Scope and Contents

Edited by Ray DiPalma. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents

Susan Landers conducts a conversation with Anne Tardos on the subject of her "Elegant Software." Cyrus Foldingchair reviewed readings from Hannah Weiner's recently released book, "Open House." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Publisher's Weekly review: "Excerpting from poetic, video and photographic work from over 12 years, this largish, elegantly designed book is a virtual encyclopedia of artistic techniques mostly operating within the traditions of Dada and collage (Kurt Schwitters looms heavily), Fluxus and early digital art (much of it created with Ataris), right through Language poetry, but creating a gendered, polylingual, image-enhanced reality all its own. In the epistolary dialogue with Lyn Hejinian that prefaces the book, Tardos explains her approach as being one of uncertainty: "Maybe it's a question of creating a condition of not knowing what one is about to do. Or should I say it takes enormous discipline and control to surrender control." Reflecting her nomadic European roots, Tardos also conveys a more poignant concern that her operations between media, not settling on one genre such as "poetry," may strand her in a "liminal" zone between art forms, though not outside of "art." Yet the...