General Projects

INSERT BLANC PRESS BENEFIT & HOLIDAY PARTY

2011-12-06T15:40:00.000-08:00

Insert Blanc Press Benefit & Holiday Party
Saturday December 17 from 6-12pm
Weekend Gallery
4634 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Donation at the door of $10 or more more$
Donation at the door of $20 or more more$ receive INTERNET, a limited edition print
Full Schedule of Performances below ...

I'd like to invite you to the Insert Blanc Press Benefit & Holiday Party at Weekend Gallery, 4634 Hollywood Blvd, LA, CA 90027 on Saturday December 17 from 6-12pm.

$10.00 or more more$ Donation at the door (all donations will help cover expenses for Insert Blanc Press future and current projects and operations). Additionally, throughout the month of December Insert Blanc Press will run various tempting discounts on the whole catalog of books, all of which will also be available at the Holiday Party—many authors will be on-hand to sign copies of their books. Solomon Bothwell of KCHUNG Radio will also be livestreaming and broadcasting the entire evening on 1630am.

Artists & Writers performing at the Insert Press Benefit & Holiday Party include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Brian Ang, Allison Carter, Brian Joseph Davis, Robin Dicker, Kate Durbin, K. Lorraine Graham, Daniel Hockenson, Jen Hofer, Garrick Hogg, Gabriel Loiderman, js makkos, Max Mayer, Joseph Mosconi, Adam Overton, Christopher Russell, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mark Wallace, and our special guests Dodie Bellamy, David Buuck & Kevin Killian.

Insert Blanc Press has published and promoted the work of over 60 artists and writers since it's humble beginnings in 2005. The PARROT series alone will publish the work of 23 writers over the course of its run and features the design work of the brilliant printer Margaret Lomeli. Blanc Press has recently published the enigmatic project (!x==[33]) Book 1 Volume 1 by .UNFO and has garnered attention by publishing the three volume series Tragodía by Vanessa Place.

Over the course of December I hope to raise $5,000 for Insert Blanc Press in sales and donations to fund printing and press operations in 2012. I hope to raise $2000 of the goal at the party on Saturday December 17. $2000 will go principally to funding the printing of the remainder of the PARROT series, which, if that goal is met, I hope to have out by summer 2012. An additional $1500 will go to moving all of Blanc Press' publications to a new printer and distributor which will give us international distribution and access to sites like Amazon and actually lower the price of the books. Any additional money raised to meet our total goal of $5,000 will go towards publishing new projects in 2012, including Bruna Mori's Poetry for Corporations, Kate Durbin's E! Entertainment Diamond Edition, Joseph Mosconi's GRRR ARRRGH as well as a forthcoming project by Christopher Russell and many other projects I just can't tell you about quite yet.

Whether or not you can make it to the party, donations can be made to Insert Blanc Press anytime.

Past and current Insert Blanc Press artists include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Will Alexander, Brian Ang, Stan Apps, Janine Armin, Gary Barwin, Guy Bennett, Gregory Betts, Amaranth Borsuk, Franklin Bruno, Amina Cain, Allison Carter, Teresa Carmody, Marcus Civin, Ginny Cook, Dorit Cypis, Brian Joseph Davis, Katie Degentesh, Michelle Detorie, Robin Dicker, Sandy Ding, Kate Durbin, Bradney Evans, Drew Gardner, Nada Gordon, K. Lorraine Graham, Nicholas Grider, Daniel Hockenson, Jen Hofer, Gabriella Juaregui, Maxi Kim, Janice Lee, Margaret Lomeli, Michael Magee, Joseph Makkos, Donato Mancini, Elana Mann, Sharon Mesmer, K. Silem Mohammad, William Moor, Bruna Mori, Joseph Mosconi, Jeffrey Joe Nelson, Julie Orser, adam overton, Vanessa Place, Amar Ravva, Dan Richert, Stephanie Rioux, Christopher Russell, Kim Schoen, Ara Shirinyan, Rod Smith, Michael Smoler, Brian Stefans, Stephanie Taylor, Jason Underhill, Mark Wallace, Christine Wertheim, and Allyssa Wolf.

Currently on view at Weekend Gallery: Jay Erker - This Is So Much Better - Erker's work often manipulates subjects from readily available popular imagery which, in a simple and personal way, investigates the notion of identity in public space, hierarchies of dissemination, and the desire for meaning in contemporary life.

full schedule for the evening:

6:30-7:05
Brian Joseph Davis
Robin Dicker
Jen Hofer
js makkos
K. Lorraine Graham
Mark Wallace
Amanda Ackerman

7:30-8:05
Daniel Hockenson
Brian Kim Stefans
Allison Carter
Joseph Mosconi
Ara Shirinyan
Harold Abramowitz

8:30-9
Adam Overton
Christopher Russell
Brian Ang
Kate Durbin

9:30-10
Dodie Bellamy
David Buuck
Kevin Killian with the three piece band Garrick Hogg, Gabriel Loiderman and Max Mayer

Jon Rutzmoser & Marianne Morris Reading Dec 4

2011-11-25T14:05:00.000-08:00

Paesaggio Eroico [Heroic Landscape], Adelchi-Riccardo Mantovani, 75x55cm, 2008

Jon Rutzmoser & Marianne Morris Reading
Sunday December 4, 2011 at 6:30pm
Insert Blanc Press HQ
Los Angeles, CA 90027
rsvp for directions LALiterature [at] [geeeemail] [dot] com

Jon Rutzmoser will be living in Echo Park, Los Angeles in early December. In fact, he's been living there for a while now, and he will continue to live there in early December. Marianne Morris, the British (Canadian-born) poet will be visiting Los Angeles for a few days in early December. Since the two of them have so much in common, we've decided to celebrate by having them each perform a reading at Insert Blanc Press HQ on Sunday December 4, 2011 at 6:30pm. You should come. You might enjoy seeing them perform readings.

If you don't know where Insert Blanc Press HQ is then please rsvp for directions at LALiterature [at] [geeeemail] [dot] com. If you know where Insert Blanc Press HQ is then you don't need to rsvp at all, just show up. Then we will all have so much in common. We will all physically occupy Insert Blanc Press HQ, even if just for a few passing hours. Oh and feel free to bring snacks or something to drink if you like, and if you're not into that sort of thing, that's fine too, just bring yourself andor a friend or just yourself. We'll be very happy to see you.

6:30pm social hour - reading will start by 7/7:30 at the absolute latest

here are some bios:
Jon Rutzmoser (b. 1982) is an artist, writer, and educator living in Los Angeles. Recent work appears in Gaga Stigmata, Drunken Boat and X-TRA. Jon also runs an experimental theater out of his Echo Park apartment. More information at www.hystericallyreal.com.

Marianne Morris is Canadian by birth and a Londoner by day; is a writer, painter, collagemaker and taxidermic sculptor based in East London. She was born in 1981 and founded Bad Press with Jow Lindsey and Jonathan Stevenson in 2002. Morris studied English Literature at Newnham College, Cambridge, and was the recipient of the Harper-Wood Studentship for Creative Writing from St. John’s College in 2008. She is now researching for a PhD in contemporary poetry at Dartington (University College Falmouth). Publications include: Commitment (Critical Documents/Bad Press, 2011), Untitled Colossal Parlour Odes (with Luke Roberts, Sophie Robinson, Josh Stanley; Bad Press, 2011), Tutu Muse (Fly By Night Press, 2008); A New Book From Barque Press, Which They Will Probably Not Print (Barque Press, 2006); with Bad Press: Cocteau Turquoise Turning, Fetish Poems (2004); Gathered Tongue, Memento Mori (2003); Poems in Order (2002). All Mod Cons and Iran Documents are forthcoming from Acts of Language and Openned Press respectively. Official blog: http://mannemo.tumblr.com/

William Maxwell Evans Perkins was born in New York City in 1884. Though he received a degree in economics from Harvard University, his passion was literature, and after college he took a position at Charles Scribner and Sons as an editor. Perkins was the only editor who recognized the brilliance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's first novel, which would also be true of Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises. Perkins died in 1947.

(!x==[33]) Volume 1 by .UNFO from Blanc Press

2011-11-11T00:11:00.000-08:00

Los Angeles, 11.11.11—Blanc Press is pleased to announce the release of (!x==[33]) Book 1 Volume 1 by .UNFO the first volume of a projected multiple volume set. What if you had a very long book and made it longer? With (!x==[33]) .UNFO seeks to indexically lengthen the world’s most monumental texts through failed software operations.

(!x==[33]) is curated by UNFO (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization), an unofficial and temporary coalition of coders and writers, including Dan Richert and Harold Abramowitz.

Purchase a copy of (!x==[33]) Book 1 Volume 1 by .UNFO in hardbound $50.00

To date, Blanc Press has published CREDIT by Mathew Timmons, and Tragodía by Vanessa Place, the three volume set comprised of Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case and Argument.

Blanc Press: It’s material!

(!X==[33]) BOOK 1 VOLUME 1
Hardcover with dustjacket 776 pages
Blanc Press November 2011
ISBN 13: 978-0-9814623-9-4
Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.5 x 2 inches
Purchase a copy of (!x==[33]) Book 1 Volume 1 by .UNFO in hardbound $50.00

CONTACT THE PUBLISHER AT LALITERATURE AT GEEEEEE MAIL DAHT COM FOR CLASSROOM ADOPTION DISCOUNTS.

E! Entertainment by Kate Durbin

2011-11-02T18:11:00.001-07:00

E! Entertainment by Kate Durbin
Full Color 40pg chapbook

Special Limited Edition Chapbook Signed and Numbered by the author $12.00

Chapbook Edition $9.00

I think it's really cool that you write books about pop culture. I read your chapters on Lindsay Lohan & Anna Nicole Smith—love them both. —Josie Stevens, star of the E! reality TV show Married to Rock

There is no one sporting hypermediaflesh like Kate Durbin's. With E! Entertainment she strips the TV image from its old curves, reupholstering 2D-packed pixelshit into clipped components, sentences, where somehow less surrounded they take on the shape of psychically deformed wallpaper. These are our icon baths hobbling toward you, reciting script-prayer in mime of sleep, and now Durbin is their lord. —Blake Butler, author of the novel Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia

Kate Durbin is the brilliant combination of Warhol and Warhollian superstar—both pop satirist and performance artist. Courtroom defiant La Lohan, the clownish pathos of Anna Nicole Smith: these are Durbin’s Jackie O’s and car crashes. Her new conceptual poetry book, E! Entertainment, is both rapturous and ravaging of pop culture, sending up the paparazzi’s glare, the vampiric obsession with the lives of reality starlets, endlessly reported on E! news by fakebaked anchors with colgate smiles. Particularly poignant in this collection is Durbin’s opening piece on MTV’s The Hills, in which she narrates in microdetail the tedium and tragedy of reality TV, its scripted mumblecore, the punctures and weird rhythms, the edited, dramatic pauses, how nothing is said but there’s something bubbling underneath. All this Durbin builds to the (soap) operatic, into a backstabbing tragedy (later she counterpoises the toxic girls on The Hills with another televised catfight, in her piece on Dynasty). With Durbin’s meticulous slowdown we begin to read in between the lines, a meditation on these girls, their lives. —Kate Zambreno, author of Green Girl

Some AAAAAArt Stuff I've been doing at #OccupyLA

2011-10-26T17:18:00.000-07:00

Some things I've been doing with others at #OccupyLA. I've also been sitting on the Demands and Objectives Committee and helping out on the Research Committee. With AAAAAA I've been participating in casual performance projects and really enjoying them.

CREDIT sung, shouted, whispered, scatted, chanted and droned (scroll down to hear audio excerpts from some of the performances)

10/1/11 CREDIT Proclamation with John Burtle and Kim Calder

CREDIT10111 by anathematas

10/2/11 CREDIT Singing with Kim Calder and Adam Overton interleaved with The Dabblerist Manifesto by Matador Oven

10/3/11 CREDIT Whisperers with John Burtle and Adam Overton
CREDIT10311 by anathematas

10/5/11 CREDIT Reading Together in Unison with Joshua (from Occupy LA Library)
CREDIT10511 by anathematas

10/8/11 CREDIT Shouting with Solomon Bothwell and Sean Gall
CREDIT10811 by anathematas

10/14/11 CREDIT Singing at &Now Tommorowland Forever Conference Les Figues Panel at UCSD with Adam Overton
CREDIT101411 by anathematas

10/17/11 CREDIT Swingin Country Jam with Amanda Ackerman and Jennifer Karmin
CREDIT107111 by anathematas

Also ...

10/8/11 Occupy LA Tour which spontaneously coalesced around Solomon Bothwell, a megaphone, Sean Gall and myself (we also picked up a spanish translator towards the end of the tour) - Below is actually a photo of Solomon with megaphone on the people's soap box - but it was only about 45 minutes later he was leading us on a spontaeous tour of OccupyLA

photo Harold Abramowitz

10/9/11 Title Singing with Harold Abramowitz as we received book donations at the library

photo Harold Abramowitz

10/19/11 Singing Chanting Voice Choir Chorus - got together and sang various songs as a warm up and then performed "Do You Have A Radical Proposal" (Arranged by D. Tucker, C. Thornton, R. Woo) on the west steps of City Hall and eventually throughout the entire occupation with Jordan Biren, Narin Dickerson, Sean Gall, Adam Overton, Nancy Popp and Mathew Timmons
Listen to an excerpt from the last 10 minutes of the performance…
Do You Have a Radical Proposal by anathematas

Watch us practicing and working with people who joined us, offering a Radical Proposal or two…

INTERNET

2011-09-16T15:59:00.000-07:00

INTERNET – Rust-Oleum Universal Advanced Formula Hammered All-Surface Paint Silver Hammered – on various paper media 8.5” x 11” – a limited edition of 15 stencil prints – of which three (3) are available for sale – $25

PARROT 9 Politicized Pretty Picture by Stan Apps

2011-08-26T18:52:00.001-07:00

PARROT 9 Politicized Pretty Picture
by Stan Apps
Now Out from Insert Press!

Buy Now!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Covers of Parrot were originally designed by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work here: http://maggielomeliprintmaking.blogspot.com/ methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. Also! Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts & Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case by Vanessa Place are available through Blanc Press.

Sign up for the Insert Press & Blanc Press mailing list here!

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!

PARROT 8 I Fell in Love With a Monster Truck by Amanda Ackerman

2011-08-16T17:43:00.001-07:00

PARROT 8 I Fell in Love With a Monster Truck
by Amanda Ackerman
Now Out from Insert Press!

Buy Now!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Covers of Parrot are handprinted by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work here: http://maggielomeliprintmaking.blogspot.com/ methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. Also! Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts & Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case by Vanessa Place are available through Blanc Press.

Sign up for the Insert Press & Blanc Press mailing list here!

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press. Visit the Subscription page at Insert Press for more details!

a little get together for Danny Snelson!

2011-08-09T18:45:00.001-07:00

a little get together for Danny Snelson
Friday August 12 at 7pm (reading at 8pm sharp)
at my house rsvp for directions to anathemata at geeeeeeeeemail

Danny Snelson is in Los Angeles!

Danny Snelson is a brilliant young writer, editor and archivist from the other side of the country, the other coast. He is not here in Los Angeles very often! If you do not know who this Danny Snelson is, well then you should come meet Danny Snelson at my house this Friday at 7pm. There will be a reading which will actually really start at 8pm. Joseph Mosconi will read and Danny and Mashinka Firunts will present "a little talk with some poems in it."

So please come enjoy relax and get together with the people! If you don't know where my house is drop me a line and I'll give you directions... ok see you there then...

the image associated with this event has nothing to do with any of these people other than it came up in a google image search of "danny snelson los angeles joseph mosconi apartment" so that's something...

Danny Snelson is an editor, writer and archivist living in Brooklyn. Recent works include my Dear coUntess (Drunken Boat, 2007), an internet specific video-text recomposition of a fin-de-si\'8fcle letter to Lord Kelvin, and The Book of Ravelling Women (Aphasic Letters, 2008), a fraudulent digital reproduction of a book by Djuna Barnes originally republished in 1948 (forged in collaboration with Phoebe Springstubb, an architect & visual artist based in Manhattan). In 2006, he worked to release the 0 to 9 magazine reprint & Aram Saroyan's Complete Minimal Poems with Ugly Duckling Presse.

As a contributing editor to PennSound audio archive, Danny has produced essential collections of recordings from a diverse range of writers including Louis Zukofsky, Gregory Whitehead, Robert Duncan, William Carlos Williams,Clark Coolidge, Robert Filliou, Adachi Tomomi, bill bissett, and Craig Dworkin. As the editor of /ubu editions at UbuWeb, Danny has released free republications of previously scarce/unavailable works byMaurice Blanchot, Robert Wilson, Rosmarie Waldrop,Bernard N\'9ael (Paul Buck), Bruce Andrews, Severo Sarduy, Dick Higgins, and Claude Simon. In February 2004, he began his online archival work as a scanner for Craig Dworkin's eclipse project.

Joseph Mosconi is a writer and linguist who lives in Los Angeles. He is an editor of Area Sneaks, a journal of poetry and visual arts, and codirects the Poetic Research Bureau. His criticism can be found in the Fillip Review, The /n/oulipian Analects, and the liner notes to Golden Digest, a DVD release by Animal Charm.

The Saffron Green Video Documentation!

2011-08-05T13:44:00.000-07:00

The Saffron Green: Video Documentation

on vimeo...

The Saffron Green
A Space Opera in three movements written for voice, walkie talkie, megaphone and radio composed by Geneva Skeen and Mathew Timmons (radio score by Garrick Hogg, Andrew Lessman and Max Mayer). Employing a minimal modular score The Saffron Green brings together multiple analog technologies to explore the concept of both an outer space opera and an opera in public space. Taking the structure of a space opera and bringing it to street level, The Saffron Green borrows liberally from sci-fi operatic soundscapes and matches it with protest chants from the "Arab Spring" revolts. The People Want to Topple, The People Want to Overthrow, The People Demand the Fall. The performance will extend throughout Chinatown, using Human Resources as a staging ground and as home base from 5:30-7:00 pm and culminating on, in and above Chung King Road performed by a group of roughly 30 people from 7:15-7:45 pm.

You are invited to see The Saffron Green, the performance before the performance, the staging of the work as a work in and of itself at Human Resources from 5:30-7:00 pm as the performers ready themselves, get into costume, tune their radios, ready the walkie talkies and the bullhorns and warm up their voices. Then join us in walking over to Chung King Road for the performance from 7:15-7:45 pm for Perform Chinatown! on July 30.

Composed by Geneva Skeen and Mathew Timmons

Radio Score by Garrick Hogg, Andrew Lessman and Max Mayer
Listen to the Radio Score here.

Performers: Geneva Skeen, Mathew Timmons, Garrick Hogg, Kate Bergstrom, Claire Cronin, Andrea Dominguez, Kate Durbin, Rafa Esparza, Matt Fielder, Kate Gilbert, Gabi Gutierrez, Michael Anthony Ibarra, Mandy Kahn, Joanne Mitchell, Carmel Ni, Leila Perry, Jon Rutzmoser, Yecenia Torres, Christine Werthiem, and more...

Graphic Design Tanya Rubbak

Costuming by Geneva Skeen and Andrea Dominguez

Film: Ben Rodkin and Dante Della Maggiore

Thanks to KCHUNG Radio, Human Resources, Jancar Gallery, Ava Jancar, Fifth Floor Gallery, and Andrea Dominguez.

Review of The New Poetics in American Book Review

2011-08-04T14:30:00.000-07:00

A review of my book The New Poetics published by Les Figues Press in November 2010 at htmlgiant "AT LAST, SEXUAL SATISFACTION FOR CINDY SHERMAN WITH YOUR BIGGER AND NEWEST ATEMPORAL NETWORK CULTURE!"

And a review of in American Book Review, Volume 32, Number 4, May:June 2011.

