“Chinese Whispers” featured a “poetry and art by telephone” game with poetry, at Myopic Books on Sunday, October 34, 2009. This event was part of the poetry series at Myopic Books which is curated by Larry Sawyer. It was also part of the Fourth Annual Chicago Calling Arts Festival.
This event was in homage -- in part -- to the "Art by Telephone" event which happened at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art in 1969. (And that event 40 years ago was inspired by Bauhaus artist Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.) “Chinese Whispers” included directions which involved chance operations, surrealist games, Oulipo strategies, and other elements. Out-of-town directions came from Lisa Hemminger (San Diego), Jesse Seldess (Karlsruhe, Germany), Billie Maciunas (Orlando), Christopher Welch (Washington, DC), David Harrison Horton (Beijing), Mathew Timmons (Los Angeles), and Chad Lietz (Oakland). Chicago poets included Jamie Kazay, Larry Sawyer, Jennifer Karmin, Dan Godston, Gene Tanta, and Kevin Kilroy.
You can listen to the following audio excerpts from "Chinese Whispers" by clicking on the following links:
* collaboration between David Harrison Horton, Chad Lietz, and Kevin Kilroy / (directions given by David and Chad / received by Kevin)
* collaboration between Billie Maciunas and Gene Tanta (reading by Billie / transcription by Gene)
* collaboration between Lisa Hemminger and Jennifer Karmin (directions from Lisa / followed by Jennifer)
* collaboration between Jesse Seldess, Jennifer Karmin, and Dan Godston (directions by Jesse / followed by Jennifer and Dan)
* collaboration between Christopher Welch and Dan Godston
* collaboration between Jamie Kazay and Mathew Timmons
* Jennifer Karmin's poem
* Kevin Kilroy's poem
* Larry Sawyer's poem
* Gene Tanta's poem
Kevin Killian writing, while directions come from David Harrison Horton (Beijing) and Chad Lietz (Oakland, CA)
Jennifer Karmin collaborating with Lisa Hemminger
Gene Tanta transcribing what Billie Maciunas, with Larry Sawyer
lines which Gene Tanta typed, while Billie Maciunas was reading from her memoir
Soon more examples of “Chinese Whispers” experiments / collaborations will be posted on this blog. Video and photos will also be uploaded, as well as links to audio. We will also include info on this blog about more upcoming Chinese Whisper Project events.
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