Echoing Performance Sources – a database dedicated to performance archives created by the Générateur in 2023, thee polymorphous and protean collective Poésie is not dead deploys, for one evening, Doc(k)s Never Dies. A multi-format event featuring poetry, performances, readings and discussions. An opportunity for Poésie is not dead to present the first issue of the 5th series of Doc(k)s – revue dedicated to poetic languages and to become ” officially ” partner of Performance Sources…
With
Julien Blaine
Joël Hubaut – Post-Doc(k)s en lousdocks
Aziyadé Baudouin-Talec – Bascule
SNG Natacha Guiller – Salon de Couffes (Extensions CAPITALE) en mode Bar à Tifs
Yoann Sarrat – HDC.24
Martin Bakero – Ultreïao
Jacques Donguy
As well as screenings of Digital Poems by Jacques Donguy, Jean-Pierre Balpe, Philippe Bootz, Philippe Castellin, Tibor Papp, Alexandre Gherban and Philippe Boisnard.
Like a rhizome between contemporary poetry and the other arts, Poésie is not dead proposes actions around poetry to ” un-deliver ” it from institutional spaces, where it is very often ” locked up “, and reserved for a restricted, chosen audience. The actions carried out by this collective therefore aim to bring the poem into everyday spaces, to reach an uninformed public.
About Doc(k)s
Doc(k)s is a unique and singular magazine in the world of contemporary poetry, an experimental laboratory of poetic languages. Today, it is the oldest and last international living poetry magazine that mixes different forms of experimental poetry : concrete, visual, sound, action/performance and digital poetry.
Doc(k)s is situated alongside the Avant-Gardes of the 20th century (Futurism, Dadaism, Surrealism, Situationism, Lettrism, Fluxus, etc).Founded in Marseille by poet Julien Blaine in 1976, it has been rooted in the Corsican territory for over 30 years with the takeover in Ajaccio by the intermedia group Akenaton in 1990 and, now since 2022, in Bastia by Les Editions Eoliennes in collaboration with the Paris-based collective Poésie is not dead.
The first issue of the 5th series of the magazine Doc(k)s – presented during the evening Doc(k)s Never Dies – brings together poets from five continents. The magazine shows that they continue to dig the furrow of poetic experimentation with the aim of freeing poetry from any ghetto as well as attuning it to the contemporary world and the various media that characterize it : writings/images/graphics/voices/body/digital.
.As part of this evening, the cassette label Sun In Your Head, based in Clermont-Ferrand and directed by Raphaël Maze, will be presented on the occasion of the production of the audio cassette “Tarkos: previously unreleased recordings”, the magazine’s leading print run.
About Poetry is not dead
By François M. – Creator of Poésie is not dead founded in 2007
” Poésie is not dead is a collective, a meeting space that isn’t the work of one person or one group, as we’ve seen in the past with ” Avant-Gardes ” movements like the Lettrists, the Dadaists, the Situationists and so on. It’s a group that changes according to the objective you wish to give to a creation. In this way, I fit in with the notion of Intermedia developed by Dick Higgins, co-founder of Fluxus, and following my friends in the Akenaton group (Philippe Castellin and Jean Torregrosa). The people who are then likely to bring it to fruition vary. For a given creation with a central/initial point the ” poem/
poem“, I surround myself with ” specialists “, contemporary poets, actors, sculptors, experimental musicians, whose presence responds to the work I wish to create… So, in this respect, Poésie is not dead is a collective, a ” passe partout ” in territories of poetic language to be explored. I am ” an artist of artists ” as Robert Filliou “.
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