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Saturday, February 21, 2009
2-22 | nor by pressENTS | KARKOWSKY | TODER | MacDONALD
SCHOEN BOOKS
7 Sugarloaf Street. South Deerfield MA, 01373
Published by schoenbooks February 2nd, 2009 in Celansalon.
There will be a reading at EIGHT (8) o’clock (rock) p.m. this Sunday the 22nd day of the 2nd month. Please try to arrive either early (for light snacks and browsing of stacks: the remaining copies of Ice Cream Amnesia will be for sale) or eightly: for we would like to start promptly enough to hear three readers on a school night. Those of you coming from far off times and places, don’t be shy about arriving late: we will try to save seats in the back. Speaking of which:
It was written that MANNY KARKOWSKY shaves the devil’s back every Tuesday. As a child actor, his stage name was Manndroid the Magnificent. At age twelve, he built a tombstone escalator for counting: ‘one two three oclock four oclock rock, five six seven oclock eight oclock rock.’ Then he threw a herpes pie in the graveyard. At the age when most young men start reading, Manny’s grandfather evaporated at the stroke of teatime. He found that the Picasso-nightingale had snapped a cat’s neck on the patio. With both eyes on one side of its head it warbled from the dreamstufftree: ‘one two three oclock four oclock rock, five six seven oclock eight oclock rock.’ Dangling the cha-cha, broken-necked cat got the punchline: fuck the swandive! The Hamburgler gobbled zebra haunches in what the camera showed was a close second. Sure enough, Manny knows when it’s hammertime. Many of you may know that EMILY TODER is the printer and publisher behind Nor By Press, which published Manny Karkowsky’s Ice Cream Amnesia as the first book in its Bikes Like Us series. Her chapbook, Brushes With, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky. I have been told that RYAN MACDONALD is a grapher of light, a sculptor of beeswax, and a maker of fictions. This will be his first reading.
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For those who might not know
The spring session of the venerable Jubilat/Jones unveils itself that selfsame Sunday at 3 o’clock at the Jones Library in Amherst. Details at http://www.jubilat.org/series.html.
7 Sugarloaf Street. South Deerfield MA, 01373
Published by schoenbooks February 2nd, 2009 in Celansalon.
There will be a reading at EIGHT (8) o’clock (rock) p.m. this Sunday the 22nd day of the 2nd month. Please try to arrive either early (for light snacks and browsing of stacks: the remaining copies of Ice Cream Amnesia will be for sale) or eightly: for we would like to start promptly enough to hear three readers on a school night. Those of you coming from far off times and places, don’t be shy about arriving late: we will try to save seats in the back. Speaking of which:
It was written that MANNY KARKOWSKY shaves the devil’s back every Tuesday. As a child actor, his stage name was Manndroid the Magnificent. At age twelve, he built a tombstone escalator for counting: ‘one two three oclock four oclock rock, five six seven oclock eight oclock rock.’ Then he threw a herpes pie in the graveyard. At the age when most young men start reading, Manny’s grandfather evaporated at the stroke of teatime. He found that the Picasso-nightingale had snapped a cat’s neck on the patio. With both eyes on one side of its head it warbled from the dreamstufftree: ‘one two three oclock four oclock rock, five six seven oclock eight oclock rock.’ Dangling the cha-cha, broken-necked cat got the punchline: fuck the swandive! The Hamburgler gobbled zebra haunches in what the camera showed was a close second. Sure enough, Manny knows when it’s hammertime. Many of you may know that EMILY TODER is the printer and publisher behind Nor By Press, which published Manny Karkowsky’s Ice Cream Amnesia as the first book in its Bikes Like Us series. Her chapbook, Brushes With, is forthcoming from Tarpaulin Sky. I have been told that RYAN MACDONALD is a grapher of light, a sculptor of beeswax, and a maker of fictions. This will be his first reading.
^^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
For those who might not know
The spring session of the venerable Jubilat/Jones unveils itself that selfsame Sunday at 3 o’clock at the Jones Library in Amherst. Details at http://www.jubilat.org/series.html.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Friday, February 06, 2009
Miroslaw Balka 2
a few quotes from Balka's artist talk at the opening:
Q: When did you start to work with salt?
A: When I started to sweat (laughter) or cry, for example.
That's why we corrode in life, because we work with a lot of salt.
"The camera is my vacuum cleaner. I choose these places (Treblinka for example), I clean up the dirt, I look into the bag and I pick out sometimes one sentence out of 60 minutes of footage...That's my function as an artist: Bringing the dignity to the things which are thrown away."
