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YUXTAPOSICIONES > poetry and polipoetry microfestival. The word returns to leave the book to raise the stage playing with the sounds, music and the images. Yuxtaposiciones: the language is danced.

Previous editions:
Yuxtaposiciones 2005
Intervocálica.exp 2004
Intervocálica.exp 2003

YUXTAPOSICIONES'06 - program

saturday 27th may

19 h - talk (sala audiovisual - limited capacity):
Words in freedom: the poetry outside the book
concept and coordination: Eduard Escoffet

20:30 to 22:45 h - performances (auditorio - limited capacity):
LÉOS ATOR & CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
FRANCESCA BEARD
ACCIDENTS POLIPOÈTICS

sunday 28th may

19 h - talk (sala audiovisual - limited capacity):
Rhymed songs: poetry and music
concept and coordination: Eduard Escoffet

20:30 to 22:45 h - performances (auditorio - limited capacity):
CHRISTIAN UETZ
RICARDO CASTILLO
LYDIA LUNCH

performances

Léos Ator

LÉOS ATOR & CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS
(France - USA)
Léos Ator (France): anonymous in society. Mainly he uses the support of audio like tool for his poetic/sonic work with a (dis)articulation of the relation text-sound by obstruction and (de)construction of modules, loops, etc. To the way of sonorous Lego. Through the label L'Ovni Tendre, Ator has published several works of electropoetry like Doggy Style (2005). Also he is "inventor" of new sonorous and visual formats like the Tiny Festival, presented with great success in Madrid in the past Experimentaclub'05 Festival.
In this occasion Léos Ator it will be accompanied by the musician and Californian writer Christopher Williams, who has collaborated with Derek Bailey or LaMonte Young's Theatre Of Eternal Music between many others.
Links Léos Ator (L'Ovni Tendre): www.lovnitendre.com
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Francesca Beard

FRANCESCA BEARD
(Malaysia / United Kingdom)
Born in Malaysia, based in London, Francesca Beard is a writer and performance poet who has represented contemporary British Literature all over the world, from Azerbaijan to Bulgaria to Colombia, in all sorts of venues, from a Moscow Library to a Melbourne jazz club. Her work has been including in anthologies like Gargoyle, Oral, Saltpetre and the annual The Dazed & Confused Anthology. She has published his own column in the newspaper The Guardian and has made exclusive works for radio (BBC Radio 4). She is currently developing a new show, workng title, London Tales, supported by the Arts Council, England.
Her poetry is acute and narcotic; brilliant and funny simultaneously that capricious, sensual and punk. She is the Queen of British performance poetry.
Links Francesca Beard: www.francescabeard.com
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Accidents Polipoètics

ACCIDENTS POLIPOÈTICS
(Barcelona)
Franco ha muerto o cómo idiotizar a un pollo.
Poetic duo constituted by Rafael Metlikovez (Canovelles, 1964) and Xavier Theros (Barcelona, 1963) who since the start of the nineties have created a revolution in poetic recitals and accomplished to take poetry to unimaginable places. They've taken part in so many recitals that they can't be counted, and it is during their live show where the real force of this duo is uncovered, with impressive texts and a magnificent performance. They've also published a CD called Polipoesía urbana de pueblo (Por Caridad Producciones, 1996), with a first edition that got sold out in no time, and more recently, a book called Todos tenemos la razón (La tempestad, 2003), where they've compiled their poems, their two conferences (the first about García Lorca and the second regarding bachelorhood) and comments about their career, one of the most unique originated in Barcelona. Accidents Polipoètics, with its amusing and acid side, have also resulted in being one of the more creative contributions to Spanish sonorous poetry.
In this occasion Accidents Polipoètics release in Madrid their last spectacle in which they fit accounts with the Spanish political transition, declassifying with irreverent humor a part of the common memory.
Links Accidents Polipoètics: www.experimentaclub.com/data/accidents_polipoetics
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Christian Uetz

CHRISTIAN UETZ
(Switzerland)
Christian Uetz was born in 1963 in Egnach (Switzerland). He studied philosophy, comparative literature and ancient greek. He lives in zurich. So far he has published poem books like Lure (1993), Reeden (1994), Nichte (1998), Don San Juan (2002) and Das Sternbild Versingt (2004), as well as the prose book Zoom Nicht (1999), for which he obtained the 3-sat prize in the Ingeborg Bachmann competition.
He's specially known for his countless performances, so intense and emotional, always surprising, full of intensity, at sound poetry and spoken word festivals world-wide, such as the Berlin and the Medellin poetry festivals. Moreover, he has performed with the swiss experimental trio Koch-Schütz-Studer with whom he published the CD Live im Schiffbau (Intakt Records, 2002).
"Whoever has seen one of Christian Uetz's readings, given from memory, will know what Nietzsche meant by his dictum that one has to understand how to engage in a dance with language. His onopatopoetic eccentricities make him appear wildly inebriated and utterly sobber at the same time." (Karl-Heinz Ott, 2002, Neuen Zürcher Zeitung)
Links Christian Uetz: http://propost.org/proposta2004/eng/christianuetz.html
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Ricardo Castillo

RICARDO CASTILLO
(Mexico)
Dara Dansha.
Ricardo Castillo (Guadalajara, Mexico, 1954) has an extensive printed poetic work that includes eight books, from El pobrecito señor X (1976) to La máquina del instante de formulación poética (2001), besides to have numerous poems including in anthologies and magazines of America and Europe.
Ricardo Castillo has made an exploration that he considers complementary to the publication of the poem book: to give back the word, the voice, to the printed word. To remove it from a confinement, the same book, in which often the word is separated from the body and the voice.
Dara Dansha intensifies, through 18 said poems of memory, the sonorous exploration of the word and its repercussion in the body.
With the collaboration of the University of Guadalajara (Mexico).
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Lydia Lunch (photo: Marc Viaplana)

LYDIA LUNCH
(USA)
Ecstasy At The Mouth Of The Abyss.
A spoken word dissertation on Lust and Longing in Times of War.
The only way to define the work of Lydia Lunch is simply not to. Through music, books, spoken word performances, film, video, photography, poetry and a multitude of creative endeavors, she has proven to be one of the most interesting and daring artists of the current era.
Baptized as a confrontationalist, Lydia Lunch commenced at age 16 as primal screamer and guitar guerrilla for the seminal "no-wave" band Teenage Jesus And The Jerks (1976). In early 1978, artist and producer Brian Eno attended a series of shows put on to benefit the Artist's Space in Soho and influenced Island Records to finance an anthology LP featuring the four strongest bands: Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Contortions, Mars and DNA. The resulting recording, entitled No New York and produced by Eno, remains as one of the most impressive - and extraordinarily bold - debuts of the time.
Her solo debut, 1980's Queen Of Siam, proved to be one of her most acclaimed efforts, influencing an entire generation of underground bands and artists. Flavored with a big-band cabaret sound provided by The Billy Ver Plank Orchestra, featuring sophisticated arrangements by Ver Plank himself, and an appearance by noted guitarist Robert Quine, the album proved that Lunch could embark in new directions and succeed.
Lydia Lunch has collaborated with artists like Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Marc Almond, Michael Gira (Swans), Foetus or Sonic Youth among others.
Her work has a strong feminist and political load, turning obsessively around the pain, desire, sex and the violence. Her poetic performances are like a howl sent from the desperation.
Links Lydia Lunch: www.lydia-lunch.org
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