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eduard escoffet
(barcelona)

poet: sound poetry, visual poetry, textual poetry, performance.

he is an outstanding representative of the young generation of catalan poets. influences: medieval literature, avant-garde literature, textualism, sound poetry, polipoetry. he is not interested in publishing books: he makes vindication of orality and he also argues ecological reasons. he works with voice, computer, projections.

nowadays, he is often performing as a sound poet abroad and is an important organizer in sound poetry and action poetry events in spain.

1995

>vetllada polipoètica. barcelona.
with enzo minarelli (italy), bianca menna (italy), pere sousa and xavier sabater

1996

>IV festival de polipoesia de barcelona. barcelona.
with bernard heidsieck and other poets
>IX congrés d’escriptors. valencia.

1997

>setmana de la poesia de barcelona.
>reading at the university of girona.
>reading at the university of tarragona.

1998

>viatge a la polinèsia. girona.
>reading at the university of barcelona.

1999

>reading at the university of valencia.
>correntes de ar (sound poetry festival). guarda, portugal.
with jaap blonk (holland), philadelpho menezes (brazil), enzo minarelli (italy), américo rodrigues (portugal) and julien blaine (france)

2000

>viatge a la polinèsia. barcelona.
with christian ide hintze (austria), john giorno (u.s.a.), paolo albani (italy), josep ramon roig and other poets.
>lettrismo, l’avanguardia dimenticata. bologna, italy.
with enzo minarelli (italy), américo rodrigues (portugal) and other poets

2001

>voix de la mediterranée. lodève, france.
with julien blaine (france), jean-françois bory (france), bernard heidsieck (france), giovanni fontana (italy), arrigo lora-totino (italy), américo rodrigues (portugal), carpanin marimoutou (la réunion) and other 60 poets from mediterranean countries.

2002

>romapoesia. rome, italy.
with lello voce, marc smith, bastian böttcher, francesca beard and others.

2003

>poézie 2003. montpellier, france.
with arrigo lora-totino, jean-michel espitallier and joël hubaut. more: www.panoplie.org

collaborations

>as a member of the walter thompson orchestra (vocal/textual improvisation), directed by walter thompson (new york).
barcelona, july 1999, october 2000 and november 2001.
>eduard escoffet+dj cuit b. "contraban".
barcelona, march 2000, november 2000, july 2001 and november 2001.
dj/textual improvisation
>eduard escoffet+josep-maria balanyà (piano). "carrer d’estrassa".
barcelona, may 2000
improvisation, text, performance
>eduard escoffet+germana civera (dancer).
montpellier (france), july 2001

organizer, publisher (selection)

>sense títol, poetry magazine.
35 issues between 1993 and 1996
>viatge a la polinèsia (trip to polynesia).
stable series of poetical schedule between january 1997 and january 2000. more than 150 poets such as mark sutherland (canada), accidents polipoètics, valeri scherstjanoi (russia), bernard heidsieck (france), serge pey (france), fernando aguiar (portugal), esther ferrer, llorenç barber+bartomeu ferrando and enzo minarelli (italy). http://propost.org/valp_intro.htm
>proposta, international sound poetry festival
(at centre de cultura contemporània de barcelona).
at present, the most important stable sound poetry festival in spain, with performances, projections and conferences.
PROPOSTA 2002

exhibitions (selection)

>imatges ga. barcelona, june 1996.
video-installation
>document-acció. barcelona, 1999.
an exhibition about performnce art in spain.
>poesia visual catalana. barcelona and brazil, 2000.
an anthology of the catalan visual poetry since the beginnings.

teacher, workshops

>poesia de totes totes. barcelona, 1999-2000.
course about experimental and oral poetry
>virtuelle akademie. internet, october-december 2001.
organized by schule für dichtung (vienna). www.sfd.at

grants

>goethe-institut. berlin, 1999.
>krtu (catalan government). barcelona, 2000.

+ info:

eduard escoffet
ap. 34.101
08080 barcelona (zpain)
escoffet@propost.org
fax 00 34 93 302 24 23

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