Quodlibetica originated from the desire to write about art and visual culture in ways not confined by academic conventions or journalistic hype. Part journal, part blog, Quodlibetica fosters critical conversations about visual arts in a forum that is accessible, engaging, and committed to quality writing. Based on the Latin quodlibet, which has entered the English language as (1) a statement proposed for disputation, (2) the actual discussion, and (3) the whimsical combination of familiar elements, Quodlibetica is a space to argue eloquently and whimsically about art, find out what’s happening in the Twin Cities art scene, and engage with writers, artists, and critics, who like to think. Contact us if you want to get involved.
Wildly, Erica: Fun With Word Art
In honor of the cruel and foolish month of April, Quodlibetica undergoes autocorrect to emerge as Wildly Erica, an issue dedicated to word play in all forms: cinepoetry and flarf, nano-memoirs and signs of the future, the cacophonous/mellifluous world of sound poetry, nonsense that makes sense, and general frolic on the ragged margin of understanding. Read on here.
By Emily Lloyd
As a form, 6-word memoirs aren’t new. There’s at least one website devoted to them, there are print anthologies of them, and they’ve become de rigueur writing exercises in classrooms and workshops. 6 Words Minneapolis is an ongoing public art project I launched in Spring 2011 to explore what happens when the form [...]
Published 4.1.2012
by Lightsey Darst
Here’s the joke: with a name like Jaap Blonk, how could you not be a sound poet?
Let’s skip the intro and get straight to the action. 3/28/12, 12 p.m., fresh off the plane, Dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk speaks at Lind Hall, University of Minnesota.
We warm up with [...]
Published 4.1.2012
By Christina Schmid
We were in a café, drinking coffee together, and talking about philosophy, and I said,
Wittgenstein said, the limits of language are the limits of my world.
And she said, Derrida said there is nothing outside of the text.
And I said, the [...]
Published 4.1.2012
By Diane Mullin
Our poetry now/ is the realization that we possess nothing/ anything therefore is a delight/ (since we do not pos-sess it) and thus need not fear its loss/ We need not destroy the past; it is gone/ at any moment, it might reappear and seem to be [...]
Published 4.1.2012
Local filmmaker, writer, aspiring poet, and all-around creative guy Jay Orff waxes on the intersections of word art and visual play in a short piece, “Electronic Word Signs,” and in a short interview with Quodlibetica co-editor Thomas O. Haakenson. Get ready for a word road trip!
Electronic Word Signs (by Jay Orff)
I [...]
Published 4.1.2012
by Rene Meyer-Grimberg
I search for moving words on my iPad, poking, sizing and scrolling through this idea with a swipe of my finger. A visceral form of research, seeking information on a hybrid form of art. My eyes and ears ignited, I try to distill the parts of the [...]
Published 4.1.2012
By Elisabeth Workman. (Introduction by Lightsey Darst).
Flarf is the radical proposition that poems are people.
Flarf: the sound you make when you laugh too hard and expel soup from your nose.
Trying again: flarf is a recent poetry movement that delights in “bad poetry,” the detritus of the interwebz, pop culture, inappropriate admissions, [...]
Published 4.1.2012