[{"id":2241,"title":"Poemx, the Baptismal Public Poem, Knokke, 1970","dimensions":"2 x ( 32 x 110 cm )","date_begin":"1970-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2011-01-01","reference":"UFO_080_3","stream_count_app":36,"permalink":"poemx-the-baptismal-public-poem-knokke-1970","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/936/large/Arias-Misson,%20Alain,%20Poemx%20Baptismal%20Public%20Poem%20Knokke%201970%20_1photo%20M%20HKAclinckx_6_4_1.jpg?1315473024","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"*'My great friend Paul De Vree invited me back from Spain to the Knokke Poetry Festival in 1970, where I did my Public Baptismal Poem, POEMX. One by one I dipped the human-sized foam rubber letters in the salty North Sea with ritual gestures: P O E M X -- until they were so soaked that they were too heavy to lift. By poetic osmosis World was absorbed into World and this literal rite wrote the waves until the waves became writing and the gulls and the wind metaphor and a new poetics by this baptism was born: POEMX.\"* - Alain Arias-Misson"},{"locale":"nl","description":"*'My great friend Paul De Vree invited me back from Spain to the Knokke Poetry Festival in 1970, where I did my Public Baptismal Poem, POEMX. One by one I dipped the human-sized foam rubber letters in the salty North Sea with ritual gestures: P O E M X -- until they were so soaked that they were too heavy to lift. By poetic osmosis World was absorbed into World and this literal rite wrote the waves until the waves became writing and the gulls and the wind metaphor and a new poetics by this baptism was born: POEMX.\"* - Alain Arias-Misson"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":2240,"title":"The G D Public Poem, Brussels, 1968","dimensions":"2 x ( 32 x 110 cm )","date_begin":"1968-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2011-01-01","reference":"UFO_080_2","stream_count_app":45,"permalink":"the-g-d-public-poem-brussels-1968","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Alain Arias-Misson","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/933/large/Arias-Misson,%20Alain,%20G%20D%20Public%20Poem,%20Brussels,%201968%20_1photo%20M%20HKAclinckx_6_4_2.jpg?1315472845","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;I did the GOD Public Poem in Brussels in 1968; it was a clearer fusion of page and street, of letters and human form. The meaning was simple enough: with the g in my right hand and the d in my left, and the \u0026quot;Poet\u0026quot; as cipher or null, I bracketed one \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; of site after the other throughout the City to portray the disappearance of GOD and the City as God in his place: the RR station which breathed the citizens at 8 am, the Cathedral, the Museum of Fine Arts, a Funeral Parlor, the Stock Exchange, a Work Site, \u0026quot;Nature\u0026quot; (The Park), the great Galeries de la Reine as \u0026quot;Commerce\u0026quot; etc. The \u0026quot;poem\u0026quot; was still static and solitary, but the sense of a \u0026quot;reading\u0026quot; of the street more manifest. These were my first steps in an attempt to create a literacy of the street.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Alain Arias-Misson on \u003cem\u003eThe G D Public Poem\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;I did the GOD Public Poem in Brussels in 1968; it was a clearer fusion of page and street, of letters and human form. The meaning was simple enough: with the g in my right hand and the d in my left, and the \u0026quot;Poet\u0026quot; as cipher or null, I bracketed one \u0026quot;class\u0026quot; of site after the other throughout the City to portray the disappearance of GOD and the City as God in his place: the RR station which breathed the citizens at 8 am, the Cathedral, the Museum of Fine Arts, a Funeral Parlor, the Stock Exchange, a Work Site, \u0026quot;Nature\u0026quot; (The Park), the great Galeries de la Reine as \u0026quot;Commerce\u0026quot; etc. The \u0026quot;poem\u0026quot; was still static and solitary, but the sense of a \u0026quot;reading\u0026quot; of the street more manifest. These were my first steps in an attempt to create a literacy of the street.