
On October 10th at 5PM Pacific Standard Time, as part of the Vancouver Art Book Fair, noted scholar, artist, librarian, and independent curator, Felicity Tayler will discuss with Montreal artist Fortner Anderson his latest book projects. During the one-hour on-line talk, Anderson will present his work and read selections from recent publications, including his latest book Considerations.
Inspired by the work of French author, Georges Perec, and American poet, Joe Brainard, Considerations uses a series of constraints to create an auto-portrait of Anderson’s life. The text is comprised of a thousand sentences each of which is a memory from Anderson’s past. Each sentence is composed with a single verb and no verb in the text appears twice. This publication, published in the format of a golden-age comic book, will appear in November 2020.
Anderson will also read from his book project annunciations and present audio selections of the re-lectures of his readings by two electro-acoustic composers, Christian Calon from Montreal and Alessandro Bosetti from Berlin. Christian Calon re-interprets Anderson’s reading of “Belly into Fire,” itself a poetic re-lecture of the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report, published by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, while Alessandro Bosetti reworks Anderson’s poetic re-lecture of the Joint Task Force Guantanamo Standard Operating Procedures for Camp Delta, the US military installation in Guantanamo, Cuba.
Tayler and Anderson will also discuss Anderson’s latest long-duration performance readings, Points of Departure, which led to the creation of his bronzed book multiple, as well as his recent collaboration with a chorus of heavy metal growlers.
To access the event please visit:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/fortner-and-felicity-at-the-vancouver-art-book-fair-tickets-123371305897