Poète maudit and vagabond Dimitrie Stelaru was born in 1917 as Dumitru Petrescu in Romania’s border region with Bulgaria. He never knew his biological father, who was killed in action during World War I, and developed such a bad relationship with his stepfather that he was sent to a strict Christian boarding school in Transylvania at the age of fourteen…
Slowscan #43 now available from Sea Urchin: Giuseppe Chiari – Gesti sul Piano Giuseppe Chiari (1926–2007) was a Fluxus artist from Florence, Italy. In cooperation with Archivo Silenzio and Chiari’s friend and assistant Paolo Coteni, Slowscan has now released an LP with two piano pieces by Chiari, both recorded in Rome, one in 1974, the…
Slowscan #42 now available from Sea Urchin: Enzo Minarelli – Live in San Francisco Enzo Minarelli (1951) published his ‘Manifesto of Polypoetry’ in 1987. It contains a theory of Minarelli’s one-man performances, of which sound poetry, performance art and videos form integral parts. Two of the statements in this manifesto are ‘The exploitation of sound…