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Project Website (with 47 min. multimedia recording): http://slought.org/content/11288/
Slought Foundation, an organization rethinking contemporary arts, presents “Wiliam Anastasi's Pataphysical Society,” a symposium on Saturday, December 11, 2004 critically engaging William Anastasi's work in relation to literary and artistic predecessors and contemporaries including Jarry, Joyce, Duchamp and Cage. This one-day symposium, sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation, features presentations by and conversations with a variety of noted critics and academics including Thomas McEvilley, Steve McCaffery, Joseph Masheck, William Anastasi, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Alison Armstrong, and Ian Hays. For documentation and audio recordings from past Slought Foundation projects with William Anastasi, visit: http://slought.org/search/anastasi/
Alison Armstrong is the author of numerous articles and reviews of literature and art, a founding editor (1979) of James Joyce Broadsheet (UK), and contributing editor (since 1982) to Irish Literary Supplement (USA). Her two books are: "The Herne's Egg": The Manuscript Materials (Cornell Univ. Press, 1992) and The Joyce of Cooking: Food & Drink of James Joyce's Dublin (Station Hill Press, 1986). She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (NYU), an M.Litt.(Oxford Univ., UK), and an M.A. in English (Ohio State Univ.) and currently teaches at The New School and at School of Visual Arts in New York City.
This program is made possible in part through the generous sponsorship or support of University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation and the French Institute for Culture and Technology
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Detail, "du jarry" series, 2004