The Saffron Green

2011-07-25T16:16:00.000-07:00

The Saffron Green
A Space Opera in three movements written for voice, walkie talkie, megaphone and radio composed by Geneva Skeen and Mathew Timmons (radio score by Garrick Hogg, Andrew Lessman and Max Mayer). Employing a minimal modular score The Saffron Green brings together multiple analog technologies to explore the concept of both an outer space opera and an opera in space. Taking the structure of a space opera and bringing it to street level, The Saffron Green borrows liberally from sci-fi operatic soundscapes and matches it with protest chants from the "Arab Spring" revolts. The People Want to Topple, The People Want to Overthrow, The People Demand the Fall. The performance will extend throughout Chinatown, using Human Resources as a staging ground and as home base from 5:30-7:00 pm and culminating on, in and above Chung King Road performed by a group of roughly 30 people from 7:15-7:45 pm.

You are invited to see The Saffron Green, the performance before the performance, the staging of the work as a work in and of itself at Human Resources from 5:30-7:00 pm as the performers ready themselves, get into costume, tune their radios, ready the walkie talkies and the bullhorns and warm up their voices. Then join us in walking over to Chung King Road for the performance from 7:15-7:45 pm for Perform Chinatown! on July 30.

Listen to the Radio Score here.

Performers: Geneva Skeen, Mathew Timmons, Garrick Hogg, Kate Bergstrom, Kim Calder, Claire Cronin, Greg Curtis, Andrea Dominguez, Kate Durbin, Rafa Esparza, Matt Fielder, Kate Gilbert, Gabi Gutierrez, Michael Anthony Ibarra, Mandy Kahn, Joanne Mitchell, Taylor Murphy, Carmel Ni, Leila Perry, Jon Rutzmoser, Yecenia Torres, Christine Werthiem, and more...

Image by Tanya Rubbak

Costuming by Geneva Skeen and Andrea Dominguez

Thanks to KCHUNG Radio, Human Resources, Jancar Gallery, Ava Jancar, Fifth Floor Gallery, and Andrea Dominguez.

We are looking for Radios!
Do you have a battery powered radio?
Would you be willing to let us borrow it saturday?
Would you be willing to join us saturday from 5-8pm at Human Resources and then on Chung King Road with your radio?
If you answered yes to all 3 questions We Love You! Please get in touch! anathemata at geeeeee mail

Vanessa Place & Rob Halpern Reading & Conversation Aug 5

2011-07-23T17:11:00.000-07:00

JJ Garza, The French Invented Music, 2009, mixed media, 36 " x 36" each at RAID Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Vanessa Place & Rob Halpern Reading & Conversation
POSTPONED -

Friday August 5, 2011 at 7:30pm
Insert Blanc Press HQ
Los Angeles, CA 90027

On the occasion of Rob Halpern visiting Los Angeles from the Bay Area and on the occasion of Vanessa Place's new book, Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case, from Blanc Press please join us for a reading and conversation with Vanessa Place and Rob Halpern.

Rob Halpern is the author of two books of poems, Rumored Place (Krupskaya 2004), which was nominated for a California Book Award, and Disaster Suites (Palm Press 2009), as well as several chapbooks, including Weak Link (Slack Buddha 2009) and Imaginary Politics (TapRoot Editions 2008). His new project, Music for Porn, is forthcoming next year (Nightboat Books). With Taylor Brady, he also co-authored the book length poem Snow Sensitive Skin (Atticus/Finch 2007), soon to be reissued by Displaced Press in an expanded edition.

Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (2006), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009), and The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law (2010). A book of conceptual poetry, Statement of Facts, will be published in France by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits; a trilogy of conceptual work, Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument, is being published in America by Blanc Press (USA). Her Factory-type chapbook series is available via oodpress (Brazil). Place is also a regular contributor to X-tra Art Quarterly, and has lectured and performed internationally.

Vanessa Place Statement of the Case

2011-06-12T15:04:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles, 06.15.11—Blanc Press is pleased to announce the release of Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case by Vanessa Place, the second volume of Place's three-volume series, Tragodía. To celebrate, Blanc Press is offering a 15% discount on Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts, the first hardcover edition of the three-volume series. For further celebration, Blanc Press is thrilled to announce the release of Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts in paperback! So many things to be excited about.

Purchase a copy of Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case by Vanessa Place now in hardbound $35.00.

Purchase a copy of Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts by Vanessa Place
in hardbound $45.00 (now discounted 15%)
or in paperback $25.00.

(Statement of Facts paperback cover image)

Tragodía is composed of the three parts of an appellate brief: Statement of Facts, which sets forth, in narrative form, the evidence of the crime as presented at trial; Statement of the Case, which sets forth the procedural history of the case; and Argument, which are the claims of error and (for the defense) the arguments for reversing the judgment. Place's Statement of the Case project involves reproducing Statements of the Case from some of her appellate briefs and representing them as poetry.

Rule 8.204(a )(2)(A) of the California Rules of Court requires the appellate brief to “state the nature of the action, relief sought in the trial court, and the judgment or order appealed from.” The purpose of this rule is to give the Court of Appeal a concise overview of the relevant trial court proceedings. Usually this would include, in chronological order: the charges, relevant motions and rulings, the type of proceeding, the verdict or other result, the judgment and sentence, and the date the notice of appeal was filed. The statement should include only information relevant to the issues or necessary to give the appeal an intelligible setting. It should not quote or paraphrase pleadings or other documents extensively or offer excessive detail about dates and procedures not material to the issues. One page or less often suffices. The key is to offer the court procedural context and focus.

Praise for Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts:
"No poetry book this year will be more disturbing – upsetting, unsettling – to read than Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts, by Vanessa Place."—Steven Fama, the glade of theoric ornithic hermetica

"... extremely disturbing on multiple levels ..."—Sina Queyras, Lemon Hound

"Vanessa Place, herself an appellate criminal defense attorney who specializes in sex offenders and sexually violent predators, has assembled a remarkable sequence of narratives, taken almost verbatim from court testimonies she herself reviewed: her cases are entirely “real.” But what is the “real” anyway? What is the difference between fact and the interpretation of fact? Between fact and truth? And what do these “true” stories tell us about the society we live in, and the way we apportion innocence and guilt? Telling it straight turns out to be the most mysterious—and poetic—way of telling it there is. No novelist could invent horror stories as compelling—and puzzling—as these actual case studies. Statement of Facts is a superb piece of conceptual writing."—Marjorie Perloff

"Just the facts, Ma’am. The only way to be more clever than Kathy Acker, it turns out, is to be less clever. Charles Reznikoff sampled the National Reporter System of appellate decisions for his verse in Testimony; Acker incorporated legal documents from In re van Geldern as part of her modified plagiarism; but Place recognizes that such documents are far more powerful left unedited. And they read, frequently, like the reticent syllogistic prose of Hemingway short stories. Reframed from the public record as literature, the results are emotionally unbearable."—Craig Dworkin

"Vanessa Place is a lawyer and, like Bartelby, much of her work involves scribing appellate briefs, that task of copying and editing, rendering complex lives and dirty deeds into “neutral” language to be presented before a court. That is her day job. Her poetry is an appropriation of the documents she writes during her day job, flipping her briefs after hours into literature. And like most literature, they’re chock full of high drama, pathos, horror and humanity. But unlike most literature, she hasn’t written a word of it. Or has she? Here’s where it gets interesting. She both has written them and, at the same time, she’s wholly appropriated them—rescuing them from the dreary world of court filings and bureaucracy—and, by mere reframing, turns them into what is arguably the most challenging, complex and controversial literature being written today."—Kenneth Goldsmith

"Statement of Facts is a powerful poem which forces us to question our own response to 'documentary' material and the nature and reliability of evidence. There's also for me the way that language functions (and often lies) in response to our attempts to make sense of things and I'm grateful to Place for bringing this to my attention."—John Armstrong, Arduity

"Statement of Facts is a book about limits and boundaries: physical, psychological, legal, literary, and conceptual. It is about speech and its transcription, and the strange distortions of language that have evolved to serve the legal system. It is about actions that leave a mark on the body and the soul."—Ken Gonzales-Day

"You might have supposed that the hallowed technique of cultural appropriation had exhausted itself in the wake of the Duchampian ready-made, the spend-thrift citations of Pop, Burrough’s lapidary cut-ups, or the critical twist given to all this by New York postmodernism in the 80s. But by re-presenting appellate briefs of sexual offense cases, attorney-cum-wordsmith, Vanessa Place has come up with another take on taking. Here the uncanny juggernaut of the Law collides with the excruciating strengths and fragilities of victims, voice is overwritten by context, and morality by salient indignation. In other circumstances we would take our hats off, but given her profession, she deserves a citation."—John Welchman

"By repurposing legal prosecution and defense documents of violent sexual crimes verbatim, Statement of Facts takes on issues too messy to benefit from further elucidation which only grow more disturbing presented in their purest case material form. For some, what Statement of Facts brings into the public square is salacious, but Place is in effect saying: ‘I move the ball out of this arena and take it into this arena’ in order to pump up the socio political volume on this legal/moral battlefield. Her definition of injustice is sweeping. Statement of Facts does not care what the reader thinks about content and in essence, Place’s relationship to content is like Oprah Winfrey’s to money. It is straightforward, and you are free to project onto it whatever you need to. However you respond to this fierce book, it is indisputable that Statement of Facts has carved out a place for itself as a touchstone of poetic push back. As Pasadena Superior Court Judge Gilbert Alston famously quipped in his dismissal of a 1986 rape case because the victim was a prostitute: ‘A whore is a whore is a whore’—Statement of Facts counters by unflinchingly reminding us ‘a rape is a rape is a rape.’"—Kim Rosenfield

"Statement of Facts is poet/lawyer Vanessa Place’s masterful demonstration of day-for-night writing. Alternately nauseating, cold, gripping, philosophical, and relentless, this volume is an analytical portrait of a writer writing in double-time, simultaneously producing legal language caught in the trap of trying (and failing) to secure the self-evident meanings of the factual; and poetic language procedurally measuring the way facts are fundamentally also instruments of violence, building toward the legitimation of a legal edifice from which no one can escape. These descriptions of heinous sex crimes, detached from their original function as depositions, are a treatise on contingency; a discourse on the moral lenses of narrative; and an institutional critique of the aesthetics and ethics of juridical administration."—Simon Leung

Vanessa Place is a writer, a criminal appellate defense attorney, and co-director of Les Figues Press. Of Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualisms, Mary Kelly said, “I learned more about the impact of conceptualism on artists and writers than I had from reading so-called canonical works on the subject.” Place is author of Dies: A Sentence, La Medusa, Notes on Conceptualisms (co-authored with Robert Fitterman), Exposé des Faits, and The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law. Other work includes the Factory Series of chapbooks and a sound collaboration with Stephanie Taylor, Murder Square Dance on the Spiral Jetty (both with oodpress).

TRAGODÍA 2: STATEMENT OF THE CASE
Hardcover, with dustjacket, 80 pages
Blanc Press, June 2011
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I Know What I Did Since Last Summer...

2011-05-24T17:59:00.000-07:00

Every once in a while, and more frequently than I'd like to admit, I get that feeling, which I'm sure you've all had as well, that I'm just a lazy no good shiftless Dude, with nothing good to show for whatever meager efforts I make. It is always good to look back several months and take stock and often times you realize, wait a minute... I Rock! ...but since I don't put up any documentation of the work it may as well not even exist. And so I'd like to offer this list as documentation of what I've been up to over the past year. Many of these projects involve the work and collaboration of many other artists and writers as well. Scroll down, click on things, enjoy!
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May
pieces from "Sound Noise" in Aufgabe #10

"Silver Lake Jubilee Les Figues Reading" Silver Lake Jubilee, Los Angeles (May 2011) listen to the Full Reading or listen to just the Finale and be sure to listen closely for the heckler from the third floor apartment.

"Silver Lake Jubilee Arts" curatorial work for Silver Lake Jubilee, Los Angeles (May 2011) including Jubilee Dérives with Adam Overton and Lailye Weidman, as well as a large scale installation by Janne Larsen

"The Procession of Figues" by Kate Durbin for Les Figues Garden Party, Los Angeles (May 2011). Kate Durbin made hats for three Les Figues writers to match their books and each of us participated in a procession as Kate read from our work. The New Poetics hat Kate made for me was bright and wonderfully garish. I also blew bubbles, which I was very not good at, while attempting to keep the hat balanced on my head.

“Les Figues: Place, Timmons & Wertheim” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, Los Angeles (May 2011) This was billed as a Sound Poetry Reading. There was a man sitting in the audience with huge headphones on for safety, he clearly got the sound poetry memo. It was a wonderfully loud reading, or as one reviewer said, "Closing the fest with the audacious, high energy, experimental sound poets of Les Figues Press... Their performance was the most fun I had all day, as there’s nothing quite like watching a complacent audience’s skin crawl."

PARROT 7 On the Substance of Disorder by Will Alexander is out from Insert Press. Buy a copy before they're gone. SOLD OUT!

April
"A Convocation" Library of Sacred Technologies (2011)

"Gnos: A Vocal Liturgy" Signify Sanctify Believe at Public Fiction, Los Angeles (April 2011) A collaboration with Geneva Skeen and the performers Ariana Petrovijc, Joseph Tepperman and Yecenia Torres. A small group vocal convocation exploring microtonal scores with elements of chanting and improvisation - examining the traditional religious service of the liturgy as a way of structuring and engaging group participation in a collective space - an hour long durational performance lacking logical sense - an immersive meditative experience.

"Gadji Beri Bimba: A Chanting Meditation" Signify Sanctify Believe at Public Fiction, Los Angeles (April 2011) - Listen to a group of 8 of us chanting Gadji Beri Bimba for half an hour.

mentioned in (though my name was misspelled - yeah I'm used to it) “The Digital Flood: You'd Better Start Swimmin' or You'll Sink Like a Stone” by Kenneth Goldsmith, Harriett, The Poetry Foundation (April 24, 2011) "an impoverished writer, Matthew Timmons [sic], who has taken every credit card application sent to him and bound them into an eight-hundred-page print-on-demand book so costly that even he can’t afford a copy" - "These new writers are language hoarders; their projects are epic, mirroring the gargantuan scale of textuality on the Internet. While the works often take an electronic form, there is often a paper version that is circulated in journals and zines, purchased by libraries, and received by, written about, and studied by readers of poetry. While this new writing has an electronic gleam in its eyes, its results are distinctly analog, taking inspiration from radical modernist ideas and juicing them with twenty-first century technology. This ain’t E-poetry or Net Art: this is all about a basic change in the ways in which we use language. We will never write the same way again."

March
“Poetry Reading: Mathew Timmons & Harold Abramowitz” Kristi Engle Gallery, Los Angeles (March 2011)

"The Arc of Noise" (sound poetry choral composition) A Cappella Speaking Choirs, compilation cd, WFMU-FM 91.1 Listen to the early mix here. A Compilation cd with some great stuff including Yesterduh by Brian Joseph Davis, pieces by Alan Licht and work from a number of other sound artists I'm excited to discover.

"A Safe Dinner" with Galadriel Mattei, Janne Larsen and [name], at Hi-Lite Gallery Los Angeles (March 2011) A wonderfully gargantuan effort at putting together an "art" dinner for over 30 guests, no catering, Holly Myers cooked everything, many wonderful people helped serve drinks and food, almost everyone from [name] was there helping in some way, Eric Lindley regaled the diners with song, Kari Rae Seekins DJ'd, this was a beautiful event, this was an amazing time, we're all sad you missed it, and for those of you who made it, you know what I'm talking about... [name] is a curatorial collective dedicated to the optimal channeling of auspicious energies in any and all available circumstances. Its members include Spencer Douglass, Holly Myers, Paul Pescador, Catherine Taft, Mathew Timmons, Matt Wardell, and Kate Wolf.

February
"Cop Kisser by Steven Zultanski" The Poetry Project Newsletter (February/March 2011) A review of a brilliant book by The Great Zultanski.

“The Safe Show by Janne Larsen” at Hi-Lite Gallery, Los Angeles (February-March 2011) This show collected a few different bodies of work Larsen has worked on over the past few years including the Gum Drop Mountain series, another group of paintings Larsen worked on while at a residency in Austrailia, and of course the Safe Series. The Safe Series was based around an unopened safe that Larsen inherited some three years previous. Meditating on the possible contents hidden within, Larsen's painting reveal the darker side of desire and even obsession as the safe, or what might possibly be resting safely inside, becomes a fetish object for the subjects in her paintings as the subjects of her paintings, all men, become objects of their own fetishistic desires.

January
“The New Interview” by David Shook, molossus (January 11, 2011) An interview with David Shook of molossus about my recent book, The New Poetics from Les Figues Press

"The New Craft" from The New Poetics, molasses (2011) A piece finished after the book was released and written for David Shook and molossus.

"Self-Reliance" as part of [name], Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 (January 2011) A high energy construct of a show that brought together a wide variety of collectives and alternative spaces operating in the Los Angeles art world. The piece that [name] included in the exhibition was mainly thought out by Holly Myers and Kate Wolf. The idea was deceptively simple, there was a copy of the text Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, an old wooden soap box and the instructions that the viewer should take the text and the soap box and go somewhere outside and stand on the soap box and read the text Self-Reliance to any passersby that might listen. I myself took the opportunity to rely upon myself to enact the piece and drew quite and audience, it was also interesting to reflect upon the text in this seemingly new context.

“MLA Off-Site Reading” ArtShare, Los Angeles (January 2011) A reading with over 70 poets, the standard MLA off-site reading as we in LA were lucky enough to host the MLA convention. I helped Brian Kim Stefans and the gentlemen from the PRB put together a solid 4 hour reading and we had a stocked audience throughout the entire evening. I think for many of us in LA it was wonderful to see an audience of nearly 200 people spilling out into the wings of the theater, and all for poetry!

“Featherless #7” Wordspace, Los Angeles (January 2011) A wonderful reading at a great space in Atwater Village, wordspace, hosted by Brenda Varda, Andrea Lambert and Katie Jacobson, lovely ladies, all three.

December
"Text in Art: Barbara Krueger, Peter Tunney, Mathew Timmons, Young-Hae Chang, and Tony Thoong" online exhibition curated by Paula Daenze (December 2010) A virtual exhibition and a nice surprise for me to be found among such great company

“Telephone” François Ghebaly Gallery, Culver City, CA (December 2010) A One-Night Exhibition of Experimental Poetry, Sound Art, and Performance. This one-night show offered me the opportunity to take a project from script to real live choir, The Arc of Noise, which was previously realized by participants of (323)Projects over the phone as part of the telephone gallery (see more about this project below). I also asked members of [name] collective to help find perfumers that would be willing to act out found texts we had amassed for You've Got Problems? We've Got Solutions. a telephone gallery show we did with (323)Projects. Performers included Jon Rutzmoser (who also helped video the event), Tucker Neel and Nancy Popp. Spencer Douglas also made a movie based on Marilyn Monroe's eulogy. Please enjoy the videos below…

“Variety Variety Variety” the Lounge at REDCAT, Los Angeles (December 2010) Miranda July actually showed up in the audience for this reading in the Lounge at REDCAT, one of my favorite places to read in LA and on a Sunday afternoon too, my favorite time for a reading all curated by the highly skilled curator, Harold Abramowitz.

November
The New Poetics. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, 2010. My book! Have you read it? Rodrigo Toscano did the intro and he has also said “The New Poetics helped deepen my thoughts about the paradoxical relations between temporality and culture-making. It is paradoxical and committed in a most excellent way.” Marie Buck has said, "In making newness old, The New Poetics begins to chart a way to think futurity differently. And as a work of poetics, Timmons’s book both operates through and points up a contradiction inherent to flarf and conceptual writing: the valorization of non-newness as simultaneous valorization of the (new) gesture away from the new. These poems are great at the individual level, and you should read this book for that reason. But also, you should read this book because doing so will upset a slew of old poetics questions you thought you had worked out.”

"the Past I, Present I, New I" The Encyclopedia Project Vol. 2 F-K

“You've Got Problems? We've Got Solutions.” as part of [name], (323) Projects, Los Angeles (November 2010)

Guest Lecture & Performance, Bruna Mori's Forms and Formulas class (LIT435) UCSD, San Diego & Mori's Poetry class, Woodbury School of Architecture, San Diego, CA (November 2010)

“Les Figues Pacific Northwest Readings” Spare Room Series at The Waypost, Portland, OR (November 2010)
“Les Figues Pacific Northwest Readings” Pilot Books, Seattle, WA (November 2010)

“Open Door: 323 Projects” by David Shook, Harriett, The Poetry Foundation, November, 2010. A write up on (323)Projects in general and it's historical precedent, John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem project as well as The Archanoids show in particular, including audio from The Archanoids cd as well as sample audio from The Arc of Noise. Also for this project Shook asked me to recreate the famous Dial-a-Poem photograph of John Giorno and I couldn't help but oblige.