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Alain Arais-Misson over \u003cem\u003eThe G D Public Poem\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7358,"title":"Confessions of a Murderer, Rapist, Fascist, Bomber, Thief (or a year in the journal of an ordinary American)","dimensions":"28.5 x 22 cm, 116 p, language: English, Publisher: Chicago Review press, Chicago, ILL (USA). ISBN 0-914090-05-4","date_begin":"1974-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/462","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"confessions-of-a-murderer-rapist-fascist-bomber-thief-or-a-year-in-the-journal-of-an-ordinary-american","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/853/large/Untitled234.jpg?1367308075","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literary synopsis** Arias-Misson uses photos and clippings from newspapers in order to divert these into an entirely new narrative. [More](http://www.ariasmisson.com/laradavincy.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literaire synopsis** Arias-Misson gebruikt foto\u0026rsquo;s en knipsels van kranten om er een volledig nieuw verhaal van te brouwen. [Meer](http://www.ariasmisson.com/laradavincy.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7359,"title":"The Mind Crime of August Saint","dimensions":"21.6 x 14 cm, 420 p, language: English, publisher : Fiction Collective Two, Boulder, Colorado (USA). ISBN 0-932511-79-1","date_begin":"1993-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/463","stream_count_app":18,"permalink":"the-mind-crime-of-august-saint","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/854/large/Untitled233.jpg?1367308418","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literary synopsis** Determined to solve a dual crime-on the one hand an abstract Millennial Conspiracy perpetrated against the conventional \u0026quot;logocentric\u0026quot; mind, on the other a gruesome murder-litterateur-detective August Saint embarks on a most peculiar investigation. Saint wanders through a distinctly familiar European landscape, but simultaneously, inexplicably, finds himself traversing parallel media-spawned realties. In *The Mind of August Saint*, a fiction is built out of multiple visual media without reproducing any of these, a concept he names \u0026quot;superfiction\u0026quot; which was taken up in American critical discourse. Alain Arias-Mission mines the epistemological fault line where the old world of the written word lies uneasily against twentieth-first-century electronic media culture. [More](http://www.fc2.org/authors/arias/mind/mind.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literaire synopsis** Man van de letteren en detectieve August Saint begeeft zich aan een opzienbarend onderzoek, vastberaden om een tweevoudige misdaad op te lossen: enerzijds een abstracte Duizendjarige Samenzwering tegen de conventionele \u0026lsquo;logocentrische\u0026rsquo; geest; anderzijds een gruwelijke moord. Saint dwaalt door een opvallend bekend Europees landschap, maar reist tegelijkertijd en onverklaarbaar door parallelle, door de media voortgebrachte werkelijkheid. In *The Mind Crime of August Saint* wordt fictie gebrouwen uit verschillende beelden zonder er eentje te reproduceren \u0026ndash; \u0026lsquo;superfictie\u0026rsquo;, noemt hij dat concept, dat werd opgenomen in het Amerikaanse kritische discours. Alain Arias-Mission exploiteert de breuklijn waar de oude wereld van het geschreven woord ongemakkelijk aanschurkt tegen de 20ste-eeuwse elektronische mediacultuur. [Meer](http://www.fc2.org/authors/arias/mind/mind.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":7360,"title":"Theatre of Incest","dimensions":"17.7 x 12.7 cm, 131 p, language: English, publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, Champaign/London. ISBN 9781564784810","date_begin":"2007-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2025/464","stream_count_app":16,"permalink":"theatre-of-incest","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/016/855/large/Untitled232.jpg?1367308823","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literary synopsis** *Theatre of Incest* is a dream-telling that Kafka might have written in his notebook as a young man \u0026ndash;then expunged through fire. Yet it exists here, a document, a story, a confession, a sometimes - opaque sometimes - translucent diary of psycho-sexual obsession. The story has little plot. Broken into three sections, the narrator relates through fast vignettes his role as recipient or provocateur of incestuous sex. - Mark Beyer [More](http://www.ariasmisson.com/writing.