Met de lezing van Ton van 't Hof, filmpjes van Amerikaanse flarfers, en links en informatie.

Download hier de zeer doortimmerde inleiding tot Flarf van Ton van 't Hof.

En hier is de lezing van Hans Kloos na te lezen.

Katie Degentesh op het Flarf Festival:


Kasey Silem Mohammad op het Flarf Festival:



Zie voor meer informatie over Flarf de Contrabas: hier en hier.

Over Flarf technieken:

Katie Degentesh in The Anger Scale:

'Every poem in this book is titled with a question from the MMPI, or Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a psychological test consisting of 566 true/false questions that has been the benchmark for determining people's mental pathologies as well as their fitness for court trials and miltary services since the 1930s. [...] Once I had access to all questions, I began to use them to write the poems themselves by feeding phrases from the statements into internet search engines and piecing the poems together from the result pages. The process was a little different for each poem. For instance, for "I LOVED MY FATHER" some results might come from a search for "I LOVED MY FATHER" + turtleneck, some from "HATED MY FATHER", some from "HATED MY FATHER" + pussy; etc. I might also then replace words or phrases in the results. In some cases [...] I followed a link from the search engine page to gather material from an actual web page, but for most poems I did not feel the need to stray from the search results themselves.'

Michael Magee in Mainstream:

'When I joined the list [...] I understood flarf as a collage-based method which employs Google searches, specifically the partial quotes which Google "captures" from websites: I would search Google for two disperate terms and, using only the quotes captured by Google (never the actual websites themselves), would stich words, phrases, clauses, sentences together to create poems. Sometimes I would add a third, fourth, fifth term to the searches. Sometimes I would search the thread for bits of connective tissue ("In the beginning"; "he was"; "and then"; "they told") from a ghost or shadow text.'