Lectures

Lectures, Anti-Lectures & Workshops

• Mythogeographic Tour of Avalon Minor. Led tour of mixed storytelling, nature-tour, and outdoor anti-museum space, as part of AfterMAFterParty. Avalon Minor, Roanoke County, VA. June 26, 2023.
• People You Should Like And Be Interested In!!! 7-Minute Micro-Lecture. Mini-Lycée, @ Community High Schhol of Arts & Academics, Roanoke, VA. May 11, 2023.
  
• A History of Sound Poetry. Lectured and performed 90 minutes of historical and contemporary sound poetry, with W. Fry, T. Butkovic, & Richard Brewster. Winter of Poetry Series, Center for Connection + Collaboration, Asheville, NC. Dec. 30, 2021.
  
• Mind Your Thees & Thous: A Rushed Intro to Using Archaic Language. 15-minute micro-lecture. Community High School Mini-Lycée. Roanoke, VA. May 20, 2021.
• Pantheon of Cosmic Horror: An Introduction to the Cthulu Mythos. 90-minute lecture. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Feb. 12, 2021. 
• Cos-Play, Cross-Dressing and Circle-Pits: The Paris Carnival in the 1830s. 1-hour lecture. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Nov. 15, 2019.
• Your Throat is a Noise Machine: The History and Practice of Noise Poetry [Version 2]. 90-minute presentation on the history of Sound- and Noise-Poetry, 1830-1970 and discussion/demonstration of vocal technique. Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. July 28, 2019.
  
• Sound Poetry Workshop. 70-minute talk & workshop with approx. 25 people. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 6, 2019.
• Practical Bibliomancy: Reading Haunted Books. 70-minute lecture. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 5, 2019. 
• A Social History of the Avant-Garde, 1830 – 1900. 90-minute lecture. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 4, 2019.
• Guest Lecturer. 90-minute talk and discussion on Sound and Noise Poetry for approx. 15 students for Poetry in Performance class, taught by T.J. Anderson. Hollins University. Roanoke, VA. March 12, 2019.
• Your Throat Is a Noise Machine. 90-minute workshop on non-musical and non-phonetic vocal technique and composition, for 10 students. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA.Jan. 21, 2019.
• The History of Zine and Micropress Publishing. 75-minute lecture and presentation, using books from the Autonomous Library and Revenant Archive, for 10 students. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Nov. 16, 2018.
• Avant-Occultism in the 19th Century: Part 2. 120-minute lecture. Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. Aug. 19, 2018. Video Here
• Avant-Occultism in the 19th Century: Part 1. 100-minute lecture. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 12, 2018. 
• Prints, Modernist Publications, and New Acquisitions of the Revenant Archive. 90-minute lecture. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 12, 2018.
  
• Sound Poetry Workshop. 90-minute workshop on performing sound poetry for 8 students.
  Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Nov. 10, 2017.
  
• New Acquisitions to the Revenant Archive, 2016–17. 90-minute presentation on new materials. AfterMAF 2017. Revenant Residential Archive, Roanoke, VA. July 7, 2017.
• The Pre-History of Sound Poetry. 90-minute lecture & reading of texts written between 1500 and 1916. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 6, 2017.
  
• Haunted Books: Bibliography, Bibliomancy, and Reading Dead Readers. For 14 students. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Feb. 21, 2017.
  
• A Fan's Introduction to Heavy Metal. w/ L. Kinsley. For 12 students. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Feb. 11, 2016.
  
• Raucous Noise & Infernal Galops: Noise & Dance in the Romanticist Avant-Garde, 1830-1840. 90-minute lecture & workshop. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 10, 2016.
• Fucking Awesome Dead Avant-Gardists. Two short performative micro-lectures on Berthe Courrière and the Mapah Ganneau. AfterMAF Festival, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 8-9, 2016.
  
