Lee Scrivner
Lee Scrivner | |
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Born | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada | February 10, 1971
Occupation | Adjunct professor at American University |
Nationality | American |
Education | University of Utah |
Alma mater | University of London |
Period | 1999 | –present
Genre | Humanities, English literature |
Subject | Phenomenology, Ironic process theory, Philosophy of science, Philosophy of mind, Confirmation bias, Suggestibility, Sleep and Insomnia, History of medicine, History of psychology, Victorian, Modernism, Art manifesto |
Notable works | Becoming Insomniac (2014) The Sound Moneyfesto (2008) How to Write an Avant-Garde Manifesto (2008) |
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Lee Scrivner (born February 10, 1971) is an American writer and
Early life and education
Scrivner was born in
Creative work
Manifestos
Scrivner's creative work includes writing art manifestos and theatrical performances that incorporate live music and pre-recorded video. His work often deploys satire, anachronism, mock solemnity, and paradox.[1][4]
- Lord Garden's Masque (an anti-masque) (2009)
This took the form of a short play launched at the Weak Signals & Wild Cards exhibition at De Appel Arts Centre.[5][6] Commentators have suggested that the name of the masque's main character Ascian might be a reference "to the people of Gene Wolfe's novel The Book of the New Sun in which the only permitted communication is the quoting of lines from the state's constitution."[4] The pompous commissioner Lord Garden and his aides overhear the simple tune Ascian plays on a rustic reed pipe, prompting them to build an elaborate and expensive institution for the study of music. In the play, "cultural activity is frequently spoken of as a state building-block." Thus "Scrivner distills a reductive and absurdest scenario and exposes the self-defeating central ironies of over-regulated commissioning processes."[4]
- The Memory of Futurism and the Rise of the Insomnauts (2009)
This manifesto was performed in an underground bunker in Bloomsbury on the centenary of the publication in
- The Sound Moneyfesto (2008)
The Sound Moneyfesto was launched at the Manifesto Marathon 2008 at the
- How to Write an Avant-Garde Manifesto (2008)
How to Write an Avant-Garde Manifesto was an art manifesto originally written in 2006 and taped to the front door of the Institute of Contemporary Arts,[2][5] London. It was subsequently presented at the British Library's 2008 exhibition[8] Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900–1937 with Auto Destructive and Fluxus artist Gustav Metzger and British Library curator Stephen Bury.[6][8]
- 'With Usura' With Bells and Manifesto (2008)
This was written and performed in October 2012 at Tate Britain.[9] Accompanied by a small chamber orchestra, Scrivner banged on a reverberating metal salad bowl with mock solemnity as he recited excerpts from The Cantos of Ezra Pound interspersed with his original commentary and occasional headlines from the Financial Times.[6][10]
Music
Scrivner has released two albums of music with his band Inviolet Row, Consolation Prizes (2002)[11][12][13] and Nevertheless (2005). He has also been involved in musical projects with Voiceworks (a collaboration between Wigmore Hall, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and the Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre).[6]
Select bibliography
Becoming Insomniac: How Sleeplessness Alarmed Modernity (2014, Palgrave Macmillan).[5]
“That Sweet Secession: Sleep and Insomnia in Western Literature” in Sleep: Multi-Professional Perspectives, Andrew Green, Alex Westcombe, Ved Varma eds., (London:
""Manifest-o-Meter," in Manifesto Marathon, Serpentine Gallery (Köln: Walther König, 2010).
“The Echo of Narcissism in Interactive Art" in Literatures in the Digital Era: Theory and Praxis, Amelia Sanz, Dolores Romero eds., (2007)
Shorter works
Scrivner's poetry, short fiction, and academic writing have been published in Poet Lore, The Wolf, Teller (a magazine of stories distributed by Trolley Books), Otis Nebula, History Workshop Journal, and Modern Language Review.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g "Professor Scrivner". Bogazici University. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Alumni". London Consortium. Archived from the original on March 5, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Faculty". American University. Retrieved July 10, 2016.
- ^ a b c "Weak Signals & Wild Cards". De Appel. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ a b c "Home". LeeScrivner.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ a b c d "Voiceworks". Voiceworks. Retrieved May 4, 2012.
- ^ "Park Nights Manifesto Marathon". Serpentine Gallery. June 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ a b "Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde". British Library. February 18, 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Late Tate". Freelondonlistings. September 2008. Archived from the original on April 20, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Ezra Pound @ Tate Britain". Marcus Slease. September 2008. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Inviolet Row". Las Vegas Weekly. October 28, 2010. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Consolation Prizes". AllMusic. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
- ^ "Inviolet Row/Consolation Prizes". L.A.S.Y.S.inc. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2012.