OEI #112-#113: A COSMOLOGY OF BLISS with editor Rowan McNaught

talk by Rowan McNaught and conversation with Becket MWN at 5pm

A reading and introduction to the latest issue of OEI, A Cosmology of Bliss. The issue concerns Bliss (aka Blissymbols or Semantography) — an unspoken language made of countless little geometric symbols, many resembling the things they point to, others remaining more mysterious. Here we explore the project through archival material, biographical and speculative texts, and commissions by some thirty artists and poets who put the symbols to new and unruly use.

Rowan McNaught is an artist-researcher based in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia), and the secretary of Darpa (https://darpa.press).

OEI is a Stockholm based magazine for extra-disciplinary spaces and de-disciplinizing moments – experimental forms of thinking, montages between poetry, art, philosophy, film, and documents; critical investigations, editorial enunciations, aesthetic technologies, non-affirmative writing, speculative archaeologies, new ecologies and counter-historiographies.

OEI magazine was founded in 1999 and has published 111 issues. The publishing structure OEI editör was started in 2002 and has published some 100 books of investigative poetry, aesthetic documents, bookworks, theoretical and poetological texts etc.

OEI is an artistic and literary project run by Jonas (J) Magnusson & Cecilia Grönberg.