Archive for the ‘Project Updates’ Category
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SB Publications Catalogue
I just realized I forgot to post this! We released the Winter 2011-2012 catalogue for SB Publications at the end of September. This season’s offerings include a text & photographic work from ReLit award winning poet Daniel Scott Tysdal, and a mixed media art book from Canadian culture jammer ýta. From within the art collective, we’re releasing a multimedia text ...
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SB28
SB28 launched two days ago. Flip through below or visit steelbananas.com/sb28 to read/download the issue.
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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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Latest Project
This is Woodward. I bought him today. He is from Romania. He was handmade in Vasile Gliga’s workshop by some nice people who care about good quality violins. His friend, Juliette, is a french bow made from Brazil wood and horse hair. Together, they make beautiful music! Today, I taught myself how to play “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” and tomorrow ...
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IQ3!
I had the pleasure of designing the latest issue of the Incongruous Quarterly, straight out of Montreal. Read the science-themed poetry and prose here, and check out their blog for more content and updates.
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Master of Arts Degree: Attained
Today, I submitted bound copies of my final major research paper, with all revisions, my signed declaration page, and signatures of approval from my supervisor and second reader to the Department of English at Ryerson University. As I walked back to the MLCRC from our Program Administrator’s office, I felt overwhelmed. For a while, it felt as though it would ...
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Scream / Photos from the Mobile Street Mic
The last Scream in High Park is tonight, so make sure to head out! Here are a few few photos from SB’s Scream Literary Festival Mobile Street Mic, Variations on a Scream:
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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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Bernadette
Bernadette by Starla Bontecou. Oil paint on an antique photograph. A gift for Jeff to celebrate his recent move to Boston.
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Luminato/ iArmy
I’m going to mention Luminato in a moment, so bear with me. I must get this techno-guilt off of my chest: So, I always said I would never get a smartphone. Phone companies are evil (re: my $800 payment to Telus to cancel a ridiculous contract I naively signed), and when I saw all of those drooling teens with bad ...
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Call for submissions
SB28: Translation Politics and patois. Hybrids, conversions, and mashups. Malapropisms and misspelling… We are calling for submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and visual art on the theme on translation for the twenty-eighth issue of Steel Bananas. We want to know what is lost, what is gained, what it looks and sounds like, from ekphrasis to inter-cultural dialogue. Deadline: July ...
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Strangers in Paris
I had the pleasure to design the recent anthology Strangers in Paris, launching in Toronto in late June, with NYC and Paris launches following later this year. Including Booker Prize winner John Berger, Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Alice Notley, and many expatriate newbies, the anthology seeks to find a new vocabulary for one of the ...
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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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Hot Docs
The Hot Docs Film Festival is upon us, and our correspondent C.S. Folkers is devouring films at an unprecedented rate. Along with the article “Two Approaches to Black History at the Hot Docs Film Festival” included in SB27, wherein C.S. Folkers reviews Göran Hugo Olsson’s Black power Mixtape 1967-1975 (Sweden, 2011) and Charles Officer’s Mighty Jerome (Canada, 2011), we’re posting ...
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The Election
I tried my best to keep my rantings and ravings about Canada’s recent federal election off of my blog, and safely on my twitter and facebook feeds, where my anger and indignation wouldn’t stand out so starkly and sorely among all of my project updates, art, and general happiness. Of course, the election of a Conservative majority government was a ...
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Avant Airplanes, NYC Art Music, Indigenous Film, and Telematic Performance Art
As a primer for tomorrow’s symposium and exhibition, below are the abstracts for my panel, “Modernity and Technology.” Also below is a video of the performance on which I’ll be presenting, Paul Sermon’s Telematic Dreaming. Vital Sounds: The Acoustics of Airplanes in High Modernism Robert Hemmings, Nipissing University, Muskoka Campus In the eleventh dictate of “The Manifesto of Futurism,” Filippo ...
