Peacock is the leading contemporary visual arts organisation in Aberdeen and the NE of Scotland, bringing artists and the public together through exhibitions‚ events‚ talks‚ residencies‚ film screenings‚ gigs and workshops to make and present art in exciting and innovative ways.
Word Order - Reading by Peter Reid
20 May
Saturday 20 May, 3pm
"And I too am a painter". Twentieth-Century Visual Poetry in France, Italy and Scotland. Reading by prof. Peter Reid.
Using slide projections and works in translation, Peter Read will present Italian Futurist ‘words in liberty’, ‘lyrical ideograms’ by Guillaume Apollinaire and picture poems by Edwin Morgan and Ian Hamilton Finlay. The result will be a bridge of words and images across the twentieth century, between calligrams and concrete poetry, between Scotland and mainland Europe.
admission free