October
"Man on Pink Corner, Purveyor of Iniquities" an Afterword for Christopher Russell's solo exhibition catalog, Runaway, Luis de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles (October 2010)

“Futility of Making Salad: Artists and Community” MATERIAL Studio Visit #2 (October 2010)

"Community or Group Formation: A Basic Sketch" The Futility of Making Salad: Artists and Community, MATERIAL (October 2010)

“From Bohemia to Conceptual Writing: Books, presses, and publishing” UCLA Department of Information Studies at the Clark Library, Los Angeles (October 9, 2010)

September
Sound Noise. Texas: Little Red Leaves, 2010. An ebook available for free from LRL and also available through Lulu.com as a paperback book. A kind of sequel to my chapbook, Lip Service, from Slack Buddha a year previous. I purposefully made this book the cheapest book available through Lulu so that alongside my previous book CREDIT I would have both the most and least expensive books available through Lulu.

"The Archanoids" (sound poetry cd) joint project Pleonasm Music, (323) Projects, Insert Press (2010) Listen to tracks at Pleonasm Music and at Harriett

“The Archanoids” solo show inaugurating the opening of a new phone gallery in Los Angeles (323) Projects, Los Angeles (September 2010) For this show I played a different track from the cd The Archanoids every other day throughout the month long run of the show. (323) Projects, a project of Tucker Neel, is a phone gallery that guests "visit" by calling in. For this show callers were able to leave a message that followed an online video score for a new sound poem, The Arc of Noise. As I've worked with Aaron Drake to mix the roughly 140 different messages left we've come up with a preliminary mix which is the track that was released by WFMU. Listen to the early mix here.

“The Arc of Noise Score” for 323Projects, text animation video score (September 2010)

The Arc of Noise from Mathew Timmons on Vimeo.

“Mathew Timmons: The Archanoids @ 323projects” tryharder LA art blog (September 13, 2010)

“Fine Arts LA Exclusive: Mathew Timmons” by Joshua Morrison (September 2, 2010)

“Mathew Timmons: The Archanoids” flavorpill Los Angeles Pick of the Week by Shana Nys Dambrot (September 1, 2010)

“The New Poetics Book Trailer” for Les Figues Press, with camera and sound by Ben Rodkin and assistance from Theo Carlson (September 2010) A "book trailer" made for my then forthcoming book The New Poetics

The New Poetics Trailer from Mathew Timmons on Vimeo.

August
“CREDIT: Installation” Not Content, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (August 2010) Two 8' x 11' murals painted pointed in three days with the assistance of Sarah Krainin. Each painting is taken from the two main sections of the book CREDIT, those being Credit (on the left) and Debit (on the right in pink).

“CREDIT: Talk & Performance” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) (August 2010) Images from the artist talk and performance after three days of painting the pieces. On the fourth day I took a break and talked about it.

PARROT 7 On the Substance of Disorder by Will Alexander

2011-05-24T14:34:00.001-07:00

PARROT 7 On the Substance of Disorder
by Will Alexander
Now Out from Insert Press!

SOLD OUT!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Covers of Parrot are handprinted by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work here: http://maggielomeliprintmaking.blogspot.com/ methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 5, a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. Also! Statement of Facts by Vanessa Place is available through Blanc Press.

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The Insert Press Full Subscription includes everything produced by Insert Press for $133.00. You may subscribe to Insert Press separate from the PARROT series for $50.00. You may subscribe to the PARROT series only for $81.00 (issues 1-4 have completely sold out so subscriptions will begin at PARROT 5). You may pre-order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the PARROT collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00 (This is now the only way to get the full run of PARROT). You may also Donate to Insert Press and if you include your address, we’ll send you something very exciting, just because you’re so nice!

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Subscribe to Insert Press now for $133.00 and receive everything Insert Press has published to date including Three Column Table by Harold Abramowitz (only a few copies left available only to subscribers!), Absurd Good News by Julien Poirier, Handsome Fish Offices by Ara Shirinyan plus a year's worth of new titles including Bruna Mori's forthcoming Poetry for Corporations, the Ups & Downs anthology (a collection of writings and imagery from the installation series, The Ups & Downs), all 23 of the individual titles in the PARROT series (issues 1-4 have completely sold out so subscriptions will begin at PARROT 5), and anything else we publish this year.

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A Safe Dinner

2011-02-22T13:32:00.001-08:00

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Hello!

I would like to invite you to A Safe Dinner at Hi-Lite Gallery on Saturday March 5 at 7 p.m. A Safe Dinner is being put on by Janne Larsen, Galadriel Mattei, Holly Myers, Mathew Timmons and [name] in concert with The Safe Show by Janne Larsen. You can find out more information about Larsen’s work at Hi-Lite Gallery’s website.

This will be an intimate dinner with a very limited guest list and we are especially interested in having You join us. You cannot believe how lucky you are to be invited to this occasion! Menu and drinks by [name] collective—entertainments and diversions by Janne Larsen and Galadriel Mattei. Come prepared to imbibe, enjoy, and participate in an evening of culinary and sensory adventure!

Please RSVP at General Projects by Wednesday March 2 (Scroll down for paypal button). You may bring a guest. The cost is $30 per person, due at the time of the reservation. The cost includes all food and drink. You will also find the option to let us know if you are vegetarian and we will accommodate you.

A Safe Dinner
Saturday March 5 from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.
Hi-Lite
533 South Los Angeles St
Los Angeles, CA 90013

RSVP by March 2 at General Projects (Scroll down for paypal button)
You may also donate to the event, the artists and the space below...

[name] is a curatorial collective dedicated to the optimal channeling of auspicious energies in any and all available circumstances. Its members include Spencer Douglass, Holly Myers, Paul Pescador, Catherine Taft, Mathew Timmons, Matt Wardell, and Kate Wolf.

Sorry we are Full for the evening - but we'll be doing more dinners in the future - look out for dinner!

Donate to support the event, the artists and the space by clicking on the button below...

MLA Off-Site Reading 2011 Los Angeles

2011-01-05T17:25:00.000-08:00

MLA Off-Site Reading
Los Angeles Saturday, Jan 8, 2011
7pm doors / reading 7:30pm

ArtShare
http://artsharela.org/
801 East 4th Pl.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

The traditional MLA off-site marathon reading--over sixty poets from across the country, reading for 3 minutes each--brought to you by Brian Kim Stefans, Andrew Maxwell, Mathew Timmons, Joseph Mosconi and Ara Shirinyan.

Who said conference poetry wasn't sexy? You say MLA. We say MLAwesome.

Zero-sum speed-sport pachinko-style poetasty. Everything poetry is not supposed to be––for four hours!

This is the shadow convention. Screw the well-lit spaces. Guidebook for conventioneers ahead.

Doors open at 7:00, the reading will start at 7:30.

Poets will read for 3 minutes (or less); we place violators on the subway to the sea, MTA-guaranteed, by which we mean they shall never arrive. We have to be out of the venue by midnight, so windbags will be haters. If it sounds like a puptent happening, get this: it is a proper theater, so at least there are no chairs to fold!

There is a parking lot, and during the event there will be an inexpensive cash bar, but we have no other details on the space. It looks really great in the photos.

Did we mention there's a grand piano?

More complete information, including directions, restaurants and bars in the neighborhood, can be found at Brian Kim Stefan's blog, Free Space Comix. http://www.arras.net/fscIII/?p=1616

The Cast of Players
in the order they will appear...

7:30 - 7:45
Aaron Kunin
Norman Finkelstein
Vanessa Place
Jonathan Skinner
Andrew Maxwell

7:45 - 8:00
Rodrigo Toscano
Calvin Bedient
Joshua Clover
Molly Bendall
Barrett Watten

8:00 - 8:15
Catherine Daly
Brent Cunningham
Ara Shirinyan
Carla Harryman
Deborah Meadows

8:15 - 8:30
Clay Banes
Jane Sprague
Dawn Lundy
Douglas Kearney
Ronaldo Wilson

8:30 - 8:45
Allison Carter
Cathy Park Hong
David Lloyd
Lyn Hejinian
Amanda Ackerman

8:45 - 9:00
David Lau
Amina Cain
Grant Jenkins
Anna Joy Springer
James Meetze

9:00 - 9:15
Bibiana Maltos
Marcella Durand
Janice Lee
Andy Fitch
Linda Lay

9:15 - 9:30
Timothy Yu
Matias Viegener
Josef Horáček
Harold Abramowitz
Jena Osman

9:30 - 9:45
David Shook
Ted Pearson
Rocío Carlos
Michael Hennessey
Aaron Belz

9:45 - 10:00
Julia Bloch
Guy Bennett
Johanna Drucker
Janet Sarbanes
Patrick Durgin

10:00 - 10:15
Mathew Timmons
K. Lorraine Graham
Joseph Mosconi
Kit Robinson
Will Alexander

10:15 - 10:30
Lisa Sewell
Rae Armantrout
Noura Wedell
Román Luján
John Pluecker

10:30-10:45
Stuart Krimko
Jeanine Webb
Therese Bachand
Brian Kim Stefans
Daniel Tiffany

10:45 - 11:00
John Tranter
Diane Ward
Sarah Dowling
Teresa Carmody
Susan Schultz

11:00 -
Christine Wertheim
William Mohr

Telephone Sat Dec 11 at Francois Ghebaly Gallery

2010-12-05T17:57:00.000-08:00

Telephone
Mathew Timmons' The Arc of Noise and
You’ve Got Problems? We’ve Got Solutions. by [name]
Saturday, December 11 from 7-10 p.m.

François Ghebaly Gallery | Los Angeles
310-280-0777
2600 La Cienega Blvd.
 Los Angeles, CA 90034

Francois Ghebaly Gallery presents Telephone, a night of performance, poetry, sound art, and exciting collaborations highlighting works by Mathew Timmons and [name]. Visitors will experience the world premiere of The Arc of Noise, an epic choral composition created from messages left by scores of callers who participated in the collaborative sound work that debuted at the inaugural exhibition of 323 Projects.

Telephone will also showcase performances from 323 Project’s current show You've Got Problems? We've Got Solutions by [name], featuring audio samples meant to play with concepts typified by self-help literature, motivational speaking, gurus, mantras, and spiritual healing. You can access 323 Projects any time, day or night, by calling (323) 843-4652. Performers of pieces from You've Got Problems? We've Got Solutions by [name] will include: Spencer Douglass, Nancy Popp, Jon Rutzmoser, and Tucker Neel.

Audience members are encouraged to join The Arc of Noise choir. The choir will include: Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Jordan Biren, Spencer Douglass, Kate Durbin, Daiana Feuer, Teira Johnson, Janne Larsen, Linda Lay, Tucker Neel, Gerard Olson, Adam Overton, Vanessa Place, Nancy Popp, Jon Rutzmoser, Jess Ruvalcaba, Nate Schulman and Geneva Skeen.

About Mathew Timmons
Timmons works in a variety of media, focusing on creating works using language, sound, poetry, and printed matter. His work culls from external sources and repositions meaning in unfamiliar and disarming ways. For his exhibition at 323 Projects Timmons debuted The Archanoids, an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries from 2005-2010. In addition, he also invited visitors to participate in The Arc of Noise, a collective sound poem which utilized 323 Projects’ collaborative capabilities. Viewers participated by calling 323 Projects while watching a video score of Timmons' composition and recording their own voice following the score. Since the show Timmons has worked with programmers and sound engineers Dan Richert and Aaron Drake to layer all the visitor’s messages into one single choral performance of the piece, making the world's largest sound poetry choir.

About [name]
[name] is a curatorial collective dedicated to the optimal channeling of auspicious energies in any and all available circumstances. Its members include Spencer Douglass, Holly Myers, Paul Pescador, Catherine Taft, Mathew Timmons, Matt Wardell, and Kate Wolf.

About 323 Projects
323 Projects is an innovative exhibition space that exists as a phone number visitors can call to access contemporary art. 323 Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and constantly accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. To visit 323 Projects simply call (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. You can also visit the 323 Projects website at 323projects.com. Tucker Neel is the Founder and Director of 323 Projects. He can be reached at info@323projects.com.

For further information, please contact Karisa Morante at karisa@ghebaly.com

The Futility of Making Salad at MATERIAL

2010-10-01T08:11:00.001-07:00

THE FUTILITY OF MAKING SALAD
Panel discussion Sunday, October 3 at 1pm
and Launch of The Futility of Making Salad publication
a collaboration between Insert Press and MATERIAL
at MATERIAL 970 N. Broadway, Suite 211 Los Angeles, CA 90012

THE FUTILITY OF MAKING SALAD

Please join us Sunday, October 3, at 1pm at MATERIAL 970 N. Broadway, Suite 211 Los Angeles, CA 90012 for a panel discussion around the topic of community and a launch of the publication - both entitled The Futility of Making Salad.   Panel members include:  Mathew Timmons, Marcus Civin,  Elana Mann , Adam Overton,  Dorit Cypis,  Julie Orser , Melanie Nakaue,  Ginny Cook & Kim Schoen.    We will be making a gigantic salad for everyone to share. Please bring a vegetable. You can purchase a copy of the publication at the event or order a copy online for $8.

Joseph Kosuth, in “Art and Its Public” defined an artist community as “...a community of artists who collectively, through individual effort, define what is meaningful at a particular historical moment concretely within the practice of their activity.” And comedian Stephen Fry, while viciously ripping into a head of lettuce, asks why making a salad (with no other motive other than love!) (and a decent desire!) is so frustratingly futile. We have invited a number of artists to address the question: is there such a thing as an artist community? Do they feel a part of one? What constitutes it? What would it mean to be able to collectively define meaning today, in a diverse and ever-changing art world?   

Insert Press in collaboration with MATERIAL, an artist-run journal publishing and supporting the artist’s voice, has collected the responses to this question and created a publication of these texts that begin to describe our ‘particular moment.’ With cover design and screenprinting by Maggie White Lomeli and Insert Press, and interior layout design & typesetting by Daniel Lucas, The Futility of Making Salad features texts by the following artists: Harold Abramowitz , Stan Apps,  Marcus Civin,  Ginny Cook,  Dorit Cypis,  Robin Dicker,  Bradney Evans,  Nicholas Grider,  Dan Hockenson,  Peter Kirby,  Elana Mann,  Melanie Nakaue , Julie Orser,  Adam Overton,  Putting On  Declan Rooney,  Kim Schoen,  Charlotte Smith,  Jesper List Thompsen,  Mathew Timmons,  Jason Underhill.

You can purchase a copy of the publication at the event or order a copy online for $8.

The New Poetics Trailer

2010-09-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

The New Poetics Trailer from Mathew Timmons on Vimeo.

The New Poetics by Mathew Timmons - Les Figues Press - purchase your copy today at LesFigues.com - The New Poetics Trailer by Mathew Timmons with camera and sound by Ben Rodkin and assistance from Theo Carlson.

The Archanoids

2010-09-01T12:02:00.000-07:00

The Archanoids
an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries 2005-2010
$10 + S&H

Insert Press in collaboration with 323 Projects and Pleonasm Music is pleased to present The Archanoids, an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries, 2005-2010.

The Archanoids will exist as the inaugural exhibition of 323 Projects a phone gallery visited by calling (323) 843-4652 or (323) TIE-IN-LA. The show is open all day and all night, every day of the week from September 6-October 11, 2010. Featuring all the recordings from the album, 323 Projects phone gallery will present a new track from the album every other day and offer an invitation to callers to participate in a collective sound poem by leaving a message and following an online score.

Pleonasm Music, the net-label run by Christian Cummings, An independent musical community of uncategorizable avant-weird living room minstrels par excellence, will release a free downloadable selection of tracks from the album.

Insert Press is releasing the full album including a 32 page booklet of scores and written work from the album which can be purchased through Insert Press for $10 + S&H.

You can read a preview of The Archanoids written by Joshua Morrison at Fine Arts LA. Shana Nys Dambrot of flavorpill says, "Mathew Timmons is a hard-core collaborator with no regard for traditional boundaries when it comes to mixing media and even entire genres. ... Listen, speak, repeat as necessary."

The Archanoids
Composers (in the order they appear): Robert Darry, Mathew Timmons, Hugo Ball, Gertrude Stein, Christian Bök, Kurt Schwitters, Theodor Seuss Geisel, Luigi Russolo, Claude Gauvreau, Janine Armin, Giacomo Balla & F. T. Marinetti

Performers (in the order they appear): Robert Darry, Mathew Timmons, Sandy Ding, Harold Abramowitz, js makkos, Gary Barwin, Gregory Betts, Janine Armin, Amaranth Borsuk, Amina Cain, Allison Carter, Kate Durbin, Gabriela Jauregui, Stephanie Taylor, Donato Mancini & Christine Wertheim.

Remixes by last nights of paris. Album mixed by Patrick Navarre.

Programming / Audio Engineering of The Arc of Noise collaborative
sound poem by Dan Richert.

Buy It Now

PARROT 6 Viva Miscegenation by Brian Kim Stefans

2010-08-25T15:38:00.000-07:00

PARROT 6 Viva Miscegenation
by Brian Kim Stefans
Now Out from Insert Press!

Buy Now!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Covers of Parrot are handprinted by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work here: http://maggiewhiteprintmaking.blogspot.com/ methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And Coming Soon! The Archanoids, an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries from Pleonasm Music. A telephone gallery show at (323) Projects of solo, collaborative and interactive sound poetries from September 6-October 11, 2010. And Statement of Facts by Vanessa Place is available through Blanc Press.

There are only a couple PARROT subscriptions still available, so get yours now!

Sign up for the Insert Press & Blanc Press mailing list here!

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press.

The Insert Press Full Subscription includes everything produced by Insert Press for $133.00. You may subscribe to Insert Press separate from the PARROT series for $50.00. You may subscribe to the PARROT series only for $81.00. You may order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the PARROT collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00. You may also Donate to Insert Press and if you include your address, we’ll send you something very exciting, just because you’re so nice!

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Subscribe to Insert Press! and the PARROT series! for $133.00

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Or subscribe to PARROT for $81.00 and receive individual titles from the PARROT series as they are released.

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$$$ Cotton Candy and $$$ The Color of Money

2010-08-15T19:18:00.000-07:00

$$$ Cotton Candy - a limited edition of 20 two-color prints available online and at the CREDIT: Installation at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) from August 5-26 (15" x 22" stratford grey rag paper). Quite literally all the Dollars and Cents from the book CREDIT. Purchase a copy of this print now - $75.

$$$ The Color of Money - a limited edition of 20 two-color prints available online and at the CREDIT: Installation at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) from August 5-26 (15" x 22" stratford grey rag paper). Quite literally all the Dollars and Cents from the book CREDIT. Purchase a copy of this print now - $75.

CREDIT: Installation at LACE

2010-08-10T16:31:00.000-07:00

photos of the artist talk and performance by Harold Abramowitz

CREDIT: Installation at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions LACE, August 5-26, 2010.

Les Figues Press presents Mathew Timmons CREDIT: Installation as part of Not Content, a series of text projects that investigate the ways in which language functions within public and private spheres and within the tenuous and transitory space between these real and imagined realms. Not Content will take place as a series of writers-in-residence. Most residencies will last for three weeks, during which time the writer will engage in a project that considers the physical and temporal space of the gallery/residency. Presenting Writers: Vanessa Place, Divya Victor, Douglas Kearney, Maxi Kim, Gaby Torres and Jenny Donovan, Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, Mathew Timmons, Yedda Morrison, Johanna Drucker, Marco Huerta, Sawako Nakayasu, and Christine Wertheim.

In late spring 2007 as an irrational exuberance and promise of financial fortune hung in the air, mailboxes were filled with generous and gracefully worded offers of credit. Just over two years later, in midsummer 2009, the shape of the financial environment changed radically and mailboxes still filled up with statements of credit. Something had to change, offer turned to obligation.

