Opems: Verbal Visual Combines

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Mar 9 2018 - Jun 24 2018

Michael Basinski is a Western New York-based text, visual, and sound poet whose work is heavily influenced by Fluxus, the interdisciplinary avant-garde art movement that gained international attention in the 1950s and 1960s for its emphasis on chance operations, collective or anonymous authorship of artworks, and ephemeral gestures. Having worked with such legends as Jackson MacLow, Dick Higgins, Allison Knowles and John Cage, Basinski’s work evolved from a strict rhythmic performance structure, both as solo performances as well as ensemble, to a visual poem or manuscripts forming improvisational poeming without any specific starting location or ending point. Basinski calls these visual poems or performances opems.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Various Media
  • American
  • Contemporary
  • Michael Basinski

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