Research + Criticism

Research Interests

NonSense – see the works of Jean-Jacques Lecercle, esp. The Violence of Language.

images-35‘pataphysics – see The Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Alfred Jarry + ‘pataphysics: the Science of Imaginary Solutions, Christian Bok.

 

 

Dirt – see Purity and Danger, Mary Douglass.

images-54Fou Litteraire – esp. Jean-Pierre Brisset –  see  http://jp-brisset.skyrock.com/+ “The Great News (The True Creation of Man, The Resurrection of the Dead, All Mysteries Explained): Jean-Pierre Brisset and the Frogmen, Patacritical Interogation Techniques Anthology, Vol 3., ed. Doug Harvey, AC Institute, NY, 2012, + “The Darkening Ecliptic: The Fall and Rise of Ernest Lalor Malley” in Cabinet Issue 33, Deception, Spring 2009.

 

images-10Litteral Poetics – see The Infestation of Bodies by Tongues: Notes on Litteral Poetics (Part One) – Poems and Poetics, 2010-03-13, + “Litteral Poetics,” in The /n/oulipian Analects, –  co-edited with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2007.

 

images-8Logic – see “Shea Zellweger & the Idea of an Outsider Logic”– Poems and Poetics, 2009-09-17, + the Litteral Poetics and Logic page on this site.

 

 

10-EucTiling3Spatial Structures – see “To Be or Knot to Be” in Cabinet Issue 22, Insecurity, Summer 2006 +  “Hyperbolically Speaking: Femininity and the Space of Modern Art,” in Issues in Contemporary Art, 2008,

 

images-30Theories of  Visual Art – see “Tricky Tactics: Notes Towards an Understanding of Contemporary Asthetics,”  X-Tta: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring, Los Angeles, pp. 5-15, 2003, + “Duck-Formal-Rabbit-Allegory,” Xtra: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter, Los Angeles, pp. 64-66, 2005.

 

images-55Feminisns – see  mUtter-bAbel (Counterpath Press: Denver, Colorado. 2013), +|’me’S-pace (Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2007),  +  “Showing Our Roots: Has Feminism become Just Another ‘Ism’?” in Calarts: Magazine of the California Institute of the Arts, Summer/Fall, 2007.

 

 

images-13Feminine Labor and Craftwork – see  “After the Revolution, Who’s Going to Pick up the Garbage?” X-TRA, vol. 12, no. 2, Winter, 2009, + “Craft-Work: A Sampler of Musings on Art and Labor in the Information Age or How to Make Alterations in Global Financial Fabrics,”  n.paradoxa, ed. Katy Deepwell, Jan 2011.

 

Conferences and Symposia Organized

  • Image and Text (2009) – with Matias Viegener – MOCA, LA.
  • Untitled NY (2009) – Cabinet Space, NY.
  • On Pornography (2008)  – with Matias Viegener + Janet Sarbanes – CalArts.
  • Untitled LA (2008) – with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • Feminaissance (2007) – with Teresa Carmody – REDCAT, LA.
  • Impunities (2006) – with Matias Viegner – REDCAT, LA.
  • Noulipo (2005)– with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • Séance (2004) – with Matias Viegener – REDCAT, LA.
  • “Séance, n/Oulipo, Impunities, Feminaissance, & Untitled”, with Matias Viegener, Jacket

 

Talks, Conferences and Panels

2015

  • “Is Pataphysics a Science?” – keynote lecture at Unruly, Science and art conference at Deakin University, Melbourne, 2015
  • &Now: Blast Radius, CalArts, 2015

2014

  • External Examiner for the MFA Writing Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  • “Poetry as Tongue,” Los Angeles Poets Symposium, University of California, Los Angeles.
  • Radical Crochet, New York University, Abu Dhabi.
  • “S(w)Ounds, HO(w)les + Other Infantile nOises,” Department for Theory and History of Literature, Sofia University, Sophia, Bulgaria.
  • “Sound, Image, Body and Space,” Centre for Fine Art Research, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK.
  • “Language, Writing, Speech,” Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research          London, UK.
  • “mUtter–bAbel: A Poetic Investigation of the mOther’s tOnge and Other Complex vOcal Organs” Annual Conference of the Kristeva Circle, Vanderbilt University,  Nashville, TN
  • “ The $ubject, Capital and Conceptual Poetics,” atOn Capital: American Comparative Literature Association, Annual Conference, NYU, NY.
  • “The Performing Tongue,” Annual Conference of the Modern Languages Association, Chicago.