Mathew Timmons installation at LACE, CREDIT, is based on his book of the same name. Published by Blanc Press in Los Angeles, CREDIT is an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book—the longest, most expensive book publishable through the online service lulu.com. Divided into two sections, Part A: Credit–26 parts (a-z) and Part 2: Debit–10 parts (1-10), CREDIT is a highly revealing and emotional work chronicling a personal tale of credit.

Mathew Timmons’ CREDIT has been roundly endorsed by a number of artists, writers, editors and critics. Holly Myers has said, "Rarely has the mind-numbing banality of consumer capitalism’s fine-print underbelly been employed to such elegant effect. Mathew Timmons’ CREDIT is a timely epic in this crumbling age of debt." Willam Moor has said, "This book is a must have, along the lines of the Arcades Project, the OED, any crossword puzzle in the U.S. between 1982 and 1995, finished or not, the Bible, and of course the definitive attempt at something without reason, Marienbad." Robert Summers has said, "Timmons enacts a redistribution of the sensible that disrupts the common of the community: he shows what has been present but in a way that highlights the twisted irony of it all." And Dan Richert has said, "CREDIT's operation is ravenously lossy, feeding on filtering byproducts and mistranslation; emphasis on information loss/breakage makes the text self-genotoxic and it sprouts mutant poetry from attractive shapes and corners. The text can be rotated. CREDIT is unreadable and CREDIT is a vibrant autobiography and CREDIT is a rainbow dream."

Timmons' CREDIT: Installation at LACE will engage with excess through the layering of elements from the book. Beginning with the recreation of a few iconic images from the book at the scale of 1 inch = 1 foot (achieved with the help of scenic designer Sarah Krainin), the installation will develop as Timmons attempts to read aloud the entirety of the book CREDIT and record an audio version of the complete text. A software program will be used to turn the sound recordings into a new text, which will be released at the end of the residency as the paperback edition of CREDIT.

View a short movie of the CREDIT: Installation in process...

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2010-07-31T04:56:00.000-07:00

(continue) a limited edition of 21 prints (11.5” x 15”) in three colors available online and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Aug 5-26 for the show CREDIT. (continue) is made of all the “page turners” from the book CREDIT by Mathew Timmons and CREDIT is quite a page turner. Purchase a print now.
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PARROT 5 Loquela by Allyssa Wolf Out Now! from Insert Press!

2010-07-26T18:54:00.000-07:00

PARROT 5 Loquela
by Allyssa Wolf

Now Out from Insert Press!

Sold Out!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Covers of Parrot are handprinted by the amazing printmaker, Maggie White. You can find out more about her work here: http://maggiewhiteprintmaking.blogspot.com/ methinks you'll like what you see.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons. And Coming Soon, PARROT 6 Viva Miscegenation by Brian Kim Stefans! There are only a couple PARROT subscriptions still available, so get yours now!

Sign up for the Insert Press & Blanc Press mailing list here!

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press.

The Insert Press Full Subscription includes everything produced by Insert Press for $133.00. You may subscribe to Insert Press separate from the PARROT series for $50.00. You may subscribe to the PARROT series only for $81.00. You may order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the PARROT collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00. You may also Donate to Insert Press and if you include your address, we’ll send you something very exciting, just because you’re so nice!

See details below:

Subscribe to Insert Press now for $133.00 and receive everything Insert Press has published to date including Three Column Table by Harold Abramowitz (only a few copies left available only to subscribers!), Absurd Good News by Julien Poirier, Handsome Fish Offices by Ara Shirinyan plus a year's worth of new titles including Bruna Mori's forthcoming Poetry for Corporations, the Ups & Downs anthology (a collection of writings and imagery from the installation series, The Ups & Downs), all 23 of the individual titles in the PARROT series, and anything else we publish this year.

Subscribe to Insert Press! and the PARROT series! for $133.00

Or subscribe to Insert Press! separate from the PARROT series for only $50.00

Or subscribe to PARROT for $81.00 and receive individual titles from the PARROT series as they are released.

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From Penn Sound - LA-Lit Clouds! plus.

2010-07-22T15:09:00.000-07:00

Re-posted from Penn Sound

The summer rolls on and we keep updating some of our most-beloved series. In the spotlight today is LA Lit, the Los Angeles-based program hosted by Mathew Timmons and Stephanie Rioux at Betalevel. Over the past two years, we've brought you thirty-three episodes, broadcast between 2005 and 2008, including wonderful, in-depth readings and conversations with poets including Eileen Myles, Maggie Nelson, Will Alexander and Lee Ann Brown.

This week, we've updated our LA Lit series page, adding a number of new materials. First, we've added a pair of "Poetic Service Announcements" from 2006, featuring Alexander, Diane Ward and Guy Bennett. We've also posted the show's last three episodes (for the time being) — featuring Vincent Dachy, Lisa Samuels, Harold Abromowitz — which were produced in the fall of 2008 and the spring 2009. While the series is on hiatus at present, it certainly went out in style, with the two-day Clouds Conference, celebrating LA Lit's third anniversary. Recorded on November 21-22, 2008 at Betalevel and the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, the conference featured a number of readings as well as two wide-ranging panel discussions, and its roster — including Sawako Nakayasu, Teresa Carmody, Mark Wallace, K. Lorraine Graham, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Stan Apps, Ary Shirinayan, Lisa Samuels, Amarnath Ravva and Christine Wertheim, along with Alexander, Bennett, Timmons and Rioux — is not only a who's who of contemporary poetics, but also a testament to the richness of LA Lit's editorial perspectives. PennSound's newest team member, Katie Siegel, has carefully segmented the conference recordings so that individual tracks are available for each reader and panelist, allowing listeners to browse at will. To begin listening, click here.

Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts by Vanessa Place from Blanc Press

2010-07-13T23:12:00.001-07:00

Los Angeles, 07.13.10—Blanc Press is pleased to announce the release of Vanessa Place’s Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts, the first of the three-volume series, Tragodía. Forthcoming from Blanc Press this fall are Tragodía 2: Statement of the Case, and Tragodía 3: Argument.

Purchase a copy now through lulu.com

A statement of facts is a legal document which sets forward factual information without argument. These documents are used in a variety of legal settings, ranging from appeals to filing vehicle registration paperwork. The goal of a statement of facts is not to put forward an argument, but rather to present factual information in a clear, easy to understand way. That said, many lawyers may make implicit arguments in a statement of facts, using a variety of tricks to sway the reader to one point of view or another. Typically these arguments are designed to paint someone in a favorable light, or to dismiss the reliability of someone else.

Tragodía is composed of the three parts of an appellate brief: Statement of Facts, which sets forth, in narrative form, the evidence of the crime as presented at trial; Statement of the Case, which sets forth the procedural history of the case; and Argument, which are the claims of error and (for the defense) the arguments for reversing the judgment. Place’s Statement of Facts project involves reproducing Statements of Facts from some of her appellate briefs and representing them as poetry.

“What is a fact? “On February 28, 2005, seventeen-year-old Amanda was living with her mother and her twelve-year-old sister in Lennox.” Yes, that seems like a perfectly neutral factual statement made by Amanda in her police testimony.

But next we read, “When Amanda came home about 8:00 p.m., the lights were off and the doors were unlocked.” Are these facts? Not necessarily: Amanda might be inventing the scenario, although these facts can be checked against the testimony of her mother Sandy, who was out at the laundromat when the incident occurred. But by the time we get to “Once inside, Amanda made something to eat, then went to the bedroom, and laid on her mother’s bed to watch a movie,” we’re in the realm of interpretation so that the surreal account of the sexual assault scene that follows is less than factual.

Vanessa Place, herself an appellate criminal defense attorney who specializes in sex offenders and sexually violent predators, has assembled a remarkable sequence of narratives, taken almost verbatim from court testimonies she herself reviewed: her cases are entirely “real.” But what is the “real” anyway? What is the difference between fact and the interpretation of fact? Between fact and truth? And what do these “true” stories tell us about the society we live in, and the way we apportion innocence and guilt? Telling it straight turns out to be the most mysterious—and poetic—way of telling it there is. No novelist could invent horror stories as compelling—and puzzling—as these actual case studies. Statement of Facts is a superb piece of conceptual writing.”
—Marjorie Perloff

You might have supposed that the hallowed technique of cultural appropriation had exhausted itself in the wake of the Duchampian ready-made, the spend-thrift citations of Pop, Burrough’s lapidary cut-ups, or the critical twist given to all this by New York postmodernism in the 80s. But by re-presenting appellate briefs of sexual offense cases, attorney-cum-wordsmith, Vanessa Place has come up with another take on taking. Here the uncanny juggernaut of the Law collides with the excruciating strengths and fragilities of victims, voice is overwritten by context, and morality by salient indignation. In other circumstances we would take our hats off, but given her profession, she deserves a citation.
—John Welchman

By repurposing legal prosecution and defense documents of violent sexual crimes verbatim, Statement of Facts takes on issues too messy to benefit from further elucidation which only grow more disturbing presented in their purest case material form. For some, what Statement of Facts brings into the public square is salacious, but Place is in effect saying: ‘I move the ball out of this arena and take it into this arena’ in order to pump up the socio political volume on this legal/moral battlefield. Her definition of injustice is sweeping. Statement of Facts does not care what the reader thinks about content and in essence, Place’s relationship to content is like Oprah Winfrey’s to money. It is straightforward, and you are free to project onto it whatever you need to. However you respond to this fierce book, it is indisputable that Statement of Facts has carved out a place for itself as a touchstone of poetic push back. As Pasadena Superior Court Judge Gilbert Alston famously quipped in his dismissal of a 1986 rape case because the victim was a prostitute: ‘A whore is a whore is a whore’—Statement of Facts counters by unflinchingly reminding us ‘a rape is a rape is a rape.’
—Kim Rosenfield

Of Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualisms, Mary Kelly said, “I learned more about the impact of conceptualism on artists and writers than I had from reading so-called canonical works on the subject.” Place is also author of Dies: A Sentence, La Medusa, and The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law. Place is co-director of Les Figues Press, and a regular contributor to X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly. Her most recent work is available in French by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits, and by Blanc Press, as the forthcoming English trilogy, Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts, 2: Statement of the Case, and 3: Argument.

TRAGODÍA 1: STATEMENT OF FACTS
Hardcover, with dustjacket, 430 pages
Blanc Press, June 2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-934254-18-9
Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.5 x 1.25 inches
$45.00 – available for purchase through lulu.com

PARROT 4 by Joseph Mosconi

2010-06-25T13:02:00.000-07:00

PARROT 4 But On Geometric by Joseph Mosconi
Now out from Insert Press!

SOLD OUT!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

Read some recent press on the PARROT series, including a review of PARROT 1 and an interview with editor Mathew Timmons.

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press.

The Insert Press Full Subscription includes everything produced by Insert Press for $133.00. You may subscribe to Insert Press separate from the PARROT series for $50.00. You may subscribe to the PARROT series only for $81.00. You may order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the PARROT collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00. You may also Donate to Insert Press and if you include your address, we'll send you something very exciting, just because you're so nice!

See details below:
Subscribe to Insert Press now for $133.00 and receive everything Insert Press has published to date including Three Column Table by Harold Abramowitz (only a few copies left available only to subscribers!), Absurd Good News by Julien Poirier, Handsome Fish Offices by Ara Shirinyan plus a year's worth of new titles including Bruna Mori's forthcoming Poetry for Corporations, the Ups & Downs anthology (a collection of writings and imagery from the installation series, The Ups & Downs), all 23 of the individual titles in the PARROT series, and anything else we publish this year.

Subscribe to Insert Press! and the PARROT series! for $133.00

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz's A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander's On the Substance of Disorder, Stan Apps' Politicized Pretty Picture, Amina Cain's Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody's I Can Feel, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie's Fur Birds, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, K. Lorraine Graham's My Little Neoliberal Pony, Jen Hofer's The Missing Link, Maximus Kim's Break Bloom Burn, Janice Lee's Fried Chicken Dinner, Bruna Mori and George Porcari's May I take Your Order?, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Vanessa Place's Forcible Oral Copulation, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan's Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler's Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans' Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, and Allyssa Wolf's Loquela.

Subscribe to Insert Press! and the PARROT series! for $133.00

Or subscribe to Insert Press! separate from the PARROT series for only $50.00

Or subscribe to PARROT for $81.00 and receive individual titles from the PARROT series as they are released.

Or Pre-Order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the PARROT collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00.

You can also Donate to Insert Press and if you include your address, we'll send you something very exciting, just because you're so nice!

PARROT Press!

2010-06-17T11:50:00.000-07:00

Two Grrreat! bits about the PARROT series recently came online.

First, Mark Wallace wrote a brief and very good review of PARROT 1 My Beautiful Beds by Stephanie Rioux claiming that "Rioux is one of the most interesting up-and-coming, too-little-known poets around." True, I've known how good she is for coming on 7 years and she gave me the title "My Beautiful Beds" nearly 5 years ago.

And a decidedly not brief interview I did with David Shook of Molossus! about PARROT in general, it's inspiration and the printing process as well as the aesthetic of the series. Also, it's true when I say that, "A list of these authors books, chapbooks, journal publications, essays, plays, exhibitions, and media projects would astound you in terms of how long the list is as well as in terms of the venues these writers are publishing and performing in."

PARROT 3 by Allison Carter

2010-06-02T15:25:00.000-07:00

PARROT 3 All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions by Allison Carter
Now out from Insert Press!

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The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

Insert Press offers a few different ways to become a subscribing member and to support the press.

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Late Night Snack!!!

2010-05-17T02:42:00.000-07:00

Late Night Snack
at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Saturday, May at 7:00pm
1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 982-9461

with
Aaron Drake
John Hogan
Erica Lewis
Stephanie Rioux
Stephen van Dyck
Matt Wardell
and you too!

...
types of day at work, one that under it takes a staples of kid birthday parties on my circuit. Tuna on crackers (we loved the moms who used Ritz crackers instead of saltines is probably properly called tuna salad, but we don't say that. Anyway, I put in Miracle Whip, but at my house, well, we didn't:-), sweet pickle relish, a little sugar, and chopped up bits of 1) a granny smith apple 2) red onion and 3) boiled eggs. My mom also uses Kraft Sandwich Spread, but my lazy ass figures with the pickle relish, a little somethin'-somethin' extra to?
I'd really like to know because I'm always trying new things. And though I've been HORRIBLE about responding to my commenters this semester, I love y'all and I promise I'm reading, so please share your ideaas. A literary cabaret to start Musical the music, featured music.
Public. Public. Performance,
...

At Late Night Snack on October 4, 2009:
Liz Hansen read.
Andrew Maxwell read.
Laura Steenberge read.
Amanda Ackerman read.

...

At Late Night Snack on April 28, 2009:
Teresa Carmody read
Janice Lee read.
Maxi Kim read.
Will Alexander read.

...

At Late Night Snack on January 21, 2009: Vinny Golia performed. Corey Fogel performed. Michelle Detorie read. Sawako Nakayasu video chatted. Skull Kiss performed. ... At Late Night Snack on December 12, 2008: CamLab performed. Stan Apps read. Honey Crawford read. Liz Glynn performed. Felix Flealick performed. ... At Late Night Snack on October 4, 2008: Stan Apps, Mathew Timmons, and Jesse Bonnell performed a play by Brent Cunningham. Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons read Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss. Poor Dog Group performed. Andrew Choate performed. Christine Wertheim performed. Allison Carter and Beth McNamara performed. ... At Late Night Snack on September 30, 2008: Liz Hansen read. Laura Steenberge played her light cage. Ara Shirinyan read. BodyCity danced. ... At Late Night Snack on February 17, 2008: Allison Carter read. Caribbean Fragoza read. Danielle Adair read. … At Late Night Snack on November 15, 2007: Sean Deyoe lectured. Michelle Detorie read. Sandy Ding and Mathew Timmons improvised a film score. Ara Shirinyan read. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place read and asked others to read. Amanda Ackerman and Harold Abramowitz read. Jason Brown lectured and led a sing-along. Danielle Adair performed. Honey Crawford, Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created poetry. Laura Steenberge talked. Liz Glynn and Matt Kool performed. … At Late Night Snack on October 25, 2007: Sandy Ding screened two films, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Heather Lockie played banjo and sang, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Mitsu Salmon performed. Marcus Civin read. … At Late Night Snack on October 11, 2007: Susanne Hall read and presented a movie with Ryan Adlaf. Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Jason Brown lectured about poetry and memory. Michelle Detorie read. … At Late Night Snack on September 27, 2007: Gerard Olson read. Michael Smoler read. Catherine Daly read. Laura Steenberge & Heather Lockie composed and performed a film score. Michael Kelleher read. Emily Lacy played guitar and banjo and sang. … At Late Night Snack on September 13, 2007: Liz Glynn performed Untitled. Ara Shirinyan read. Eileen Myles read. … At Late Night Snack on August 7, 2007: Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Ara Shirinyan presented a paper. Jenny Hodges showed slides and read. Everyone collaborated with the internet. … At Late Night Snack on July 24, 2007: Mary Kite showed a video and read. Laura Steenberge played bass and Heather Lockie played fiddle, they both sang. Jane Sprague read. Franklin Bruno played guitar and sang. … At Late Night Snack on July 10, 2007: Danielle Adair read and danced. Maximus Kim presented his manifesto. C.J. Pizarro told 3 jokes, read 3 poems and sang 3 songs. Stan Apps read. … At Late Night Snack on June 26, 2007: Alyssandra Nighswonger played guitar and sang. Jane Sprague presented Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. Ara Shirinyan read from Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. The Year Zero played music. Alan Semerdjian & Will Alexander created music. … At Late Night Snack on June 12, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Will Alexander gave a lecture. Laura Steenberge played bass and sang. Todd Collins read. Stan Apps read. Lee Ann Brown did string tricks. Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown presented a reading. … At Late Night Snack on May 29, 2007: A film by Nick Flavin. Jane Sprague performed. Laura Steenberge gave a lecture. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Will Alexander read. … At Late Night Snack on May 15, 2007: Ara Shirinyan read. Laura Steenberge played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy spontaneously played guitar and sang. Dan Richert’s hi-tech hut made sound. … At Late Night Snack on April 24, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Laura Steenberge played stand-up bass and sang. Teresa Carmody read. Sean Deyoe performed karaoke. Stan Apps read. Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show with Laura Steenberge. … At Late Night Snack on April 10, 2007: Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created spontaneous poetry. WAMPA staged the Dialectical Fuss. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented the Masculinihilist Manifesto. … At Late Night Snack on March 20, 2007: Maximus Kim explained his manifesto. Ara Shirinyan. Milly Saunders read. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented a film. Jen Hofer read, assisted by William Mark. … At Late Night Snack on March 6, 2007: Mathew Timmons read. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Stan Apps lectured spontaneously. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 20, 2007: Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Ara Shirinyan read. Jane Sprague read, assisted by Marcus Civin. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 6, 2007: Marcus Civin performed. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) read from the WAMPA mailbag and dispensed advice. Alex Maslansky played guitar and sang. Nature’s Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, read from his WAMPA Conference address. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place presented Turkey Trot. … At Late Night Snack on Jan 16, 2007: Marcus Civin performed, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Lloyd Ducal (Joseph Mosconi) and Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) presented the tenets of WAMPA, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, Darin Klein presented Untitled Performance with Stan Apps, Jesse Aron Green, Steven Reigns, and Christopher Russell, Emily Lacy played banjo, fiddle, and sang … At Late Night Snack on Dec 19, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Cat Lamb and Lewis Keller performed a composition for viola and electrified cymbal/electronics, Stan Apps read, Khanh Tran performed a recital on the theremin … At Late Night Snack on Dec 5, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, “Ghost drawings ‘were’ brought fourth throught the ouija board assisted by christian cummings and michael decker.”, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place played Judgment Day Bingo with the audience, Ara Shirinyan read … At Late Night Snack on Nov 21, 2006: Ara Shirinyan read, Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang.

PARROT 2 A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One) by Harold Abramowitz

2010-05-13T01:20:00.001-07:00

PARROT 2 A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One) by Harold Abramowitz!
Now out from Insert Press!