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ETM Symposium & Exhibition
This upcoming Monday, March 28th, I will be presenting my paper, “Telepresence, Phenomenology, and Performance: Paul Sermon’s Telematic Dreaming“ on the Modernity and Technology Panel at the Experience the Modern Symposium & Exhibition. Joining me on this panel will be Dr Robert Hemmings, Assistant Professor in Culture and the Arts and English Studies at Nipissing University; Patrick Nickleson, a Masters student in Musicology at ...
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Moving to Vancouver!
After weighing my PhD fellowship offers from the University of Alberta, New York University, and the University of British Columbia, I finally settled on UBC, not only for the superior funding, but for the vibrant writers’ communities in Vancouver, and of course, the picturesque setting sandwiched between the Rockies and the Pacific. I’ll begin my doctorate this Fall in their ...
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SB Publications
We just launched the website for SB’s new chapbook press, Steel Bananas Publications. Check it out!
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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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From SB: Sarah Clement
Sarah Clement is SB’s December 2010 Artist Spotlight. She is described as balancing “a delicate sensibility with something more bold and iconic.” I agree.
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SB 26
SB 26 is alive! This is our last monthly issue before going quarterly in 2011, including a review of Jerry Granelli’s solo percussion free jazz album 1313, essays on the Resolution Ego and Phenomenological fragmentation in telematic performance art, as well as a Killin Food exploration of the traditional Chinese dumpling and an account of King Frankenstein’s orchestral encounter with Familiar ...
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IQ2
The latest issue of The Incongruous Quarterly is alive! I had the great pleasure of working as Guest Poetry Editor and designer for this one, so check it out! There’s a new music section in this issue, with unpublishable tracks from Holy Fuck, RatTail’s Jasmyn Burke and others curated by Dan Beirne, and Journey Prize winning prose writer Saleema Nawaz ...
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Hired at MLCRC!
I’m so excited! After my interview with Dr. Irene Gammel, the Research Chair and Director of The Modern Literature and Culture Research Centre, I was waiting with bated breath to hear back about whether or not they could use me at the MLCRC. Today, I was hired as a Graduate Research Assistant! I’ll be working with personal letters by DADA ...
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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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SB 25
SB 25 is here. From a low-key high-brow performance art festival on last month’s cover to. . . Jersey Shore? I don’t think I anticipated such a thematic chasm between the latest issues. I also didn’t expect to receive a submission from Toronto’s favourite pop culture peeper (I mean, critic) Hal Niedzviecki. This month’s issue boasts an imaginative run in ...
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Existere 30.1
The latest issue of Existere: Journal of Arts and Literature has been released! This issue includes my editorial titled Art and Affairs of State: Does Toronto’s Art community Respond to its Social Responsibility? Pick it up in bookstores, newstands, or online.
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Tightrope’s Fall 2010 Poetry Launch
Tightrope’s Fall 2010 Poetry Launch at the Ossington this week was fantastic! We were celebrating the release of Leanne Averbach’s Come Closer, David Livingstone Clink’s Monster, and Daniel Scott Tysdal’s The Mourner’s Book of Albums, all of which I had the pleasure to design. The bar was packed, the books flew off the book table, and the event was a roaring success.
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BP 49
My book review of The Hipless Boy by Sully is published in the latest issue of Broken Pencil Magazine, which is on newsstands nationwide. Pick it up if you haven’t!
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SB 24
I’m in NYC right now beaming from my meeting with the frank and down-to-earth Noel Rodriguez from NYU’s performance studies program, so I’m going to keep this quick: SB 24 IS ALIVE. READ IT. More on NYC when I hit Toronto later this week.
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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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BCP 2010 Toronto Launch
We’ll be launching the third instalment of The Best Canadian Poetry Series in a few weeks. Start thinking about what you’re going to wear.
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Interview with Open Book Toronto
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed about SB and my design work for Tightrope Books by Open Book Toronto. Read the interview here.
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Tightrope’s Fall 2010 catalogue
Tightrope Books’ Fall 2010 catalogue is now up for sale on the Tightrope Books website. I had the pleasure of designing 4 of this season’s books, including The Mourner’s Book of Albums by ReLit poetry award winner and UofT prof Daniel Scott Tysdal. Check out this season’s fare, and support the independent presses in your community!
