Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Intellectual Property, 2023
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo in conversation with Orit Gat
https://soundcloud.com/user-588324880/conversation-aea-varfis-van-warmelo-orit-gat
Listen back to the conversation between Aea Varfis-van Warmelo and Orit Gat, which took place during the launch of Intellectual Property, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s latest poetry pamphlet.
Intellectual Property is a series of long-form poems that propose the law of intellectual property as poetry’s dark twin — both forms task language with the burden of shaping the intangible, and both forms consider human ingenuity to be of infinite value. Weaving through a series of landmark disputes, the poems apply the laws of intellectual property to our private lives and seek to determine what constitutes an idea, and whether we can ever own one. Language’s brutal extreme is usually reserved for the law — this pamphlet explores what happens when it infiltrates poetry. Running from the Leibniz-Newton Calculus Controversy, to the Son of Sam Law, the poems deftly position the cut of the law against the inner workings of a teenage boy, and young pregnant woman. These figures’ relationships and choices pivot between the juridical and the private.
BIOGRAPHIES
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo is a Greek-British poet and writer based in London. She writes about deceit, the apocalypse and other good things. Her work has appeared in The White Review, The Rialto, Tolka, among other journals, and the National Poetry Library’s Future Cities exhibition. She was shortlisted for The White Review‘s Poets Prize, was an inaugural member of the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective and recently graduated from The Royal College of Art’s Writing MA.
Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and at Art Papers and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and football for magazines including frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Flash Art, The Art Newspaper, VICE, AIGA Eye on Design, The Brooklyn Rail, Apollo, Art in America, Spike Art Quarterly, Camera Austria, Review 31, and Cultured, among others. She won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category in 2015 and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the International Award for Art Criticism (2017, 2018).
https://soundcloud.com/user-588324880/conversation-aea-varfis-van-warmelo-orit-gat
Listen back to the conversation between Aea Varfis-van Warmelo and Orit Gat, which took place during the launch of Intellectual Property, Aea Varfis-van Warmelo’s latest poetry pamphlet.
Intellectual Property is a series of long-form poems that propose the law of intellectual property as poetry’s dark twin — both forms task language with the burden of shaping the intangible, and both forms consider human ingenuity to be of infinite value. Weaving through a series of landmark disputes, the poems apply the laws of intellectual property to our private lives and seek to determine what constitutes an idea, and whether we can ever own one. Language’s brutal extreme is usually reserved for the law — this pamphlet explores what happens when it infiltrates poetry. Running from the Leibniz-Newton Calculus Controversy, to the Son of Sam Law, the poems deftly position the cut of the law against the inner workings of a teenage boy, and young pregnant woman. These figures’ relationships and choices pivot between the juridical and the private.
BIOGRAPHIES
Aea Varfis-van Warmelo is a Greek-British poet and writer based in London. She writes about deceit, the apocalypse and other good things. Her work has appeared in The White Review, The Rialto, Tolka, among other journals, and the National Poetry Library’s Future Cities exhibition. She was shortlisted for The White Review‘s Poets Prize, was an inaugural member of the Southbank Centre’s New Poets Collective and recently graduated from The Royal College of Art’s Writing MA.
Orit Gat is a writer and art critic living in London. She is a contributing editor at The White Review and at Art Papers and has written about contemporary art, culture, digital culture, and football for magazines including frieze, e-flux journal and e-flux criticism, ArtReview, Jacobin, Texte zur Kunst, Paper Visual Art, Art Monthly, the Times Literary Supplement, the LA Review of Books, The World Policy Journal, Flash Art, The Art Newspaper, VICE, AIGA Eye on Design, The Brooklyn Rail, Apollo, Art in America, Spike Art Quarterly, Camera Austria, Review 31, and Cultured, among others. She won the Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant in the short-form writing category in 2015 and was a finalist for the Absolut Art Writing Award (2017) and the International Award for Art Criticism (2017, 2018).
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