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e**Literaire synopsis** *Theatre of Incest* is een droom-vertelling die Kafka als jonge man zou kunnen hebben geschreven in zijn notitieboekje \u0026ndash; dat vervolgens verdween in vuur. Maar hier is het dan: een document, verhaal, biecht, een nu eens troebel dan weer helder dagboek van psycho-seksuele obsessie. Het verhaal heeft weinig plot. In drie delen vertolkt de verteller in snelle vignetten zijn rol als ontvanger of uitlokker van incestueuze seks. - Mark Beyer [Meer](http://www.ariasmisson.com/writing.html)\u003c/p\u003e"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":13662,"title":"Comic Book","dimensions":"19.6 x 12.4 cm, 164 p., language : English, publisher : Black Scat Books, San Francisco, ISBN : 978-0-692-44067-4 ","date_begin":"2015-01-01","material":"Ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"Artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2027/668","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"comic-book","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/037/large/Untitled162.jpg?1464091856","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eComic Book \u003c/em\u003eis, on the surface, a simple \u003cem\u003eBoy\u003c/em\u003e (\u0026ldquo;Company\u0026rdquo; operative)\u0026nbsp;\u003cem\u003echases Girl (\u003c/em\u003egorgeous Corporate Terrorist) story. Set \u0026ldquo;physically\u0026rdquo; in comic book format, it leaps\u0026nbsp;relentlessly from one discontinuous window to the next,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;becomes labyrinthic and baffling as the characters\u0026mdash;discovering\u0026nbsp;their comic book constraints\u0026mdash;attempt to\u0026nbsp;throw off these mental shackles and achieve their erotic ends.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://blackscatbooks.com/tag/alain-arias-misson/\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":2242,"title":"Chomsky Generative Grammar Public Poem, Brussels 1972","dimensions":"3 x ( 32 x 110 cm )","date_begin":"1972-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":2,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2011-01-01","reference":"S0448","stream_count_app":41,"permalink":"chomsky-generative-grammar-public-poem-brussels-1972","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Alain Arias-Misson","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/900/large/ARIAS-~3.JPG?1315234295","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;Inspired by Chomsky, grammarian and political theorist, I wanted to show how the deep grammar of a street sentence could be labelled like a written sentence. Glueing human-sized grammatical symbols down a street, I framed bank, stores, people, police, illustrating that in a \u0026quot;deep\u0026quot; reading \u0026quot;people\u0026quot; was the direct object and not the subject they supposed, \u0026quot;commerce\u0026quot; was the verb qualified by the adverb \u0026quot;police\u0026quot;, the subject an abstract noun \u0026quot;money\u0026quot; etc. I was astonished by the attitude of the Belgians; (...) my fellow citizens averted their gaze as from something faintly indecorous.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Alain Arias-Misson\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026#39;Inspired by Chomsky, grammarian and political theorist, I wanted to show how the deep grammar of a street sentence could be labelled like a written sentence. Glueing human-sized grammatical symbols down a street, I framed bank, stores, people, police, illustrating that in a \u0026quot;deep\u0026quot; reading \u0026quot;people\u0026quot; was the direct object and not the subject they supposed, \u0026quot;commerce\u0026quot; was the verb qualified by the adverb \u0026quot;police\u0026quot;, the subject an abstract noun \u0026quot;money\u0026quot; etc. I was astonished by the attitude of the Belgians; (...) my fellow citizens averted their gaze as from something faintly indecorous.\u0026#39;\u003c/em\u003e\u0026nbsp;- Alain Arias-Misson\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":15601,"title":"My Other Selves","dimensions":"","date_begin":"2017-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"M00266","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"my-other-selves","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Alain Arias-Misson","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/035/389/large/Arias-Misson__Hologram_2016photo__M_HKA_1.jpg?1493219399","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA ","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eAlain Arias-Misson\u0026rsquo;s \u003ci\u003eThe Other Selves\u003c/i\u003e refers to his \u0026ldquo;three selves\u0026rdquo;. Each of the cups in the work contains the memories, experiences and forms of language that correspond to one period in his life. One cup is linked to Arias-Misson at age 14, approximately. This is when he first loved poetry and felt his vocation. The text in the cup deals with memories of childhood and young boyhood. The second cup represents Arias-Misson as a young man (aged 18, 19, 20), dealing with sexuality, romance, passion and an awakening to life. The third and final cup relates to his life after the age of 70 and concepts like spiritual awakening, death and creative passion.