language

Rubber Stamp Non Sequitur

Category : art, language

This Friday, August 13th from 6 to 9pm  I’ll be at the next installment of Book Arts Lounge at the Center for Book Arts:

Using erasers and carving tools we’ll carve our own rubber stamps, construct a hodge-podge assortment of words and phrases and stamp our way into some simple instantaneous books. Bring your own found text- hand made signs, lost pet notices, advertisements, informational pamphlets, tracts, spam messages, directions for use- or borrow some of ours. We’ll go over the basics of rubber stamp making, string together some nonsensical phrases and produce some basic tri-fold pamphlets.

$10 suggested donation/ $5 members

I’ve made a bunch of stamps for people to try, and everyone will be able to carve their own.


Babel

Category : art, language
QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development
ARTISTS TALK & CLOSING RECEPTION
Wednesday, June 30, 6 – 9 pm

Space 37
86-08 37th Avenue
Jackson Heights, NY 11372
(No. 7 Train to 82 St. or 90 St. 5 min walk)
Join us for the Artists Talk and Closing Reception of QMAD’s BABEL Art Exhibition at Space 37 in Jackson Heights, Queens.

ARTISTS TALK –Meet some of the artists featured in the exhibition: Gema Alava, Felipe Galindo, Janet Goldner, Derick Melander, Sarah Nicholls, Panoply Performance Laboratory (Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle), Michael Pribich, Jenny Polack, Priscila P. Stadler, and Deborah Wasserman. Panel and Q&A session moderated by Hector Canonge.

CLOSING RECEPTION -Performances by Nivedita ShivRaj (Musician), Paolo Javier (Writer), Jia-Yi He (Composer/Musician). VJ’ing by CONeKTOR.

About BABEL:
This exhibition explores the relationship of language and the visual arts. Through paintings, illustrations, photography, sculpture, installations, video, performance and new-media, BABEL establishes connections between the written word and the recent explosion of immigrant conclaves in and around New York City. Selected works treat the diversity and plurality of the written language as reflected, incorporated, and/or appropriated in visual arts, performance, and the moving image. BABEL (June 16 – July 1, 2010) was organized and curated by New-media artist, Hector Canonge.

Participating Artists (in alphabetical order): Gema Alava, Nobutaka Aozaki, Javier Arau, Aileen Bassis, Susan Breitsch, James Chen-Feng Kao, Felipe Galindo, Iliana Emilia Garcia, Janet Goldner, Jennifer Grimyser, Jia-Yi He, Linda Herritt, Paolo Javier, Jihay Kang, Larry Litt & Nicolas Lee, Carla Lobmier, Norma Markley, Derick Melander, Rahul Mitra, Veru Narula, Sarah Nicholls, Ann Oren & Zevan Rosser, Renzo Ortega, Panoply Performance Laboratory (Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle, Matthew Stephen Smith), Cristian Pietrapiana, Jenny Polak, Michael Pribich, Elisa Pritzker, Svetlana Rabey, Daniel Rossi, Joseph Gerard Sabatino, Nivedita Shivraj, Priscilla P. Stadler, Anna-Mária Vág, Deborah Wasserman, Andrew Wilkinson, and Tammy Wofsey.

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, is a non-for profit cultural organization that produces and implements programs in the arts communications media to encourage Queen’s multicultural communities to actively participate in the forging of an artistic identity for the borough.
More information: www.qmad.org/babel

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and was made possible through the Office of Jackson Heights Council Member, Daniel Dromm. Special thanks to Diane Macari and Louis J. Macari, principals of EXIT Realty Lewis and Murphy, a family run business, serving the needs of the Jackson Heights Community since 1946; and to the board and director of Queens Pride Committee.

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QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development
www.qmad.org

Night Animals

Category : art, language

I’m working on a broadside for poet Katie Degentesh, who’s reading on June 2 at the Center.

This is what she says about the poems she sent in for us to choose from:

This poem is from a forthcoming book-length project that has a working title
of Reasons to Have Sex. The poems’ titles are selections from the 238
answers listed in the “YSEX? Why Have Sex?” questionnaire, a scientific
document compiled by researchers after polling over 2,000 respondents on
their motivation for having sexual intercourse.

The poems themselves were then formed from internet search results, with
each search based on and containing phrases or words from the questions used for titles.

Since children can be said to be the reason all animals are equipped to have
sex, the poems themselves were further limited in that only search results
that were presented on the internet as children’s writing were used in the poems.

To be continued.

Boys can see a mouse in the dark.

Category : language

Wait, did we skip spring?

I ran twelve miles this morning and am still dehydrated. I still have about twenty books left in the edition to finish, I’m defrosting my freezer and I’ve run out of towels to mop up the water.

On the upside, I’m working on a great broadside for June. And plotting a pie contest.

Tomorrow I’d like to bake a rhubarb pie. I’m not sure I like rhubarb, but I’m willing to give it  a try.

Bouncing back from adversity

Category : art, language

The re-entry from a brief vacation is a bit rough, I’m afraid. I’m having a week full of failure.

(The above images are from the Orange Show in Houston, TX. Hurrah for the orange! )

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