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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/
Symposium Schedule for Saturday, December 11, 2004*
10:00-10:15am Osvaldo Romberg: "Diogenes in the Art Market" (Introduction)
10:15-10:55am Thomas McEvilley: "Art and Cognition"
11:00-11:40am Jean-Michel Rabaté: "Joyce and Jarry Joyeux"
11:45-12:25pm Joseph Masheck: "Jarry-Joyce-Duchamp in an Anastasian Illumination"
12:30-02:00pm Lunch Break
2:00-2:40pm Ian Hays: "Joyce and Duchamp: Our Accumulation of the Trivial"
2:45-3:25pm Alison Armstrong: "Deja Dit et Deja Vue: the Already Said, the Already Seen"
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break
4:00-4:40pm Steve McCaffery: "The 'Pataphysics of
Auschwitz"
4:45-5:30pm William Anastasi
*Each 30-minute presentation will be followed by 10 minutes of Q&A.
Writings by Anastasi relevant to the symposium proceedings from Tout-Fait, The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal, include:
Alfred Jarry and l'Accident of Duchamp
| Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage
| James Joyce and Marcel Duchamp
Steve McCaffery is the David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters and Director of the Poetics program at SUNY Buffalo. He is the author of fifteen books of poetry and one novel, and has twice received the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative American Poetry, in 1993-94 and 1994-95. In 1973 he co-founded with the late bp Nichol the Toronto Research Group. He has performed his poetry world-wide and his work has been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese, and Hungarian. He contributed "'To Lose One's Way': The Radical Labryinths of Constant and Arakawa/Gins" to the Summer Issue (No. 21, Vol. 1) of the journal Interfaces.
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
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