Anne Tardos
Events
Exhibits | Performances | Teaching
[some readings performances can be heard / seen under Media/Audio/Video]
2025
Publication of her book The Always Already Absent Present, 2025. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books
2020
Publication of her book The Exploding Nothingness of Never Define, collecting poetry from 2018 to 2020. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books
2019
Her poem "Tenderness in Late Afternoon Light," set to music by Michael Byron, was performed by Tom Buckner and Joseph Kubera in the Interpretations Series at Roulette, 4/4/2019
Reader at Poetry Project, New York, 4/3/2019
Reader in "Words of Sound," DownTown Ensemble, New York, 3/28/2019
2018
Participant in New Years Day Marathon, Poetry Project, 2018
Solo Reader at SUNY Buffalo, Poetics Plus Series, 2/16/2018
2017
Solo Readings and workshops at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, in the program Sound Studies, October 2017
Readings at Margin Shift in Seattle, October 2017
Workshop/reading at Open Books, Seattle, October 2017
Publication of her book The Camel's Pedestal, collecting poetry from 2009 to 2017. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books
2016
Publication of her book I Am You [first US edition] Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX Books
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church. January 13, 2016
Reader at 2016, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 15, 2015
Teaching faculty at Naropa University Summer Writing Program, June 12-18, 2016
2015
Publication of her book, NINE, collecting 126 poems, with a preface by Rachel Blau DuPlessis. Buffalo, NY: BlazeVOX .
Publication of her poem "GEGO" in the exhibition catalog "Gego: Autobiography of a Line," commissioned by Dominique Lévy Gallery.
Reading her poem "GEGO" at the Gallery Dominique Lévy, New York, October 22, 2015.
Book launch readings on the occasion of the publication of her book of poems NINE, at Gallery Dominique Lévy, October 22, 2015.
Participant in MOVING PARTS (a comedy): an informal symposium on modular units and serial structures in poetic, photographic, and intermedia arts, consisting of a series of readings, performances, slideshows, and roundtable talks given in a curated and visually transformed environment by Matvei Yankelevich. Hadley, MA. July 18, 2015.
Reading at the launch of the jounal Prelude No 2, which includes several poems by Tardos. BabyCastles Gallery, New York. October 29, 2015.
Reading in Segue Reading Series [on the same program with Bill Luoma] at the Zinc Bar, New York City, April 18, 2015.
Publication of The Complete Light Poems, by Jackson Mac Low, edited and introduced by Anne Tardos and Michael O'Driscoll. Victoria, Texas: Chax Press, 2015.
2014
Poetry Reading, at Woolsey Heights, Berkeley, on the same program with Lyn Hejinian, March 1, 2014, 8 pm.
World premiere of "The Celebration," for baritone and chamber orchestra, composed by Michael Byron, with poems by Anne Tardos. Oakland, Ca, March 2, 2014.
Fellowhsip at Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy. June 22 to 28, 2014.
Master Class, Creative Writing, Summeracademy, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice. Reader at Sommerakademie, Venice. June 2014.
Exhibit of her mask "Venice Section" in the show Personae. Archivio Emily Harvey, Venice.
Reader for Lungfull! magazine, at Zinc Bar, New York. October 19, 2014,
Participant in Poetry Project's Annual Marathon Reading, at St. Mark's Church, New York, 1 January 2014
2013
Particpant in Poetry Project's Annual Marathon Reading, at St. Mark's Church, New York, 1 January 2013
Conducted 10-week workshop on "Using the Voice," at Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, New York, October-December 2013.
