Archive for the ‘CANADADA’ Category
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The Scream Literary Festival
Upcoming event for the Scream Literary UnFestival: The Steel Bananas Art Collective will be meandering the streets of Toronto armed with a wagon, microphone, and camera, inviting passersby to take a moment to offer “Variations on a Scream” and/or improvisational poetry on the street. Each poet-for-a-moment will be photographed for a large piece to be presented to the Scream organizers, ...
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Mr. Piano Sandwich Dog Samurai
I know this blog is for my peripheral work, but I just had to post some of Curran’s recent off-the-cuff drawings (with his permission, of course). Here’s Mr. Piano Sandwich Dog Samurai takes his strawberry for a stroll, and Bijou!, which I commissioned this afternoon:
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‘PATADATA
‘PATADATA by Starla Bontecou A book of ‘pataphysical schemata mapping human interaction in the new millennium. SB Publications Release date: February 1st, 2011 ISBN: 978-0-9867777-2-1
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Modern Ruin
Winter again. Lamenting the mounds of halite seeping into the lake, negatively affecting ecosystems, pollution on top of pollution. The storm sewers feed directly into the lake. Toronto’s children will age beside a quickly congealing puddle of toxic sludge. Politicians build mock-lakes in their continuing attempts to rob nature of its dignity. Vive le progrès! The ducks are being replaced with ...
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Change Toronto: Two New Performances
Started earlier this year with the Police State performance art piece at Dundas Square – in response to what they witnessed during their participation in the G20 protests and rallies – the Change Toronto Performance Series by Starla Bontecou and The Gentleman presents two new happenings. M O D E R N R U I N December 13th at Toronto’s ...
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immaculate defiled
Five days until Curran and I hit NYC! We’ve been busy trying to get all schoolwork and extracurricular jazz sorted out before we leave on the 24th, so SB is launching a few days late this month. We’ve also started a handmade chapbook series with SB, so our excitement for the project has eclipsed all else. Curran has been gracious ...
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Life is hard
Life is hard. Life is beautiful. Life is beautiful. Life is beautiful. Life is hard. Life is beautiful. | Starla Bontecou | 2010
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Entzücken
Wenn wir doch nur die Welt mit den Augen der Entrückung Blick. Entzücken | Frau Qué | 2010
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Eine Berufung auf Karl Dönitz by Frau Qué
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 wenn Sie hatte ...
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Ele provou em branco
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 morto, sem cor, sem rosto, ...
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Stay quiet while I party
“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.
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The Faun
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
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Kids with Beards
Starla Bontecou as a child | Starla Bontecou | TransCanadada Motorway Services | 2010 Kids with Beards: a meditation on wisdom by Starla Bontecou as part of TransCanadada Motorway Services. (5.5 x 8.5 inch zine) Cover: Excerpts:
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Unsweetened
Late nights with good company and so many of these tiny juice boxes. 5:45 AM: April 30th 2010 | Starla Bontecou | 2010
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Cirque Existentielle
Cirque Existenielle: an existential instruction pamphlet by Starla Bontecou. Cover: Excerpts: Back Cover: Available wherever NU zines are sold.
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CanaDADA Call for Submissions
DADA comes down from the mountain to preach the gospel of pie, and declares the re-emergence of personal agency.
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DADAHEART
TRANSCANADADA PROCEDURE INSTRUCTIONS: The surgeon will begin by exposing the chest cavity through a cut in the ribcage. The surgeon will then open the pericardium (a membrane that covers the entire heart) in order to remove your diseased heart. The back part of your own left atrium will be left in place, but the rest of the heart will be ...
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What is post-millennium humanism?
“Our point of departure is, indeed, the subjectivity of the individual, and that for strictly philosophic reasons. It is not because we are bourgeois, but because we seek to base our teaching upon the truth, and not upon a collection of fine theories, full of hope but lacking real foundations. And at the point of departure there cannot be any ...
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