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伊藤比呂美「意味の虐待」Hiromi Ito "The Maltreatment of Meaning"

This film shows the Japanese poet Hiromi Itō reading her poem "The Maltreatment of Meaning" at Western Michigan University on February 22, 2012. The translation is by Jeffrey Angles and appears in the collection Killing Kanoko (Action Books, 2009). For more info, see http://tiny.cc/itokillingkanoko. This poem draws inspiration from American artist Bruce Nauman's 1985 video installation "Good Boy, Bad Boy" in which two video monitors are placed opposite one another, each showing a sixty minute-long video loop. In them, two actors recite alternating phrases, such as "good boy" and "bad boy," with an increasing degree of emotion. Itō's poem, written at a time when she was traveling back and forth between the different linguistic worlds of Poland and Japan, shows her interest in (and resistance to) the signifying process by which people learn language and make meaning. In fact, the poem's structure is not unlike the grammatical drills that language learners use to master new patterns, yet by the end of the poem, the neat grammatical patterns have broken down.