[Local events] Fri 5/26: mARKO WHENs & Nico Vassilakis

[David Abel]

/Works on Paper: <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>Experiments in 
Language and Sound <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>/

/presents///

*mARKO WHENs
      &
NICO VASSILAKIS

Friday**, May 26*
*7:30 pm

*(doors open at 7:00; no late entry)

///$10-20//suggested donation; no one turned away/

*Passages Bookshop* <https://www.passagesbookshop.com>
1801 NW Upshur, Suite 660
503-388-7665

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*SPEAKING THROUGH LETTERS*

Reading letters aloud, reading sound. Reading letters as words and words 
through letters. How a sentence snapped in two will conjoin with the 
length of any other fragment to generate new meaning. Poems, text and 
thoughts are those fragments. Seeing reading write. Writing seeing read. 
These are the parameters of the gig, as well as hearing - hearing how 
living in new environments alters not only the person, but the environment.

*Nico Vassilakis* is a visual and textual poet. His recent books include 
/Voir Dire/ (Dusie Press 2020) and /Letters of Intent/ (CyberWit 2022) 
along with other pamphlets and booklets. Nico is a contributing editor 
for /Utsanga/ and has had his work exhibited globally. He lives in the 
middle of nowhere in Illinois with his wife and animals.

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For years the conceptual elasticity of the written line, the drawn line, 
and the spoken line has been a gestural curiosity for *mARKO WHENs*. His 
poem in the Works on Paper series will be a continuation of this tangled 
project.

mARKO was fortunate enough to be a founding member of the Spare Room 
reading series in Portland. His blend of poetry and performance draws 
from a long history of art approaches such as fluxus, dada, happenings, 
and gutai. His recent book of verbal scores, /Continue Us/ can be 
purchased through Passages Bookshop. He lives in Portland and works as a 
psychoanalyst.

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/Upcoming events at Passages Bookshop:/
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*Sunday 5/28 /Spare Room Reading Series
/*Maryrose Larkin & Sam Lohmann
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Saturday 6/3 /Works on Paper: Experiments in Language and Sound/ 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>*
*Manfred Werder

**Saturday 6/10/Spare Room Reading Series/
*Endi Hartigan, Dao Strom, & Consuelo Wise*

Sunday 6/11//
*Book launch for Jason Langer’s new photobook, */*Berlin*/*
**with Thomas Schestag and the photographer in conversation* //

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*Works on Paper <https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org> *supports 
activities that use concepts, characteristics, and histories of the 
book, and entanglements with text, as a frame for exploratory practice 
across the arts. The spring 2023 series, /Experiments in Language and 
Sound/, was curated by Robert Blatt and David Abel. For more 
information, please visit the Works on Paper site 
<https://worksonpaper.ricercata.org>.

The Works on Paper series is funded in part by the Regional Arts & 
Culture Council.

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