Measure's Measure: Talks on Human Rights and the Arts 1 - Softcover

Michael Boughn (author) & Charles Stein (introduction By)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581772246 ISBN 13: 9781581772241

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 2023

Synopsis

At the heart of Michael Boughn's Measure's Measures are fundamental questions about poetry's relation to modes of knowing the world beyond what's given.

Lovingly addressed to the work of poets associated with the New American Poetry and their predecessors, these essays probe the development of what Boughn calls the somatic poetics of transformative gnosis. Boughn's method combines a wide range of scholarship with his affectionate personal knowledge of many of the poets, and a radically decentred view of the stakes poetry brings to considerations of our post-modern moment.

Rethinking the history of 20th century US American poetry, these essays challenge the academic containment of poetry to literary studies, opening it into a thriving wilderness of thinking being.

About this title

About the Author

Fawz Kabra is the co-founder and director of Brief Histories, an art gallery and publishing platform based in New York. She has served as Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York, and has curated exhibitions at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College; the Palestinian Museum in Birzeit; BRIC Arts and Media House, Brooklyn; Art Dubai Projects. Her writing and interviews have been published in Art Papers, Canvas, Ibraaz, Protozine, Ocula. Kabra earned her MA at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College in 2013.

Tania El Khoury is a live artist and the director of the OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts at Bard College where she is also Distinguished Artist in Residence in the Theatre & Performance Department.

CASSILS is an internally exhibiting transgender artist who makes their own body the material and protagonist of their performances.

Charles Heller is the co-founder of Border Forensics, a research and investigation agency that seeks to document and contest border violence in all its forms.

Emily Johnson is an award-winning artist who makes body-based work as well as a land and water protector and activist.

Faustin Linyekula is a dancer, choreographer, director, storyteller and the founder of the Studios Kabako, an art and community space in Kisangani, DRC.

Lorenzo Pezzani is the co-founder of Border Forensics, a research and investigation agency that seeks to document and contest border violence in all its forms.

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games, and food.

Ashmina Ranjit is a Nepalese conceptual artist, activist, and the creator of the art hub LASANAA / NexUs.

Mark Sealy is a writer, curator, the director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP, and currently the Principal Fellow Decolonising Photography at University of the Arts London.

Hamed Sinno was the writer and front-person for Mashrou' Leila in Beirut, and is now a New York based musician, poet, vocal instructor, and social justice advocate.

Edition details

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581772246
• ISBN 13: 9781581772241
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200