SCRAM/BLEEDS
Richard Kostelanetz
InstallationDecember 18, 2008 - January 17, 2009
AC [Chapel] presents SCRAM/BLEEDS, a sequence of visual poems by Richard Kostelanetz, one of America’s foremost intellectuals and prolific avant-garde artists. Enlarged in scale from its original chapbook size and offering a rare opportunity to collectively interact with the piece in a public forum, SCRAM/BLEEDS is being exhibited as an installation for the first time since its publication (Luna Bisonte Prods, 2008).
About the Artist
There is no category,“ism” or area of creative expertise that is expansive or porous enough to contain to all of Richard Kostelanetz’s work. A versatile artist, critic, writer, editor, publisher, composer, filmmaker and holographer, Kostelanetz has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from such institutions as the Fulbright Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pulitzer Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Born and raised and New York, Kostelanetz has contributed poems, stories, articles, reviews and experimental prose to hundreds of magazines both in the US and abroad. He has written more than fifty books of criticism, cultural history and creative work, in addition to editing over three dozen anthologies of art and exposition. Long active in alternative literary publishing, he co-founded Assembling Press in 1970 and alone founded Future Press in 1977 and Archae Editions in 1978. As a media artist Kostelanetz has created language-based audiotapes, videotapes, films and holograms that have been exhibited and broadcast around the world.