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SB 23
This anti-Rob Ford issue packs a wallop of political commentary on the upcoming Toronto Mayoral election, and boasts (among other columns) an interview with novelist Michael Winter, a critical exploration of the interplay between text and images in literary illustration, a review of Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart, food criticism from the Canadian National Exhibition, a critical ...
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SB’s Second Anniversary Party!
Last year we – the SB kids – packed Sneaky Dee’s on a Tuesday night in celebration of our first anniversary. This year, with a Friday slot at Sneak’s, we’re sure it’s going to be more than a memorable night! We’re showcasing four great bands – Toronto’s avant-pop darlings Krupke, London’s experimental post-punk A Horse and His Boy, Toronto’s indie ...
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Call for submissions
I have the great pleasure of being invited to serve as the guest poetry editor for the next issue of The Incongruous Quarterly, and I’m looking for poetic collages. My formal prompt: Disconnected or disorganized? Pastiche or plagiarism? We’re looking for mosaics and mash-ups. The technique of collage in poetry is much like its counterpart in visual art; that of ...
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Marlee Maclean
Below are a couple of photos from my 2010 photoshoot with Marlee Maclean. She’s a fantastic Toronto-based photographer studying at OCAD. Check out more of her photos here and here.
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EDMONTON FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
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 camping in Jasper National Park ...
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It’s nice to care
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
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Incongruous
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!
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“Let me fuck your mouth”
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 and critical assessments made ...
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SB 20
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 prospective protesters, while the latest ...
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jostle together
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!
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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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SB 18
WHOA! Issue 18 of Steel Bananas has hit the web hard with nostalgia, manifestos, anti-processes and a burrito odyssey unlike any other! It also features interviews with Executive Director of the Toronto Cyclists Union Yvonne Bambrick, neo-psychedelic visual artist Mars-1, Phil Klygo of Weewerk Records, Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station, character actor Doug Jones from Pan’s Labyrinth, and more! ...
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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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GIRLS NIGHT with Damian Rogers, Dani Couture, and more!
I’ll be the host for the next installment of Steel Bananas’ Monthly Eggplant Reading Series. This installment has an incredible lineup, including Erin Brandenburg, Dani Couture, Damian Rogers and Melanie Janisse! About these fantastic women: Damian Rogers was born and raised in suburban Detroit and now lives in Toronto, Canada. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan ...
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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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NU #2
New NU graphic poetry and illustration print zines are on their way! Cover designs by Starla Bontecou. Volume 1:
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SB 17
Seventeen issues already? This one packs a punch with writings on Proust in the bathtub, post-millennium architecture, Canadian Music Week, Indie Dance in Toronto, Spiderman sleeping with his roommate, Axe Cop’s baby plans, Theatre Bassaris, and much more, including Leonard the breakdancing cat who is totally hopped up on illegal stimulants. Yes.
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SB Presents…
Steel Bananas Presents: Jane’s Party, The Rucksack Willies and Hemingway Pop, Country & Funk at the Rivoli, March 19th! Spring is nigh and our good friends, Toronto’s frighteningly charming folk-pop “Rubber Soul” enthusiasts Jane’s Party will be hitting the Rivoli with an alarming force March 19 for what will no doubt be the best possible way for you to ring ...
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SB 16
Issue 16 of SB for February 2010 is alive, bursting with new faces, new essays, new interviews, and beautiful artwork! For this issue I interviewed the guys from the Ferno House micro-press along with their recent collaborators from the The Emergency Response Unit chapbook press. The cover spot went to Devon Wong’s interview with horror writer David Nickle, whose recent ...
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hautechnic
I started a new fashion blog. Lord knows I don’t need another goddamn weblog, but I talk about fashion enough to warrant a place where I can keep my button ramblings. I also wanted to use a picture that I made of dog-headed women in design somewhere, so voila!
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