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Come join us for our last reading of this year’s season!
Avec/with
les poètes
NICOLAS CARRAS (français)
et
TRUONG TRAN (américain)
MERCREDI / WEDNESDAY
le June 22
à 19h30
Toujours AU NEXT:
17 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris,
M° Etienne Marcel ou RER Les Halles
BIOS
(en français et ensuite en anglais / Bios in French then English):
NICOLAS CARRAS :
Compositeur, arrangeur, pianiste, artiste sonore et poète. Co-fondateur du groupe sos-art.com. Vient du classique et du Jazz. A l’age de 19 ans il écrit ses premiers poèmes, travail d’écriture qu’il mènera en parallèle de sa recherche musicale, plusieurs recueils à ce jour non publiés, ainsi qu’au travail autour de la poésie. Ancien élève de l’American School of Modern Music, de Peter Giron et de Jeff Gardner. En mai 2001, Il fonde avec Tristan Mory, plasticien vidéaste, Eric Cassar, poète et architecte, Fanny Gosse, photographe plasticienne et graphiste ; le collectifhttp://www.sos-art.com/ (web galerie, organisation de soirées artistiques sur Paris). Il travaille actuellement également avec John M. Bennett poète américain et fondateur de Luna Bisonte production (poésie contemporaine) et Allan Revich (Canada) avec qui il fonde "The W.I.S Project". (word, image, sound). Il participe régulièrement aux concerts organisés par Le placard “headphone festifal”, soit en direct live soit en streaming de chez lui, ainsi qu’a des festivals de poésie contemporaine. L'écrit "dans l'herbe fraîche" sera publié dans la revue N° 7 d'Ici Là en juin, voici le lien de la revue n 6 http://www.publie.net/fr/ebook/9782814503946/d-ici-l%C3%A0-n-6 Pour plus : http://www.nicolasound.com/ Pour écouter plus d’enregistrements par N Carras : http://www.laptitemaison.com/ptitemaison/article.php3?id_article=625 Quelques vidéos avec Carras : http://www.lavideotheque.org/r%C3%A9alisateurs/nicolas-carras/
TRUONG TRAN : vient de San Francisco. Il a publié 5 recueils de poésie : The Book of Perceptions, placing the accents, dust and conscience (qui a gagné le San Francisco State Poetry Center Prize, 2002), within the margin et four letter words (2011). ![](//1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pc5YqDm1cLw/Tf5r4hiSCzI/AAAAAAAAAnU/QzrzrpP2vNA/s320/2072687553.jpg)
Il travaille également en tant que plasticien, voir : http://www.gnourtnart.com/ et http://www.pbase.com/bobhsiangphoto/truong_tran. Lire quelques extraits de ces livres sur: http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html Vous pourrez également visiter son "blog visuel": http://truongtran.tumblr.com/
les poètes
NICOLAS CARRAS (français)
et
TRUONG TRAN (américain)
MERCREDI / WEDNESDAY
le June 22
à 19h30
Toujours AU NEXT:
17 rue Tiquetonne
75002 Paris,
M° Etienne Marcel ou RER Les Halles
BIOS
(en français et ensuite en anglais / Bios in French then English):
NICOLAS CARRAS :
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Il travaille également en tant que plasticien, voir : http://www.gnourtnart.com/ et http://www.pbase.com/bobhsiangphoto/truong_tran. Lire quelques extraits de ces livres sur: http://www.apogeepress.com/authors_tran.html Vous pourrez également visiter son "blog visuel": http://truongtran.tumblr.com/
BIOS in ENGLISH:
TRUONG TRAN :
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Extract from “Within the Margin” (copyright Apogee Press, 2004):
“
...............there are the words
margin
........because
............dare i say fuck
“
...............there are the words
margin
........because
............dare i say fuck
a boy a six year old boy concocts a scheme he learns to lie on this day the boy discovers he
discovers the truth he turns up the volume on the tv set the fantastic four vs dr doom doom
is of course doomed to fail he pretends to be watching in the living room on this day his story
begins because sometimes language is not about meaning music for example take the word
fuck float it between your lips a student in a classroom once said to him can you explain why
you choose to use this word if you want my opinion it cheapens the writing it’s too easy a”
NICOLAS CARRAS :
Multitalented Nicolas Carras is equally a composer, musician, sound artist and poet. He lives in Paris where he co-founded the collective sos-art.com. For more info in English, visit the Ivy blog : http://ivywritersparis.blogspot.com/ Here’s a link for a video where you can hear John M. Bennett read "SPAMPOEMS" Poems by Nicolas Carras: http://www.vimeo.com/19403121 Of Carras, Bennett has composed a short essay in English we wanted to post (with his permission) here for those anglophones interested in learning more about the author we will all be having the pleasure of hearing read this Wednesday :
discovers the truth he turns up the volume on the tv set the fantastic four vs dr doom doom
is of course doomed to fail he pretends to be watching in the living room on this day his story
begins because sometimes language is not about meaning music for example take the word
fuck float it between your lips a student in a classroom once said to him can you explain why
you choose to use this word if you want my opinion it cheapens the writing it’s too easy a”
NICOLAS CARRAS :
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Nicolas Carras : an article by John M. Bennett, January 2011
..........Nicolas Carras is a video artist, sound artist, photographer, and poet, and a founding member of the Parisian art collective SOS-ART. His work has always impressed me for its originality and for the purity with which he carries out his ideas and approaches. At first glance, his work seems extremely minimal: for example a handheld
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..........His photographs are presented not so much as “photographs” but as frozen moments in a mind; a more extreme, or more pure, form of the kind of expression found in his videos. Their force, like the videos, is more conceptual and emotional than “pictorial”. Carras is not out to please the public; he is creating an experience of what it is like to be, and to experience a certain kind of perception and knowledge of the world and of being in that world.
..........I am very sympathetic to this kind of art, because it is basically what I do myself as a writer and word artist: form a vision of the universe as I experience it, with no regard to whether it “pleases” any given public or not.
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..........I think that approach is clear in the collaborations we have done, in which Carras has added my texts and readings of those texts to his videos, using a variety of processes and approaches. Those works remain among my very favorite collaborations. In no way are my texts narratives of his images, nor are his images “illustrations” of my texts. Instead, the two dimensions expand the possibilities of each other in unexpected and fascinating ways. This is true collaboration. It is also important to point out that Carras works in both French and English, and even with some of the texts I wrote in my own invented language of Globbolalia. His texts in French and English treat language not as “literature” but as a visionary or experiential medium much like the images he chooses for his visual work.
From Spampoems by Nicolas Carras:
You play Les oiseaux tristes
You play Le petit corbeau
You play Les nuages gris
You play La route tordue
You play, you play La mer trouble
You play the poet from the wine !
--article By Dr. John M. Bennett, Curator, Avant Writing Collection, Rare Books & MSS Library, The Ohio State University. Some links for Bennett: http://www.johnmbennett.net/ , and http://library.osu.edu/sites/rarebooks/avantwriting/ , and http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com/