• Highlights From the Revenant Archive. 2-hour lecture & demonstration. The Revenant Archive, Roanoke, VA. July 8, 2016.
• Freed From a Parchment Jail: Avant-Garde Romanticism in the Revenant Archive. Guest Speaker for the Aldus Society; 60-min lecture on the Revenant Archive's holdings relating to the French Romanticist Avant-Garde. The Thurber Center, Columbus, OH. April 14, 2016.
• The Poetics of Phonetic Poetry: Composition & Interpretation. 90-min. Performance & Lecture for approx. 10 students for Poetry in Performance class, taught by T.J. Anderson. Hollins University. Roanoke, VA. March 10, 2016.
• The History of Zine, Micropress, & Underground Publishing. Talk & archival exploration for eight students, ages 14-18. Community High School Lycée. Roanoke, VA. Feb. 11, 2016.
  
• From Salt Marsh to Star City: A History of the Long Lick and Downtown Roanoke. Historical walking tour. 70 min. with Star City Shadow School. Roanoke, VA. Aug. 23, 2015.
  
• Poetry, Camaraderie, and Revolt: The Poets of the Bousingot. Lecture & reading of 14 poems by O'Neddy, Bertrand, Borel, Nerval, Gautier, Brot, and Boulanger. 1 hour. AfterMAF, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 10, 2015.
  
• Reading Dead Readers: Past owners of the Revenant Archive. Presentation on bibliography, marginalia, avant-garde reading practices & the Revenants Archive. Approx. 90 min. AfterMAF, Art Rat Studios, Roanoke, VA. July 10, 2015.
  
• Hung Overs Storytelling. w/W. Fry, W. Katastrof, R. Eaton & T. Russotti. 45 min. Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA. April 3, 2015.
  
• Charles Fourier: Order of the Future Creations. w/Wilheim Katastrof. 2 hours. Marginal Lycée: Community High School, Roanoke, VA. March 26, 2014.
• The Art and Science of Alchemy. w/Jen Sosnowski. 1 hour. Marginal Lycée: Community High School, Roanoke, VA. March 26, 2014. (Repeated with some changes at CHS Lycée, Feb. 11, 2016.)
• Micropress & Zine Workshop. Led 3-hour workshop for 6 students to produce three zines. Marginal Lycée: Community High School, Roanoke, VA. March 25-27, 2014.
• Interpreting the Ursonate. 1.5 hour presentation for 13 students on the process & poetics of interpreting Schwitters' score. Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. March 18, 2014.
• Deflating Duchamp: The 180-Year History of the Readymade. Delivered 1.75-hour polemic lecture as part of the Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival. June M. McBroom Theater, Roanoke, VA. March 29, 2013.
• Archiving & Praxis in the 19th Century Avant-Garde. Delivered 2-hour lecture as part of Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival. Roanoke, VA. March 29, 2013.
• 'Zine Workshop. Led 2-hour workshop with five students to produce chapbook for use in performance poetry class led by John M. Bennett & C. Mehrl Bennett. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. March 28, 2013.
• Experimental Writing Workshop. Designed & led three 1.5-hour sessions reading, writing, and discussing alternative modes of writing for 11 students, ages 14-18. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. March 26-28, 2013.
• A Secret History of the 19th Century: The Story of the Early Avant-Gardes. Delivered 3-hour storytelling-lecture on the history of the avant-garde from 1825-1850 for live audience and live internet stream. Liminal Gallery, Roanoke, VA. Dec. 2, 2012.
• Sound Poetry in Performance Workshop. Led performance workshop focusing on sound poetry for 12 students. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. May 2, 2012.
• Archiving Counter-Culture in the 19th Century. Discussion and sharing of 19th Century Counter-culture archive as part of Marginal Arts Festival. Roanoke, VA 2012.
• Somasemia: Poems Wearing Meat-Suits. Lecture & Demonstration on Sound Poetry, Semiotics, and the Body as part of Marginal Arts Festival. Exclamations, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 17, 2012.
• Dada and Its Legacy. 90-minute lecture & discusion on heterogeneity of the Dada community and its legacy in subsequent avant-garde communities. Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 16, 2012. 
• Reconstructing Huelsenbeck's 'Plane': History, Poetics, Dramaturgy. 90-minute lecture & demonstration examining historical & textual evidence of performance methodologies for Dada Bruitist Poems performed 1916-1922. Hollins University, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 16, 2012.
• Orchestral Music in Avant-Garde Romanticism. Hosted and team-taught w/Chris Lennard & Terri Lennard 3-hour class on Romanticist music and community for 15 participants. Star City Shadow School, Roanoke, VA. Aug. 27, 2011.
  
