Comments on: Collection Rotation: Margaret Tedesco

By: Margaret Tedesco

Margaret Tedesco — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:16:09 +0000

Thank you ALL for the lovely kudos and response. A pleasure to read your thoughts and presence.

And to Suzanne Stein for this invitation that I may partake in the thoughtful dialogues on this amazing blog—marking time, making history.

By: Victoria Almeida

Victoria Almeida — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:46:39 +0000

What an extraordinary visual journey! I realized how much I love movement and performance, and how out of touch I have been. Thanks, Margaret, for reminding me of the beauty and excitement of your art, and the art that means so much to youl.

By: Steve Benson

Steve Benson — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:02:17 +0000

This is a wonderfully illuminating piece, shedding light in multiple directions overlapping. Poets’ indebtedness to dancers and dances and dancing is underestimated. This piece suggests bracingly how much might be reflected on. A two day workshop Carla Harryman and I took with John Graham and (I think) Suzanne Hellmuth about 1978 was deeply beneficial in my compositional process, both in preparation for my first extended oral improvisational piece, called Blindspots, and for learning how to be a body in presentation when performing a “poetry reading” generally, but I think it also informed by sense of how writing could take place through the body (hand, voice, brain, and the rest). I regret not seeing more amazing dancing, but I am grateful that there are films of some work, such as pegged here.

By: susan miller

susan miller — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 23:35:34 +0000

Margaret, I love how your personal monograph can be constructed through the works of others. Thank you.

By: Susan Gevirtz

Susan Gevirtz — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 21:27:23 +0000

Margaret -Thank you – I am honored that you include HOW (ever) and poets who have been important to the movement of your thinking (and I guess the thinking of your movement) in this beautiful and complexly told story of yours and ours. In the same way that your work always partakes of many different mediums and things and is and isn’t about you, this piece is so alive in it’s ways of telling. And I agree this must have been so much work to assemble! Thanks again much for taking us along

By: Amy Trachtenberg

Amy Trachtenberg — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:44:40 +0000

Yes to sharing so many ways of shakin’ it, witnessing it. So beautiful. What a synthesis of time, mind-language and body-language you make here Margaret. Brava, very touching. When dance is an initial language of an artist, proprioceptive stimuli informs pretty much all of the future making and thinking. Moving through dance as a primary focus is something we share. I agree that you should go wide with this in a curated performance, dance, film, exhibit and reading series from this wonderful culling.

By: Charlene Tan

Charlene Tan — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:28:46 +0000

I want to see a book out of this!

By: Scott Hewicker

Scott Hewicker — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 04:11:29 +0000

beautiful post, margaret! love how the images flow together in their own evocative movement.

By: Annika von Hausswolff

Annika von Hausswolff — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:12:40 +0000

I am so proud to appear in this context, thankyou Margaret!

By: Kevin Killian

Kevin Killian — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:00:30 +0000

This must have been so much work! I love the reading of your own artistic journey as simultaneously a reading of the collection’s highlights–and mystery works, the emphasis being the odd or unexpected epiphany, a twist of the body, a surprise party of the mind.