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Posted on Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:37 AM
I was tagged by my dear friend and collaborator j/j hastainto participate in the ongoing blog interview project, "The Next Big Thing." For this project, I am to respond on my blog to the same questions j/j used, then tag five others to do the same on their blogs--or to guest blog here-- each of whom then tag five others themselves. Here, the questions refer to one of my forthcoming books. And I will add names and links to the blogs of the authors I "tag" right here, as they agree to participate: |
publications, process notes, art practice: issues and challenges, experiments, poetics, poetry, poetry market, press, nicholas alexander hayes, blogging, j/j hastain, The Next Big Thing project, Brooklyn Arts Press, Telephone, michelle naka pierce, christine mcnair
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Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 11:51 AM
Last night I was very privileged to be able to participate in Miguel Gutierrez's performance/movement workshop, "Ineffable Intangible Sensational" at Defibrillator. It felt transformative in so many ways, and the psychic dust has yet to settle, so to speak. But one thing that I want to comment on immediately is an idea stemming from a conversation we had in a discussion period. I had asked Miguel if he saw teaching workshops as part of his own research process--and what I meant, basically, was whether that kind of teaching was important to his life as a maker of art. |
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Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:13 PM
See my essay "Collage-Mind" at Drunken Boat! Thanks to Dan Godston for inviting me to send occasional dispatches. |
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Posted on Monday, November 12, 2012 12:49 PM
Polaroiding in Public
Photography is
ubiquitous in the wake of the "digital revolution."
Versatile, powerful cameras are standard equipment on devices and
tools from phones to vehicles. These days, no one looks twice at
someone holding their phone or phone-sized camera up in the most
public, everyday places: restaurants, museums, buses and subway
trains, the street, the grocery store, school, etc. A
traditional-looking DSLR--with its "pro" sign value, its
documentary seriousness and its satisfying heft--no longer generates
much interest among spectators.
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Posted on Thursday, June 07, 2012 3:54 PM
 You know the feeling.
You set up a shot with your instant camera, loaded with Impossible Project™ film. You've taken every precaution against light contamination in the first few seconds after the shot exits the camera (perhaps purchasing an accessory to aid your efforts in image-shielding). But for whatever reason--you're in a hurry, you're distracted--you later discover that you've accidentally blown out your carefully-composed photograph. It hurts. It stings. |
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Posted on Friday, May 18, 2012 11:07 AM
Ever since I got my Polaroid Spectra, I've been experimenting diligently with various "guerrilla" techniques for making and altering instant photos. One of those techniques, the double exposure, is particularly wonderful for adventurous people who want to make equally adventurous images. The exciting truth is that these methods allow you to set up a double-exposure--combining subjects and textures and lighting conditions using your imagination & experience--without completely controlling the results! |
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Posted on Monday, February 27, 2012 11:33 AM
 Emergency INDEXis a great new annual focusing on documentation of performance. It's put out by the wonderful Ugly Duckling Presse, and I'm looking forward to its release. I can't make the release party at the Kitchen (as announced here). But those of you in the NYC area should try to make it. It looks great!
Oh yeah, I'm in thisINDEXtwice: as part of the Human Micropoem, and for the "Restrictive Andragogies and Ex-Citation" performance with Nicholas Alexander Hayes, in the Red Rover series. |
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Posted on Friday, September 30, 2011 10:18 AM
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Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011 1:15 PM
This is my desk, in my studio.  I'm looking at it. It's full of stuff I've been working on, and tools I've been using in that work. Sometimes it's both enticing and repellant, a place of simultaneously great comfort and great irritation.
I've been spending too much time at it recently, but I've also been spending more time than usual away from it this past week. I've been seeing friends, going to poetry readings and performances, being more social and less studio-bound. But it's still largely poetry/art-oriented activity. |
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Posted on Wednesday, August 17, 2011 10:09 AM
Not all these tributes are
tales of loss or regret. I'm also grateful to many editors and
curators with whom I'm still in active contact--or with whom I've
resumed contact.
The
"Web Publications" page on my website mentions that I have
worked with Eric Lorberer, ofRain Taxi Review of Books,for about ten years. There's a reason for the durability of this
partnership: Eric lets me write as I write, and then makes whatever
tiny changes are needed to allow my words to be even more true to my
own voice and vision. |
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