Gepubliceerd op: vrijdag 25 maart 2022

Fragments from Howl – sadà\exposadà

 

 

who threw potato salad at CCNY lecturers on Dadaism and subsequently presented themselves on the granite steps of the madhouse with shaven heads and harlequin speech of suicide, demanding instantaneous lobotomy,
and who were given instead the concrete void of insulin Metrazol electricity hydrotherapy psychotherapy occupational therapy pingpong & amnesia,
who in humorless protest overturned only one symbolic pingpong table, resting briefly in catatonia

(extract from the poem ‘Howl‘ by Allen Ginsberg. Copyright © Allen Ginsberg, 1956, 1961, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited)

 

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Ginsberg Year

- In 2022, it's been 25 years since US poet Allen Ginsberg died. We ask artists from all over the world to pick a fragment from his best-known poem Howl and create an artwork based on that fragment. A lively and fluid evaluation of what this amazing poem means in our times & a tribute to one of the best minds of the generations before us.