[BCMA] Media Release: Carl Peters Reading "textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bisset " @ The Reach Nov 17, 7:30pm

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Dr. Carl Peters Reading - textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bisset
Thursday, November 17 @ 7:30pm
The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford
32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford

Abbotsford, BC...The Reach Gallery Museum Abbotsford hosts a reading by Dr. Carl Peters Thursday, November 17, 7:30 pm in conjunction with the publication of his book, textual vishyuns: image and text in the work of bill bissett.

Dr. Peters has published the first scholarly study of Canadian painter and poet bill bissett. Although internationally recognized as a pioneer of visual, concrete, sound and performance poetry, few people recognize bill bissett's work in the visual arts to be of equal aesthetic importance. While his drawings, paintings, collages and three-dimensional assemblages were the subject of a 1984 Vancouver Art Gallery solo exhibition, fires in th tempul, despite bissett's substantial and ongoing contributions to the practice of the avant-garde tradition in art, very little critical work exists on his poetry, and almost no theoretical discourse exists on his visual work.



In textual vishyuns, Carl Peters attributes this to the fact that bissett's "whole art" consists of an integrated aesthetic praxis; bissett's drawings, paintings, collages and assemblages challenge aesthetic conventions in the same way that his poetry challenges linguistic conventions and orthography.



"I started reading bissett in grade 12. My English teacher gave me one of his books. On the back cover of that book was a full-figure photo of the poet. It was blurred like a Monet painting; it also reminded me of a Seurat painting. Or, I would soon discover, the poet's own poems, which were unreadable. Something is going on in this image, I remember thinking. The poet is there and not there. The art is there and not there. Great poets are like magicians explaining their best trick. And bill bissett is the greatest trickster I've ever read." (Dr. Carl Peters)



With a focus on the technique of the discontinuous line, the figure-ground relationship, and notion of "molecular dissolve" Dr. Peters situates bill bissett's textual and visual artistic praxis within the larger context of the history, theory and practice of art.

Dr. Peters wrote his MA thesis on bp Nichol<http://talonbooks.com/authors/bp-nichol> and the Kabbalah and his doctoral thesis on Nichol and the practice of the sacred. He teaches poetics and avant-garde art at the University of the Fraser Valley. He is currently working on an annotated study of Gertrude Stein.

The reading takes place Thursday, November 17 at 7:30pm in Studio 2 at The Reach, 32388 Veterans Way, Abbotsford. For more information please contact Scott Marsden at smarsden at thereach.ca<mailto:smarsden at thereach.ca> or call 604-864-8087 ext 122.

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