Zaratan AIR Artist Talk | SEAN NEGUS
Channel: Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea
Date: 2022-07-16

SUPPORT | República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
The Artist Talks offer the community a chance to meet the artists-in-residence at Zaratan and to gain insight into the creative process.
During this encounter Sean Negus will explore the poetics of the archive with specific emphasis on inquiries into transmedia visual poetics. The talk will be intruduced by Alexia Alexandropoulou, cultural producer and curator based in Lisbon.
The conversation will be held in English; the public is invited to participate and question.
BIOS: Sean Negus is an artist who works in the expanded field of poetics. In addition to a book of poems published bilingually in Portuguese and English, Hurricane Music | Furacão Música, they have also published an artist book in limited edition, Congeries. Transmedia projects of theirs have explored forms of visuality, performativity, collaboration and modes of digital writing. As a translator and editor of contemporary Brazilian and Portuguese poetry they have edited, Saccades as well DUSIE. Professor in Writing & Literature and also Critical Studies at both California College of the Arts and Santa Clara University, their current work inquiring into archival poetics has been recently exhibited in publications by the Goethe-Institut and Tasaworat Collective.