Prose | Starla Bontecou | 4.5′ x 4.5′ | Oil on canvas | 2010

Originally published in SB 22: August 2010

Karl Dönitz, ich bin so glücklich, du hast keine 300 mehr Unterseeboots bin, es macht mich wollen lernen, Deutsch zu sprechen. Im Moment kann ich nur zufällig Beitrag in Übersetzern, die mehr oder weniger falsch sind, bieten aber die Freude, sofortige Befriedigung. Ist das nordamerikanischen von mir?
Glaubst du, dass [...]

YES.

Wow. When we decided to take SB on the road, and I booked my plane ticket to Edmonton, I really didn’t know the city would enthrall me as much as it did. Five days of art galleries, hippies, blues, bluegrass, world music, and partying with Curran, Patrick and Ted, followed by a couple of days [...]

The SB G20 supplement has been online for just about a week now, and downloads are skyrocketing. If you have yet to read it, click here for the link to both PDF and EPub versions. Print copies will be distributed at random around the city.

Harper Youth Ad | Starla Bontecou | 2010

I recently had the pleasure of designing the first issue of the Incongruous Quarterly, an online literary journal based in Montreal. Check out the incredible content by incredible contributors, including Kenneth Goldsmith, Oldschool Toadstool, Michael Trussler, and many more!

Si ce n’est pas d’être impressionné
Je peux aussi bien être un sac plein de sable
avec une perruque et un masque de papier parlant
Echos de retour d’un idéal que vous pensez
vous avez déjà gagné
Je me sens comme un corps sans visage
spectacle pantomimes cyclique
et glisser culottes
pour le plaisir de votre bunker
comme vous le reprendre à la ville
la [...]

Made found footage mis-takes.
Bad Burns | Paul Sharits | 1982

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Às vezes me pergunto onde foi, mas seu rosto nunca era inocente. Minha intuição nunca mentiu como ele fez com os dedos calejados rastejando fora de suas mãos. Ele me fez comer a sua voz para me lembrar que eu posso ser estúpido. Ele possui nenhum conhecimento além do vazio, ele não é nada, mas [...]

Available this evening online, and this upcoming weekend in print:
An independent review of perversity and abuse of power during the G20 summit protests, including interviews with Abby Deshman from the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Executive Director of the Toronto Distress Centre Karen Letofsky, and peaceful protesters who were beaten, degraded, and disenfranchised by police. Articles [...]

“POLICE STATE”
Dundas Square | Monday June 28th, 2010
30 police officers attended this performance, searched our bags, and warned us about “anarchists” while telling us that they’d have to arrest us if we began to chant.

Today I marched with friends and fellow Canadians in protest of the G20 summit, global commerce, globalization and the ridiculous choices the Canadian government made with regard to the allocation of tax revenue. Angry but peaceful, we were met with a startlingly aggressive police force, despite our two kilometre distance from the G20 security zone. [...]

I will be reading/performing sound poetry at the Thursday Night Rent Party this Thursday, June 24th at the Cameron House. Don’t miss out on a performance of Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, and a few other auditory curiosities.
Also reading with me will be the incomparable N. Alexander Armstrong, along with comedy by Sunnie D’Souza and [...]

It’s up, and it’s fresh. This month’s issue features interviews with avant-pop magicians Krupke,  indie video game developer Mark Essen, iconoclast of northern Ontario free jazz FOWL, and the Assistant Director of Born to Create Theatre Company’s The Complex. SB’s Devon Wong also writes about social responsibility and the PR battle between G20 organizers and [...]

Man! I guess I’m a bit behind on updating my blog with press and things. I’ve been busy. And sick. And lazy.
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed by Monica Heisey from She Does the City - a fashion and night life web publication based in Toronto - about Steel Bananas’ new salon series, [...]

“You know what whores do?”
Supernatural horror, women in trouble, destructive lust, and shame.
“My friend Niko who lives in Pomona has a blonde wig, she wears it at parties, but she is on hard drugs and turning tricks now. She looks very good in her blonde wig, just like a movie star. Even girls fall [...]

small pink bodies
treading water with toes
under the surface of glass
i can’t breathe in here:
tomato juice and vodka on your breath
speaking blood tongues for what
i won’t give you,
your small bare breasts a sweet reminder
of victories from years ago,
our impasse now large enough
to suggest why
it was never meant to last.
i’ll still brush your hair
when the masses are [...]

Last year’s Steel Bananas anthology GULCH: An Assemblage of Poetry and Prose is on sale until June 30th as part of Tightrope’s blowout book sale. Below is the assemblage’s cut-up prologue and my poem “(MY)RIAD”. Enjoy!

“Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.”
- Albert Camus

‘What better characterises this period than the mythification of origins? The meaning of a work of art, for this second-stage postmodernism, depends essentially on the [...]

LONG LIVE FREE DRAWINGS | Starla Bontecou

Les Yeux Sans Visage
Un Fanzine par Starla Bontecou en l’honneur de Georges Franju
Toronto, 2010
Couverture:

Extraits:

Neo-Harmonics: Notes on the Body in Post-Millennium Performance Art
A Manifesto by Starla Bontecou | Originally published in Steel Bananas 19

“The self-image of Modernity that is rooted in bodily experience cannot wholly be grasped in this current preoccupation with the emblematic character of the body as a kind of social advertisement. In fact, the quality of [...]

The Afternoon of a Faun | Starla Bontecou | TransCanaDADA | 2010
Acrylic & Collage on Canvas
1.2m x 1.4m (4 feet x 4.5 feet)
Photos courtesy of Curran and a cellphone camera

Jerry | Starla Bontecou | 2010

Goggles | Starla Bontecou | 2010

TWOS&THREES | Starla Bontecou | 2010