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eIn the hologram the cups all swirl with their own energy, moving in and out of one another, always present in each other. At one point they pour from one into the other, affirming the continuity of time and the experiences in our lives. In the end the last, fully mixed cup is poured out, symbolising the vanishing of our physical and emotional life.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":2239,"title":"Vietnam Public Poem, Brussels, 1967","dimensions":"36 x 70.5 x 2.5 cm","date_begin":"1967-01-01","material":"","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":12,"category_id":79,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":"2011-01-01","reference":"S0445","stream_count_app":45,"permalink":"vietnam-public-poem-brussels-1967","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":"","short_description_fr":"","short_description_ru":"","short_description_de":"","short_description_es":"","short_description_el":"","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":"Alain Arias-Misson","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":"","short_description_uk":"","description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/002/935/large/Arias-Misson,%20Alain,%20Vietnam%20public%20poem,1967%20photo%20M%20HKAclinckx_6_4.jpg?1315472960","poster_credits":"(c)image: M HKA","translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eFrom 1965 the visual poetry of Alain Arias-Misson has distinctly evolved towards performance, particularly with his legendary *Public Poems*. He tries \u0026ndash; on the street, or in some other public place \u0026ndash; to sensitize people to both poetry and social involvement, and this by setting down or walking around with man-sized letters and other linguistic material. He performs these urban poetic interventions outside of any aesthetic or artistic context, and so must be distinguished from, for example, performance art. Arias-Misson\u0026rsquo;s *Public Poems* are at once subversive and liberating, challenging as well as playful. Alain Arias-Misson wrote about *Vietnam Public Poem*: *\u0026#39;The first \u0026quot;public poem\u0026quot; was more of a political manifestation than a poetic form. I had fled the Vietnam war draft when the FBI had come knocking at my door in Greenwich Village in \u0026#39;66. It was Christmas of \u0026#39;67 now in the downtown shopping center of Brussels and I just wanted to make the NAME concrete in the midst of the indifferent Xmas cheer: human-sized letters made of crushed newspaper wrapped in surgical tape splattered with blood-red liquid -- a menacing presence nobody could ignore. The letters swayed and shook in the wintry wind and the snow flurries. Look, someone said, it\u0026#39;s V I E T N A M, that\u0026#39;s good! No, said somebody else, it\u0026#39;s a publicity stunt. About what? Said the first person. It\u0026#39;s about the war! My heart swelled. The word had become present.\u0026#39;*\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":"\u003cp\u003eVanaf 1965 evolueert de visuele po\u0026euml;zie van Alain Arias-Misson naar een meer uitgesproken performativiteit, en ontwikkelt hij zijn legendarische *Public Poems*. Hij tracht op straat, in de publieke ruimte, het publiek gevoelig te maken voor zowel de po\u0026euml;zie als voor het maatschappijkritische engagement, door het neerzetten van of het rondgaan met manshoge letters en ander lingu\u0026iuml;stisch materiaal. Deze po\u0026euml;tische urbane interventies voert hij uit buiten elke esthetische of artistieke context, waardoor ze onderscheiden moeten worden van bijvoorbeeld de performance-art. Arias-Missons Public Poems zijn zowel subversief als bevrijdend, zowel uitdagend als speels. Over *Vietnam Public Poem*, het eerste public poem dat hij realiseerde, schrijft Arias-Misson: \u0026#39;The first \u0026quot;public poem\u0026quot; was more of a political manifestation than a poetic form. I had fled the Vietnam war draft when the FBI had come knocking at my door in Greenwich Village in \u0026#39;66. 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