See What I Mean
Research class by Phil Baber
During this week, we will do a series of individual and collective writing exercises and experiment with the (typo)graphic presentation of our texts. We’ll also read, look at, and discuss writing by experimental poets of the last fifty years and the printed ephemera of countercultural publishers. To what extent are social and economic relations legible in the material and visual forms of poems? How did nonconformist poets and publishers of the later twentieth century appropriate or resist capitalist literary technologies? How has the (often collective) labour of editing, typesetting, and printing served—overtly or tacitly—to build solidarity within radical poetic and political movements? No writing experience is necessary.
Phil Baber
Phil Baber is a typographer, editor, and writer. He cofounded The Last Books, a small press for experimental poetry and poetics, and is coorganizer of Don’t Pay Your Rent, an ad hoc reading series held at Rietlanden Women’s Office in Amsterdam. In 2012 he was awarded the Walter Tiemann Prize for book design, and from 2013–15 was a fellow at Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart. He was a tutor on the Approaching Language postgraduate programme at the Sandberg Institute, and currently teaches at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague.
Phil Baber is researcher at the Royal Academy.
phil.baber@ap.be
>> This research class is part of the Research Week during the annual research festival ARTICULATE.