SOLD OUT!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Harold Abramowitz’s A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One), Amanda Ackerman’s I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Will Alexander’s On the Substance of Disorder, Amina Cain’s Tramps Everywhere, Teresa Carmody’s I Can Feel, Allison Carter’s All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Michelle Detorie’s Fur Birds, Kate Durbin’s Kept Women, Janice Lee’s Fried Chicken Dinner, Joseph Mosconi’s But On Geometric, Amarnath Ravva’s Airline Music, Stephanie Rioux’s My Beautiful Beds, Ara Shirinyan’s Erotic in Czech Republic, Michael Smoler’s Pieces of Water, Brian Kim Stefans’ Viva Miscegenation, Mathew Timmons’ Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, Allyssa Wolf’s Loquela as well as the work of Vanessa Place and others…

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New work up at Joyland: Los Angeles

2010-05-10T21:36:00.000-07:00

New story Runaway (excerpt) by Christopher Russell up at Joyland - read it and enjoy it!

Read new work up at Joyland, an excerpt from Runaway by Christopher Russell - read it and enjoy it!

Read and enjoy new work, Runaway by Christopher Russell, up at Joyland!

AWP 2010: Flarf VS. Conceptual Writing panel presentation

2010-04-13T12:50:00.000-07:00

Schizopolis: The New Argument for Argument's Sake?

I have said elsewhere and quite grammatically, "Rather than make it knew, I prefer to make it known."

I am pretty much the middle presenter smack dab-in-the-eye of this panel... for reasons that I hope will become apparent to both you and me.

I am going to begin with a brief quote, then present a short list of three Facts and three Opinions and then a few comments and arguments on or about The New Poetics which we all seem to be addressing here this morning and which I hope may help us see how this argument or, that is, the VS. in Flarf VS. Conceptual Writing might eventually clear itself up or simply go away.

a quote from "Jack"
"We stand on the edge of The New Frontier—The New Frontier of unfulfilled hopes and dreams, a frontier of unknown opportunities and beliefs in peril." —John Fitzgerald Kennedy from his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

Notice that 1960 is very nearly exactly 50 years ago.

FACTS:
#1 and this is for you Mr. Harold Abramowitz. The New Frontier is an Eisner, Harvey, and Shuster Award-winning, six-issue comic book, limited series, written and drawn by Darwyn Cooke and published by DC Comics. The New Frontier takes viewers on an action-packed adventure, exploring the origins of the Justice League. In the 1950s, The New Generation of superheroes must join forces with the community's active veterans and a hostile US government to fight a menace to the Earth. The New Frontier Lounge has a great selection of beer, wine, food, spirits and music.

#2 We have here assembled the basic elements of an activity session.

#3 The New Company in cooperation with The Present Company has developed The New Friction Surface Modifier, the friction re-vitalizer!

OPINIONS:
#1 Wall street folks knew the risks they took, but in my opinion, did not care who had to clean up, pay, or suffer from their greed. It's part of The New American Business Cycle.

#2 Our website is The New Website. Let us know what you think, it can also be used for screening and its dense, narrow growth requires less trimming.

#3 "Regurgitation is The New Uncreativity; instead of creation, we honor, cherish and embrace manipulation and repurposing."

Ok, so before I launch into my brief comments, I'd like to make one other statement.
I foresee a narrow win in this Conceptual Writing VS. Flarf thing after months of hard-nosed negotiations over various possibilities most likely culminating in an unprecedentedly dense militarism. Well aware of the suspicions that any kind of “coherence” or "re-conciliation" might inevitably narrow our opportunities, I argue that connections are being made among the unprecedentedly diverse experiences and expectations of our unprecedentedly broad audience—our audience which is so dense and so very able to contain tensions, incoherencies and inconsistencies.

Brief Arguments:
Flarf Sux because it inherently promotes capitalism. Let me be clear, when I say Flarf, I mean the Florida Ren Fest. Trust me, I can talk about how much Flarf Sux. And then Drew Gardner and Gary Sullivan can write nasty things about me. That's fine, I went to the Florida Renaissance Festival web site and read the FlaRF Rulez & Regulations. Please read The New FlaRF Rulez & Regulations carefully, there are changes from last year.

As far as how it's affected The New Writing, I'd like to say that I think this is a very nice talk expressing the importance of Writing. We may use different words to describe the same concept, but other than for “conceptual purity” or something, it doesn't really matter. Though, a reader can become confused when a concept and an instance of it are blurred, Conceptual writing or uncreative writing is a poetics of the moment.

Question: What is The best New Eco Book on the Market? Answer, How do you Make Compost?

The author of The New Departures, a poetic adventure of sensual ecstasy, and an explorer of a humanity beyond, writes in his first language. “When I was a child, 'Ecstasy,' a song by The New Order from their 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies tripped me out and made we wonder, is plant food The New Ecstasy?" The eighth stanza of the first poem in his book states that The New State of Ecstasy "un-perplexes" or simplifies things, and once inter-animated The New Soul can repair the defects of each of the individual souls.
[pause - disgusted look]
Conceptual Writing Sux. It's just one dumb ass writing out his wet dreams because Conceptual Writing Sux. You see, the artists' statement is the work in a conceptual piece of art.

I don't accept the premise that there are certain means of expression which can't be profound—oooo, so profound. What is profundity, by the bye? Such statements indicate limitation and resistance. What inherent aspect of collage, or flarf, rulez out this profundity? Once again, the rulez committee skids off-track. Rather than accept the blockade, try scrutinizing the resistance. Check In: When you arrive, check in first at the site office trailer, you'll find us just out front of the convention center. And please adhere to the Florida Ren Fest's theme by maintaining period dialect, dress, and decorum. For assistance, please see the proper, authorized individual.

We all know these books fucking suck, and Kasey et al. is absolutely fucking right, this is not good writing, just entertainment for the young kiddies who marvel at the sexiness of the cursor as it sux up words from anonymous web pages. We're all too busy writing about our subject in a way that connects with diligently appropriate conceptual frameworks. Conceptual writing has been defined by Kenneth Goldsmith as Writing and any attempt to engage with writing that directly sux you into the abyss of textual excess.

The New Kitten - mmrrrau... The New Writing - pleh... Stasis is The New Movement.

In some affective language, mouthing fish through murk, like cursing angels combining one word immediately followed by another, read as though they were plucked from a poetry-combo kit, Flarf Rulez, mix and match, a bit of this and that, smooth, and nicely spoken, the sort of poetry which is terribly nice, written by poets who you would love to give a hug, like a puppy.

[brief paralanguage moment, serious look, as if one is reciting something]

Unmoved by my genteel and kindly poem about nuclear cooling towers? Only a kill-joy and scoundrel would desire to voice an opinion contrary to the thoroughly decent idea that this poem is more than the parts suggest—how behind the surface it's saying something deep about how we live in the nuclear age, written by an intelligent and eloquent prize winner whose worth is there, measured in the silverware on the sideboard for all to know, and any who disagree, like this nasty Johnny F, [point into the crowd] sitting there, unimpressed and wanting to inject an opinion founded not on the jolly Cromwell, commander of The New Model Army, or spiffy King Charles the 1st, might just as well tear this whole cozy cartel down and get Bob Cobbing back to managing the bar finances.

FAIL!

Flarf Sux! TheTextAreAnswered, SoManyPrettyPictures! Flarf Sux. Kill the Bee Gees. All the words I have spoken thus far are based on the work of dummy and the armpits. WhaddaYa Think? Is the Angle of my angel preety, or tart? God I love this stuff...it's so utterly ridiculous! it's hilarious!!!

Oh! and I have a Conceptual doodle thing like original print on sale for authentic "high end consumers," [hold up CREDIT] if there are actually any here among you, and if you're interested come see me after the panel.

Also, so, let me say, I agree with Stan Apps statement that my book, "CREDIT is an amazing lifeline for Conceptual Writing that expands and inflates it."

And in that spirit, I would like to announce Conceptual Writing's new sponsorship with Trojan Condoms and introduce you all to The New Trojan 2 Go Condom CREDIT Card as well as The New Trojan Magnum Ecstasy Condom for both the Ladiez and the Gentlemans.

Hello. Sign in to get personalized recommendations. New customer! The New Ecstasy of Language, is Ecstasy and The New Language of Existence! Start here.

PARROT 1 My Beautiful Beds by Stephanie Rioux

2010-03-22T01:56:00.000-07:00

PARROT 1 My Beautiful Beds by Stephanie Rioux now out from Insert Press!!!

The PARROT series was originally issued by Blanc Press (Los Angeles) from 2005-2010. Insert Press is reissuing facsimile editions of each title from the PARROT series and releasing a Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection at the end of the run.

PARROT will print the work of Stephanie Rioux's My Beautiful Beds, Harold Abramowitz's House on a Hill Part 1, Amanda Ackerman's I Fell in Love with a Monster Truck, Allison Carter's All Bodies Are The Same and They Have The Same Reactions, Kate Durbin's Kept Women, Joseph Mosconi's But On Geometric, Amarnath Ravva's Airline Music, Mathew Timmons' Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation, as well as the work of Will Alexander, Amina Cain, Michelle Detorie, Allyssa Wolf and others...

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CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!

2009-11-30T22:06:00.000-08:00

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CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!
Outpost for Contemporary Art
presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press
Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
1268 N. Ave 50, Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 982-9461

Do you sometimes wonder: "What the heck is Conceptual Writing!?" Some amazing new fad sweeping the nation? Some bland thing a bunch of dudes thought up in a bar as a joke? The new genre of infomercials after the tragic death of Ron Popeil? All this and so much more?!!

After a string of conferences, events, publications, etc--Conceptual Poetry and its Others conference at University of Arizona Poetry Center, May 29-31, 2008; Flarf vs. Conceptual Writing! at The Whitney, April 17, 2009; Conceptual Writing! & Its Environs, The Uferhallen, Berlin, May 1, 2009; a portfolio of Flarf and Conceptual Writing! in Poetry Magazine, July/August, 2009--Conceptual Writing! has arrived in LA, only to find that it's already there!? Los Angeles!? Conceptual Writing!

Discover Conceptual Writing! and so much more as you encounter the Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the Conceptual Lit Reading! & CREDIT Launch! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

Come celebrate the release of Mathew Timmons' CREDIT, an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book published by Blanc Press and retailing for $199.99 which the author himself lacks the cash or credit to purchase. Come also to celebrate Conceptual Writing! in Los Angeles! with the wonderful Conceptual Writing! of Harold Abramowitz, Joseph Mosconi, Bruna Mori, Vanessa Place, Ara Shirinyan, Brian Kim Stefans, Mathew Timmons and Christine Wertheim at the CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles! at Outpost for Contemporary Art in Highland Park on Saturday December 19, 2009 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. presented by General Projects, Blanc Press and Insert Press.

For more information about this event, please contact: laliterature [at[ gmail [dot[ com

Information About the Artists:
Harold Abramowitz's books and chapbooks include Not Blessed (forthcoming Les Figues Press), Sin is to Celebration (co-author, House Press), Dear Dearly Departed (Palm Press), Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS Books), and Three Column Table (Insert Press). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press eohippus labs.
See: eohippus labs - Three Column Table - Sunday, Or A Summer's Day - Dear Dearly Departed - Late Night Snack

Joseph Mosconi co-edits the art & poetry journal Area Sneaks and co-directs the Poetic Research Bureau. He has been mispronouncing words for approximately 30 years.
See: Area Sneaks - Triple Canopy - fillip - Poetic Research Bureau -

Bruna Mori's books are Dérive (Meritage Press), Tergiversation (Ahadada Books), and Poetry for Corporations, forthcoming from Insert Press. She recently relocated from downtown L.A. to the Village of La Jolla, where she will be teaching "What Happens When Nothing Happens" at UCSD; she also writes copy for design firms and is Lucien's mom.
See: Dérive - Tergiversation - Drunken Boat - LA-Lit

Vanessa Place is a writer, a lawyer, and co-director of Les Figues Press. She is author of Dies: A Sentence (Les Figues Press, 2006), La Medusa (Fiction Collective 2, 2008), and Notes on Conceptualisms, co-authored with Robert Fitterman (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). Her nonfiction book, The Guilt Project: Rape, Morality and Law is forthcoming from Other Press in 2010. Information As Material will be publishing her trilogy: Statement of Facts, Statement of the Case, and Argument. Statement of Facts will also be published in France by éditions è®e, as Exposé des Faits.
See: Ugly Duckling Presse - Les Figues - Fiction Collective 2

Ara Shirinyan is the author of four books, most recently Your Country Is Great (Afghanistan–Guyana), from Futurepoem Books, and editor of Make Now Press. He codirects the Poetic Research Bureau and lives in Los Angeles.
See: Palm Press - Insert Press - Futurepoem Books - Poetic Research Bureau

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and digital artist who moved to Los Angeles last year to take a job at UCLA. His work can be found at www.arras.net. His most recent books of poetry are What Is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers and Kluge, both of which can be bought at Small Press Distribution (www.spdbooks.org).
See: PennSound - The Dreamlife of Letters - Fashionable Noise - Salt Publishing

Mathew Timmons has published prose, poetry and criticism in various places including: P-Queue, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine, X-TRA and The Encyclopedia Project. A chapbook, Lip Service (Slack Buddha), and an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, CREDIT (Blanc Press), was recently published. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books) are forthcoming.
See: Blanc Press - General Projects - Insert Press - LA-Lit - Late Night Snack

Christine Wertheim is the author of +|'me’S-pace (Les Figues Press) and the editor of Feminniasance (Les Figues Press, 2010). Recent critical work and poetry appears in X-tra, Cabinet, The Quick and the Dead, Drunken Boat, Tarpaulin Sky and Veer. With Matias Viegener she co-edited the anthologies Seancé and The nOulipian Analects.
See: Christine's site - +|'me'S-pace - Feminaissance - The /n/oulipian Analects

The Ups & Downs

2009-08-18T08:04:00.000-07:00

The Ups & Downs
65 | 77 | 03 | by Liz Glynn
Friday September 4 & Saturday September 5 from 7-10pm
a General Project at workspace

To attend the opening on September 4th, please RSVP to mathewtimmons[at]gmail[dot]com. Space is limited. Opening is FULL!!! No more RSVPs please, unless you've received a direct invitation to the opening!

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

artist’s statement:
One hundred seven stories high over Manhattan, a group of diners at the World Trade Center's skyscraping restaurant Windows on the World downed their digestifs, took a last glance at the stunning lightshow below, and crowded into a waiting down elevator. The doors slid shut. The elevator didn't budge. Someone stabbed irritably at the button. Nothing happened. Somebody got the doors open and the passengers free. "The elevator's out," one of them huffily informed the white-jacketed captain. The captain shrugged toward the nightscape outside, gone suddenly inky black. "So's New York," he replied. - from "Heart of Darkness," Newsweek, June 25, 1977

65 | 77 | 03 | - is a meditation on the blackouts which have occurred in New York City over the last forty years. From the relative social harmony of the mid sixties to the period of unrest and economic stagnation which followed in the next decade, each blackout unfolded in a different socio-economic context. Based on interviews and news accounts of each event, Liz Glynn will stage a series of vignettes exploring the social dynamics of a city gone dark.

artist’s bio:
Liz Glynn uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the pleasure of ruin. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth and decay by evidencing process, encouraging participation, and inciting future action. Her work has been presented at venues including the New Museum (NYC), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Machine Project, the REDCAT Lounge. Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Art Lies, Domus, and Archaeology Magazine. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and her BA from Harvard College.

Reading Extravaganza!

2009-08-08T14:05:00.000-07:00

This just in from Harold Abramowitz - co-editor of eohippus labs!

Dear Friends,

Please join eohippus labs for

A Dual Book Release Event...

Where we will

1. Unveil the very fine

Emohippus Greeting Card 3rd Series

And ask you to

2. Make merry with us over the release of the full-length chapbook

Sin is to Celebration

by

Amanda Ackerman & Harold Abramowitz

Sunday, August 16th, 2009

FREE

Doors open at 2:30pm

Reading starts at 3:00pm
at The Lounge at REDCAT

with readings of emotional writing by

Teresa Carmody

Honey Crawford

Darin Klein

Vanessa Place

SAM OR SAMANTHA YAMS

Mathew Timmons

&

Others

Les Figues: Maneuvers

2009-07-30T02:45:00.000-07:00

Les Figues Press is publishing a book by me! The New Poetics comes next year in their Trench Art: Maneuvers series. Each year they begin by publishing a book of aesthetic statements from the artists and writers participating in the series. Below is all the info you need to pick up a copy of the aesthetics... become a member, it's a great press!

Les Figues Press happily announces the fifth TrenchArt series:
TrenchArt: Maneuvers

aesthetics by:
Harold Abramowitz
Vincent Dachy
Lily Hoang
Paul Hoover
Mathew Timmons

Art by VD Collective
Design by Teresa Carmody
Book 1 of 5, TrenchArt: The Maneuvers Series
ISBN 13: 978-1-934254-11-0
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Review of Erik Frydenborg's show at Bonelli

2009-07-20T16:42:00.001-07:00

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My review of Erik Frydenborg's show Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary for The Magazine has been posted online if yr interested in reading...

CREDIT

2009-07-12T00:04:00.000-07:00

CREDIT
by Mathew Timmons
Coming soon from Blanc Press in Los Angeles!

an 800pg full color, large format, hard bound book!

An Afternoon Reading... July 12, 2009 at The Lounge at REDCAT

2009-06-30T03:11:00.000-07:00

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This in from Harold Abramowitz...

Hello Friends,

Please Join us for

An Afternoon Reading...

Sunday, July 12, 2009
at The Lounge at REDCAT

with

Tetra Balestri
Tisa Bryant
Jennifer Nellis
&
Mathew Timmons

FREE & FREE COFFEE

Doors open at 11:30am
Reading starts at noon

Tetra Balestri is a recent resident of LA hailing from SF by way of NY. Her poems have appeared in the magazines Sal Mimeo and There Are Flying Planes and her chapbook, Cheap Imitations, was published by Green Zone in 2008. Her plays have been performed at Under St. Marks Theater and the Ontological Theater in New York as well as the Poet's Theater in San Francisco. She has worked as an archivist for poet Larry Fagin and as assistant editor and contributor to various Facts on File encyclopedias including Encyclopedia of European Peoples. She currently works at the Beyond Baroque Literary and Arts Center in Venice.

Tisa Bryant’s first book, Unexplained Presence (Leon Works, 2007), is a collection of original, hybrid fiction-essays that remix narratives from Eurocentric film, literature and visual arts and zoom in on the black presences operating within them. An excerpt from her novella, [the curator], was published by Belladonna Books, along with the work of filmmaker/writer Chris Kraus. Tisa is currently sketching out an historical novel, getting Vol. 2 of the hardcover annual, The Encyclopedia Project, she co-edits, ready to go to print, and she is very happy to be relocating to LA this fall to teach creative writing at CalArts.

Jennifer Nellis lives, teaches, and writes in the Inland Empire. Her poems can be found on Cricket Online Review and the forthcoming issue of mark(s). Her movie-telling/benshi pieces, A Dip in the Pool and Poison, have been performed in San Francisco, LA, Miami, and various living rooms across the country.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects and he co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press) and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, Artillery, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project. He teaches interdisciplinary arts and writing workshops for CalArts School of Critical Studies.

The Ups & Downs: Brian Kim Stefans

2009-05-28T21:34:00.000-07:00

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The Ups & Downs
Scriptor 1.0 by Brian Kim Stefans
Friday June 5 & Saturday June 6 from 7-10pm
with a short artist's talk each night at 8pm
at workspace

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. You look familiar? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

artist's statement:
The Scriptor series is meant to bring free form doodling into the digital world. For the project, I created my own letterform creation program that, purposefully, lacks many of the elements of professional graphics programs such as Illustrator and Flash that encourage symmetry, cut-and-paste, and the mathematically precise placement of objects that we associate with digital design, not to mention much digital art. These letterforms and doodles are all "by hand," and "by eye" - they are a version of penmanship for the screen, but one in which each line or stroke of the letterform can be animated algorithmically (something you can't do with digital fonts). The words themselves are parsed from news articles - interesting phrases are randomly picked out, given randomly generated sizes, placements and trajectories, as well as a "crazy level" (that's the name of the variable in the program) that determines their legibility. This "crazy level" can grow or shrink - once the "crazy level" reaches a certain pitch, the letter explodes, but in some instances letters can be brought back from the brink of disaster to reach a stable state again.

