{"id":55831,"date":"2017-07-03T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55831"},"modified":"2017-07-03T07:10:30","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T07:10:30","slug":"sunday-subsidiary-typewriters-poetry-guns-roses-and-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=55831","title":{"rendered":"Sunday subsidiary — typewriters, poetry, guns, roses, and art"},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — one-time typewriter poet & artist ]
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From This Artist Recycles Typewriters into Guns<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Typewriters revolutionized the way we write and guns changed the wars we fight, yet it can’t be denied that both are artifacts of tremendous cultural impact, despite the dramatic differences in function. This notion helps illuminate the peculiar Typewriter Guns of Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois artist Eric Nado<\/a>, a sculptural series of typewriters transformed to look like guns.<\/p>\n

Thankfully non-functional, Nado’s guns seem like strange weaponry from the future, due to their brilliantly vibrant hues and the protruding typewriter parts that seem like alien steampunk appendages in this technological recontextualization. This may be partially an aesthetic choice, but it also relates to the artist’s desire to fully recycle the typewriters. In his project statement, Nado iterates that every piece of the typewriters were re-incorporated into the guns, an almost eerie vein of sustainability given how convincingly dangerous these sculptures look.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Reminds me of Ernst Jandl<\/strong>‘s sound poem schtzngrmm<\/strong>, based on taking the letters of the word “trench” — “Sch\u00fctzengraben” in German literally, letter by letter, so as to evoke (some of) the sound of trench warfare:<\/p>\n

schtzngrmm
\nschtzngrmm
\nt-t-t-t
\nt-t-t-t
\ngrrrmmmmm
\nt-t-t-t
\ns———c———h
\ntzngrmm
\ntzngrmm
\ntzngrmm
\ngrrrmmmmm
\nschtzn
\nschtzn
\nt-t-t-t
\nt-t-t-t
\nschtzngrmm
\nschtzngrmm
\ntssssssssssssss
\ngrrt
\ngrrrrrt
\ngrrrrrrrrrt
\nscht
\nscht
\nt-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t
\nscht
\ntzngrmm
\ntzngrmm
\nt-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t-t
\nscht
\nscht
\nscht
\nscht
\nscht
\ngrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
\nt-tt<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But I’ll let Jandl read it himself and comment on that final “t-tt” and its aural cognate, “tod” — death:<\/p>\n