ECSTATIC PEACE, White Columns, READING AND CONCERT TONIGHT, 7 PM
‘ECSTATIC PEACE POETRY JOURNAL, ISSUE #10’, White Columns, 320 West 13th Street, Through Feb. 27
Friday February 19th
7-9pm. Reading: Richard Hell, Dorothea Lasky. Music: Thurston Moore + guest (FREE, admission on first-come basis)
White Columns is proud to present Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, Issue #10: an exhibition, publication, and a series of readings and performances.
Artist, musician, poet and publisher Thurston Moore began editing and producing Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal in 2001 as a forum to publish poetry by individuals who intersected the worlds of poetry, music and art. A dynamic range of writings, with various pages of visual work by Gerard Malanga, Richard Meltzer, Chan Marshall, Dennis Cooper, Kathleen Hanna, John Sinclair, Richard Hell, Jutta Koether, Gus van Sant, Rick Moody, Kim Gordon, Anne Waldman, Bill Berkson, Anselm Berrigan, Gary Panter and many others were published in eight issues in as many years.
Moore was inspired to publish Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal after years of appreciation, study and relentless archiving of post-war poetry publishing focusing on the activity of the “mimeo revolution” of the ’60s and ’70s. The stapled mimeo poetry journals produced from the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, Peace Eye Bookstore in New York City, and Asphodel Bookstore in Cleveland, Ohio, as well as a myriad of other subterranean centers of shared post-beat writing, rage, meditation and experimentation continues to inform the publication of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal.
Issue #10 of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal will be published and presented at White Columns as an expanded event/exhibition. A stapled issue will be created during the show. Pages from each of the ten journals will be exhibited as enlarged wall pieces, including the heretofore unpublished issue #9, [in keeping with the journals every-third-issue a theme issue, i.e., #3 was themed “cunnilingus,” #6 was “punk,”—with #9’s theme “pot”]. The main gallery space will feature a selection of historical poetry publications from the last fifty years culled from Moore’s own library, including original editions of Amphora, Change, Coldspring Journal, Copkiller, Fervent Valley, Free Poems Amongst Friends, Gaslight Poetry Review, Kauri, Klactovedesteen, LA-BAS, Outburst, Stance, Sum, The Willie, Trobar, Yowl and more.
Working as co-editor on many aspects of Ecstatic Peace Poetry Journal, including this exhibition is writer Byron Coley, formidable musicologist, essayist, poet and producer of music and literary arcana, ephemera and beyond. Select pieces from Moore and Coley’s catalogue will be reprinted in limited states for this exhibition. Eva Prinz, editor, co-publisher of Ecstatic Peace Library and curator of Radical Living Papers: Free Press 1965-75 (2007) brings additional organizational and creative force to Issue #10 as a gallery event.
Thursday February 25th
7-9pm. Reading: Thurston Moore and Anne Waldman accompanied by musicians Ambrose Bye and Devin Waldman
All performances and readings are free, admission on a first-come basis.
week of feb 17 class
Reminders, perhaps unnecessary: first assignment will be looked at this week in class; Lawrence Weiner is giving a presentation at 7:30 Wednesday the 18th, a must for you.
I am soon going to post various readings related to using text, using the page as a site, using text as performance score…1960’s and 1970’s based activities, primarily. In the mean time please read: “My Works for Magazine Pages, ” Dan Graham. http:digital.mica.edu/departmental/gradphoto/Public/Upload/2000609/GrahamHistory.pdf
CDJ
Presentation on BOOKS RECORDS TAPES
Saturday February 27, 3-6 pm
Rafael Sanchez & Kathleen White
Started by Raphael Sánchez in 1999 on the sidewalk in front of his apartment, and continued in collaboration with Kathleen White since 2004, BOOKS RECORDS TAPES is a year-round street sale in the tradition of event art such as Happenings and Fluxus. Not limited to the simple curating and exchange of cultural material, the project incorporates a number of publishing and archiving projects, including the self-published magazine alLuPiNiT, now a non-profit organization. In this program, Sánchez and White will explore the concept, history, and potentials of this multifaceted ongoing project.
Book as art object at Dia, Hispanic Society
http://www.diaart.org/exhibitions/main/100
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: chronotopes & dioramas
September 23, 2009 – June 27, 2010
At PS1: 45 YEARS OF PERFORMANCE VIDEO FROM EAI
ARTISTS’ BOOKS, Spring 2010/blog: hunterbookart@wordpress.com
Prof: Constance DeJong: cmdejong@aol.com
T.A.: Ellie Krakow: e.krakow@gmail.com
Our class will be (1) project-based and (2) address, at least in part, the history of artists’ books (past and present).
