NEW magazine - International Visual and Verbal Communication

home about authors buy | subscribe online mag links

2_2006

1_2005

Issue 3_2007

Cover: Detail of 25 May 2007, Helsinki from 14:00 --> 04:00,
Miska Knapek

FEATURES

Photographic records of the tactile drawings by Czech artist Milan Grygar, performed in 1969 and 1976 in Prague, with an introductory essay, Garder le silence. Keeping the Silence. by Florent Fajole.

Eric Suchère (English translation: Carrie Noland)

…un autre mois…
N° 99-108

Since 1997, Suchère produces each month a post card consisting of an image on one side and a text on the other. Noland selected this series which Suchère describes as a response to Michelangelo Antonioni's film, L'Éclipse (1962).

Norman Fischer

Skyscapes & Seasons

Two long poems: a careful language-painting of the visible world as seen from an airplane crossing America, and a tiny notebook, divided into four seasons, filled over the course of one year.

Pat Nolan

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know

A review of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen.

Keith Kumasen Abbott

RHYTHM-A-NING: Philip Whalen's Rhythmic Inventions

A close reading of Philip Whalen's poem "Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis" and appreciation of his musical and calligraphic art.

Gary Snyder (tradution française, Olivier Delbard)

Glacier Bay East Arm, Muir Inlet

The journal of a trip in the Alaska panhandle, describing six days of travel and camping by kayak, among icebergs and seabirds, 100 years after John Muir.

Etel Adnan

A Season

At the end of 2006, Etel Adnan completed a new work inspired by "Night Palace", a poem by Joanne Kyger which you will find at the end of this issue. Adnan's response, which she titled "A Season", is a meditation on memory, war, place, and the passing of time.

PLUS

Miska Knapek

Photographs of Time. Lapses in Time.

Pavel Řezníček (English translation: James Naughton)

Poems

D. Tuman interviewed by Michael Gervers

They were everywhere:
a conversation about archeology in Mongolia today

Joanne Kyger

Night Palace

James Koller (tradution française, Odile Firmin & Mike Green)

from A River I Coundn't Find

Tuula Närhinen

There are no photographs of the wind

Gilles Plazy (English translation, Dorli & Jake Lamar)

rimbaud en silence

John Brandi

Walking with Frank O'Hara and Po Chu-I

Michael Rothenberg

Rosemary Clooney Died Today

text excerpt

full text

images

sound

music

video

animation

May 2008
Noah Fischer's Pop Ark at KUNSTENFESTIVALDESARTS in Brussels
Pop Ark, Fischer's new installation, is a playful visual reflection on the rhetoric concerning global warming. In a contemporary Noah's Ark, an assembly debates for thirty minutes on the future of "life on earth as we know it". The installation, located at De Elektriciteitscentrale (Central Electric), continues through June 1st.
Friday, May 9th, 6:00 PM
De Elektriciteitscentrale
Sint-Katelijneplein 44, 1000 Brussel
More info...

Sempre Cercando: Franco Beltrametti poeta e artista visivo (1937-1995)
An exhibition of work by and about the great Swiss-Italian poet and artist, Franco Beltrametti, is now open in GORGONZOLA (Mi), Biblioteca comunale, spazio espositivo. The show will continue in several locations in northern Italy: INZAGO (May), PAULLO (September), PIOLTELLO (October), and Milano, Spazio Guicciardini (December).
More info...

Philip Whalen Online Only Suppliment
Read two essays published as an online suppliment to NEW 3_2007: Pat Nolan reviewing The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen, now available from Wesleyan University Press, and Keith Abbott exploring the connections between Whalen, calligraphy, and the music of Thelonious Monk.

December, 2007
NEW event in Helsinki, 25 January 2008
< NEW presented an evening of contemporary art videos and gallery talk at Forum Box (forumbox.fi) in Helsinki, Finland. Featured performers were Tuula Närhinen, part of the group show NEW NATURE KNOWLEDGE at the gallery (11 January to 2 March), digital photography of Miska Knapek, animation by Heli Ellis, and videos of tactile drawings by Milan Grygar.
See the poster

November, 2007
NEW event in RISD Library
NEW returned to America in November, on a dark and rainy night in the land of H.P. Lovecraft and great design: Providence, Rhode Island.
See photos and poster designed by Kris Lenk

October, 2007
Launching NEW 3_2007 at Librairie Mazarine
For the third year in a row, we celebrated the publication of a new issue of NEW in Paris at Librairie Mazarine, the fine art bookstore run by Pierre Durieu.
See the photos

generic events archive