2013                  

  • “verbi-voco-visual experiments,” &Now Literary Festival, Boulder Colorado.
  • “Mother tongues and Daughter Noises,” &Now Literary Festival, Boulder Colorado.
  • SurfaceTensions – Symposium at the University of Western Sydney – roundtable participant – Sydney, Australia.
  • “Reefing,” Denver Art Museum, Denver

2012     

  • Field Tour – In Fall 2012, Christine toured with the Danish writer Martin Glaz Serup, visiting numerous cities in the Mid-West, including, Chicago, Detroit, Lake Forest, South Bend – visiting colleges, MFA Writing Programs, Art Galleries, Cultural Centers and Reading Series.
  • “Unresolved Infantile Affects in Writing and Geo-politics,” &Now Literary Festival, The Sorbonne, Paris.
  • “SwOunds and hOwles,” Department of Literature Reading Series, Birkbeck College, UK.
  • “Language and the Mother’s Tongue,” Program in Writing and Society, University of Western Sydney
  • ”How I came to Write Some of My Work,” Melbourne University, Melbourne, Australia
  • “auto-bio-graphics: conceiving of bodies through image-ing tongues,” English Program, Research Seminar, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.
  • “Community Arts in the 21st Century,” Center for Creative Arts, La Trobe University
  • “Reefs Rubbish and Reason,” City University of NewYork, Fredonia , NY

 2011

  • The Story of the e|e,” Modern Languages Association Annual Conference, Seattle
  • Language as Tongue,” &Now Literary Festival, University of California San Diego.

2010                 

  • “Rubbish, Plastic and Crochet,” Dublin Science Museum, Trinity College, Dublin
  • “Writing as Practice,” Art Schools Caucus, Association of Writing Programs Annual Conference, Denver.

2009               

  • “Conceptual Writing,” Advancing Feminist Poetics & Activism, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY.
  • “Writing in Art Schools,” “Visions of War: The Arts Represent Conflict, 23rd Annual National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Arts, New York.
  • “Visions of the Unknown,” with Margaret Wertheim, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • “Crochet is Rubbish,” with Margaret Wertheim, Outpost Gallery, Los Angeles
  • “ Rubbish and Crochet,” with Margaret Wertheim, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • “Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef,” Powerhouse Museum Sydney
  • “Women, Craft and Melodrama,” California College of the Arts, Design and Craft Lecture Series, CCA, San Francisco
  • “Crocheted Reefs,” Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
  • “Me, me, me + I: Why ‘the subject’ is not dead,” & Now Literary Festival, Chapman College Los Angeles
  • “On Letters,” Writing Program, California College of the Arts San Francisco
  • “Do It Again,” MFA Art Program, California College of the Arts, San Francisco.

2008

  •  “On Difference,” Untitled: Speculations on the Expanded Field of Writing, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theatre, Los Angeles.
  • “The Plastic Exploding Inevitable: Science, Rubbish and Art, “ The Right Window Gallery, San Francisco
  • Studio visits with MFA Art students, California College of the Arts San Francisco

