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An Anthology of Post-ArtAnti-Poetics

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The Post-Art Poetics ManifestoUnderstand these words to be a declaration of independence.

The gallery is an outmoded construct, serving collectors at the cost

of artists. Collectors are an outmoded construct, viewing artists

through the diminished lens of commodity and lobbying to protect

the equity in their portfolios by discouraging the unpredictability of

radical innovation. Art's evolution has stalled under the weight of

these gluttonous market pressures; the timeline of art history musttherefore be abandoned in the name of progress.

The denition of conceptual poetics has broadened enough for artiststo hijack poetry's futureto continue their work, unaltered, as

poets. The act of infecting poetics returns artists to an empowered

position of radical subversion while allowing them to sidestep the

rampant proteering that strangles their own culture.

The Post-Art Poets no longer self-identify as artists, abandoning

all that they have built. They self-publish work, oen via the modesmade available by current technology. The Post-Art Poets nddependence on a publisher or gallery to be an intolerable position;

instead they are institutions unto themselves.

They are outsiders; imaginary; unstoppable. The Post-Art Poets are

nothing, nothing, nothing, and all is poem.

Press les for this book may be downloaded from: www.32words.comAppropriation, plagiarism, and counterpublishing are encouraged.

Copyle 2013 by The Post-Art Poets.No Rights Reserved.

Published by The Post-Art Poets.

Printed in the U. S. A.

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32 words from Marcel Broodthaers rst exhibition catalog

TO WORK STRAIGHTAWAYAT THE END OF THREEMONTHS I SHOWED WHAT I

HAD PRODUCED TO PHILIPPEEDOUARD TOUSSAINT THEOWNER OF THE GALERIEST LAURENT BUT IT ISART HE SAID

1 HE SAID

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32 words from Craig Dworkins introductory essay to

Against Expression: An Anthology of Uncreative Writing

IN PLACE OF THEEXPECTED DRAWINGOR PAINTING HOWEVER

ABSTRACT OR UNLIKECLERT AN IMAGE MIGHTHAVE BEEN IT READ SIMPLYTHIS IS A PORTRAIT OFIRIS CLERT IF I SAY SO

2 SAY SO

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32 words from the 32 (number) Wikipediaentry

IN CHESS THE TOTAL NUMBEROF BLACK SQUARES ON THEBOARD THE TOTAL NUMBER

OF WHITE SQUARES ANDTHE TOTAL NUMBER OFPIECES BLACK AND WHITEAT THE BEGINNING OFTHE GAME

3 THE GAME

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32 words from Alfred Stieglitzs One Hours SleepThree

Dreams, published in 291, issue number 1

FRIEND ARE YOU REALLYDEAD THE VOICE WAS FIRMAND CLEAR NO ANSWER

THE WOMAN ASKED THREETIMES NO ANSWER AS SHEASKED THE THIRD TIMEI RETURNED TO MYORIGINAL POSITION

4 ORIGINAL POSITION

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32 words from Kenneth Goldsmiths Gertrude Stein on Punctuation

ABOUT PUNCTUATION INPROSE IN POETRY IT ISA LITTLE DIFFERENT

BUT MORE SO AND LATERI WILL GO INTO THAT BUTTHAT IS THE WAY I FELTABOUT PUNCTUATIONIN PROSE

5 IN PROSE

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7 CERTAIN WAY

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32 words from Ludwig Wittgensteins Lectures on Religious Belief

WORD DEATH WHICH IS APUBLIC INSTRUMENT WHICHHAS A WHOLE TECHNIQUE OF

USAGE THEN SOMEONE SAYSHE HAS AN IDEA OF DEATHWHICH IS AN INSTRUMENTFUNCTIONING IN ACERTAIN WAY

7 CERTAIN WAY

8 HAIR SPRAY

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32 words from a list, library-researched, for a 90thbirthday celebration

1945 SLINKY THE ATOMIC BOMB1946 MICROWAVE OVEN TUPPERWARECHEMO THERAPY 1947 COMPUTERS

1948 CABLE TV 1950 CREDITCARDS REMOTE CONTROLS1952 SALK POLIO VACCINE1954 SCRABBLE AUTOMATICDOORS 1955 HAIR SPRAY

8 HAIR SPRAY

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9 RUSCHA HUB

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32 words chosen by mobile phone a utocorrect

CHUGGED PYGMALION FUNKWAS JAMB DATA NUMBERBANK SAX HANGED BUMMED

BANG BLOG DVD PUSHINGWEE ASCRIBE BACK EGGSCRESCENDO OOH TECH WEREOLD THEFT FAB FEDEX SERFKINK URGE RUSCHA HUB

9 RUSCHA HUB

10 A POEM

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32 words from a randomly sorted list of every possible

permutation of the phrase, this is not a poem

A POEM THIS NOT AIS POEM IS A THISNOT POEM NOT A IS

POEM THIS POEMTHIS IS A NOT ANOT POEM THISIS THIS ISNOT A POEM

10 A POEM

11 WHAT WORK

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32 words from 32 Words, 1: He Said reorganized alphabetically

