Wednesday, August 04, 2010

turning the crib real kingish



Leigh Tuplin








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Sonic Youth performs
Piano Piece #13 (for Nam June Paik)
by George Maciunas





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"To exist in the swoon, to be shapeless, genreless, to eat the placenta, to get shit in your eyebrows … now you are really in trouble. To get a ISBN number, your publisher must check off your genre. To go genreless means you can’t be sold. To be placed in the Library of Congress catalog you must similarly fulfill a genre. To be genreless means you can’t be entered into the record. To apply for a berth at the AWP conference, you must check off to which genre your talk pertains. To go genreless means you cannot speak. To apply for a job you must establish your competency at genre. To go genreless is to expose incompetency."


"Problems After Genre"
by
Joyelle McSweeney



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Susanne Slavick





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Pittsburgh artist Patricia Bellan-Gillen





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Carmon Colangelo
American, Canadian Born
Lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri







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"Rot over, turned. Now over worms. Even, veiled, even, now. Veiled even now, turned even done. Even veiled evened now. Now over, worms."

"White"
by
Andrew Borgstrom



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Winston Chmielinski












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"But there's no such thing as everything. He's telling us that the play is about un-attainability; it's about necessary failure; it's about the importance of creative impotence; it's about the subjective untruth of truth; it's about attempting to locate meaning in anything but the perpetual attempt to locate meaning. A virtue must be made of incompleteness. The self should not be escaped but rather structured into something inherently meaningful, something of ordered open-endedness, something that maneuvers its boundless possibilities as it strives toward no end beyond open-endedness itself."

"The Strangeness of Realism vs. the Realism of the Strange:
Themes in Synecdoche, New York"
by
Gary J. Shipley



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Allison Smith








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George Hamilton Green - "The Ragtime Robin"
arrangement by Bob Becker
performed by Shawn Savageau and Ensemble 64.8





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Tiffany Sun was born and raised in Hong Kong





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"Palin Biden Silences"
by David Tinapple





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David Herbert








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Brazilian artist Leandro Lima








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Melanie Vote








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"Versions” is a visual essay by Oliver Laric, investigating the re-appropriation and manipulation of images in our culture. [watch it here]





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Ally Reeves currently lives in Mumbai





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Blithe Riley





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Carolyn Lambert "creates performances and social actions that unravel social histories about economy, environmental crisis, and contemporary culture."








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Christian Wolff - "Stones"





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Ben Kinsley


Oracle of Omaha

Ogre



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"One day in the winter of 2003, I sent my first of many letters to the Pacific Ocean. Within two weeks it was returned with heavy pen marks negating the address and a black stamp that read: “Return to Sender: no such place exists." I then sent another letter with more specific directions and two weeks later it was returned again with the same markings. For the last five years, I have sent a letter to the Pacific Ocean every day. I currently have about 1100 returned letters and I use this project as a daily journal."

John Pena











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Christy Georg






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ONE for violin - by Nam June Paik - reenacted by Mark Lorenz Kysela





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Jennifer Gooch grew up and lived much of her life in the suburbs of Dallas.





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Andy Holtin





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Shannan Lee Hayes











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Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville
mashed with
Miles Davis's "Black Satin"





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Tarkovsky's Polaroids / Las Polaroid de Tarkovsky













Also, it appears that all of Tarkovsky's films are now available for free online.



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"I'm not really into the plot. For conventional fiction, when you read a novel, the first thing someone asks is, "Oh, what's it about?" I really don't care what a book is about. I'm interested more in the artistry. What's the language like? What technical devices are going on? I compare this to ballet and opera. When you go see and opera or ballet based on Romeo and Juliet, you're not going for the story. You already know the story. You're going for the artistic performance: the dancers' abilities, the singers' abilities. When I read a novel, that's pretty much what I'm going for: metaphoric language, imagery, interesting structural devices, humor. That's something I appreciate in a novel; that's why I use it myself. I'm going for the artistry, not for the story."

In search of history's most innovative fiction: Colin Marshall talks to historian of the novel Steven Moore



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Richard Serra -- "Television Delivers People"