Tan Lin’s Landscape of Poetry, Text, and Pictures: A Piece from PERFORMA ’09
Tan Lin’s Chalk Playground (LitTwit Chalk) set about a dozen+ artists and writers to chalk their thoughts on the streets of NY last Saturday. Pieces chalked included a Futurist Manifesto, a Chinese Manifesto, and many other impromptu pieces of poetry. The following pictures catch the “poetry line” working away in a parking lot in Chinatown.
Here’s a favorite:
I only caught up with the poetry line downtown, but the entire performance actually traveled across Manhattan.
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