Plastic Words - Revisiting Isidore Isou's Meca-Aesthetics

Seminar and open discussion about Letterism and its discontents with Iain Boal, Eric Fabre, Catherine Goldstein and Donald Nicholson-Smith. Event as part of Plastic Words at Raven Row - a series of public events that mined the contested space between contemporary literature and art. Iain Boal is a social historian, co-founder of the Retort Collective and founding member of MayDay Rooms, London. Eric Fabre is a Brussels-based collector, whose gallery, Garage Cosmos, frequently holds exhibitions featuring work from his collection. Catherine Goldstein is Director of Research, History of Mathematics, at the CNRS, Paris. Donald Nicholson-Smith joined the English section of the Situationist International in 1965 and was expelled in 1967. He was a member of King Mob, and is a preeminent translator of Situationist writings.