I began the Vispo Bible in 2015 as a life's work to translate every book, chapter and verse of the Bible into visual poetry. My latest publication is Genesis, a book published by Timglaset Editions in 2022 and still available.
More information is available here.
Stay tuned for more publication news soon!
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| 2 CORINTHIANS 1 I completed 1 CORINTHIANS earlier this year. 2 CORINTHIANS has a mere 13 chapters, so all being well, it will be completed shortly. I feel like adding a little colour so this is what i'm doing for 2 COR. With the news of the overturning of Roe v Wade by the US Supreme Court, it feels particularly necessary to disrupt, manipulate, deform texts from the Bible. We are in a war against patriarchy, white supremacy, theocracy and capitalism. The Vispo Bible is a defiant feminist work that I began in 2015. It is a cathartic process for me to work with the Bible in this way. For more information about the Vispo Bible, please go here. |
Streetcake Magazine Issue 68, Part 1 (August, 2020)
Singing with the Nightingales || a WAAVe Global Response to the Ukraine Situation. See the work & purchase the catalogue from Van Vliet Gallery with proceeds going to humanitarian support of Ukranians. It includes work from 20 contributors including me! http://vanvlietgallery.com/
I have begun 1 Corinthians. Here is the first chapter. i dedicate this piece to Gregory Betts for his insightful and interesting engagement with my work.
Gratitude to Gregory Betts for his engagement with the Vispo Bible and to rob mclennan for publishing it in Periodicities.
Here is a link.
I am currently working on 1 Corinthians from the Old Testament. I hope to have 1 and 2 Corinthians completed this year. 1COR has 16 chapters and 2COR has 13. I'll keep you posted.
From Tchello:
ABOUT THIS EXHIBITION
The participating artists responded - with their works - to the following provocation: “Is there currently space for revolutions? Is there in your heart any revolt against the current status quo? Do we need to change something on our street or in global geopolitics? Will humanity witness any (r)evolution in this century? Can art be a weapon to transform consciences? You don't need to answer these questions, but your art can tell us a little about your imaginary combatant. The project is also a tribute to the bicentennial of the South American revolutionary Anita Garibaldi (1821-1849), the ‘heroine of 2 worlds’. Anita was an amazon, wife, mother, guerriller and revolutionary, fighting in 4 wars in Brazil, Uruguay and Italy. You may choose creat your art under Anita’s miyth, with her figure, name or history!”
According to the curator, "this exhibition presents part of the imagination of artists from all continents from their worldview to the theme "Revolution". If in the 19th century the Brazilian guerrilla Anita Garibaldi fought for freedom in South America and Europe, today we have our demands for change, whether on our street or in global geopolitics. May art be as contemporary as the everyday revolutions in our consciences".
THE ARTISTS
ARGENTINA: Alejandra Bocquel - Amelia Vilches - Ana Verónica Suárez - Catanzaro Claudia - Hilda Paz - Ma. Angélica Carter Morales - Norberto José Martinez – Omaromar - Patricia Negreira - Raquel Gociol - Rosa Gravino - Walter Brovia | AUSTRALIA: Denis Smith | AUSTRIA: Piroska Horváth | BELGIUM: Luc Fierens - Renaat Ramon | BRASIL: Al-Chaer - Alex Hamburger – Almandrade - Frdipinto Constança Lucas - Denise Moraes - Eni Ilis - Gringo Carioca Franklin Valverde - Guto Lacaz - Hugo Pontes - Iara Abreu - Ivana Andrés - Jairo Fará - Janys Oliveira - Joaquim Branco - Maria De Lourdes Rabello Villares - Maria Tereza Penna - Marisa Vidigal - Mercedes Brandão - Roberto Keppler - Rosana Schmitt - Rui Costa Marques - Tchello d'Barros - Yolanda Freyre | CANADA: Amanda Earl | CHILE: Emilio López Gelcich | COLOMBIA: Ariel Chavarro Avila - Maskin - Tulio Restrepo | DENMARK: Marina Salmaso | FINLAND: Anja Matilla-Tolvanen | FRANCE: Cristophe Massé - Katerina Mandarik | GERMANY: Hans Braumueller & Ruggero Maggi - Horst Tress - Klaus Pinter | GREECE: Petala Eftichia | HUNGARY: József Bíró - Márton Koppány | ITALY: Angela Caporaso - Bruno Chiarlone - Cinzia