Wystan Curnow, art critic and poet, last spring spoke at the Writers House on curating as a critical practice. The event was shown live on KWH-TV and is already available as a video recording. Wystan was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1939, and studied English and History at the University of Auckland, and took his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Yes, Penn. So his two-week visit here was actually a return to his alma mater many many years later. One afternoon during his visit he joined Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein and Bob Perelman to record a PoemTalk episode on a poem by Louis Zukofsky--which was released recently. Then everyone went downstairs for his very good talk on curating. Have a look.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
New Zealander hung out
Wystan Curnow, art critic and poet, last spring spoke at the Writers House on curating as a critical practice. The event was shown live on KWH-TV and is already available as a video recording. Wystan was born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1939, and studied English and History at the University of Auckland, and took his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Yes, Penn. So his two-week visit here was actually a return to his alma mater many many years later. One afternoon during his visit he joined Al Filreis, Charles Bernstein and Bob Perelman to record a PoemTalk episode on a poem by Louis Zukofsky--which was released recently. Then everyone went downstairs for his very good talk on curating. Have a look.