Scriptor teases the eye into a game of determining when a form is merely a scrawl and/or when it makes that invisible transition into an icon, a "letter" - or, inkblot-test style, into something else. These are not films - nothing you see on the screen will ever happen again (or, for that matter, ever happened).

artist's bio:
Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and digital artist whose recent books include Kluge: A Meditation, and other works (Roof, 2007), What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006), and Before Starting Over: Essays and Interviews (Salt Publishing, 2007). His digital works such as "The Dreamlife of Letters" and "Star Wars, One Letter at a Time" have been shown in gallery settings worldwide; many of these can be found at his website, www.arras.net. He is an Assistant Professor of English at UCLA, specializing in poetry and electronic writing.

Performance / Lectures !!

2009-05-13T13:48:00.000-07:00

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Perfomance / Lectures !!
David Buuck & Liz Glynn
Saturday, May 23 from 4-7pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Liz Glynn uses objects and actions to explore the ambition of empire and the pleasure of ruin. Her practice seeks to embody dynamic cycles of growth, possibility, and decay by evidencing process, encouraging participation, and inciting future action. Her work has been presented at venues including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Machine Project, the REDCAT Lounge, John Connolly Presents (NYC), and is currently on view as part of The Generational: Younger than Jesus at the New Museum in NYC. Reviews of her work have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, Art Lies, Domus, and Archaeology Magazine among others. She has attended residencies at O’ Artoteca in Milan, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts, and her BA from Harvard College.

David Buuck will give a performative talk & image (de)tour of recent projects initiated by BARGE (The Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics), including multi-platform investigations of various sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using text, photos, performance, walking tours, psychogeography, music, & found materials, these projects explore how various methodologies might engage & respond to the specific historical & material conditions of a given site or field of inquiry. As an extension of these inquiries, notions such as the 'artist talk' or the 'slide lecture' become arenas for performance & improvisation as well.

BARGE was started by David Buuck in 2003. BARGE has organized several (de)tours around the Bay Area, investigating regional sites & spaces that are underrepresented & overlooked in more conventional touristic, commercial, & socio-political notions of place & public space. BARGE investigates how vernacular landscapes — from highways & billboards to waterfronts & public utilities, from industrial lots & server farms to military bases & surveillance zones — are constructed & inhabited, while also exploring the ways in which engaged psychogeography can provide new modes of counter-tourism & activism. Recent investigations include Buried Treasure Island (Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2008), "!7 Reasons Why" (Mission17 Gallery, 2009), & "Matta-Clark Parks" (Root Division Gallery, 2009). David Buuck's The Shunt is just out from Palm Press, and recent writing has appeared in SITE/CITE/CITY (2008), Artweek, Bombay Gin, With+Stand, Try, & elsewhere.

Closing!

2009-05-07T12:31:00.000-07:00

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Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
&
Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons
Last Chance to see these shows!
Friday, May 8 from 7-10pm
Saturday, May 9 from 12noon-5pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
projected text, sound; dimensions variable

Ecliptic is a single piece of narrative movement projected on up to three adjoining walls. It is a capturing of the interior voice and a visualization of the recessional quality of the mind’s present moment. From the right, a discontinuous stream of language pops suddenly into view. The words move leftward at a walking pace, their thin line of monologue traveling unfettered through space. The words form a twenty-minute looped interior monologue which is written such that the observer may pick up threads of the conversation’s main themes at any time: the text ‘updates’ itself, and tracks back on itself, frequently. A minimalist bed of ambient sound accompanies the projection.

Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons

The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘An Information of Skin’ centers on the absence of characters and the buildup of detritus. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Detritus’ is about the building of flesh upon flesh. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Dermatitis’ celebrates Demeter’s gift of cereal to humankind as two (or three, maybe four) characters banter over the longest breakfast that turns successively into lunch then dinner and then again into breakfast. The Play that Doesn’t Exist is a war between time passing and the nature of our humanity celebrating Demeter’s gift of flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh. Duration is the constant timeline as time struggles with becoming new again—an emotional overhaul, confronting and discarding it’s own skin. Characters struggle with and are eventually won over by anonymity and absence as they find themselves immersed within a Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist.

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Dorsey Dunn is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work in sound, text and image, in the form of installations, performances and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. Languages, spoken and sounded, in their multiplicities of gesture and meaning, are a primary concern, as are considerations of memory, spatial presence, and will. Dorsey regularly exhibits and performs his sound-led installations and music in the US and internationally. He has received invitations to exhibitions and residencies around the world, most recently to Q-O2 Gallery in Brussels; the new media lab TESLA in Berlin; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Festival International de Arte Digital, Rosario, Argentina; MusicAcoustica in Beijing; and Is Arti in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine, Trafika, based in Prague and New York. He was educated in New York City.

Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne Larsen translates text and dimensionality into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Through social experiments in art, Larsen breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. A Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer, Janne Larsen has exhibited at Telic Arts Exchange, workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, BetaLevel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. She has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster” and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled “Tea Parties” with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project.

Openings!

2009-04-27T23:04:00.000-07:00

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Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
&
Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons
Friday, May 1 from 7-10pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ecliptic
By Dorsey Dunn
projected text, sound; dimensions variable

Ecliptic is a single piece of narrative movement projected on up to three adjoining walls. It is a capturing of the interior voice and a visualization of the recessional quality of the mind’s present moment. From the right, a discontinuous stream of language pops suddenly into view. The words move leftward at a walking pace, their thin line of monologue traveling unfettered through space. The words form a twenty-minute looped interior monologue which is written such that the observer may pick up threads of the conversation’s main themes at any time: the text ‘updates’ itself, and tracks back on itself, frequently. A minimalist bed of ambient sound accompanies the projection.

Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist
By Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons

The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘An Information of Skin’ centers on the absence of characters and the buildup of detritus. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Detritus’ is about the building of flesh upon flesh. The Play that Doesn’t Exist, ‘Dermatitis’ celebrates Demeter’s gift of cereal to humankind as two (or three, maybe four) characters banter over the longest breakfast that turns successively into lunch then dinner and then again into breakfast. The Play that Doesn’t Exist is a war between time passing and the nature of our humanity celebrating Demeter’s gift of flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh upon flesh. Duration is the constant timeline as time struggles with becoming new again—an emotional overhaul, confronting and discarding it’s own skin. Characters struggle with and are eventually won over by anonymity and absence as they find themselves immersed within a Set for a Play that Doesn’t Exist.

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Dorsey Dunn is a Los Angeles-based artist. His work in sound, text and image, in the form of installations, performances and written and recorded works, is an extended meditation on the perimeters of language, the movements of silence, and the vagaries of comprehension. Languages, spoken and sounded, in their multiplicities of gesture and meaning, are a primary concern, as are considerations of memory, spatial presence, and will. Dorsey regularly exhibits and performs his sound-led installations and music in the US and internationally. He has received invitations to exhibitions and residencies around the world, most recently to Q-O2 Gallery in Brussels; the new media lab TESLA in Berlin; Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Festival International de Arte Digital, Rosario, Argentina; MusicAcoustica in Beijing; and Is Arti in Vilnius and Kaunas, Lithuania. Previously, he edited an international literary magazine, Trafika, based in Prague and New York. He was educated in New York City.

Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne Larsen translates text and dimensionality into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Through social experiments in art, Larsen breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. A Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer, Janne Larsen has exhibited at Telic Arts Exchange, workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, BetaLevel, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. She has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster” and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled “Tea Parties” with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full-length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek, The Magazine and The Encyclopedia Project.

What's Wrong with Relational Aesthetics?

2009-04-25T13:00:00.000-07:00

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What's Wrong with Relational Aesthetics?
Robert Summers and Mathew Timmons
presented by After School Arts Program (ASAP)
Saturday, April 25 from 1-4pm
at Sea and Space Explorations

Please join us for the first of a series of conversations asking "What's wrong with Relational Aesthetics?" You are encouraged to bring a couple sentences answering the question, "What's Wrong with Relational Aesthetics?" The talk will be structured around the answers received.

Listen to audio of the event here.

or download the mp3 file.

After School Arts Program (ASAP) provides innovative and experimental arts programming for artists, curators, historians and critics interested in continuing their education in the visual arts.

ASAP is a not-for-profit community service offering lectures, salons, workshops, critiques, exhibitions, film screenings and publications. Dedicated to producing an educational and creative space outside of the university system, ASAP is a bridge between the rigors of academia and the plasticity of the natural world. Supporting programs/curricula that might not exist with in a university setting, ASAP is committed to experimentation and the ideology that the current status quo for arts education is not the most effective method for engaging contemporary audiences. ASAP does not advocate a superior method for communicating ideas visually but rather promotes alternative modes of understanding.

Late Night Snack

2009-04-24T16:57:00.000-07:00

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Late Night Snack
in the lounge at REDCAT
Tuesday, This Time On Tuesday!
Tuesday, April 28 at 7:30pm

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name. Eastern philosophy, absurd theatre, the Soviet skirt of kid birthday parties on Flickr. Intrigued, the first hit when I reach for and plentifully strange telephone calls. Live one year its Mitmusiker essentially determined volume, which I always trying new program with my commenters this time... Yet.
When I don't say youre only the musical star Rainer Luhn delivers his artistic visiting card. The craving for Ritz crackers in forever. I promise I'm reading, so I also the ways people here are a hot summer night. Straight from the pickle relish, a crib play. Thrust RTS performances are in the caption of performance, such as sound poetry of illegal bacon wrapped pigs in you set the recipe with Travestie, whose well-known and ethnical specialities form singular, surprising compositions. We're in jazz up boxed macaroni and plan ahead for breakfast and bakery that was young, tuna fish once we realized eating
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At Late Night Snack on January 21, 2009:
Vinny Golia performed.
Corey Fogel performed.
Michelle Detorie read.
Sawako Nakayasu video chatted.
Skull Kiss performed.

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At Late Night Snack on December 12, 2008:
CamLab performed.
Stan Apps read.
Honey Crawford read.
Liz Glynn performed.
Felix Flealick performed.

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At Late Night Snack on October 4, 2008: Stan Apps, Mathew Timmons, and Jesse Bonnell performed a play by Brent Cunningham. Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons read Fox in Sox by Dr. Seuss. Poor Dog Group performed. Andrew Choate performed. Christine Wertheim performed. Allison Carter and Beth McNamara performed. ... At Late Night Snack on September 30, 2008: Liz Hansen read. Laura Steenberge played her light cage. Ara Shirinyan read. BodyCity danced. ... At Late Night Snack on February 17, 2008: Allison Carter read. Caribbean Fragoza read. Danielle Adair read. … At Late Night Snack on November 15, 2007: Sean Deyoe lectured. Michelle Detorie read. Sandy Ding and Mathew Timmons improvised a film score. Ara Shirinyan read. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place read and asked others to read. Amanda Ackerman and Harold Abramowitz read. Jason Brown lectured and led a sing-along. Danielle Adair performed. Honey Crawford, Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created poetry. Laura Steenberge talked. Liz Glynn and Matt Kool performed. … At Late Night Snack on October 25, 2007: Sandy Ding screened two films, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Heather Lockie played banjo and sang, accompanied by Laura Steenberge on bass. Mitsu Salmon performed. Marcus Civin read. … At Late Night Snack on October 11, 2007: Susanne Hall read and presented a movie with Ryan Adlaf. Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Jason Brown lectured about poetry and memory. Michelle Detorie read. … At Late Night Snack on September 27, 2007: Gerard Olson read. Michael Smoler read. Catherine Daly read. Laura Steenberge & Heather Lockie composed and performed a film score. Michael Kelleher read. Emily Lacy played guitar and banjo and sang. … At Late Night Snack on September 13, 2007: Liz Glynn performed Untitled. Ara Shirinyan read. Eileen Myles read. … At Late Night Snack on August 7, 2007: Harold Abramowitz and Mathew Timmons collaborated. Amanda Ackerman read. Ara Shirinyan presented a paper. Jenny Hodges showed slides and read. Everyone collaborated with the internet. … At Late Night Snack on July 24, 2007: Mary Kite showed a video and read. Laura Steenberge played bass and Heather Lockie played fiddle, they both sang. Jane Sprague read. Franklin Bruno played guitar and sang. … At Late Night Snack on July 10, 2007: Danielle Adair read and danced. Maximus Kim presented his manifesto. C.J. Pizarro told 3 jokes, read 3 poems and sang 3 songs. Stan Apps read. … At Late Night Snack on June 26, 2007: Alyssandra Nighswonger played guitar and sang. Jane Sprague presented Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. Ara Shirinyan read from Syria is in the World by Ara Shirinyan. The Year Zero played music. Alan Semerdjian & Will Alexander created music. … At Late Night Snack on June 12, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Will Alexander gave a lecture. Laura Steenberge played bass and sang. Todd Collins read. Stan Apps read. Lee Ann Brown did string tricks. Tony Torn and Lee Ann Brown presented a reading. … At Late Night Snack on May 29, 2007: A film by Nick Flavin. Jane Sprague performed. Laura Steenberge gave a lecture. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Will Alexander read. … At Late Night Snack on May 15, 2007: Ara Shirinyan read. Laura Steenberge played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy spontaneously played guitar and sang. Dan Richert’s hi-tech hut made sound. … At Late Night Snack on April 24, 2007: A film by Danielle Adair. Laura Steenberge played stand-up bass and sang. Teresa Carmody read. Sean Deyoe performed karaoke. Stan Apps read. Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show with Laura Steenberge. … At Late Night Snack on April 10, 2007: Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Jen Hofer and Billy Mark created spontaneous poetry. WAMPA staged the Dialectical Fuss. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented the Masculinihilist Manifesto. … At Late Night Snack on March 20, 2007: Maximus Kim explained his manifesto. Ara Shirinyan. Milly Saunders read. Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen presented a film. Jen Hofer read, assisted by William Mark. … At Late Night Snack on March 6, 2007: Mathew Timmons read. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Stan Apps lectured spontaneously. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 20, 2007: Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Ara Shirinyan read. Jane Sprague read, assisted by Marcus Civin. … At Late Night Snack on Feb 6, 2007: Marcus Civin performed. Oliver Hall played guitar and sang. Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) read from the WAMPA mailbag and dispensed advice. Alex Maslansky played guitar and sang. Nature’s Nobleman, Sir Oliver Hall, read from his WAMPA Conference address. Emily Lacy played banjo and sang. Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place presented Turkey Trot. … At Late Night Snack on Jan 16, 2007: Marcus Civin performed, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Lloyd Ducal (Joseph Mosconi) and Roy Lanoy (Stan Apps) presented the tenets of WAMPA, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, Darin Klein presented Untitled Performance with Stan Apps, Jesse Aron Green, Steven Reigns, and Christopher Russell, Emily Lacy played banjo, fiddle, and sang … At Late Night Snack on Dec 19, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Cat Lamb and Lewis Keller performed a composition for viola and electrified cymbal/electronics, Stan Apps read, Khanh Tran performed a recital on the theremin … At Late Night Snack on Dec 5, 2006: Oliver Hall played guitar and sang, Michael Smoler read handmade tarot cards and projected them on the wall, “Ghost drawings ‘were’ brought fourth throught the ouija board assisted by christian cummings and michael decker.”, Teresa Carmody and Vanessa Place played Judgment Day Bingo with the audience, Ara Shirinyan read … At Late Night Snack on Nov 21, 2006: Ara Shirinyan read, Sandy Ding performed the Flash Light Show, Oliver Hall played guitar and sang.

Plastic Crochet Workshop

2009-04-13T23:16:00.000-07:00

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Plastic Crochet Workshop
Sunday, April 19 from 1-3pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

As part of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project, the Institute For Figuring is making a plastic reef to highlight the problem of plastic buildup in the oceans. We invite you to join us for a plastic crochet workshop. Crocheters at all levels of experience are welcome, from first-time novices to experienced experts. No prior crochet skill is required but if you are skilled you'll pick up the possibilities quickly. Bring plastic bags, video and audio tapes, and come craft a Reef Monster with Christine Wertheim, IFF co-director, at Outpost for Contemporary Art on Sunday, April 19th from 1pm to 3pm.

The IFF is dedicated to exploring the poetic dimensions of maths and science through public lectures interactive workshops and exhibits.

Readings

2009-04-13T21:37:00.000-07:00

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Readings
Saturday April 18 at 4pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Join us at Outpost for readings from Allison Carter, Joseph Mosconi and Alessandro De Francesco.

Allison Carter is the author of a book, A Fixed, Formal Arrangement (Les Figues Press) and a chapbook Shadows Are Weather (Horse Less Press). Her work has otherwise appeared in Joyland, 5_Trope, Fence, 3rd Bed, and other journals. These days Allison lives in Los Angeles, where she designs websites, teaches writing workshops, and co-edits the Particle Series with Joe Potts.

Joseph Mosconi is a writer and linguist from Los Angeles. He is co-editor of the art & poetry journal Area Sneaks and is co-director of the Poetic Research Bureau, a literary service in the public domain. His work has appeared in Try, Shampoo, Primary Writing, the Fillip Review and other journals and magazines.

Alessandro De Francesco (Pisa, Italy, 1981) lives in Lyon, France. He published the poetry book Lo spostamento degli oggetti in the collection Opera Prima (Verona, Cierre Grafica, 2008, with an afterword by Martin Rueff), directed by Flavio Ermini, Yves Bonnefoy, Umberto Galimberti and Andrea Zanzotto, and the trilingual poetry e-book da 1000m (HGH, www.gammm.org, 2009). As a poet, translator and literature theorist he published his works in several international reviews, such as “Anterem”, “Atelier”, “Écritures”, “Nioques”, “poet”, “OEI”, “Semicerchio”, “Testo e Senso”, etc., he realized several poetry readings, lectures, sound installations and performances (reading environments) all over Europe and was invited by institutions such as Denkmalschmiede Höfgen, The Berlin University of the Arts, Arthouse Tacheles Berlin, STEIM Amsterdam, Medialab Tallinn, Point Loma Nazarene University of San Diego, University of Paris-Sorbonne, etc. He was selected for the new talents’ poetry programs Nodo Sottile (directed by Vittorio Biagini and Andrea Sirotti) and RicercaBO (directed by Nanni Balestrini, Niva Lorenzini and Renato Barilli) and taught poetry at École Normale Supérieure LSH Lyon, where he is also Ph.D. student of Comparative Literature. He suceeded Jacques Roubaud as visiting poet at Judith Balso’s poetry and philosophy seminar at European Graduate School. His recent project Ridefinizione (Redefinition) is being translated into English, French, German, Dutch and Swedish.

LA-Lit: Harold Abramowitz

2009-04-13T21:15:00.000-07:00

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LA-Lit interviews Harold Abramowitz
Saturday, April 18 at 1pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

We’d like to invite you to a live radio recording, reading & conversation this coming Saturday, April 18 at 1 p.m. at Outpost for Contemporary Art. Harold Abramowitz will be the featured writer on LA-lit, a radio show co-curated by Mathew Timmons & Stephanie Rioux. LA-Lit creates a space for dynamic conversation among poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself.

To listen to interviews, you can find links to all the files at Penn Sound.
You can also visit LA-Lit’s Writers page.

Harold Abramowitz is a writer and editor from Los Angeles. His first book, Dear Dearly Departed, was published by Palm Press in 2008. Harold has two books forthcoming in 2009: Sin is to Celebration, a collaboration with Amanda Ackerman, from House Press, and Not Be Blessed from Les Figues Press. He is also the author of a chapbook, Three Column Table (Insert Press, 2007), a mirco-book, Sunday, or A Summer’s Day (PS Books, 2008), and an e-book, Technique of Bandaging and Splinting (Little Red Leaves, 2009). He has contributed to various literary publications, including Greetings, Fold: Appropriate Text, P-Queue, Ixnay Reader, String of Small Machines, and Moonlit. His work has also appeared in the anthologies A Sing Economy, An Anthology of Contemporary Experimental Poetry (Flim Forum 2008), The Physical Poets Volume 2 (2008), and Chronometry (2008). Harold co-edits the short-form literary press, eohippus labs, and co-curates the experimental cabaret event series, Late Night Snack.