Farina - Claudio Romeo - Cosma Tosca Bolgiani - Enzo Correnti - Enzo Patti - Franco Panella - Ljdia Musso - Mariano Lo Gerfo - Maya Lopez Muro - Morice Marcuse Carrara - Oronzo Liuzzi - Roberto Scala - Ruggero Maggi - Serse Luigetti | IRAN: Elham Hamedi | JAPAN: Keigo Hara | LATVIA: Gundega Strautmane | MEXICO: Elodia Corona Meneses - Gema Rios - Mac Ilhui - Persefone Manuel Oreste Suárez - Sergio Araht | PERU: Liesel Cerna - Victor Valqui Vidal | POLAND: Miron Tee | PORTUGAL: António Barros - Avelino Rocha - Feliciano De Mira - Marcela Santos - Vanessa Bastos | RUSSIA: Alexander Limarev - Irina Novikova | SERBIA: Dejan Bogojevic | SPAIN: Àlex Monfort - Alfonso Aguado Ortuño - Daniel De Cullá - Francisco Sánchez Luz - Ferran Destemple - José L. Campal - Miguel Jimenez - Sabela Baña - Victoria Esgueva | SWITZERLAND: Bruno Schlatter | URUGUAI: Clemente Padin | USA: C. Mehrl Bennet - Joey Patrickt - John M. Bennet - Nico Vassilakis - Reid Wood - Rosalie Gancie | UNITED KINGDOM: Lola Gonzáles | VENEZUELA: _Guroga
SERVICE
Mail Art exhibition ‘‘R for Revolution”
Curatorship: Tchello d’Barros | Brasil
Executing Entity: Visual Poetry Museum
Production: Instituto Cultural Tchello d’Barros
Opening: 18 December 2021
Visit period: 18-31 december.2021
Site: Visual Poetry Museum’s community in Facebook
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/181520088856020
https://www.facebook.com/visualpoetrymusem
https://www.facebook.com/tchellodbarros
CONTACT
Tchello d’Barros
Curator | “R for Revolution”tchellodbarros@yahoo.com.br
www.tchellodbarros.wordpress.com
Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Thanks to Dan Power of Trickhouse Annual for including several visual poems/doodles from Welcome to Upper Zygonia. Also included is the full interview / e-mail exchange with Imogen Reid, "Creating Culture Among Women: Friendship and List Making for Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, A Conversation with Imogen Reid" originally published in abridged form by Wisdom Body Collective.
You can preorder the anthology here while copies last.
To whet your appetite, here's the table of contents:
Amanda Earl - Kept Awake by Little Fires Dreaming
Astra Papachristodoulou - from Like Amber
Chris Kerr - Mildred
David Spittle - enfants en deuil
draftpost0.github.io - like something else, nerds
Imogen Reid - 5 poems
James Knight - from Bodies
Joseph Turrent - Cyclohexane Drift Example
JP Seabright - Moveable Type
Katy Wimhurst - The State We're In
Laura Kerr - 6 poems
Maggs Vibo - M.U.S.I.C.
Martin Wakefield - Lego Poems
Matthew Haigh - BORN
Paul Robinson - STOPLOSS
ReVerse Butcher - 8 poems
Robin Boothroyd - Unearthed
S Cearley - 9 poems
Silje Ree - Knitting Patterns
Sy Brand - On Having Needs
Vilde B. Torset - Like A Mindmap of a Thoughtcloud
Amanda Earl - "Creating Culture Among Women: Friendship and List Making for Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry, A Conversation with Imogen Reid"
Scott Lilley - "An interview with Trickhouse editor Dan Power"
SJ Fowler - "Sticker Poems: Unstuck"
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260-page, A4, full-colour.
I was startled with delight by Jérôme Melançon's recent note of praise on the Small Machine Talks, the podcast I host through AngelHousePress.
"Amanda’s frequent mentions of the Vispo Bible project (look it up (nothing else comes up!) or look at this essay) give a sense of a shifting, evolving work that is promising to become one of the major creations in Canadian poetry, the equivalent of a series of long poems, something I’d perhaps place beside bp nichol’s Martyrology in terms of its ambition and daring (and of course the religious/non-religious metamorphosis, the saints). I can’t imagine publishing such a large project piece by piece, as it moves forward and evolves, and not being able to go back to change the beginning. There’s courage both in the undertaking and in the releasing of this major work. And there’s something beautifully vulnerable and brave in sharing this project, bringing it into conversation, throughout the seasons of the podcast, giving a sense of its evolution and being honest about the relationship to the instruments and software that make it possible and force its transformations.”
