Basil King: Mirage in Artediola & at the Walker Art Center

Basil King: Mirage in Artediola & at the Walker Art Center

Screen Shot 2015-04-03 at 09.59.00Read review on Arteidolia by patrick brennan

Documentary film BASIL KING: MIRAGE on painter/poet Basil King directed by Nicole Peyrafitte and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte will be screening on April 9th, 5-9pm at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (every half hour in the Lecture Room -museum entrance free that evening).
Book signing by Basil King at 5:30PM in the Bazinet Lobby.
The event is presented by the 
Rain Taxi 20th Anniversary Bash at Walker Art Center. Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte will perform at the Rain Taxi extravaganza celebration.

Facebook page event here
Film trailer here

patrick brennan Artediola article excerpt: 

Among context invoking in-betweens such as essays, interviews, reviews and descriptions, it’s not that often that an artist can be so influentially positioned to shape these as in Nicole Peyrafitte’s and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte’s deft 23 minute short film, Basil King: Mirage, which ably affords this occasion to painter and poet Basil King.

Born in London in 1935, King witnessed the blitz and then some before his parents relocated the family to Detroit in 1947. Struck already by Pollock and Rimbaud, he was walking past the Detroit Art Institute’s Rivera murals for studio classes and, by 16, had arrived at Black Mountain College to learn from Charles Olson and Esteban Vincente, segueing afterwards to San Francisco and its poets, then to New York City and Gottlieb, Motherwell, Rothko, Kline, Amiri Baraka and Frank O’Hara while hearing Miles, Monk and Coltrane during these key moments of high artistic intensity in the United States. While all of that was happening, Basil King was there.

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Spring & Early Summer Schedule

Spring & Early Summer Schedule

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SFO, OAKLAND, MINNEAPOLIS, PRINCETON, NYC,

MARSEILLES, BARJOLS, AIX-EN-PROVENCE, PARIS

Our next four months are filled with truly exciting performances, readings, screenings, collaborations, book launches, art shows & we sure are looking forward to see you here or there.
Meanwhile, thank you for your support & happy spring — keep in touch!
Nicole & Pierre

SAN-FRANCISCO
Wednesday, March 18  7PM
Breathturn Into Timestead: The Collected Later Poetry of Paul Celan
with poet-translator Pierre Joris; multimedia by NP.
Event cosponsored by The Poetry Center and City Lights Books
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave, San Francisco, California 94133
Facebook event page

 Thursday, March 19  4:30PM
PJ & NP reading/performance
The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Ave, San Francisco, California 94132
HUM 512, SFSU, 4:30 pm, free
Facebook event page

OAKLAND
Saturday March 21 2PM
PJ & NP reading/performance
La Commune Cafe and Bookstore
4799 Shattuck Ave, Oakland, California 94609
Facebook event: here

NEW YORK CITY
Thursday April 2   9PM
“Inferno” Reading
PJ takes part in reading of Dante’s Inferno.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Avenue at 112th Street New York, NY 10025Wednesday  April 15   7PM
Maghrebi Translations Reading
PJ reads North African authors
McNally Jackson Books, 52 Prince Street, New York, NY 10012
MINNEAPOLIS – AWP conference
Thursday  April 9  12:00 – 13:30PM
PJ on panel: Translating Prosody
Minneapolis Convention Center – Room 211 C&D

Thursday, April 9  5-11PM
Rain Taxi 20th Anniversary Bash at Walker Art Center
5-9 PM: Screenings of Basil King:Mirage —film co-directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte & Nicole Peyrafitte — every half hour in the Lecture Room, free
(museum entrance free that evening!).
Facebook page event here
Film trailer here
5:30 PM: Book signing by Basil King in the Bazinet Lobby, Free
8:00 PM: NP & PJ part of the Rain Taxi “Greatest Hits” Poetry Reading, in the Walker Cinema, Tickets $10 ($8 Walker members);
book signing in lobby & party to follow
Friday, April 10, 2015   9-10:15AM
PJ moderates panel: Celan and Language: Cross-Cultural Greatness
Room M100 H&I, Mezzanine Level

Friday, April 10 7-9PM
NP & PJ at the Lunar Chandelier group reading
James and Mary Booksellars
250 Third Avenue North. Minneapolis


PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Thursday, April 23 4:30 PM
PJ Paul Celan talk  -info here
105 Chancellor Green, Princeton, N.J.
followed by Poetry Reading -Room TBA

NEW YORK CITY
Tuesday April 28th 7PM
Arts for Art’s April Evolving Pop-Up
Nicole Peyrafitte / Yoshiko Chuma, dance / Steve Swell, trombone
Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, New York 10002
Facebook event: here

Tuesday April 21st 
Pierre Joris & Nicole Peyrafitte
Reading for Centenary of the Armenian Genocide
Holy Cross Church of Armenia, 580 West 187th Street,  New York
Facebook event: here