Cold Call Friendly Phone Book

2009-03-28T17:15:00.000-07:00

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Cold Call Friendly Phone Book
everywhere
at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Friday, April 10 at 6:30pm PST and 9:30pm EST

download the template and become part of the crudest social networking software available!

Goals of The Evening
1. Create shared kinesthetic and aural experiences
2. Open doors for future creative processing

COLD CALL FRIENDLY PHONE NIGHT
AN ARTISTIC BRIDGE WHICH ATTEMPTS TO CONNECT FRIENDLY STRANGERS

PARTICIPATING LOCATIONS:
1. Outpost for Contemporary Art 6375 N. Figueroa Street Los Angeles, CA 90042 (323) 982-9461
2. InCUBATE 2129 N Rockwell St, Chicago, Cook, Illinois 60647.
3. 4941 Pine St., Philadelphia PA 19143

OR CALL Phone Number: (724) 444-7444
Call ID: 19198, and join as guest

Probable activities to execute
1. read a poem
2. group stretching exercises
3. interpersonal questions
A). What would I find in your refrigerator right now?
B). If Hollywood made a movie about your life, whom would you like to see play the lead role as you?
C). If you were a salad, what kind of dressing would you have?
D). How would you describe yourself in three words?
E). Where will you be in twenty years?
F). If you had to become a conjoined twin who would you fuse with?
G). Describe the way you dance

Chris Niemi

2009-03-24T19:25:00.000-07:00

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Chris Niemi
works on paper
Reception Friday March 27 from 7-10pm
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Artist's Statement:
In this work I began with paper, paint, brush. I imagined it was the first time I encountered these tools. As an artist this allowed me to investigate my personal approach to artmaking. This led to questions like: at what point does a mark contain meaning? and what can I say with a mark? I added each color in a free floating layer, playing with its connotations. The forms start to arise out of this interplay. As I work on a piece, my interest is to create an emotional portrait rather than an image of objects.

I like to think the first mark is accidental. In a way how can the first one be anything else? Sometimes what is made by chance seems much more intended, maybe it is because you must choose to act randomly. Doing this series for me is almost a form of lucid dreaming. Time ceases to be linear. There is no linked narrative; the beginning, middle, and end of the ‘story’ appear to be happening at one time. Like a vague awareness of a genetic memory that allows you to participate in all memories.

My intention is that the viewer is pulled into an almost social, shifting, relationship with the work as she moves closer, possibly into a more intimate relationship than she wanted to be.

I see this series as raising questions about our relationship to an organic, mutable, messy physical existence and how do we make sense of a necessarily fragmented perception of the world?

Bio:
Chris Niemi was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and received her BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) majoring in painting and sculpture. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. This new series of works on paper visualizes a space and time where the beginning, middle, and end of the ‘story’ are happening simultaneously and raises questions about our relationship to an organic, mutable, messy physical existence.

General Projects: Ron Rudlong Returns 03/23/09 at 9pm

2009-03-23T02:44:00.000-07:00

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General Projects Presents:
Ron Rudlong Returns
at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Monday, March 23 at 9pm

Ron Rudlong, founder of such bands as Arson Plus, Mike and the Machinists, The 12 Rons, The Bright Side of Death, Dolphins of Tomorrow, Your Demolition Band, Mouth Babies, Sexy Uncle, Zap, Rosdower, Real Canadian Girlfriend, The Marshall Fucker Band, Rape Door and We are Awesome returns to Los Angeles to play his very last show in Los Angeles before he dies of complications due to Narcolepsy.

Please join us for this occasion.
Yes.

Mathew Timmons
General Director
General Projects

Lip Service in the LOUNGE at REDCAT

2009-03-18T18:27:00.000-07:00

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Read a review of Lip Service by Stan Apps.
Buy a copy of Lip Service at Slack Buddha.

Hey! I have a new chapbook out, Lip Service from Slack Buddha Press. Come celebrate this momentous literary occasion in the LOUNGE at REDCAT on Sunday, March 22 at 2pm with readings from myself, Will Alexander and Teresa Carmody and you can pick up your very own copy of Lip Service at the event. You can also order a copy online from Slack Buddha if you are so inclined.
best
Mathew Timmons

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LIP SERVICE

By

Mathew Timmons
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To celebrate this momentous literary and cultural occasion, there will be a reading/release party!

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE At REDCAT
on Sunday March 22nd at 2:00 pm
Free
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Thus,
Lip Service
A Reading/Chapbook release party

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE at REDCAT
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Free

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And as an added bonus incentive for joining us, you can pick up your own copy of Lip Service at REDCAT.

Or, to let you off the hook, but continue your celebratory obligation, you can order a copy online here,

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LIP SERVICE
By
Mathew Timmons

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Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the surrealist vision to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. Alexander's writing represents a complex distillation of images from many fields, including botany, astronomy, psychology, physiology, mysticism, and history. His books include Above the Human Nerve Domain, Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), The Stratospheric Canticles and Sunrise and Armageddon. He has two works forthcoming: Alien Weaving (Green Integer) and Sri Lankan Loxodrome (Canopic Publishing). The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem, (Les Figues, 2005) and the recent chap/micro books Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008) and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared in the emohippus greeting cards series, Slope, Fold Appropriate Text, American Book Review, Bombay Gin, and 4th Street. She was an organizer of the original Ladyfest (Olympia) and co-organizer of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Director of Les Figues Press.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He curates the installation series, The Ups & Downs, at workspace and runs General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux) and Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz). A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.

Movie Reel Project

2009-03-17T15:54:00.000-07:00

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Movie Reel Project
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Over the course of the next few months we'll be switching in and out various videos from various artists. During open hours at Outpost you may arrive and find one of the movies from the list below happily playing along on a nice monitor. We'll also be scheduling screenings of these projects at Outpost. We might also make popcorn. mmmmmm...

Ainsi fon fon fon les petites demoiselles… and that’s why I’m not a Lesbian.
Multimedia Installation, May 2007, California Institute of the Arts.
An original work by Frederique de Montblanc and Janne Larsen
Artists who have participated on this project: Sidonie Loiseleux, Yuen Cheuk Wa, Pablo Molina, Zachary Drucker and Arsene Delay.
This is a compilation of four videos--Self Portrait, Concentrated Milk, The Old Lady and the Milkmaid and Masculinihilist--developed about the many facades woman put on and discard throughout the various roles they play. Watch The Old Lady and the Milkmaid Now.

The Audience Reacts
by Julia Sherman
On television and film productions featuring a live audience, there comes a time when the extras are asked to cycle through all possible reactions to the actual show. This footage will be edited into 2 second segments later on, but the shoot turns into a kind of endurance test of artifical emotion. This strange excercise is a much-anticipated moment for extras to act on-camera, and the result is some kind of super-audience, with endless stamina and unparalleled enthusiasm. In The Audience Reacts, we never catch a glimpse of what the audience may or may not be watching on stage/screen. They dart back and forth between extreme reactions, booing, clapping, laughing and hissing in an infinite loop, suddenly becoming the stars of their very own movie. See an example here.

Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards

2009-03-14T12:00:00.000-07:00

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The After School Arts Program (ASAP) will be presenting a free conversation at Outpost for Contemporary Art on Saturday, March 14 from 1:00-3:00 p.m.

Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards
Presentation will be followed by Q&A

Listen to a recording of the conversation.

Guest Speakers:

Walter Askins
Artist, Former Board member of the Pasadena Arts Museum (1963-1968)
and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)

Letitia Ivins
Former member of the Outpost for Contemporary Art Advisory Board and current
member of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Vincent Ruiz-Abogado, LACE Board Member, is an independent art
director and film maker.

There will be refreshments, so please come early and stay after to chat.

About the After School Arts Program:
The After School Arts Program (ASAP) provides innovative and
experimental arts programming for artists, curators, historians and
critics interested in continuing their education in the visual arts.

ASAP is a not-for-profit community service offering lectures, salons,
workshops, critiques, exhibitions, film screenings and publications.
Dedicated to producing an educational and creative space outside of
the university system, ASAP is a bridge between the rigors of academia
and the plasticity of the natural world. Supporting programs/curricula
that might not exist with in a university setting, ASAP is committed
to experimentation and the ideology that the current status quo for
arts education is not the most effective method for engaging
contemporary audiences. ASAP does not advocate a superior method for
communicating ideas visually but rather promotes alternative modes of
understanding.

These are General Projects, generally.

2009-03-13T14:48:00.001-07:00

LA's Feral Institutions

2009-02-27T16:00:00.000-08:00

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LA's Feral Institutions.
Afterall's Conversation Lounge
College Art Association's 2009 Annual Conference
Friday, February 27, 2009 at 4 pm

A panel discussion led by Mathew Timmons with Mark Allen (Machine Project), Michael Ano (ASAP), Sean Dockray (The Public School), and Christine Wertheim (The Institute for Figuring).

Listen to a recording of the conversation here.

As a complement to the College Art Association's 2009 Annual Conference program sessions, Afterall hosts a series of 30-60 minute conversations offering insights into Los Angeles and its cultural history, present and future. Scheduled events include interviews with local artists, roundtable discussions, and talks by critics, curators and scholars that bridge the distance between early artistic developments and current practice.

Location:
CAA Book and Trade Fair
Los Angeles Convention Center
1201 S. Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Art Writings

2009-02-23T12:54:00.000-08:00

Erik Frydenborg's Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary (read at themagla.com)
For his first solo exhibition, Erik Frydenborg assembled appropriated imagery and multicolored cast sculptures, which he displayed on modular pedestals. These presentation modules, made of stained wood and based on a found prototype, strike a high modernist look but are more reminiscent of a natural history museum than of a gallery setting. Frydenborg's smaller-scale sculptures, made of polyurethane plastic, foam, pigments, and latex rubber, seem casual and approachable on a human scale. They suggest castoffs from the process of fabricating much larger work. The arrangement of objects in pieces like Sotto Voce and Selected Region, in which smaller cast objects are cut in half and set next to other halved objects in mismatched pairs, creates uncanny relationships among the elements.

Rather than each sculptural element being a work in itself, Frydenborg curates a collection of his objects into a single piece. In Legend, Frydenborg presents his base materials as one small sculpture resting on a pedestal plus a collection of images (including a food pyramid and various underwater creatures) that are altered and repeated throughout the rest of the installation. Works such as Untitled (Young Group) and Sleeper present bits and pieces put together to present a semblance of, well, bits and pieces. Instead of the building blocks of a holistic universe, these deformed fragments resemble the pottery shards of an entirely synthetic world, unable to evoke any sort of complete picture.

Frydenborg's parallel world isn't simply a direct reflection or critique of ours. In Untitled (Refrain), as in the rest of the show, he makes no claim on a privileged position of judgment within the piece. There is only a metonymic chain of elements set next to each other. Frydenborg is neither an optimist nor a pessimist, directing our attention without bias towards the chaos of deterioration, fragmentation, and reassembly as his various objects create a rhythmic chorus of forms.
--Mathew Timmons

Rudlong, Ron

2009-02-23T02:49:00.000-08:00

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General Projects Presents:
Ron Rudlong Returns
at Outpost for Contemporary Art
Monday, March 23 at 9pm

Famous Musician coined the term AWESOME!

Ron Rudlong, founder of such bands as Arson Plus, Mike and the Machinists, The 12 Rons, The Bright Side of Death, Dolphins of Tomorrow, Your Demolition Band, Mouth Babies, Sexy Uncle, Zap, Rosdower, Real Canadian Girlfriend, The Marshall Fucker Band, Rape Door and We are Awesome returns to Los Angeles to play his very last show in Los Angeles before he dies of complications due to Narcolepsy.

Please join us for this occasion.
Yes.

Mathew Timmons
General Director
General Projects

Rioux, Stephanie

2009-02-21T11:57:00.000-08:00

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Stephanie Rioux Co-hosts and Co-Produces LA-Lit with Mathew Timmons. Stephanie graduated from California Institute of the Arts with an MFA in Writing in Spring 2005. Her writings have appeared in the literary journals nocturnes (re)view, Trepan, Black Clock, and Primary Writing, and are self-published on the internet at tinyorganism. Stephanie teaches English and writing to middle school kids in Diamond Bar, California.

LA-Lit

2009-02-19T23:56:00.000-08:00

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LA-Lit

Co-hosted and co-produced by Stephanie Rioux and Mathew Timmons, LA-Lit interviews poets and writers in the Los Angeles area. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles as a place, this may mean writers that have lived in LA all their lives or writers who happen to be in LA for a few days. LA-Lit is a place for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself.

To listen to interviews, you can find links to all the files below.
All of LA-Lit's interviews are also hosted on Penn Sound.
You can also visit LA-Lit's website.

LA-Lit 1: Ara Shirinyan
LA-Lit interviewed Ara Shirinyan in late August 2005.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 1 Part a & LA-Lit 1 Part b

LA-Lit 2: Stan Apps
LA-Lit interviewed Stan Apps in early September 2005.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 2 Part a & LA-Lit 2 Part b

LA-Lit 3: Julien Poirier
LA-Lit interviewed Julien Poirier on Sunday, September 18, 2005 at 5pm.
Download the audio file here:
LA-Lit 3

LA-Lit 4: Doug Kearney
LA-Lit interviewed Doug Kearney on Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 4 Part a & LA-Lit 4 Part b

LA-Lit 5: Jen Hofer
LA-Lit interviewed Jen Hoffer on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 5 Part a & LA-Lit 5 Part b

LA-Lit 6: Amarnath Ravva
LA-Lit interviewed Amarnath Ravva on Sunday, December 4, 2005 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 6 Part a & LA-Lit 6 Part b

LA-Lit 7: Jane Sprague
LA-Lit interviewed Jane Sprague on Sunday, December 11, 2005 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 7 Part a & LA-Lit 7 Part b

LA-Lit 8: Diane Ward
LA-Lit interviewed Diane Ward on Sunday, February 5, 2006 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 8 Part a & LA-Lit 8 Part b

LA-Lit 9: Guy Bennett
LA-Lit interviewed Guy Bennett on Sunday, February 12, 2006 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 9 Pta & LA-Lit 9 Ptb

LA-Lit 10: José Alvergue
LA-Lit interviewed José Alvergue on Sunday, February 19, 2006 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 10 Part A & LA-Lit 10 Part B

LA-Lit 11: Anthony McCann
LA-Lit interviewed Anthony McCann on Sunday, April 9, 2006 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 11 Pta & LA-Lit 11 Ptb

LA-Lit 12: Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis
LA-Lit interviewed Matvei Yankelevich and Anna Moschovakis on Tuesday, April 11, 2006 at 8pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 12 Pta & LA-Lit 12 Ptb

LA-Lit 13: Bruna Mori
LA-Lit interviewed Bruna Mori on Sunday, May 21, 2006 at 2pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 12 Pta & LA-Lit 12 Ptb

LA-Lit 14: Will Alexander
LA-Lit interviewed Will Alexander on Sunday, June 25, 2006 at 2pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 14 pt a & LA-Lit 14 pt b

LA-Lit 1 Yr Anniversary
LA-Lit celebrated its 1 Year Anniversary at Betalevel with a discussion of the experimental literary scene in Los Angeles on Sunday October 15 at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
Discussion & Readings

LA-Lit 15: Chris Kraus
LA-Lit interviewed Chris Kraus on Friday, November 3rd at 7pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 15 pt a & LA-Lit 15 pt b

La-Lit 16: Teresa Carmody
LA-Lit interviewed Teresa Carmody on Sunday, November 19th at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 16 pt a & LA-Lit 16 pt b

LA-Lit 17: Bay Poetics
On Saturday, December 2 at 1pm, writers Del Ray Cross, Susan Gevirtz, Suzanne Stein, Stephanie Young and Magdalena Zurawski (whose work appears in the new anthology Bay Poetics edited by Stephanie Young) were our guests.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 17 Discussion & LA-Lit 17 Readings

LA-Lit 18: Sawako Nakayasu
LA-Lit interviewed Sawako Nakayasu on Sunday, December 10th at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA Lit 18 part a & LA Lit 18 part b

LA-Lit 19: Mark Wallace
LA-Lit interviewed Mark Wallace on Saturday, February 3 at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 19 pt a & LA-Lit 19 pt b

LA-Lit 20: Vanessa Place
LA-Lit interviewed Vanessa Place on Sunday, February 25, 2007 at 3pm and Sunday, March 16, 2008.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 20 pt a & LA-Lit 20 pt b

LA-Lit 21: Maggie Nelson
LA-Lit interviewed Maggie Nelson on Sunday, March 11 at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 21 pt a & LA-Lit 21 pt b

LA-Lit 22: Mark von Schlegell
LA-Lit interviewed Mark von Schlegell on Sunday, April 15 at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 22 pt a & LA-Lit 22 pt b

LA-Lit 23: Lee Ann Brown
LA-Lit interviewed Lee Ann Brown on Sunday, June 24 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 23 pt a & LA-Lit 23 pt b

LA-Lit 24: Christine Wertheim
LA-Lit interviewed Christine Wertheim on Sunday, September 23 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 24 pt a & LA-Lit 24 pt b

LA-Lit 25: WeHo Book Fair-LA Avant Underground Panel Discussion
LA-Lit moderated the LA Avant Underground Panel at the WeHo Book Fair on Sunday, September 30 at 11am with panelists Harold Abramowitz, Teresa Carmody, and Ara Shirinyan.
Download the audio file here:
LA-Lit 25 complete recording

LA-Lit 26: Demosthenes Agrafiotis
LA-Lit interviewed Demosthenes Agrafiotis on Thursday, October 18 at 8pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 26 pt a & LA-Lit 26 pt b

LA-Lit 27: Masha Tupitsyn
LA-Lit interviewed Masha Tupitsyn on Friday, October 19 at 8pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 27 pt a & LA-Lit 27 pt b

LA-Lit 28: Eileen Myles
LA-Lit interviewed Eileen Myles on Sunday, November 4 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 28 pt a & LA-Lit 28 pt b

LA-Lit 29: Catherine Daly
LA-Lit interviewed Catherine Daly on Sunday, November 11 at 5pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 29 pt a & LA-Lit 29 pt b

LA-Lit 30: Nada Gordon
LA-Lit interviewed Nada Gordon on Sunday, December 2 at 1pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 30 pt a & LA-Lit 30 pt b

LA-Lit 31: Thérèse Bachand
LA-Lit interviewed Thérèse Bachand on Sunday, March 9 at 7pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 31 pt a & LA-Lit 31 pt b

LA-Lit 32: Dan Machlin
LA-Lit interviewed Dan Machlin on Saturday, April 12 at 2pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 32 pt a & LA-Lit 32 pt b

LA-Lit 33: Kristin Palm
LA-Lit interviewed Kristin Palm on Sunday, June 1 at 3pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 33 pt a & LA-Lit 33 pt b

LA-Lit 34: Vincent Dachy
LA-Lit interviewed Vincent Dachy on Monday, October 27 at 8pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 34 pt a & LA-Lit 34 pt b

LA-Lit 35: Lisa Samuels
LA-Lit interviewed Lisa Samuels on Sunday, November 23 at 8pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 35 pt a & LA-Lit 35 pt b

LA-Lit 36: Harold Abramowitz
LA-Lit interviewed Harold Abramowitz on Saturday, April 18 at 2pm.
Download the audio files here:
LA-Lit 36 pt a & LA-Lit 36 pt b

LA-Lit: Clouds

form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass-condensation atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents-groundless-texture connectivity-dense-manifest-rhythm-decenter-collaborate-surprise-confer-disperse

LA-Lit: Clouds :: November 21+22, 2008
 at Betalevel and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock  

LA-Lit celebrated its three year anniversary on Friday November 21 at Betalevel and on Saturday November 22 at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. For over three years, LA-Lit has developed a new space for the literary culture of Los Angeles to develop and exhibit itself. Reflecting the shifting nature of Los Angeles, LA-Lit has conducted well over thirty interviews with poets and writers who have lived in LA all their lives as well as writers who have visited LA for only a few days. Please join us for LA-Lit: Clouds :: a two day conference in Los Angeles connecting the de-centered literary culture of LA in an effort to investigate it’s current manifestations and to develop a sense of LA’s inherent literary spontaneity.