2012
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (on the same program with Mei-mei Berssenbrugge), November 14, 2012
Reader in the Segue Series (on the same program with David Buuck), February 18, 2012
Reader in the Poetics Plus Series at SUNY Buffalo, Dept of English, October 12, 2012
Participant in Roof Books 35-year Celebration at Zinc Bar, November 18, 2012
Particpant in Poetry Project's Annual Marathon Reading, at St. Mark's Church, New York, 1 January 2012
2011
Participant in the Poetry Project's New Years Day Marathon Reading, January 1, 2011
Publication of her book Both Poems by Roof Books
Participant in Rimbaud Illuminations Ashbery, trans., Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, Aril 27, 2011
Reader at Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee, WI, September 17, 2011
Participant in Readings Honoring Jerome Rothenberg on his 80th Birthday, The Graduate Center
2010
Reader at Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, (in conjunction with an exhibition of sound art on view at the Davis Museum, by Stephen Vitiello). April 21, 2010
Reader at Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (on the same program with Latasha N. Nevada Diggs), January 27, 2010
2009
Awareded New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Reader for the launching of EOAGH #5 magazine, at CUNY, October 6, 2009
Reader at California College of Art, Presented by Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center, on the same program with Amine Cain, September 25, 2009, (followed by the workshop entitled "Dialogues with Anne Tardos: Mono- neo- and Multilingual Aspects of Literary Composition" September 26, 2009)
Reader in the Holloway Series in Poetry, University of California at Berkeley, on the same program with Maurice Scully, September 23, 2009. (VIDEO)
Reader in NYFA's public program Artists and Audiences Exchange, on the same program with Evelyn Reilly, August 1, 2009
Participant in Poetry Project Marathon Reading, January 1, 2009
Museum of Modern Art screening of AT's 1975 video made in collaboration with Simone Forti. Shown in context with Simone Forti's appearance in the museum's Performance Exhibition Series. March 7-8, 2009
Her music (Songs from Uxudo) is performed by Andrew Bolotowsky, flute; and Mary Hurlbut, soprano; at Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Arts, in Beth Anderson's program "Women's Work." March 25, 2009
Reader at Issue Project Room, in Edwin Torres's "I Feel the Need for Feedback," with Edwin Torres, Sean Mehan, Barry Weisblat, and Margarida Garcia. April 22, 2009
Reader at Zinc Bar, NY, on the same program with Adeena Karasick. May 10, 2009
2008
Reader in the Ashbery Poetry Series, Bard College, on the same program with Michael Ives, April 8, 2008.
Reader in Segue Series at Bowery Poetry Club, NY, April 12, 2008.
Reader in A Reading for Philip Whalen's Collected Poems, St. Mark's Church, Feb 6, 2008.
Guest faculty member in the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa Summer Writing Program, July 6-13, 2008
Guest poet on Ceptuetics, WNYU Radio, Interviewed by Kareem Estefan, April 16, 2008.
Anne Tardos author page created on UbuWeb Sound, May 2008
"Anne Tardos's Elegant Software: A conversation between Anne Tardos and Susan Landers," in the Poetry Project Newsletter, Feb/March 2008
2007
Reader at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles [on the same program with Simone Forti], December 1, 2007
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Marks Church, New York
Performer of Cathy Berberian's "Stripsody" at Music Under Construction, New York
Anne Tardos author page created on PennSound, University of Pennsylvania's web site
2006
S.E.M. Ensemble plays her "Compositions #1-4" (2001), at Tonic, NY
Participant in the memorial reading for Barbara Guest "Finally With Women" at Cornelia Street Cafe, NY
2005
Participant in Festival Roaratorio France-Amerique: poesies experimentales, at Espace Attitudes, Geneva, Switzerland
Reader in the Segue Poetry Reading Series at Bowery Poetry Club, New York
Organizer of, and participant, in the memorial concert dedicated to the memory of Jackson Mac Low. Poetry Project, New York
2004
Reader at University of Maine, Orono, in New Writing Series, Spring '04 (April) (on the same program with Jackson Mac Low).
Reader at DEMOLICIOUS EXPERIMENTAL POETRY/MULTIMEDIA SERIES, Cambridge, Mass. (on the same program with Jackson Mac Low.)
