Kenneth Goldsmith Interview: Assume No Readership
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2014
- This video presents a poet, who believes in uncreative writing and reads traffic reports to Barack Obama in the White House, calling it poetry. Meet Kenneth Goldsmith, who claims that “copyright doesn’t exist”.
Kenneth Goldsmith is anything but an ordinary poet. His poems are copied text from other sources such as traffic reports, a commentary track from a baseball game and an entire transcribed New York Times newspaper - all revolving around the same question: What can poetry possibly be?
The poetry of Goldsmith is vernacular, but also unreadable, such as his book ‘Day’ with its 900-page transcription of a newspaper. His work is about the ideas and discussions that it generates, rather than about reading the actual work.
“I am in love with creativity, I just don’t like what it has become”, says Goldsmith. This is why he is throwing plagiarism, boredom and uncreative writing back at creativity, with the hope of reviving it: “I am obliged as a poet to be as experimental as possible, because I have nothing to gain by playing it safe.” This uncreative approach to poetry has led Goldsmith as far as to the White House, where he read plagiarized traffic reports to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, who was clearly quite entertained.
Touching on the metaphysical and philosophical problems of poetry, Goldsmith concludes: “One of the great tragedies of poets is that they assume they are being read, and they are not. So why not assume there will be no readership and give great concepts to think about instead?”
Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) is an American conceptual poet. He has published numerous books such as ‘Day’, ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ and a New York Trilogy consisting of ‘Weather’ (2005), ‘Traffic’ (2007) and ‘Sports’ (2008). He also teaches uncreative writing at the University of Pennsylvania, where one of his classes in 2015 is the much debated ‘Wasting time on the internet’. Since 2013, Goldsmith has been a MoMA poet laureate.
Kenneth Goldsmith was interviewed by Pejk Malinovski in New York City, October 2014.
Camera: Pierce Jackson and Kasper Bech Dyg
Produced and edited by: Kasper Bech Dyg and Pejk Malinovski
Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2014
Supported by Nordea-fonden - Фільми й анімація
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Poetry is everything. Poetry is everywhere.
Beautiful documentary about an amazing person.
Warhol, when his mother died, wanted to deny that she had died and got angry with his brother: he insisted they keep her death quiet. It was as if he wanted to die death forever. Perhaps his repetition of images is part of that.
I am surprised that this video has only 244 likes (at the time of writing).
It seems to me that many of the same people hating on this guy for being too conceptual are also the types of people who don't read conventional poetry either. I say good for him for finding something new and out of the box and going with it.
Or maybe his content is fine, but his delivery is just grandiose and annoying to people.
'That stupid that simple' Got it.
I have followed Kenny's advise I will read or listen to his piece. Resist readership!
I use other texts and sometimes re-write entire stories and sign them myself. I agree, no one per se is going to buy what I want to do, so I agree 'copyright doesn't exist'.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh this is genuine!
Where can u get Kenneth Goldsmith's address please?
This is a poster boy for "The Silent Revolution"
Georges Perec
Goldstein has done fascinating work over time and I have taken some ideas from what he is doing for my Infinite Project.
Sorry, I got that wrong. How did this performance differ from Duchamps' moving of the urinal into an art show. Is conceptual poetry like conceptual sculpture?
+Hayden White Yes, except that Duchamp did that 100 years ago.
Yes.
Goldsmith was here
yes
No.
goestplus maybe?
Sunburn Ramthem No.
Write it on a white ceiling
In microscopic lettering
Offer a ladder to climb
and a magnifying glass to read
Yoko Ono 1966
0100- yesnomaybe
he's half fluxus artist half tv personality framing himself as a poet
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A mediocre intelligence.... but the loft apartment looks great!
"Poetry is the freest of arts.. isnt predicated on economy" Mmm, Yes Kenneth, 'I'm lovin it'
this guy is a professor? Glad I was a science major.
Ugh 😑
He reads so poorly!