LA-Lit: Clouds :: Schedule
 Friday November 21: 
8:00pm-11:00pm: 
Perform and Celebrate at Betalevel
LA-LitCloudsDay1a (audio coming soon!) Stephanie Rioux, Mathew Timmons, Amarnath Ravva.
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LA-LitCloudsDay1b (44:30): Intro comments by Mathew Timmons, (1:43) special introduction by Sawako Nakayasu, (5:39) Teresa Carmody, (14:10) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (15:03) Lisa Samuels, (29:04) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (32:03) Stan Apps.

Saturday November 22: 
Confer at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 
12:00pm-1:30pm 
form-body-surface-material-method-growth-sound-mass -condensation-structure-elements-foreground-background 
Moderator: Mathew Timmons. Panelists: Stan Apps, Guy Bennett, Christine Wertheim, Ara Shirinyan
LA-LitCloudsDay2Panel1 (1:32:09): Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (2:41) Stan Apps, (17:56) Guy Bennett, (30:24) Ara Shirinyan, (42:01) Christine Wertheim, (1:00:12) Q&A.

2:00pm-3:30pm 
atmospheric-nebulae-clarity-reveals-recreation-currents- groundless-textured-visible-droplets-interstellar-crystalline 
Moderator: Stephanie Rioux. Panelists: Will Alexander, Teresa Carmody, K. Lorraine Graham, Amarnath Ravva, Mark Wallace
LA-LitCloudsDay2Panel2 (1:42:13) Introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (6:23) Teresa Carmody, (16:42) Amarnath Ravva, (26:11) Mark Wallace, (37:27) K. Lorraine Graham, (49:18) Will Alexander, (1:06:36) Q&A.

4:30pm-6:00pm 
Perform at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock 
Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Will Alexander, Guy Bennett, K. Lorraine Graham, Sawako Nakayasu, Ara Shirinyan, Mark Wallace, Christine Wertheim
LA-LitCloudsDay2Rdng1 (45:28) Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (1:53) Christine Wertheim, (10:40) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (12:07) Ara Shirinyan, (30:28) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (31:56) Guy Bennett
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LA-LitCloudsDay2Rdng2 (1:06:39) Introduction by Mathew Timmons, (2:00) Sawako Nakayasu, (13:29) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (14:56) Mark Wallace, (27:15) Introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (28:55) Demosthenes Agrafiotis, (35:56) introduction by Stephanie Rioux, (37:00) K. Lorraine Graham, (45:30) introduction by Mathew Timmons, (47:50) Will Alexander

Timmons, Mathew

2009-02-19T14:27:00.000-08:00

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Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He is the General Director of General Projects at various locations including Outpost for Contemporary Art and The Ups & Downs, an installation series, at workspace. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux), Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz) and he is the Los Angeles editor of Joyland. A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.

Adair, Danielle

2009-02-19T01:03:00.000-08:00

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The Ups & Downs
Danielle Adair
Friday, March 6 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, March 7 from 7 to 10 pm
at workspace
Time Lapse documentation

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

Danielle Adair’s work utilizes performance, video, sound, text, and multi-media installation to address current events in phenomenological ways. The subject matter of her recent projects include mental illness within current diagnostic understanding, systems of education, and wartime experience. Adair is based in Los Angeles. Most recently she has performed and/or exhibited work at The Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles, the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, UC Santa Cruz, Beyond Baroque, and Track 16 Gallery. Currently she is at work on a performance-essay based on one female officer’s experience while stationed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.

Richert, Dan

2009-02-19T00:55:00.000-08:00

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The Ups & Downs:
Dan Richert
Thursday, November 13 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, November 14 from 7 to 10pm
at Marmion Way
Photo documentation

*sc3gzr* is an interactive gamepad-controlled text stream filter designed around pattern-based text filtering functionality similar to that found in the UNIX tools grep and sed. Filtering patterns are determined by control messages sent from the gamepad. *sc3gzr* is an experiment in non-linear text presentation.

Dan Richert is a programmer and digital artist. His work primarily focuses on computerized text and audio generation, recombination and breakage.

Lin, Candice

2009-02-19T00:41:00.001-08:00

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The Ups & Downs:
Marcus Civin & Candice Lin
Thursday, October 23 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, October 24 from 10pm to late
at Betalevel

When the wind got too rough, and the ship was pitching, sailors took an axe to the mast, so the lighting wouldn’t catch. We were at the top, in the crow’s nest, tangled in the nets and in the tatters of the sails. When it was all over, we climbed out and found we had washed upon a beach of graphite sand. Shipwreck! Enormous Crow’s Nest built to reach the ceiling, stuck in and consuming the underground space at Betalevel.

Candice Lin and Marcus Civin both attended Brown University at the same time but never really met there. They both lived in San Francisco but never met there, though they had friends in common. A mutual friend, Maggie Foster, encouraged them to meet up in LA. As a result, they have been exchanging ideas for the last 2 years. Candice is planning an exhibition for Chung King Projects. Marcus is almost finished his MFA in Studio Art at University of California, Irvine.

Civin, Marcus

2009-02-19T00:40:00.000-08:00

Molina, Pablo N.

2009-02-18T23:57:00.000-08:00

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The Ups & Downs:
Pablo N. Molina
Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 7-10 pm
Friday, September 26, 2008 from 7-10 pm
at Betalevel

Continuing an exploration of human-media interaction, Pablo N. Molina’s newest work uses digital projection and custom software to create a dynamic spatialized interface where human movement is processed and extended. An immersive and responsive video display and digital sensory framework will track both presence and movement to produce an intricate and reactive environment. Meaningful conversations between human stimuli and data processing are temporarily registered as visual and auditory output. Viewers should feel free to explore and discover new modes of action and reaction. The purposely open-ended coding framework allows for completely unexpected, though never random, modes of feedback.

Pablo N. Molina is a Los Angeles and New York City based video, lighting and sound artist. His work has appeared in several galleries and numerous theatrical, music and dance performances including pieces by Carl Hancock Rux, Neil Denari, Karin Coonrod, Bebe Miller, Aimee Michelle, Lars Jan, Mira Kingsley, Sam Gold, Chi-wang Yang, Benny Sato Ambush, Cloud Eye Control, Rachel Boggia and High Jinks Dance Co. His digitally generated video content was prominently featured in Linkin Park’s recent Projekt Revolution world tour. He is currently collaborating with MODE Studios in Seattle to develop a large scale interactive video and sound installation commissioned by a prominent Fortune 500 company. Pablo teaches video design and programming at CalArts.

The Ups & Downs

2009-02-18T23:49:00.000-08:00

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The Ups & Downs
At Betalevel & Workspace
September 2008 – September 2009

The Ups & Downs is an installation series. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Thursday night and closing party the next night, on Friday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

Pablo N. Molina
Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 7-10 pm
Friday, September 26, 2008 from 7-10 pm
at Betalevel
Time Lapse documentation

Marcus Civin & Candice Lin
Thursday, October 23 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, October 24 from 10pm to late
at Betalevel
Time Lapse documentation

Dan Richert
Thursday, November 13 from 7 to 10 pm
Friday, November 14 from 7 to 10pm
at Marmion Way
Photo documentation

Janne Larsen
Friday, February 6 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, February 7 from 7 to 10 pm
at workspace
Time Lapse documentation

Danielle Adair
Friday, March 6 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, March 7 from 7 to 10 pm
at workspace
Time Lapse documentation

Brian Kim Stefans
Scriptor 1.0
Friday, June 5 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, June 6 from 7 to 10 pm
with a short artist's talk each night at 8pm
at workspace
Time Lapse Documentation

Liz Glynn
65 | 77 | 03 | -
Friday, September 4 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, September 5 from 7 to 10 pm
at workspace
Time Lapse Documentation

Sherman, Julia

2009-02-18T11:19:00.000-08:00

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Movie Reel Project
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

The Audience Reacts
by Julia Sherman
On television and film productions featuring a live audience, there comes a time when the extras are asked to cycle through all possible reactions to the actual show. This footage will be edited into 2 second segments later on, but the shoot turns into a kind of endurance test of artifical emotion. This strange excercise is a much-anticipated moment for extras to act on-camera, and the result is some kind of super-audience, with endless stamina and unparalleled enthusiasm. In The Audience Reacts, we never catch a glimpse of what the audience may or may not be watching on stage/screen. They dart back and forth between extreme reactions, booing, clapping, laughing and hissing in an infinite loop, suddenly becoming the stars of their very own movie. See an example here.

Bio:
Julia Sherman mines folk traditions, canonical art history, feminist theory  and a range of personal anxieties to create tableaus of fantasy, philosophy and interrogation. Her formal compositions and finely wrought images cannot conceal her  attraction to the homemade, the experiment and the discovery. Although documented in photographs and video, Sherman's work must be  understood as performance and is often translated best through elaborate  installations. In recent work, Sherman reflects on artifice and entertainment in the film industry, the theatre and pornography.

Larsen, Janne

2009-02-17T20:12:00.000-08:00

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Movie Reel Project:
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ainsi fon fon fon les petites demoiselles… and that’s why I’m not a Lesbian is a series of video works developed about the many facades women put on and discard throughout the various roles they play. Video was projected and framed in various sculptural totems from a cardboard peep show booth to a hair sculpture, to a coffin-like table.

Self Portrait explores Montblanc’s ancestry by deconstructing the nature of portraiture.

Concentrated Milk investigates the power structures confronting older women as they renegotiate behavioral paradigms proper to younger women.

Masculinihilist is an attempt to represent sex as seen from the perspective of women living in a masculinihilist world, a state of being in which masculine power has been erased from a previously victorious collective history. The video struggles to untangle the grotesque drama of male-dominated porn by redistributing the sexual fiat of perversion into the hands of female performers.

The Old Lady and the Milkmaid is a deliberately nonsensical attempt to delve into the dramatic undertones of an everyday interaction of women of equal status. Watch The Old Lady and the Milkmaid Now.

Janne Larsen:
Janne Larsen is a practicing artist and set designer. She received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from Cal Arts. Janne has exhibited at Telic Art Exchange, Workspace, L.A Municipal Gallery, UCLA’s Kerkhoff Gallery, The Fine Arts complex at Cal State L.A., Art House Gallery, Beta Level, and the Museum of Contemporary Art DC. Janne has also designed sets at Pomona College, Bootleg, The Odyssey, Caltech, and Cal Arts.. Janne has recently been published in the magazine, “Zen Monster’ and is currently working on a book of illustrations entitled ‘Tea Parties’ with Amanda Tomme. In the upcoming year, Janne expects to bring the tragedy, Medea, to the Daveli Cave outside of Athens, Greece sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture.

The Ups & Downs
Janne Larsen
Friday, February 6 from 7 to 10 pm
Saturday, February 7 from 7 to 10 pm
at workspace
Time Lapse documentation

This installation is about elbows, the least friendly part of the body; elbows on the freeway, the least social social-interaction. Let’s face it: In the freeway it is You or Them. Body parts are at high risks, morphing into the space of the car, you maneuver and try to out-strategize Them. The last figure in the installation is the hopelessly ideal. The one that is the Other. The unused body part, the dreamer, the drifter, the asleep at the wheel, the one no one talks about.

Bridging the gap between installation art and set design, Janne translates text and spatial dimension into new forms of expression. Her work explores spatial development in performance and gallery dynamics. Her strategy is like that of Brancusi or Meyerhold: “to create an event that transforms the stage, it’s objects and the entire material space of the auditorium - including the audience members - into the work.” Through social experiments in art, Janne breaks through the fourth wall by challenging the structures behind preconceived notions of art and performance. Janne Larsen received her B.A in philosophy from DePaul University and in 2007 received her M.F.A from CalArts. Janne is a Los Angeles based installation artist and set designer. Janne’s most recent project is an installation in a cave in Greece, sponsored by the Greece Ministry of Culture. Her work has been seen at Telic, CalArts, BetaLevel, UCLA, CalPoly, Cal State LA and the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery.

de Montblanc, Frederique

2009-02-17T20:05:00.000-08:00

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Movie Reel Project:
at Outpost for Contemporary Art

Ainsi fon fon fon les petites demoiselles… and that’s why I’m not a Lesbian is a series of video works developed about the many facades women put on and discard throughout the various roles they play. Video was projected and framed in various sculptural totems from a cardboard peep show booth to a hair sculpture, to a coffin-like table.

Self Portrait explores Montblanc’s ancestry by deconstructing the nature of portraiture.

Concentrated Milk investigates the power structures confronting older women as they renegotiate behavioral paradigms proper to younger women.

Masculinihilist is an attempt to represent sex as seen from the perspective of women living in a masculinihilist world, a state of being in which masculine power has been erased from a previously victorious collective history. The video struggles to untangle the grotesque drama of male-dominated porn by redistributing the sexual fiat of perversion into the hands of female performers.

The Old Lady and the Milkmaid is a deliberately nonsensical attempt to delve into the dramatic undertones of an everyday interaction of women of equal status. Watch The Old Lady and the Milkmaid Now.

Frederique de Montblanc:
Born and raised in an international community in Brussels, Frederique then moved to Montreal to complete her BFA in Theatre at Concordia University. During her stay in Quebec she worked as a theatre designer for Imago Theatre and participated to the ‘Festival du Monde Arabe’. She also performed in various projects including Simon Donger’s adaptation of Hamletmachine. She was then accepted at Calarts and moved to Los Angeles to complete her MFA. Her artwork has been shown at Beta Level, Highways Performance Space, Redcat and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Throughout her last year Frederique had the privilege to be ORLAN's personal assistant at the Getty Research Institute. She has now moved to Texas and has recently designed set and costumes for Dominic Walsh’s adaptation of Titus Andronicus. Some of her artwork has recently been featured at Artstorm and the Lawndale Art Center. She is currently designing video and set for A Convenient Women, a dance show taking place at Diverseworks in April, and will be Art Directing the international production of Armide showing at the Wortham Center in May. Past Collaborations with Janne Larsen include the dance theatre pieces: Laundry Room Extravaganza (I, II & III) and the writing of Deadlips, a play about exorcism, dinner parties and wrestling.

2008-01-13T17:44:00.000-08:00

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Portfolio

*this should be considered alongside the pdf portfolio sent in

Publications - Books
The New Poetics. Los Angeles: Les Figues Press, forthcoming.
- Attached in portfolio pdf.

CREDIT. Los Angeles: Blanc Press, 2009.
- Attached as a separate pdf.
- Blanc Press Site.
- Reviewed on LemonHound by Gregory Betts. January 2, 2010.
- Reviewed in The Globe and Mail by Brian Joseph Davis. November 3, 2009.

Lip Service. Ohio: Slack Buddha Press, 2009.
- Attached in portfolio pdf.
- from Sound Noise. An additional excerpt at Corduroy Mountain.
- from Basic Hearing. An additional excerpt at Poetica.

Exhibitions
Set for a Play that Doesn't Exist.
- documentation attached in portfolio pdf.

They.
- documentation attached in portfolio pdf.

Ursonorous Disruptions.
- documentation attached in portfolio pdf.
- Article in the Los Angeles Times by Paul Young. Novermber 17, 2008.
- Project Page with Audio samples and code.

The Selected Works of Robert Darry.
- documentation attached in portfolio pdf.

Seepferdchen und Flugfische (sound poetry) aslongasittakes 2 (2008)

Goooaaalll!!! (video poetics & performance) Da Benshi Code, Betalevel, Los Angeles (July 2006)
- video mashup of chance captured video performed with Stan Apps and dealing with capital, the immaterial, soccer and romantic poetry.

Poetry Machine 1 - West Hollywood Bookfair, West Hollywood, CA (September 2006)
- photos of lo-tech version - with all wooden gears etc
- hi-tech version

Critical Writing

- articles attached in portfolio pdf
- additional items include:
Protein Recital at Bonelli Contemporary The Magazine (July/August 2009)

Panel Moderator, "LAs Feral Institutions" for Aferall's Conversations Lounge, CAA, Los Angeles (February 2009)

Curatorial & Editorial

LA-Lit, Co-Host and Co-Producer, Online Interview Show with LA writers (2005-present)
- PennSound Page

Insert Press, Editor, Los Angeles (2005-present).

Los Angeles Editor, Joyland: a Hub for Short Fiction (2008-present)

Late Night Snack, performance series at Betalevel and the Lounge at REDCAT, Los Angeles (2006-present)

General Director General Projects (2008-present)

The Ups & Downs, installation series at Betalevel & workspace, Los Angeles (Sept 2008-Sept 2009).
- Draft Clopy of forthcoming Book documenting the series attached in portfolio pdf

General Projects

INSERT BLANC PRESS BENEFIT & HOLIDAY PARTY

Jon Rutzmoser & Marianne Morris Reading Dec 4

(!x==[33]) Volume 1 by .UNFO from Blanc Press

E! Entertainment by Kate Durbin

Some AAAAAArt Stuff I've been doing at #OccupyLA

INTERNET

PARROT 9 Politicized Pretty Picture by Stan Apps

PARROT 8 I Fell in Love With a Monster Truck by Amanda Ackerman

a little get together for Danny Snelson!

The Saffron Green Video Documentation!

Review of The New Poetics in American Book Review

The Saffron Green

Vanessa Place & Rob Halpern Reading & Conversation Aug 5

Vanessa Place Statement of the Case

Contact the publisher at laliterature at gee mail dot com for classroom adoption discounts.

I Know What I Did Since Last Summer...

PARROT 7 On the Substance of Disorder by Will Alexander

A Safe Dinner

MLA Off-Site Reading 2011 Los Angeles

Telephone Sat Dec 11 at Francois Ghebaly Gallery

The Futility of Making Salad at MATERIAL

The New Poetics Trailer

The Archanoids

PARROT 6 Viva Miscegenation by Brian Kim Stefans

$$$ Cotton Candy and $$$ The Color of Money

CREDIT: Installation at LACE

(continue) purple red yellow

PARROT 5 Loquela by Allyssa Wolf Out Now! from Insert Press!

From Penn Sound - LA-Lit Clouds! plus.

Tragodía 1: Statement of Facts by Vanessa Place from Blanc Press

PARROT 4 by Joseph Mosconi

PARROT Press!

PARROT 3 by Allison Carter

Late Night Snack!!!

PARROT 2 A House on a Hill (A House on a Hill, Part One) by Harold Abramowitz

New work up at Joyland: Los Angeles

AWP 2010: Flarf VS. Conceptual Writing panel presentation

PARROT 1 My Beautiful Beds by Stephanie Rioux

CREDIT Launch! & Conceptual Lit Reading! in Los Angeles!

The Ups & Downs

Reading Extravaganza!

Les Figues: Maneuvers

Review of Erik Frydenborg's show at Bonelli

CREDIT

CREDITby Mathew TimmonsComing soon from Blanc Press in Los Angeles!an 800pg full color, large format, hard bound book!

An Afternoon Reading... July 12, 2009 at The Lounge at REDCAT

The Ups & Downs: Brian Kim Stefans

Performance / Lectures !!

Closing!

Openings!

What's Wrong with Relational Aesthetics?

Late Night Snack

Plastic Crochet Workshop

Readings

LA-Lit: Harold Abramowitz

Cold Call Friendly Phone Book

Chris Niemi

General Projects: Ron Rudlong Returns 03/23/09 at 9pm

Lip Service in the LOUNGE at REDCAT

Movie Reel Project

Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards

These are General Projects, generally.

LA's Feral Institutions

Art Writings

Rudlong, Ron

Rioux, Stephanie

LA-Lit

Timmons, Mathew

Adair, Danielle

Richert, Dan

Lin, Candice

Civin, Marcus

Molina, Pablo N.

The Ups & Downs

Sherman, Julia

Larsen, Janne

de Montblanc, Frederique

CREDIT
by Mathew Timmons
Coming soon from Blanc Press in Los Angeles!

an 800pg full color, large format, hard bound book!