Last night a couple of us went to this panel: Publishing Performance in the 21st Century. In case you can't be bothered to click through, it was a "....performance-infused forum addressing issues in performance criticism, documentation, and the relationship of writing and performance."
It was presented by Ugly Duckling Presse. (You should definitely click through because "...UDP favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and its books, chapbooks, artist’s books, broadsides, and periodicals often contain handmade elements, calling attention to the labor and history of bookmaking." ) As is always the case with panels, nothing was resolved, as such. But it reinforced how much I love that words can be part of an artwork (mono/dialog, visual script, or just sounds/shapes, even), art in and of themselves, and responses to art. I think they rarely do just one thing at a time.
The image is one of the UDP covers I like; the full chapbook is stunning.
Ok wait. I just realised I'm going to have to include more cover images because they are ridiculously attractive. All linked to their pages.