"I am not only a documentarian, I am also sometimes an artist."
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Miroslaw Balka
Had a very encouraging studio crit this afternoon with Miroslaw Balka. His presence was as intense as his picture (complete with all black suit).
Some things I learned about me: I should not worry about how much of a painintheass my materials are to move, how fragile they are, these are things for conservationists to worry about. I sometimes take a controlled action just a bit too far i.e. placing a house in a landscape that does not need one, or a hand in a video where the human element already exists in the voice.
True that some of the most simple gestures are the ones that work best.
Too much of anything flattens the whole of everything.
In the end he mentioned a few contemporaries that came to mind, one of them being 'Bobby Gober', suggested a book (Simon Shama's Landscape and Memory ) and made me feel pretty good about what I do,
which sometimes is all we need.
Some things I learned about Balka: his favorite author to read when he was 17 was Bruno Schultz. He believes we have so much freedom as artists that we have to define our own limits, 'trace out our own cell walls'. No matter how hard you try, and try I did, he will not tell you what he is working on for the huge Turbine Hall show in October. He is not allowed to. It pains him to keep exciting secrets from people.
Good for us locals:
Miroslaw Balka has an opening at the University of Massachusetts, University Gallery on Thursday Feb 5 to Sunday May 24th.
Good for Miroslaw:
"'Master poet' Miroslaw Balka gets Tate's Turbine Hall commission
Polish artist becomes the 10th person to create installation for Tate Modern:
A crack running through the floor, a helter-skelter and a simulated sunrise have all been part of Tate Modern's popular Turbine Hall series. Now the gallery has announced that Polish artist Miroslaw Balka is the 10th person to receive the prestigious commission."
Twenty million people have visited the Turbine Hall since it opened nine years ago. Anish Kapoor, Louise Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Bruce Nauman are among the artists who have created installations for the space.
Read the full article at the guardian.co.uk
Friday, January 30, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Michelle Taransky at: The Continental Review
The wonderful Michelle Taransky reads
Barn Burning
with video by John L. Roberts
at The Continental Review.
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Art Connect
Many thanks to William Emm and staff at Art Connect for
his (their) kind words.
"MacDonald uses a variety of media (including some great videos), seemingly uses a scattergun editorial approach, covers a range of subjects, and somehow ends-up presenting a cohesive overall viewpoint."
Online galleries Exemplars Art Gallery and Loveart have just launched with the aim to get more people involved with art.
The sites provide art buyers with an effective place to easily view and purchase art as well as information about established and emerging artists and galleries, thereby, accessible for both the artist and the art lover.
One of their features, Art Connect promotes awareness of the world’s best art commentators by highlighting art bloggers who they feel contribute something valuable to the art world.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Noy Holland: We jompt and tworld
Professor Noy Holland handed us these paragraphs on our last day of workshop.
Her son's (I think) preschool grammar assignment,
I think it's wonderful
"Wonts I jompt on miy chramplen with katlen and I had a vare lot of fon becos we jompt vare hiy and we tworld and jompt and tworld and jompt and tworld and jompt and tworld and jompt and tworld and we had a fon"
Noy Holland is also author of The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf), which was nominated for a National Book Award. Her stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Conjunctions, Black Warrior Review, Open City, Noon, and others. She is an Associate Professor in the MFA Program for Writers and Poets at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where she directs the Writers in the Schools Project. She was a finalist for a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award in 2002, and received an NEA fellowship in 2003.
Read Holland's
Orbit
which is an excerpt from her collection The Spectacle Of The Body
Friday, January 09, 2009
Stay the Same Never Change
Photographer and video artist Laurel Nakadate shot her first feature length film in Kansas City last summer.
I had the pleasure of attending the rough debut and am pleased to announce its premiere at this years Sundance Film Festival.
The film, STAY THE SAME NEVER CHANGE was written and directed by Laurel Nakadate. The soundtrack was composed by Owen Ashworth and performed by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Flood
FLOOD TEASER from flood movie on Vimeo.
Had the pleasure of attending the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea cast off (posted a few months ago) Flood was under production during the float.
Starring: Ryder Cooley, Nona Marie Invie, Jonathan Kaiser, Marshall Lacount
Directed By: Todd Chandler
Produced By: Todd Chandler & Ava Berkofsky
Cinematography By: Ava Berkofsky
For more information see: floodmovie.com
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Proud Flesh
trailer for film, Proud Flesh, by Chiara Giovando & Jenny Graf sheppard
I just like it is all.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
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