Bob Cobbing (1920-2002, England) is a Concrete Text-Sound poet whose works are represented in the Sackner Archive of Concrete & Visual Poetry -- "Archive" rather than collection because it is a community space. Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You is an intermedia event -- a mutual in/de/re/flection of text, sound, image and bodies. During this exhibition, the Rosenwald Gallery becomes a participatory site. In it, a fracture occurs: the word as word, sound, sight & communication as coordination -- what Khlebnikov calls "two circles of shooting stars"; a textual cosmology -- dissolving the metaphor "a body of language" and giving way to the generative concept that communication occurs as a LANGUAGE OF BODIES.
Exhibition reception: Wednesday, October 10th, 5:30pm
free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)
Remarks by
Ann Greene, lecturer in the Department of History and Sociology of Science at Penn and author of the forthcoming Harnessing Power: Industrializing the Horse in Nineteenth Century America.
Rosenwald Gallery, 6th floor, Van-Pelt Dietrich Library Center
University of Pennsylvania, 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
Saturday, by prior arrangement, noon-4pm
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