2003
Reader at University of California at Berkeley, Holloway Poetry Series, Fall 2003 (October). Reader at Contemporary Writers Series, Mills Colleg, Oakland (October).
University of California at Berkeley, October: Colloquium in Lyn Hejinian's graduate classes, together with Jackson Mac Low.
The Kitchen restores her 1971 six-channel video work Apple Eaters, and creates a one-channel version, that is being distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.
Reader in the People's Poetry Gathering, The Tablets: A Tribute to Armand Schwerner, April 11; Exiled in the Word: 3000 Years of Jewish Poetry, April 13.
Reader at State University of New York at Buffalo (on the same program with Jackson Mac Low, April 2).
State University of New York at Buffalo, April 1 & 2: Guest lecturer (together with Jackson Mac Low) in Charles Bernstein's undergraduate and graduate classes.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year's Marathon
2002
Reader at the Drawing Center, Line Readings series, curated by Lytle Shaw.
Reader at Teachers and Writers Collaborative for Granary Books presentation of new titles, among them: The Dik-dik's Solitude: New & Selected Works
Reader/performer at the Bowery Poetry Club, celebrating the journal PomPom2.
Reader/performer at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church at the 80th Birthday Celebration for Jackson Mac Low.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year's Marathon.
2001
Reader/performer, on the program with Jackson Mac Low, in the series Writers Live! at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., October 10.
Guest lecturer at Susan Wheeler's graduate poetry workshop at the New School University, New York, October 9.
Participant in the People's Poetry Gathering, New York, April 1.
"Glissandi for Theresa Salomon" commissioned by the violonist Theresa Salomon and premiered at Music Under Construction, March 31.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church (on the same program with Jackson Mac Low, March 14).
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
2000
Participant in the sound poetry Festival La Bâtie 2000, Geneva, Switzerland.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1999-2000
1996 (Internet class), 1994 (in person,) 1993 (in person) Schule für Dichtung in Wien, Vienna (multilingual writing)
Screening of the video tape Statues, (made in 1976, with Simone Forti) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
1999
Participant in the conference Poetry & Pedagogy: the Challenge of the Contemporary, at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Performer with Jackson Mac Low in "A Memorial Intermedia Evening of Works by Dick Higgins" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Participant in the festival People's Poetry Gathering, Cooper Union, New York.
A concert of new musical works by Anne Tardos and Jackson Mac Low, at Roulette, New York, with musicians.
Among Men, hörspiel for radio, rebroadcast by WDR, Cologne.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1998
Exhibitor in the show The Next Word at the Neuberger Museum at Purchase, New York, exhibit of the canvas Third Word Event in Memoriam John Cage, as well as pages from the forthcoming book Uxudo, as published by the magazines Chain, Conjunctions, and The Germ.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1997
Participant and performer in the symposium: Text and Popular Music--Discussion Forum on Sound Poetry at WUK, Vienna
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1996
Among Men/Unter Männern, WDR production and broadcast of hörspiel version of the multilingual piece for instrumentalists and actors. Finalist in the Acustica International contest.
Edit Mode (video collage performed as live edit, later this edit projected while Jackson Mac Low (or another poet) reads his poetry live). Performed at Roulette, New York; Maison des Ecrivains, Paris; Centre Internationale de Poésie (CIP), Marseilles
Provence (an evening-long performance work for video projection and two speakers, Tardos and Mac Low, who also wrote the text) at The Kitchen, New York.
Among Men, live performance with Andrew Bolotowsky, flute, Tardos and Mac Low, voices. Roulette, New York.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1995
Participant in "The End of Language: a symphosophia on Experimental, Visual & Concrete Poetry since 1960," organized by K. David Jackson and Johanna Drucker. Yale University. April 7-8.
1994
Among Men, premiered by the orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, New York, with Tardos and Mac Low, speakers, conducted by Petr Kotik.
Among Men performed at the Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, with Sara Hohenstein, cello; Tardos, speaker.
