INBOX: The bio-poetics of Alain Arias-Misson
Event
M HKA, Antwerpen
24 April 2015 - 23 May 2015
The M HKA reserves its fifth floor for surprise events and intimate pop-up presentations. INBOX is a place that both inspires and surprises, and grants us a glimpse into the universe of passionate thinkers and doers. With INBOX, M HKA creates a physical space in which the museum addresses often-reccuring questions. In between the various events, we show a selection of our collection work, paying particular attention to video art.
Alain Arias-Misson (born in Brussels in 1936) is considered the inventor of the public poem, an extension of visual poetry that is separate from the event, because it is performed outside an artistic or aesthetic context, i.e. on the street or on the beach. Arias-Misson’s public poems are both subversive and liberating, challenging and playful.
He experiments with the phonetic dimension of poetry and writes several poems himself. He plays with three-dimensional poetry; for his poem ‘UROBOROS’, in the form of the eponymous mythical Greek symbol, he used Letraset adhesive letters on different plexiglass plates so that the word curls up through a block of eight plates. This was the start of a series of ‘plastico-concretist’ works, plexiglass objects with stereometric shapes and forms; words with literal substance.