ART AT BUT EDOUARDEND GALERIE HAD HE II IS IT LAURENT MONTHS

OF OF OWNER PHILIPPEPRODUCED SAID SHOWEDST STRAIGHTAWAY THETHE THE THREE TO TOTOUSSAINT WHAT WORK

11 WHAT WORK

12 THE APATHY

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32 words chosen by a random paragraph generator

THE SPIGOT RECOMMENDS THEMISSILE NEXT TO THE DREAD AMANKIND THE TOKEN APPLICANT

A STOPPING QUESTIONNAIREBYPASSES HIS POEM A HYPOCRISYBUBBLES BESIDE A CROWDTHE HEAT WRITES BEFORETHE APATHY

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13 VIEWING CONDITION

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32 words from the machine language that constitutesthe image on the opposing page

Q XZ XYZ O8XYZ BZ $C IECHTTP://WWW.IEC.CH IEC HTTP://WWW.IEC.CHDESC.IEC 61966-2.1 DEFAULT RGB

COLOUR SPACE - SRGB.IEC 61966-2.1DEFAULT RGB COLOUR SPACE - SRGBDEREFERENCE VIEWING CONDITIONIN IEC61966-2.1 REFERENCEVIEWING CONDITION

13 VIEWING CONDITION

14 GERTRUDE STEIN

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32 words as an ode to Gertrude Steins 5 Words in a Line

32 WORDS IN 8 LINESFOR GERTRUDE STEIN32 WORDS IN 8 LINES

FOR GERTRUDE STEIN32 WORDS IN 8 LINESFOR GERTRUDE STEIN32 WORDS IN 8 LINESFOR GERTRUDE STEIN

14 GERTRUDE STEIN

15 MEASURES INSTEAD

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32 words from Alphonse Allais Funeral March for theObsequies of a Deaf Man

THE FUNERAL MARCH IS BASEDWITHOUT THE COMPOSITIONOF THIS PRINCIPLE EVERYONE

AGREES THAT THE GREAT SORROWSARE SILENT THE GREAT PAINBEING SILENT THE EXECUTANTSWILL ONLY DEAL COMMENCINGMEASURES INSTEAD

16 32 WORDS

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32 words from the Google results for 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1415 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33

19 20 21 22 23 24 2526 27 28 29 30 31 3233 ABOUT 2850000000

RESULTS 33 AND ANYSUBSEQUENT WORDSWas IGNORED BECAUSEWE LIMIT QUERIESTO 32 WORDS

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32 words from Samuel Morses letter to the New York Observer

about Louis Daguerres daguerreotype in Morse code

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32 words from Claude ShannonsA Symbolic Analysis of Relayand Switching Circuitsset as binary code

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A 32-word composition in which every other one of its charactershas been obstructed from view by a rec tangle that is set at a zeropercent shade of the ba ckground color

A3323word3compositionin3which3every3otherone3of3its3characters

has3been3obstructedfrom3view3by3a3rectanglethat3is3set3at3a3zeropercent3shade3of3thebackground3color

20 PARTICULAR TYPEFACE

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A 32 word compositionobstructed by two intersectingbands of white lines where

the lines and the spacesbetween them are thesame thickness as theline weight of thisparticular typeface

A 32-word composition obstructed by two intersecting bands ofwhite lines, where the lines and the spaces between them are the

same thickness as the line weight of this particular typef ace

21 XIBU XPSL

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32 words from 32 Words, 11: What Work, except every letter hasbeen replaced with the letter that follows it in the alphabet

BSU BU CVU FEPVBSEFOE HBMFSJF IBE IF JJ JT JU MBVSFOU NPOUIT

PG PG PXOFS QIJMJQQFQSPEVDFE TBJE TIPXFETU TUSBJHIUBXBZ UIFUIF UIF UISFF UP UPUPVTTBJOU XIBU XPSL

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32 genetic words from a tardigrades genome

TTA TGA GCT GCATGT GTT GGA ACTTCT CTT AGA TTT

ATT ATT CGA AGAGAA TTA AGA CAACCT GGA ATT CTTTTT GGT GAT GAACAA ATA TAT AAC

23 THIS PAGE

23 THIS PAGE

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A 32-word composition, where every single terminal of everysingle stroke of every single character in the typeface has been

fully extended, regardless of overlap, to the bleed of this page

A 32-word composition, where every single terminal of everysingle stroke of every single character in the typeface has been

fully extended, regardless of overlap, to the bleed of this page

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A 32-word poembecause we say so

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A 32-word poembecause we say so

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A 32-word poembecause we say so

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