Among Men performed at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa, Boulder, with Tardos, speaker, Steve Taylor, piano; University of Colorado, Boulder, with the Arkestra Pirata, led by Timothy Lenk.
Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, Boulder, Colorado (creative and multilingual writing).
Among Men broadcasting of performance by the Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble over KGNU, Boulder Colorado.
Cellular Dialogue (collaboratively composed and performed with Jackson Mac Low) SeOUL-NYMAX Festival, Anthology Film Archives, New York; Biblio's bookstore, New York.
First and Third Four-Language Word Events in Memoriam John Cage (collaboratively composed and performed with Jackson Mac Low), as part of the show by John Cage: Rolywholyover A Circus, at the Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1993
Participant in the exhibit "Between Word and Image," at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, showing a video tape documenting the computer composition of the multilingual poem "Ami Minden," originally written in 1992 and published in her book, Cat Licked the Garlic.
Sound Poetry tour of Jackson Mac Low and Anne Tardos: Budapest, Szeged, Szentendre, Hungary--curated by Endre Szkárosi.
Lecture at the University of Szeged, Hungary (creative writing).
Participant in Days of Silence, a John Cage symposium, Warsaw, Poland
Performer at MoCA, Los Angeles, in John Cage’s Rolywholyover A Circus
Performer at Chicago Art Institue
Participant in WORD (S) OUND, a festival of text-based sound art and poetry, Woolfson Galleries, Miami
Performer at Biblio's, New York, of Cellular Dialogue, a collaborative performance piece by Tardos and Mac Low.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1992
Participant in the show FluxusVirus at Galerie Schüppenhauer, Cologne
Participant in Cagemusicircus, Symphony Space, New York
Participant in La Bâtie, Festival de poésie sonore, Geneva
Participant in the show FluxAttitudes, at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York with the painting First Word Event in Memoriam John Cage
Solo exhibit of works on canvas at the gallery Atelier 96, Vienna, Austria
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1991
Exhibitor in the show Beauty is Difficult, at The Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy, with a Portrait of Ez, a computer composition based on Gaudier Brzerska's ink drawing of Ezra Pound
Solo exhibit of works on canvas at the Woodland Pattern Gallery, Milwaukee
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1990
Exhibitor in the Venice Biennale Ubi Fluxus Ibi Motus, XLIV Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy, with several works on canvas
Works on canvas at the Galerie 1900-2000
Performer in her composition For Brian Buczak by the S.E.M. Ensemble at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Lecture at the University of California at San Diego ("the computer as sketchpad").
Performer in Jackson Mac Low's Wörter nd Enden für Goethe, for the WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk), Whitney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York, NY.
Performer at Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1989
Participant in the 3rd Heidelberger Festival for Experimental Literature and Music, German-American Institute, Heidelberg, Germany
Participant in the festival Zwischentöne, Stadtgarten, Cologne, Germany
Concert at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
Particpant in the festival Milanopoesia, Spazio Ansaldo, Milan, Italy
Performer and lecturer at the Verein für Experimentelle Musik, Milbertshofen, Munich
Exhibitor at the Jack Tilton Gallery, New York with works on canvas and computer installation
Concert with Mac Low at Roulette, New York
Participant in the John Cage Symposium at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1988
Performer with Mac Low at State University of New York at Binghamton, New York
Performer with Mac Low at the "John Cage Festival-Symposium" at Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1987
Performer with Mac Low at Kresge Recital Hall, Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois
Performer at BACA Downtown, Brooklyn, New York
Performer with Mac Low at Jacques Marchais Center of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, New York
Performer with the Downtown Ensemble at Renee Weiler Concert Hall, New York
Concert of new musical works with Mac Low at Roulette, New York.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
Exhibitor of works on canvas at the Emily Harvey Gallery, New York
Guest lecturer at The School of Visual Arts, New York, (performance art) in Simone Forti's class; and Jean Dupuy's class, respectively.
Reader at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church New Year Marathon.
