UN-SILENCING THE OPERA HOUSE

During the 2020 pandemic, and in celebration of Poetry Month, The Flow Chart Foundation partnered with Hudson Hall, home of the Hudson Opera House, to create a poetry installation featuring texts from Ashbery’s “The Recital” (from Three Poems) to be enjoyed by safely distanced walkers-by. Excerpts from the poem filled six large display windows on the front of the opera house as a means to “un-silence” the opera house through poetry.

GEOMETRY OF SHADOWS: THE ITALIAN POETRY OF GIORGIO DE CHIRICO

Thursday, December 12th, 2019 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC, we joined forces with A Public Space Books to present this bilingual reading and discussion around the Italian poetry of Giorgio de Chirico, featuring translator and poet Stefania Heim and art writer and poet John Yau. De Chirico was a painter and writer of tremendous importance to John Ashbery. Read the full press release here.

Note: The video below is partial; the audio recording is the complete program, including audience questions.

A CELEBRATION OF RAYMOND ROUSSEL: THE ALLEY OF FIREFLIES AND OTHER STORIES

Our second public event took place on Thursday, April 25th, 2019 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in NYC, a celebration of Raymond Roussel: The Alley of Fireflies and Other Stories, translated by Mark Ford and published by The Song Cave, featuring a discussion and readings by Mark Polizzotti and Trevor Winkfield, with a cameo reading by Charles North, moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf. Mark Ford, who could not attend the event in person, provided this introduction, which was read by Trevor Winkfield.

FLOW CHART CABARET CINEMA: A NIGHT OF NEO-BENSHI

The Flow Chart Foundation initiated it’s public programs by partnering with Hudson Hall to present its first public event—Flow Chart Cabaret Cinema: A Night of Neo-Benshi—offered as a love letter to John Ashbery and featuring an Ashberian evening of poets theater that commingled poetry, theatre and film. It took place on Friday, April 5th, 2019 AT Hudson Hall in Hudson, NY. The evening featured neo-benshi performances by Anselm Berrigan, Shanekia McIntosh, Joan Retallack, and Jeffrey Lependorf, as well as a special tribute to Carolee Schneemann, who had been scheduled to perform but passed away just a few weeks prior to the event. Following the stills below, can be found a video of the event.

Read the press release here.