).

This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the French Institute for Culture and Technology