深夜亚洲福利久久

A seminar to mark the closure of the Claude P茅lieu:

On All Frequencies

exhibition in the Boole Library

 

Followed by a vin d鈥檋onneur in the Boole Library exhibition area at 18h. All welcome.

 

 

Claude P茅lieu: On All Frequencies

In this talk I will discuss my experiences researching the life and work of Claude P茅lieu (1934-2002). A French poet, artist, translator and publisher close to the Beat Generation and various American countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s, P茅lieu was the subject of this summer鈥檚 exhibition at the UCC Boole Library.

The subtitle of the exhibition and the title of this seminar, 鈥極n All Frequencies鈥�, is drawn from a 1966 letter from P茅lieu to William Burroughs; here, it references the prodigious, multidisciplinary and sometimes overwhelming nature of P茅lieu鈥檚 artistic and poetic output, as well as his fascination for broadcast and communication, both metaphorical and literal.

With this in mind and by way of introduction, I will present the research and archival work that went into gathering the material featured in this exhibition, which was drawn from various public and private collections in Europe and the United States. I will also discuss the curatorial process and some of the difficulties and opportunities afforded by P茅lieu鈥檚 body of work.

I will then introduce some of the questions and methodological challenges I have encountered in my broader academic research into this enigmatic figure, who defined himself as 鈥渦n cut-up vivant鈥� 鈥� a living cut-up. While P茅lieu鈥檚 transatlantic trajectory and his idiosyncratic blending of surrealist-inflected poetics and countercultural practices make him a particularly interesting figure to consider in the context of French studies, his multifaceted conception of writing, poetry and art also invites approaches from the fields of art history, translation studies, and periodical studies.