A cinépoem and musical score by N.O.Koumoundouros, a.k.a. Nicholas Komodore, with a recitation by Brian Ang, from his poem "Theory Arsenal."
Nicholas Komodore is a Greek poet, filmmaker, photographer and composer from Athens, currently living and working in Oakland, California. In 2011, Nicholas started Mayakov+sky, a collaborative platform on poetics/politics/architecture in which he also publicizes the development of his theory: Amphoteric Poiesis. His work has been featured internationally in film festivals, art exhibitions and galleries and his poetry and photography has been published in various journals online and in print.
Brian Ang is the author of Pre-Symbolic, Communism, and Paradise Now. For this film he reads from his poetry generator (programmed by Ryan Loewen) Theory Arsenal based on his poem "Free Sets." His current poetic project is "The Totality Cantos," an investigation of epistemological totality. Recent criticism and theorizing have appeared in The Claudius App, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Rethinking Marxism, and a commentary series in Jacket2, "PennSound & Politics." He edits Armed Cell in Oakland, California.