Photo: Alan Dimmick.
The first event for Maria Fusco's project 'Dialecty' is a public reading and discussion by cult Canadian poet Lisa Robertson, who discussed the construction of vernacular voice amidst the abolishment of a lyric culture: "I think the voice is the great Baroque pearl of this catastrophe that is the political human dump."
'Dialecty' has been conceived by writer Maria Fusco to consider the critical uses of vernacular forms of speaking and writing. The project explores the occurrences and potential uses of dialect words, syntax and language within the field of contemporary art and questions traditional orthodoxies of creative and critical writing within contemporary art.
Events with Lisa Robertson, Dr Lauren Hall-Lew and Scott Hames took place in 2017 and a series of chapbooks with writing by Harry Josephine Giles & Martin O’Leary, Robert McClean, Helen Nisbet, Lisa Robertson, Adam Pendleton and Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams have been co-published by Book Works and The Common Guild, as part of Co-series.