Selected Critical Writings

  • “What is the relationship between conceptual art and conceptual writing?”, Quick Question, Jacket 2, January 19, 2015
  • “Sexism and Sexual Assault in Literary Communities” New Gender Forum, Chicago Review, issue 59.01/02
  • Dorothy Iannone’s You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends, Review in Bomb, issue 132, ed Lisa Pearson, with essay by Trinie Dalton
  • “Séance, n/Oulipo, Impunities, Feminaissance, & Untitled”, with Matias Viegener, Jacket 2
  • “The Poetics of Late Capital: Or, How might “Avantgarde” poetry be thought of today?” forthcoming in The New Avantgarde, ed. Marc Leger, Manchester University Press 2014
  • “The Great News (The True Creation of Man, The Resurrection of the Dead, All Mysteries Explained): Jean-Pierre Brisset and the Frogmen, Patacritical Interogation Techniques Anthology, Vol 3., ed. Doug Harvey, AC Institute, NY, 2012.
  • “Craft-Work: A Sampler of Musings on Art and Labor in the Information Age or How to Make Alterations in Global Financial Fabrics,”  n.paradoxa, ed. Katy Deepwell, Jan 2011.
  • The Infestation of Bodies by Tongues: Notes on a Litteral Poetics (Part Two) – Poems and Poetics, 2010-04-13.
  • The Infestation of Bodies by Tongues: Notes on Litteral Poetics (Part One) – Poems and Poetics, 2010-03-13.
  • 1 Minute: 1 Image, X-TRA, Vol. 13, No. 1, Fall, 2010
  •  “After the Revolution, Who’s Going to Pick up the Garbage?” X-TRA, vol. 12, no. 2, Winter, 2009.
  • “Ern Malley after the Crash,” Sydney Ideas Quarterly, November, 2009.
  • “The Darkening Ecliptic: The Fall and Rise of Ernest Lalor Malley” in Cabinet Issue 33, Deception, Spring 2009
  • Notes on Feminism from ADFEMPO Conference
  • MY GENIUS IS NO MORE THAN A GIRL , Delirious Hem
  • “Shea Zellweger & the Idea of an Outsider Logic”– Poems and Poetics, 2009-09-17.
  • “Object and Ideal,” with Margaret Wertheim, The Quick and the Dead, exhib. cat., ed. Peter Eleey,  Walker Art Center: Minneapolis, pp. 147-156, 2009.
  • Foreword, A New Frame of Nothing for [out of nothing], 2009
  • “Hyperbolically Speaking: Femininity and the Space of Modern Art,” in Issues in Contemporary Art, 2008.
  • Dim Sum, Delirious Hem
  • Shea Zellweger’s Logic Alphabet – exhibition catalogue. The Museum of Jurassic Technology, 2007
  • “Litteral Poetics,” and editor’s contributions in The /n/oulipian Analects, –  co-edited with Matias Viegener, Les Figues Press: Los Angeles, 2007
  • “Not a Cornfied, Not Creative, Not Art,” in Not A Cornfield, Not A Cornfield LLC: Los Angeles, 2007.
  • “Showing Our Roots: Has Feminism become Just Another ‘Ism’?”in Calarts: Magazine of the California Institute of the Arts, Summer/Fall, 2007.
  • “To Be or Knot to Be” in Cabinet Issue 22, Insecurity, Summer 2006
  • “Georganne Dean: Underground Woman,” Xtra: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 9, 2006.
  • “Why Kant Got it Right,” Art Seminars, ed. James Elkins, London: Routledge,
  • “The New Dream of Stone,” Open Letter: Kenneth Goldsmith And Conceptual Poetics, Series 12, No. 7, Fall 2005. Eds. Barbara Cole and Lori Ann Emerson: Canada, 2005.
  • “Duck-Formal-Rabbit-Allegory,” Xtra: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Winter, Los Angeles, pp. 64-66, 2005.
  • “Joyce’s Vo|dse,” in Séance: Meditations in Experimental Writing, Los Angeles: Make Now Press, 2005.
  • Crystal Clear: Interview with Shea Zellweger in Cabinet Issue 18, Fictional States, Summer 2o05
  • “Tricky Tactics: Notes Towards an Understanding of Contemporary Asthetics,”  X-Tta: Contemporary Art Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring, Los Angeles, pp. 5-15, 2003.
  • “Teratology,” Patricia Piccinini – catalogue to Australian exhibition at Venice Biennale.
  • “The Pendulum Swings,’” with Margaret Wertheim, in Longplayer, exhib. catal., Artangel; London, 2002.
  • “Cybersexualities: A Reader on Feminist Theory,” and “Global Obscenities: Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Lure of Cyberfantasy,” book review in Signs, 2002.
  • “Atopos,” Typography 58: Too Much Noise, Not Enough Time: The Journal of the International Society of Typographic Designers, ed. D. Jury, The Designers Republic, UK, 2002.
  • “House of Squiggly Lines,” with M. Wertheim. LA Weekly, Sept 27-Oct 3, pp. 133-134.
  • “Star Trek: First Contact: The Hybrid, the Whore and the Machine,” Cubitt, S. & Sadar, Z., Aliens Are Us: The Other in Science Fiction Cinema, Pluto Press: London, pp. 74 – 93, 2001.
  • The Other Theory of Physics– exhibition wall texts – Santa Monica Museum of Art.
  • “Are They Kidding?’”Sydney Morning Herald Magazine, June 2, (artist’s profile), pp. 34 –40, 2001.
  • Reviews for The Australian Review of Books, “Next Stop Gynotopia” and “Komar and Melamid,” 2000
  • “Atopos,” The Architect, ed., M. Toy, Images Group Pty LtD. and John Wiley: London, New York, Melbourne, 1999.
  • “‘S-Pace the Other Sense?’” Games of Architecture: Architecture and Design, No. 121 – Academy Editions: London, 1996, pp. 78-83.
  • “On the function of the imagination in the ‘object’ of science,” Newsletter of the London Circle of the European School of Psychoanalysis, vol.1, Issue 8, eds. Evans, D. & Leader, D., May 1996, pp. 9-15.
  • “Eidetic Images,” AA Files; Annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture,  No. 30, Autumn 1995, London, pp. 74-76.
  • Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition,Vol. V, Indiana University Press, Indianapolis, USA, contributor.
  • “Peirce’s Science of Signs,” The Ethical Review: The Journal of the South Place Ethical Society, Jan 1992, London, pp. 15-17.