1986
Poetry reading at ABC No Rio, New York
Multimedia works, in an evening with Mac Low at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
Exhibitor of works on canvas at the A.I.R. Gallery, New York.
Perfomer and lecturer with Mac Low at the Institute for Arts in Education, Performing Arts Center, State University of New York, Albany (creative writing)
1985
Exhibitor of works on paper and canvas at the Galleri Sct. Agnes, Roskilde, Denmark, and participant in the Festival of Fantastics, Roskilde.
Exhibitor of computer graphic prints in the exhibit Nexus, Philadelphia
Participant in the festival Raum Zeit Stille, St. Georg Church, Cologne
Performer at Logos Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
Performer in After the Avant-Garde, Square One Gallery, University of Houston, Texas
Performer in Grenzenlos Grenzenlos, at Die Alte Schmiede, Vienna.
Performer with Mac Low at Appollohuis, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1984
Participant in Acoustica International, Kölnischer Kunstverein, WDR (Westgerman Radio) Cologne
Participant in the festival Polyphonix 8 San Francisco Art Institute Auditorium, presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cinematheque, and Intersection
Participant in the text-ljud festival, Fylkingen, Stockholm
Concert at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
Participant in the festival Poetsound '84, Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Performer with Mac Low at Harbourfront, Toronto
Concert at Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York
Participant with Mac Low in the festival sub-voicive, at the White Swan, London
Participant with Mac Low in the 14th International Sound Poetry Festival, The London Musicians Collective, London
Performer at Samaya Foundation, New York
Performer of dialogue with pre-recorded video tape at Gramercy Gym, New York
Performer, with Mac Low, at the Knitting Factory
1983
Screening of 1971 video tape Apple Eaters, Foundation for Independent Video and Film. Millennium, New York
Performer at sound poetry festival Scene Wien, Vienna
Performer at Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Performer at Synaesthetics, Ltd., New York.
Performer at Studio Morra, Naples
1982
Recipient of a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Performer at Franklin Furnace, New York
Perfomer at Lincoln Center, Damrosh Park, New York
Performer at BACA, Brooklyn Arts and Culture Association, Brooklyn, New York
Performer at Logos Foundation, Ghent
Performer at Roulette, New York
Performer at "24h Communication" Société Philharmonique de Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.
Studio lecture for a class of the Brooklyn Museum Art School (on video and art).
1981
Performances: Franklin Furnace, New York; Zen Arts Center, Mount Tremper, New York; Iowa Theater Lab, Catskill, N.Y., and Synaesthetics, Ltd., New York
Exhibitor of multimedia film and video work: Twin Screen Workings, at Anthology Film Archives, New York.
1980
Performances: The Kitchen, New York; Experimental Intermedia Foundation, New York; Intermedia '80 Pleiades Gallery, New York; 12th International Sound Poetry Festival, Washington Square Church, New York
Screening of documentary film featuring Jackson Mac Low's environment at P.S. 1. "A Vocabulary for Annie Brigitte Gilles Tardos" at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
1975
Solo exhibitor of the video installation Breakfast at Stefanotty's, at Stefanotty Gallery, New York
Participant in the 12th New York Avant-Garde Festival, Grand Central Station, New York.
1973
Participant in the 2nd Annual Video Arts Festival at The Kitchen, showing new video works.
1972
Screening of the six-channel video installation Apple Eaters (1971), at the 2nd Annual Video Arts Festival, The Kitchen, (Mercer Arts Center) New York. (In 2003, The Kitchen restores the work, creating a one-channel version, distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.)
Exhibitor in the show Art et Technologie with the installation of Tardos's 1970 film Faces, projected at 2 frames/second. Palais des Beaux Arts, Bordeaux
Participant in the 9th New York Avant-Garde Festival, Alexander Hamilton Mississipi Riverboat, South Street Seaport, New York.
Solo exhibitor of multi-media installation at 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York.
1971
Participant in Video Review, showing her early video works, at 98 Bowery, New York.