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une lecture-rencontre (READING) en français, grec & anglais avec les auteurs
Demosthène Agrafiotis
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Marie-Céline Siffert

Mardi, le 6 octobre 2009 à 19h30
At : Le Next
17 rue Tiquetonne 75002 Paris
M° Etienne Marcel / RER Les Halles
Gratuit! Free!
BIOS/BIBLIOS en français puis en anglais
Desmosthène Agrafiotis (1946) est poète, plasticien (peintre-photographe-artiste d’intermedia), sociologue et critique spécialisé dans l'art et la techno-science. Il est l’auteur de 15 recueils de poésie en grec, dont 14 traduits en français, 3 traduits en anglais ainsi
Marie-Céline Siffert est l’auteure de deux recueils de poésie, Encore, (aux éditions

BIOS in ENGLISH:
Desmosthène Agrafiotis (b1946) is the author of over 15 collections of poems in Greek & 14 in French, as well as critical books on Art as a sociocultural phenomenon, on photography & on poetry. His poetry has appeared in literary reviews or as translated books in English, French, Italian, Danish, Japanese, Serbocroate & Portuguese. He has a special interest for visual/concrete poetry, & has collaborated with French, Spanish & Japanese reviews of experimental poetry. His magazine 'Clinamen'(1980-90), co-published by Erato Publications in Athens (1991-1994), has been active for over a decade as an amalgam of Greek poetry and art with work from Europe and America. Twenty-five art books were published based on 'Clinamen' in the period from 1980 to 2001. After 2001 'Clinamen' went online at: http://thetis.gr/publication/clinamen Agrafiotis has also worked & exhibited visual artwork & photography. Various catalogues of his photos exist. His books in English include: KOKKINI, LENA No Man's Land 1990; KOKKINI, LENA Mare Nostrum: International Exhibition of Visual Poetry 1991 Patras Festival; KOKKINI, LENA Opposite 1994; KOKKINI, LENA Right in the Middle of Nowhere 1996; SERAFINI, GIULIANO Eros: International Exhibition of Visual Poetry 1998; KOKKINI, LENA Terra Incognita 2002; STEFANIDIS, MANOS Ikonographs 2003; KOKKINI, LENA Alphabets: Heavenlies & Earthlies 2004 Diana Gallery, Athens. See www.multimania.com/lexicones & http://www.greece-japan.com/agrafiotis.htm and http://www.dagrafiotis.com/ for more on and of Agrafiotis' work.
Marie-Céline Siffert is the author of 2 collections of poems, Encore, (aux éditions Contre-Pied, 2007) and Monsieur en extase sur la couverture, (éditions Jacques Brémond, 2008) Born in Montpellier in 1977, She completed her MA in arts plastiques at Aix-en-provence, spent 2 years in Casablanca, Marocco, completed a DNSEP at la Villa Arson school of art in Nice (specializing in video work) before leaving the South of France to live for a while in Paris. She has taught writing workshops, given group readings and participated in a series of group readings called « 5 Sans Edith » in 2006 and 2007, at the International Center for Poetry in Marseille (CiPM). She founded the lit review « Monsieur Thérèse », and n°0 appeared in 2006 and n°1 in 2007. Other poems and writing by Siffert have appeared in the print literary reviews « Nioques » 1.7 et 1.9, « Java » (June 2003), « BoXon » 10, « Cahier du refuge » 128, 144 et 154, « Café verre », « CCP »13 et 14, and online in « revueX », les « cahiers de Benjy », « sitaudis », « myopies » and « RotoR ». To hear some selections of readings or glimpse some of Marie-Céline Siffert’s writings, see the CiPM site : http://www.cipmarseille.com/auteur_fiche.php?id=902