Radical Coherency: David Antin on his work. Université Paris Est Marne-La-Vallée, 15 June 2011

David Antin, Nicolas Exertier, Vincent Broqua
(c) Dominique Pasqualini

Before our conversation with David Antin on the afternoon of June 15th is transcribed, here are the sound recordings (with tentative table of contents) of our discussions. The sound files can also be found uncut (2 parts) on David Antin's page on Pennsound.

Part 1. Being Professional? How to become an art critic; the live sounds of the Boston Metropolitan Transit System; Mondrian as a ballroom dancer and much more...

Part 2. Wittgenstein as a poet; Thinking, Understanding, Tuning; Rothko's "blunt intervention", secularism & shamanism...

Part 3. Canoe-making, the perfect boat, David Antin's Sunbeam Talbot, "What I am doing here?", having a French bias, the vernacular, on French, British and German poetry, "Who, if I cried, would hear me among the angelic orders?", the master of the German subjunctive etc.

Part 4. Shipwrecking probability; dealing with the contingent; Catholicism wins & Hopkins loses 3-0; growing up with machines; Robert (Frost) & the elves & Robert (Duncan); the democratic aristocracy...