Anne de Vries "...dealing in the banalities of the real world while suggesting a hidden, alternate one. Constructing a scene that triggers, a layered reading functioning as a document of reality and a portal to the imagination":
Edward Kay - English, Born 1980. Lives and works in London:
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"The tale has quite innocent origins on a Saturday afternoon on a rainy north-eastern English day, while discussing A Thousand Plateaus over tea. What was this rhizome thing that Deleuze and Guattari were on about? Was that not like the philosophical term for the anthropological concept of global assemblage that we work working with, but are not entirely content with? Even from the outset, we were aware of the parallels with our own work, but wanted to better understand their potential. We were staring out of the window into the garden. 'Grass is/has a rhizome, or ginger. Everything is connected.' Salla searched for botanical points of reference. 'We have rhizomes in the garden,' Bob suddenly shouted, and jumped up to set off down the garden path. He returned, muddy root in hand. It was an iris."
Dean Hughes - English, Born 1974. Lives and works in Edinburgh:
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"Blah Blah's latest book—Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah—has garnered rave reviews from The Blah Blah Journal and Blah Blah Quarterly and has been nominated for a Blah Blah Blah award."
Poetic Template For Introducing a Featured Bard by David Alpaugh
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Paolo Ventura born 1968, Milan Italy. Lives and works in New York City:
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"Germany was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, in 1906. Unhappy with corn and disillusioned by a language it didn’t understand, Germany built a raft out of Pella windows and sailed down the Mississippi, through the Gulf of Mexico, and across the Atlantic Ocean."
"The people of prehistoric America got the feeling every morning that they were watching a great play. This is because every morning the animals that no one had ever heard of woke up early & wrote & produced great plays. The plays told the history of prehistoric America, which was very, very old."
"Chapter Seven of Prehistoric America: A History The Great American Play" by Mathias Svalina
Nicolas Deshayes: born 1983, France. Living and working in London:
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The Flaming Lips - "Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus with Needles" 05-22-1996 - The Abyss - Houston, Texas
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"See Through is a series of twelve photographs. In which I audited all my personal belongings and divided them into a full spectrum of colour groupings." - Swedish artist Helga Steppan:
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Aesop Rock - "None Shall Pass" directed by Ordinary Kids
