[Yale-readings] THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 7 PM: Drunken Boat 10th Anniversary Celebration

[Kuhl, Nancy]

Drunken Boat 10th Anniversary Celebration at Real Art Ways

THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 7 PM
Drunken Boat <http://www.drunkenboat.com>, an international online arts
journal, is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a multimedia literary
event. For the last decade, Drunken Boat has been publishing the best of
more traditional forms of representation, such as poetry and prose,
alongside multimedia works of art, such as hypertext, video and sound art,
that could only exist online.

REAL ART WAYS
56 Arbor St
Hartford, CT 06106
p: 860.232.1006
f: 860.233.6691
e: info at realartways.org

Contact: Ravi Shankar <ShankarR at ccsu.edu>

BIOS FOR DRUNKEN BOAT PERFORMERS FOR REAL ART WAYS LAUNCH
 

Edmond Chibeau is a performance writer who teaches "Scriptwriting" and
"History of Communication" at Eastern Connecticut State University.  Chibeau
believes we are Microchip Aboriginals, living in the Ur Civilization of the
Digital Age. The quantum space between the zeros and ones of the binary
number system allows for a digital ekphrasis of the scirbal analogue of
phonetic space.  In other words; the phonetic alphabet texts us.  His play,
The Norwich Nine, about civil war soldiers buried in Norwich, Connecticut,
was performed at Eastern Connecticut State University on April 19th.  He
will be giving the keynote address for IMPAC-Connecticut State Wide Ceremony
of the  Dublin Literary Award on April 28th.  Chibeau’s work has been
performed at Lincoln Center, The Knitting Factory, NoSeNO, The Ear Inn, and
elsewhere.  He has worked with John Cage, Alison Knowles, Kenneth Rexroth,
Allen Ginsberg, & Charles Bernstein, among others.

Composer Anthony Cornicello writes music that blurs distinctions between
performers and electronics, timbre and harmony, composition and
improvisation, and explores the boundaries of what may be considered
post-classical concert music.  He has been commissioned to write music for
the Scorchio Electric String Quartet, ModernWorks!, the Auros Group for New
Music, the Prism Saxophone Quartet, the New York New Music Ensemble, David
Holzman, the Group for Contemporary Music, and the InterEnsemble of Padova,
Italy.  His work has also been featured on the Guggenheim Museum’s “Works
and Process” series. Cornicello’s works have also been performed by the
Chicago Civic Symphony, Parnassus, ALEA III, Composers Concordance,
Madeleine Shapiro, Robert Black, among others.  Cornicello has begun
performing on the laptop, using a variety of interfaces and the Max/MSP
program.  Those performances, mostly with EEE!, have had a notable impact on
his music, as EEE!’s music ranges from hip-hop to experimental noise. EEE!
is based at Eastern Connecticut State University, where Cornicello is an
Associate Professor and Director of the Electronic Music Lab.

Jonathan Monroe's contributions are drawn from Demosthenes' Legacy (Ahadada
2009), a cross-genre work of prose poetry, poetics, and short fiction.
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Comparative Literature at
Cornell University, he is the author of A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem
and the Politics of Genre (Cornell) and co-author and editor of Writing and
Revising the Disciplines (Cornell), Local Knowledges, Local Practices:
Writing in the Disciplines at Cornell (Pittsburgh), Poetry, Community,
Movement (Diacritics), and Avant-Garde Poetries after the Wall (Poetics
Today).
 
P. Newland has published short fiction with Chelsea, Mississippi Review,
Daedalus, and Storyglossia, as well as others. One of her stories was
recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She writes in her basement, coming
up occasionally for coffee. The rest of the time, she works as a adolescent
psychotherapist. She recently completed a novel.
 
Charles Rafferty received a 2009 NEA Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well
as a grant from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. He is the
author of four full-length collections of poetry: The Man on the Tower (
University of Arkansas Press, 1995), Where the Glories of April Lead
(Mitki/Mitki Press, 2001), During the Beauty Shortage (M2 Press, 2005), and
A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006). He has placed
poems in The Southern Review, Poetry East, Drunken Boat, TriQuarterly,
Quarterly West, Massachusetts Review, Phoebe: The George Mason Review,
Connecticut Review, DoubleTake, Poems & Plays, and Louisiana Literature. His
work has also appeared in several anthologies, including American Poetry:
The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press), Rhyming Poems: A
Contemporary Anthology (University of Evansville Press), and Sonnets: 150
Contemporary Sonnets (University of Evansville Press). He currently teaches
at Albertus Magnus College and in the MFA program at Western Connecticut
State University. By day, he works as an editor for a technology consulting
firm. He lives in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, with his wife and two daughters.

Rattapallax Films is committed to producing poetic films and documentaries
with a social dimension to them. Their films have appeared in the Cairo
International Film Festival, San Jose Film Festival, Philadelphia Festival
of World Cinema and elsewhere around the world.
 
Spoken word artist Kelly Zen-Yie Tsai has been featured in 300 performances
worldwide at venues including the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, the House of Blues,
the Apollo Theater, Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, and three seasons of the
award-winning “Russell Simmons Presents HBO Def Poetry.” The author of
Inside Outside Outside Inside (2004) and Thought Crimes (2005) and the CD
Infinity Breaks (2006), Tsai has shared stages with Mos Def, KRS-One, Sonia
Sanchez, Talib Kweli, Erykah Badu, Amiri Baraka, and many more.  Tsai is the
author of three poetry chapbooks. Her poetry and essays have been widely
published and anthologized.  She was awarded an Urban Artists Initiative
Fellowship via the Asian American Arts Alliance in 2007.  In 2008, the
Idealist  named  Tsai as one of their “New York 40″-- the top New Yorkers
who make a positive impact in the five boroughs.
 
Robin Starbuck is an installation and video artist who lives and works in
New York City. Since receiving her MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and
a post graduate certificate in film/video production from NYU she has
exhibited her work widely both nationally and internationally. Starbuck  is
currently a Visiting Scholar in experimental film and animation at Sarah
Lawrence College and is working on several parallel film projects involving
racial identity and survivance in Native American communities and the
subsequent retro-romanticizing of these communities by outsiders. The
history of her work includes an investigation of various aspects of American
culture through the lens of Freudian Trauma theory.
She will be showing a clip from her video "Bishee" and the video short
"Forest"

Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (장영혜중공업) is a Seoul-based Web art group
consisting of Marc Voge (U.S.A.) and Young-Hae Chang (Korea). Their work is
characterized by text-based animation composed in Macromedia Flash that is
highly synchronized to musical score, typically jazz In 2000, YHCHI's work
was recognized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for its
contribution to Online Art. In 2001 the group was awarded a grant from the
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award.

*************** 
Ravi Shankar 
Ed., http://www.drunkenboat.com
Poet-in-Residence 
Associate Professor
CCSU - English Dept.
860-832-2766 
shankarr at ccsu.edu 


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