Visual Poetry

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Short thread about Japanese Fluxus artist Mieko Shiomi and her 1963 artwork titled 'Word Event', the first work in her series of 'Spatial Poems'.  

A performative work of poetry, it reminds me of Yoko Ono's conceptual book 'Grapefruit', and of Brian Eno's 'Oblique Strategies', published a decade later.

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(Mieko Shiomi continued)

Shiomi devised her 'Spatial Poems' as a system of global events where artists + friends throughout the world could perform events, often simultaneously, and send reports to her in Japan, which were then published in New York by George Maciunas for Fluxus.

artist & poet
exploring text & language
through sound & visual poetry

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(Mieko Shiomi continued)

Shiomi was also a musician and a composer and would have been aware of the work of John Cage.

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(Mieko Shiomi continued, final post)

I'm especially interested in the global network/mail art quality of Shiomi's work. I also see how she has influenced artists across disciplines. There are certain cues in the 'Method' by Marina Abramović which are reminiscent of 'Word Event' to me.