[New-Poetry] The Poetics of Erasure

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http://www.straight.com/article-173276/less-more-poetics-erasure

Less Is More: The Poetics of Erasure
By Robin Laurence
At the Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby Campus, until December 12 


The long, grey slide into winter presents an ideal condition for contemplation. And contemplation is what Less Is More asks of its viewers. In a world of speed, excess, violence, and sensory bombardment, this exhibition offers a respite from the too-muchness of it all. 


The Simon Fraser University Gallery show, subtitled The Poetics of Erasure, highlights the creative strategy of taking existing texts and eliminating all but a few carefully chosen words in order to create a new, succinct, and often politically charged work. Surveying 24 local and international artists, poets, and prose writers, curators Ariana Kelly and Bill Jeffries demonstrate the ways in which found books, paintings, poems, documents, audiotapes, and even physical spaces may be “gleaned” for new meaning. 


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