Week 7

Vanessa Place



Conceptual poetry: Utilising found language (whether altered or not)

Not too sure on a lot of what she was talking about as I find poetry very hard to access unless I have the poems in front of me in person. However I did like her thoughts on how a found-language poem can be taken on by an artist to create a performance.


  • In a conceptual work form & content are interdependent.
  • Performance of a found-language poem: The subjectivity is not hers but it is received from her body.
  • Interested in violence that occurs through language (e.g. slurs)
  • Poetry itself is violence to language, it is always constrained.



Artists Website: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/vanessa-place
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