David-Baptiste Chirot

DAVID-BAPTISTE CHIROT was born Lafayette, Indiana, grew up in Vermont, and has lived in Gottingen, Germany; Arles and Paris, France; Hastveda, Sweden; Wroclaw, Poland; Boston and currently Milwaukee. Since 2006 creating via essays, “El Colonel” fictions, Visual, Sound, Event works, and curating international Mail Art/Visual Poetry Calls, a critique/investigation of “The New Extreme Experimental American Poetry and Arts” involving the intersections of torture and art, the interrelationships among language, rebranding, the military, surveillance, security, starvation, detention, imprisonment & siege in Poetry & Art. As part of his human rights activism, work in over 90 different print and electronic journals, galleries and blogs, and has been translated into 8 languages. His books include Anarkeyology (Runaway Spoon), Offender Handbook and Zada (Reflections, Chicago/Kiev), HUNG ER (Neotrope), found rubBEings (Xerolage 32), and Zero Poem (Traverse). His work has appeared in the anthologies Word Score Utterance Choreography (ed. Bob Cobbing, London) and Loose Watch (ed. John M. Bennett, London). More of his own work, plus an ongoing assembly of new visual poetry by other artists, can be found at facebook.com/scrawlsESP.