America Award

America Award 2025 to Charles Bernstein

AMERICA AWARDS
FOR A LIFETIME CONTRIBUTION TO INTERNATIONAL WRITING
Awarded by the Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
in loving memory of Anna Fahrni
The 2025 America Award winner is:
CHARLES BERNSTEIN (1950) [USA]

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Between memory and forgetting

Carlos Soto-Román in conversation with Leanne Tory-Murphy

Carlos Soto-Román

Leanne Tory-Murphy

Drawing from archival state documents and other found materials, 11 is an experimental work of documentary poetics addressing the dictatorship and its aftermath in Chile starting from the military coup on September 11, 1973. The work lives in the space between memory and forgetting, between the conceptual and the material, between presence and absence.

I met Carlos Soto-Román in Santiago this January not long after Ugly Duckling Presse’s publication of the English translation of his book 11. Drawing from archival state documents and other found materials, 11 is an experimental work of documentary poetics addressing the dictatorship and its aftermath in Chile starting from the military coup on September 11, 1973.

September 11, 2024

America Award 2025 to Charles Bernstein

Charles Bernstein

Neo-Benshi: It Happened One Night

video and script

Charles Bernstein

Karolo Sukceno’s Neo-Benshi soundtrack to a scene from It Happened One Night – at Hudson Hall, Hudson, NY on Aug. 30, 2024. Clip selected by Jeffrey Lependorf for the Flow Chart Foundation event.