PARK
Since 2008, Jennifer Scappettone has worked with choreographer/director Kathy Westwater and architect/designer Seung Jae Lee on multiple iterations of Westwater’s performance work PARK, which explores the transformation of the distressed contemporary landscape from a site of trauma to a commons. In February 2010 portions of PARK were presented by Dance Theater Workshop in New York [...]
of the Monitor’s Fight
Arrested by the prescience of Melville’s verse—finding the current trajectory, tragically, naught but an extension of the logic of his, certain baroque passages further toward the total banalization of violence and evacuation of what Walter Benjamin called “experience that goes from mouth to mouth”: to echo accurately this progress and attempt to deextinguish such experience, [...]
EXIT 43
An archaeology of distressed landscapes and opera of pop-up pastorals, for Atelos Press: Virtually accessible pop-up pastorals; audio; sections transformed into scores for PARK, & bits filmed here and here. Selections in Jubilat, and more forthcoming with preface in LIT and Jacket2; also forthcoming in letterpress from Michael Cross’s Compline Press. Collaborations on sonic interpretations [...]
NEOSUPREMATIST WEBTEXTS
Sixty Stills from Neosuprematist Webtexts (2008-09, in progress) The premise arose by accident: fortuitous plunge into structure. From the page’s placidity to the strife of this other dimension: verse’s embarrassment by gravity, remoteness, recession. The poetic line enduring its mereness amid that enormity which is the natural and its contradiction. The poetic line enduring its [...]