Archive for the ‘Conceptual Obsessions’ Category
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Shoot, 1971
Chris Burden, Shoot. F Space, November 19th, 1971.
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Virago
“If you can avoid talking about / body then do so now please” — Margaret Christakos, from Sooner, 2005. – Karen Correia Da Silva, from Virago, 2011. Vancouver, BC.
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Fuck Irony
Text, collage, photography, and collaboration celebrating mimesis over a period of thirty days in 2011. Works include poetry, visual art, and documentation of public performance/ happenings in Vancouver by multidisciplinary artist Karen Correia Da Silva. Fuck Irony ISBN: 978-0-9867777-7-6 Release Date: December 2011 SB Publications 30 copies
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Blonk
Last night Curran and I ventured out to the Toronto New School of Writing‘s evening with Dutch avant-garde composer and sound-poet Jaap Blonk. In the great hall of 918 Bathurst Culture, Arts, Media, and Education Centre, Blonk opened with Hugo Ball’s Seepferdchen und Flugfische, the poem I performed last year, which he performed ⎯ I must admit ⎯ better than ...
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Abject Address
I’m currently reading about counterdiscourse and the abject address in Dina Al-Kassim’s On Pain of Speech for my thesis, and thumbing through pages and pages of the Baroness’ handwritten rants from her time in Eberswalde asylum just outside of Berlin. Is it odd that I don’t think she reads mad? Here’s another track from my research playlist:
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“gray and affectionate”
As I shuttle back and forth between Vancouver and Toronto this summer, I’m also continuing my work with the unpublished correspondence of DADA artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven at the Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, including letters to Djuna Barnes, Peggy Guggenheim, William Carlos Williams, and more. After a few months of working with the Baroness’ nearly one-hundred year-old ...
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I’ve seen and done things I want to forget…
From PJ Harvey’s new album Let England Shake, inspired by WWI.
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AGYU: Flux/ Revolution
Last Wednesday — coincidentally right after my encounter with the semiotext(e) edition of the French anti-globalization group The Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection — Curran invited me to the opening of Revolutionary Sundays / The Centre for Incidental Activisms (CIA) at the Art Gallery of York University. It was appropriate, and incredible. Revolutionary Sundays is an exhibition of Gilberto Ante’s ...
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Technologies of Intuition
I just finished reading this fantastic collection of essays, Technologies of Intuition, which sparked a new line of research for my MA thesis on the Baroness and performance theory. It also contains many works which jive with my performance methodologies, which made it an emotional and introspective read. I’m in love. — “Our rational Cartesian culture despises the uncontrollable unconscious; ...
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Schafer
From R. Murray Schafer’s The Composer in the Classroom. My obsession with R. Murray Schafer recently reemerged. I attended his latest opera The Children’s Crusade in 2009 – an unforgettable performance with nearly one hundred performers, The Canadian Children’s Opera Company, and the Toronto Consort – and haven’t been able to shake the inspiration since. Lately, I have been devouring Schafer’s ...
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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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The Schwitters Scandal
Last night Curran and I watched the recently released ARTHAUS MUSIK art documentary on the legacy left to the world by prolific German DADA (MERZ) artist Kurt Schwitters. With his only son Ernst nearing death after a stroke, Kurt’s grandson and daughter-in-law are battling it out with Marlborough Gallery in England to take back possession of – and exclusive selling ...
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Made Found
Made found footage mis-takes. Bad Burns | Paul Sharits | 1982 The player will show in this paragraph var s1 = new SWFObject(‘http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf’,'player’,’600′,’480′,’9′); s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Sharits-Paul_Bad-Burns_1982.flv’); s1.write(‘preview’);
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Seepferdchen und Flugfische
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 music by Hopeful Monster, ...
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Anti- Globalization & (Alter)Modernity
“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 social background to its ...
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Charlotte Moorman
Within the next few months I’ll be preparing my PhD applications, since my MA is only three terms and my booklust is still in full swing. My first choice right now is NYU, so lately I’ve been revisiting avant-garde artists whom I really love who also made big splashes when they hit NYC. Charlotte Moorman is one of them. Listen ...
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Comment redonner un sens au mot ‘Humanisme’?
Peter Gidal | Upside Down Feature | 1967-1972 The player will show in this paragraph var s1 = new SWFObject(‘http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/player-viral.swf’,'player’,’600′,’480′,’9′); s1.addParam(‘allowfullscreen’,'true’); s1.addParam(‘allowscriptaccess’,'always’); s1.addParam(‘flashvars’,'file=http://ubu.artmob.ca/video/flash/Gidal_Peter_Upside-Down-Feature_1967-72.flv’); s1.write(‘preview’);
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