To start the history, I’ve already posted readings on the blog—about Mallarme, Apollinaire and Marinetti, representing the early history of artists’ books. Also will be bringing in examples of books from my random collection for your viewing.
Re class projects: PRODUCE AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE BOOK FORMS LISTED BELOW/choose from a different category for each project. Assignments due 2/17; 3/3; 3/17; 4/7. A project of your own choosing will be your final project: written proposal due no later than 4/21. Half the class will show final project May 12/half will show May 19, determined by lottery system.
Class dates of spring 2010: February 3, 17, 24; March 3, 10, 17 24; Spring recess March 31; April 7, 14, 21, 28; May 5, 12, 19. *Again, re assignments: every two weeks produce an example from one of the categories listed below as Artists’ Books Categories.
GENERAL CLASS NOTES: RE the notion: what is an artist’s book. FROM JOHANA DRUCKER, The Century of Artists’ Books (paraphrased): artists’ books may be identified as a zone of activity, a conceptual space. May be said to interrogate the conceptual or material form of the book as part of its intention, thematic interests or production activities.
For the moment we will exclude the category of “livre d’artiste” in our inquiry. Because as a book form it is an arrangement of one’s art works, works that already have a/already exist in a primary form such that a “livre d’artiste” becomes a collection of reproductions and is not a primary form of itself. (It reproduces works that exist/rather than being images and/or text produced as book form.)
CLASS ONE: INTRODUCING our subject… We will discuss various aspects and nuances of the categories below in class throughout the semester.
ARTISTS’ BOOKS CATGORIES:
1. ALL TEXT: BOOK AS VERBAL FORM — Marinetti @ Reed Collection: Les Mots en Liberte Futuristes/typography, text placement, text visualized; page as art environment/space.
Jenny Holzer @ Otis, Truisms and Essays (devised text as all cap, certain font, not conventional publishing layout on the page.)
2. ALL IMAGE: BOOK AS VISUAL FORM: Ed Ruscha @ Reed Collection: Twenty Gas Stations, Thirty Four Parking Lots in LA-images from conceptual basis, one per page identified with caption; Every Building on Sunset Strip also images from conceptual basis but not in Codex, rather in fold our format (top and bottom strip of images like two sides of the street).
Adrian Piper @ Otis: Colored People, 1991, all image book.
Sol Lewitt @ Otis: Brick Wall (full double spread image/no border); Squares and Sides w Corners Torn Off (Lewitt didn’t repro works as books had image ideas as books); (The Location of eight points).
John Baldessari @ Otis: Close Cropped Tales (uses title/text pun as concept for shaping of images.)
3. REPURPOSED/ASSISTED/APPROPRIATE FORMS:
Xu Bing, @ Reed, Tobacco Project: Red Book, 2000, book as object, using recognizable and/or appropriated object repurposed with text as book.
Jim Shaw @ Otis collection: his remake of National Enquirer
Mallarme redpurposed by Marcel Broodthaers (Un Coup de Des, Mallarme, written 1897, published 1914; Un Coup de Des Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard, Broodthaers, 1969
4. RELATION OF TEXT AND IMAGE: Book as Sequence (conceptual or narrative sequence) (category includes zines/comics)
Barbara Kruger @ Otis bookmark; Picture/Readings…double paged with text left and photo image right; not a conventional relationship of caption and image.
Lawrence Weiner @ Otis, Coming and Going: sequentially conceived text and occasional image; a kind of conceptual-sequential structure.
Matha Rosler – Trilogy of Service
5A. BOOK AS SCULPTURE/AS EXHIBIT
Anselm Keifer, books as sculpture @ AB Bookmark; large scale works of sculpture; also Jonathan Borofsky.
5B. BOOK AS OBJECT, exploration of material form; may extend into a spatial domain, ie a scroll, a popup, a folded paper entity, etc.; is non codex, not pages bound in fixed sequence. Destroy All Monsters (Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Care Loren), “Monster Masher Nickel Bag” (3 buttons, two trading cards) M. Duchamp made an artists’ book of six rotorelief/printed on round card stock in an envelope. Reprinted 1987, Konig (online @ graham gallery.
SOME OF THE work examples shown in class can be reviewed on:
Otis Collections OnLine, collections.otis.edu and Reed College Digital Collects, Artists’ Books, cdm.reed.edu
HunterBookArt's Blog 