• Arts & Community Symposium. Organised and chaired panel discussion w/K.Buchholz (US), P. Carter (UK), & A. Zierle (Germany). Hollins University, Roanoke VA. March 7, 2011.
  
• Somasemia: Poems Wearing Meat-Suits. Lecture & Demonstration given at the 2nd Avant-Writing Symposium. Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Aug. 20, 2010.
• Guest Lecturer, Bergen Community College. Lecture/Demonstration on asemic writing, the Eternal Network, sound poetry, and Fluxus for approx. 20 students. Paramus, NJ. May 8, 2010.
• Flux-Tour. Co-organized tour of historical Fluxus sites in New Brunswick, NJ. w/W. Fry, T. Butkovic, & Geof Hendricks. New Brunswick, NJ. April 18, 2010.
• Workshop on Mail Art, Performance Poetry, and Fluxus. w/J. Leftwich, K. Buchholz, G. Huth, W. Fry, & T. Butkovic. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. Feb 15, 2010.
• From Poetic Declamation to Performance Poetry: Voicing Poetry Through the 19th Century. Lecture at 3rd Annual Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival, with readings of texts by Coleridge, Carroll, Hood, Poe, Jarry, & Mallarmé. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 14, 2010.
• Guest Lecturer, American University. Lecture/Demonstration on asemic communication through correspondence art and performance poetry for approx. 45 students. w/demonstrations by W. Fry, B. Chriss, J. Mathews, & T. Campbell. American University, Washington, D.C. Sept. 10, 2009.
• Experimental Poetry Workshop. w/ J. Leftwich, R. Altemus, T. Butkovic, & E. Damerow. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 23, 2009.
• Radish Art vs. the Babelonian Empire. Advisor in debate between W. Fry. & Miss Ricketts. Oromancer, New Brunswick, NJ. June 7, 2008.
• What the Fuck is Post-NeoAbsurdism? Lecture & powerpoint presentation w/W. Fry & E.Damerow. Lost & Found Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ. May 10, 2008. 
• Experimental Poetry workshop. w/ J. Leftwich, R. Altemus, T. Butkovic, & E. Damerow. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 23, 2008.
• Panel Disussion on Experimental Poetry w/J.M. Bennett & T.J. Anderson. Roanoke Marginal Arts Festival, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 2, 2007. 
• Experimental Poetry Workshop. w/ J. Leftwich. Community High School, Roanoke, VA. Feb. 4, 2007.
• What Isn’t Post-NeoAbsurdism. Anti-Lecture / Demonstration w/ D.B. Edwards & Amy M. Oliver. Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. Sept. 28, 2006.
• Contracting the Yellow Sign. Parasitic Anti-Lecture. Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. May 23, 2006. 
• Rabbits, Tea, and the Fall of the Roman Empire. Pataphysical Mini-Lecture given at Itinerant Mirror Cabaret. King Ludd Bookshop, Exeter, Devon. April 23, 2006. 
• Ubu Roi. Introductory Pataphysical Lecture at U.K. Premier of Post-Neo film of Ubu Roi. Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. March 28, 2006.
• The Bruitist Poem & Micro-forms in Dada Poetics. Dartington College, Devon, UK. March 13, 2006.
• Simultaneous Lecture. With W. Fry & B. Chriss at U.S. premier of Lindsann’s Ubu Roi. Cara Bar, Columbus, OH. Dec. 29, 2005. 
• Analytical Psychology and Experimental Poetry and Art. Roundtable discussion w/B. Chriss & W. Fry. Jung House Gallery, Columbus, OH. April 9, 2005.