Poet and translator, versed in sound and visual poetry and animated poems computer, a professor of Anglo-American Studies, University of Coimbra, Manuel Portela is the cycle dedicated curator Ana Hatherly at Silence Festival. The JL talked to him to learn more about this celebration of ‘multimodal’ poet, essayist and artist.
JL: What is the concept behind this tribute to Ana Hatherly
The main concept is what is expressed through the cycle of the title: “Ana Hatherly: Anagram writing. ” That is, the idea that all the work of AH can be revisited and celebrated from a multiform notion of writing that questions our relationship with the signs. I think you can see his poetry, narrative, plastic, filmic, performative and essayistic through countless gestures, acts, signs and forms of writing. AH gives us the experience of creation as playful act of discovery and experimentation that leads to an infinite range of shapes and meanings. This playful experimentation allows us to participate in the written mystery as the possibility of invention of the subject who writes and reinvention of language that opens an angle of world existence.
What were your main concerns mount the cycle
Form two: make known the multiple dimensions of his work, unified through a multifaceted notion of writing, and show how this work challenged and continues to challenge poets and artists for generations. Hence the different initiatives include works of Ana Hatherly (visual poetry exhibition, film screenings, readings of his texts) and sessions on their work (round table, documentary projection Intelligent hand), but also new creations in multiple means made from it (exhibition, performance, installation, dance, digital). These appropriations and reinterpretation show us the inspiring force of his creative imagination.
As transpose the poetic universe of Ana Hatherly for a festival with urban and avant-garde features like Silence? It is the aim to inform his poetry a more eclectic context, showing that the universes touch
Both concerns seek to match the Silence Festival philosophy – articulate a disclosure logic with a logic able reflection to involve a broad public a set of communicative exchanges that fall in certain places of the city. To the extent that the issue of Silence Festival in 2016 has the notion of “Frontier” as a general theme, the AH cycle still converses with this theme to show AH work as an integrated field of creation able to question the disciplinary boundaries, discursive and institutional separating the arts of word of image arts. By its manifold nature, the work of AH allows recontextualise and rethink many contemporary practices, including those that have built over the years the Festival program. Meet, celebrate, communicate – are three words that let you integrate the goals of this particular cycle in the broader objectives of the Festival
What if you remove the crosscutting with other arts, especially the visual arts. ?
by foregrounding the notion of writing as “painting signs” (a concept the author herself), the exhibition is dedicated to him tries to show the various means and registration processes present in his work. Whether the text-image, whether materic and intermedial experimentation with gestures and writing signs bind together the many facets of his theoretical work, literary, visual and filmic. In fact, the categories of perception that separate the pictographic and logographic aspects of calligraphic gestures, for example, are questioned by works that are between verbal language and design or between verbal language and painting. These borders are also the institutional and theoretical boundaries through which to build the art systems. The cross-fertilization between the literary and the visual is in his work, one of the elements that defies discursive categories of art and our ways of seeing and feeling.
What are writing characteristics of Ana Hatherlty that this festival may show more?
I believe that all the initiatives that are dedicated you will observe all his work as an integrated field of poetic experimentation, as a physical and mental adventure of discovery. Describing the poet as a calculator improbabilities, that is, someone who invents unexpected and not redundant forms, Ana Hatherly stressed the discovery as one of the artistic experimentation purposes. That would, in my view, the main feature of his writing (understood in the multiform meaning cited above):. The revelation of his own writing as a process of discovery and invention of sense
What other poet would ? to honor in the next issue
Maybe “celebrate” was a more appropriate word – it implies less solemn and less temporal and institutional distance. In Portugal abound poets (men and women) extraordinary, whose work deserves to be celebrated, known and debated
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