Gobsmacked!
I have now completed The Book of Joshua from the Old Testament. This is Chapter 24.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CXC2yHHLmhMDozu2_pjA0hixtsxT54wgzOvts80/
The Vispo Bible now has 343 pages, with 8 / 39 books from the Old Testament and 10 / 27 books from the New Testament completed. Still many books, chapters and verses to go. There's a reason why this is a life's work. I began it in June, 2015. I am into my 6th year.
More info about the Vispo Bible
http://eleanorincognito.blogspot.com/2020/05/where-can-you-find-work-from-vispo.html
in response to Astra Papachristodoulou's great new book, Inside Ocean Größt’s Time Capsule, A Future-Facing Exercise Book with Visual Poetry Prompts.
i didn't have test tubes so i used glass containers i had. i've only just started the book, but it is the most gorgeous and imaginative work. i had great fun with the first and second prompts. i call this series Welcome to Upper Zygonia meets Dragana, who is listed in the glossary as Dragana 5230 or the Indestructible, an Astronoid built in 2129...widely known for their ability to be recovered."
Nusquam is from Thomas More's Utopia and means nowhere. Parts of The Dream Beings of Upper Zygonia have been woven in to the visual poem. Thank you to the City of Ottawa for the Creation and Production Fund for Established Artists received in July 2021. This is one of several visual poems that will be part of the manuscript, a collection of poems entitled "Welcome to Upper Zygonia."
if i could afford it, i would make a 24 x 36 inch poster to offer for sale; instead, here it is.
and here is a link to a better quality of the poster which you can download for free.
SO MANY SILENCED, SO MANY UNNAMED
So Many Silenced, So Many Unnamed is a translation of specifically misogynistic passages of the Bible and early Christian writings. The Vispo Bible is a defiant feminist response to the Bible and its hate - misogyny, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia. The interpretation and enforcement of these texts can be directly linked to the ongoing bigotry and violence we are living in today.
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| So Many Silenced, So Many Unnamed |
What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it
crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist.
What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it. Where is the serene length, it is there and a dark place
is not a dark place, only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green
are blue, a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it. A
line just distinguishes it. Gertrude Stein - 1874-1946 // Main Sources [additional sources for individual visual poems are
quoted within the entry.] Wikipedia list
of women in the Bible 100 Dresses: The Costume Institute / The Metropolitan
Museum Of Art, Yale University Press, 2010. Alice Connor, Fierce: Women of the Bible and Their
Stories of Violence, Mercy, Bravery, Wisdom, Sex, and Salvation, Fortress
Press, 2017. April D. Deconick, Holy Misogyny Why The Sex And Gender Conflicts In The Early Church Still
Matter, Bloomsbury, 2011. Lydia Edwards, How to Read a Dress. A Guide to Changing
Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century, Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Lindsay Hardin Freeman, Bible Women: All Their Words and
Why They Matter Forward Movement, 2014, Fifth printing, 2020. Sue Poorman Richards and Lawrence O. Richards, Women of
the Bible: The Life and Times of Every Woman in the Bible, Thomas Nelson, 2003. List of podcasts I listened to during the making of this
work: Chloë Proctor,
Sascha Akhtar, Sarah Dawson, JD House, Aaron Kent Full House Lit Podcast Chloë
Proctor and Richard Capener Between the Covers with David Naimon Natalie Diaz – Part 1
and Part
2 Commonplace with Rachel Zucker Penteract Press Episode
24: Kate Siklosi, Gregory Betts, & Nasser Hussain Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council Recommender Grant
for Writers Program for funding So Many Silenced, So Many Unnamed. Thank you to
the recommenders: Invisible Publishing and the New Quarterly. And a huge thanks
to all the feminist activists, artists and writers of the past, present and
future who are trying to make a world that is just and equal for all.  For those who are able to provide aid and support, please
donate or assist your local women’s shelter, organizations
fighting for gender equality, to world
wide feminist organizations, pro-choice groups fighting for the autonomy of
women over reproductive rights, such as the Abortion
Right Coalition of Canada. If you’d like to support an Ottawa based organization, I
suggest Cornerstone for Women,
which provides emergency housing and other support locally.
Thank you for your interest and support. I am honoured
and grateful. |
