Late Night Snack!!!

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!

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


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

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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. ... 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

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…

Individual issues of PARROT sell for $6.00. Subscribe to PARROT and receive all the individual titles from the PARROT series for $81.00 or pre-order the Limited Edition hand-bound set of the collection, signed and numbered 1-50 for $100.00.

go to Insert Press for more details

New work up at Joyland: Los Angeles

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

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

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...

Individual issues of PARROT sell for $6.00 and can be ordered here

Copies of the Limited Edition hand-bound set signed and numbered 1-50 can be pre-ordered for $75.00 here

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

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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

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!

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

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
39 pp. | handbound | hand-folded

AVAILABLE NOW by SUBSCRIPTION MEMBERSHIP

Hand-bound in an edition of 250, TrenchArt: Maneuvers introduces the fifth annual TrenchArt series, with aesthetics written by participating series writers and visual artists. Maneuvers explores the possibilities of re-ordered time and content framed with the understanding that one cannot separate content from time, and that to shift the form or the order is to shift the subjectivies of a text. The participants in the 2009/2010 series are Harold Abramowitz, Lily Hoang, Paul Hoover, Matthew Timmons and Vincent Dachy.

Read Excerpts: YES!

TrenchArt is an annual subscription series of innovative literature and poetics. Become a SUBSCRIBING MEMBER and receive all five books in the TrenchArt Maneuvers series, as they are published, including:

• TrenchArt: Maneuvers, July 2009
• Sonnet 56 by Paul Hoover, November 2009
• Not Blessed by Harold Abramowitz, January 2010
• The Evolutionary Revolution by Lily Hoang, April 2010
• The New Poetics by Mathew Timmons, July 2010

LES FIGUES PRESS: CREATING AESTHETIC CONVERSATIONS

Address postal inquiries to:
Les Figues Press
Teresa Carmody
PO Box 7736
Los Angeles, CA 90007

Review of Erik Frydenborg's show at Bonelli

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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

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

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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

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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 !!

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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!

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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!

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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?

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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

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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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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

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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

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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.