{"id":1551,"date":"2013-01-21T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T02:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2013-01-18T20:25:42","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T12:25:42","slug":"jacob-edmond-on-yang-lian-john-cayley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Edmond on Yang Lian & John Cayley"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Where<\/a>Jacob Edmond of A Common Strangeness<\/em> <\/a>has a new post at Jacket2<\/em>‘s\u00a0 “Iterations” series titled “From Sea to Screen: Yang Lian and John Cayley\u2019s iterations<\/a>.” Here’s how it begins:<\/p>\n

The long poem \u201cDahai tingzhi zhi chu<\/em>\u201d \u5927\u6d77\u505c\u6b62\u4e4b\u5904 by Yang Lian \u6768\u70bc and its transformation into the collaborative digital and performance piece Where the Sea Stands Still<\/em> illustrate an iterative <\/em>response to digital technologies and globalization. The iterative structure of Yang Lian\u2019s long poem produces an expanding sense of space and geography that, like the title, combines perpetual repetition with continuous change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacob Edmond of A Common Strangeness has a new post at Jacket2‘s\u00a0 “Iterations” series titled “From Sea to Screen: Yang Lian and John Cayley\u2019s iterations.” Here’s how it begins: The long poem \u201cDahai tingzhi zhi chu\u201d \u5927\u6d77\u505c\u6b62\u4e4b\u5904 by Yang Lian … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3,16],"tags":[354,18,21],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-p1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1077,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1077","url_meta":{"origin":1551,"position":0},"title":"Short Takes on Long Poems Website","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"August 6, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The website of the Short Takes on Long Poems conference, which I attended at University of Auckland in March, is now live, featuring a video of our \"world's longest poem\" and the presentations of Jacob Edmond, Susan Schultz, John Tranter, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis, along with others. 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