FRANCE
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SETE
May 1-3

NP & PJ —full of quid—will interfere at:
KALMARS ATTAKS SETE
Exhibition-Performance-Conference extraordinaire
Curated by Didier Calleja
Facebook event: here

PROVENCE
May 7- June 24
OÙ Galerie Paradis
Exhibition with Philippe TURC, Nicole PEYRAFITTE, Anne KIESECOMS
Commissariat Denis Brun
152 rue Paradis, 13006 Marseille
Opening / vernissage:  May 16th

May 29, 30 & 31
NP at Festival Les Eauditives en Provence Verte
Barjols 83670
Several performances & launch of French edition of Bi-Valve: Espace Vulvique /Connaissance Vulvique

Sunday, June 7    7PM
Jardin des 5 Sens & des Formes Premières 
Saint-Marc-Jaumegarde  13100
NP Perfdinatoire! Guest artist: Denis Brun

PARIS
Tuesday, June 9    7PM
PJ & NP reading/performance for Paris Poets Live Series at Berkeley Books of Paris
8 Rue Casimir-Delavigne, 75006 Paris – France

IT ALREADY HAPPENED:
Nicole’s performance at The Poetry Project  on Wednesday March 25th 2015: here
Cabaret Hérétique w/ Adrain Cohen at Bowery Poetry & Science on Sunday March 8th, snippet: here
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Summertime/ C’est l’été

Summertime/ C’est l’été

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Adishatz, Hello!
Our spring was busy & rich with a great tour of the UK. You can find videos & pix on my facebook page, Pierre Joris’ blog & more links below. We are now almost ready to embark on a long summer transhumance filled with many exciting stages — see short & longer term dates below. Meanwhile, let me fill you in on our publications.Bi-Valve : Vulvic Space I Vulvic Knowledge — which includes a cd, texts &17 colors plates of my paintings & digital photographs — is OUT! The recording features Michael Bisio on bass & we had a jolly good time recording it at FastSpeaking music w/ Ambrose Bye. I couldn’t be more pleased with the result & koudos to Lori Anderson-Moseman (Stockport Flats), who not only made it beautiful but was ever so supportive thru out the process. Get your copy while they last: here.

Also out, Pierre’s Meditations on the Stations of Mansur al-Hallaj —for which I designed the cover— is just out from Chax press, you can get it here, & in case you had missed the announcement: Poem for the Millennium Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature is also out and available here.

 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
July 19-27 

Poetry Festival in Sète, France
NP: Voix Vives de Méditerranée en Méditerranée
Daily performances throughout the festival.
See detailed program here

July 29-August 5
Gascony

NP & PJ: Artists in Residence in Gascony for the NY’OC Trobadors project.
NY’OC Trobadors, is a collaboration between artists based in France and New York.  Save the date — Saturday November 23rd 2013 — for a full day on/of Occitan culture that will bring the riches of southern France’s troubadour tradition to the American public. This unique gathering of bi-continental poets, musicians, singers & translators will present panels, a fully staged bilingual (Occitan-English) multimedia performance and talks about the bilingual anthology of Occitan poetry we are working on. Texts, poems & song lyrics spanning the 11th century to the present will be presented. This event will be at Poets House co-sponsored by City Lore & d’Artagnan. We still need funds to make this event possible. City Lore is taking donations here)

 

August 5-31
Bourg d’Oueil 
(our Pyrenean base)
NP: Continuing work on a series of paintings & writings specific to the location
PJ: This is the first summer in 10 years he has no deadlines so he will write new work!
& together we will start editing our documentary project on poet Gerrit Lansing.

 

September 1-15
Paris
September 5th:  NP & PJ Feature readers at Paris Lit Up series
more readings TBA

October 10-22
Southern California Tour:
Los Angeles:
October 16th : PJ reading at Otis
October 17th: PJ Round table on Translation at USD
More TBA

November 6-9
Brussels- Belgium
University of Brussels Symposium on Alice Notley & Pierre Joris.
Details TBA – Readings by both PJ & NP

LINKS:
CCA Launch of Diwan Ifrikya – Glasgow Scotland (Photo Monique Lemos)
DOMOETICS – Edinburgh Scotland (Photo Chris Donia)
Nicole at Tibor de Nagy Gallery – NYC
Nicole at The Huntarian Gallery  – Glasgow Scotland
Pierre at Dia Foundation – NYC
Nicole at MoMA – NYC
Pierre at Walt Whitman’s house  – Huntington Station NY
Fortino Samano (the Overflowing of the Poem) review – by Belle Gironda & NP

IN PROGRESS:
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Working on a short documentary on poet Gerrit Lansing .
Here, filming in Gloucester in June 2013 with Miles Joris-Peyrafitte as cinematographer.