Stonecutter: STONECUTTER ISSUE 1 LAUNCH PARTY JUNE 29
Stonecutter: STONECUTTER ISSUE 1 LAUNCH PARTY JUNE 29: "Please join us to celebrate the release of Stonecutter on Wednesday, June 29 from 7-11pm at 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street at Smith Street in..."
Today I was hit hard by Anselm Kiefer's new exhibition at Gagosian Gallery. What was it exactly that hit me?
Forget the links, go see it. From the press release: "Kiefer has transformed the space that surrounds Occupations into a labyrinth of glass and steel vitrines, some more than twenty feet high..."
Forget the links, go see it. From the press release: "Kiefer has transformed the space that surrounds Occupations into a labyrinth of glass and steel vitrines, some more than twenty feet high..."
Hanging out with Dikko Faust at Purgatory Pie Press in lower Manhattan. Purgatory Pie Press started in the late seventies and they are still creating museum quality handmade books using hand-set wood and metal type. Here Dikko is printing a three color job on his sturdy Vandercook machine. You might notice he is hand mixing the ink on the end there -- not work for a novice printer. Every movement he makes tells a story -- this has been his life for many many years, and he knows every aspect of printing from mark one. He refers to it as "a dance," where he trips the print lever, lets go of the floor pedal that holds the paper and swings it through the rollers across the inked plate. As each page runs through, he turns and hands it to me and I set it on a wooden rack for drying. The job is part of PPP's long postcard subscription; every single postcard is printed by hand with extreme care and expertise.
Faust also teaches advanced letterpress classes both at the Purgatory Pie Press studio and at the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, and is currently on a tour of the northwest with his wife and partner in crime, Esther K Smith. Esther is herself the author of How To Make Books, Magic Books & Paper Toys, and The Paper Bride, available from Random House. Together they are Purgatory Pie Press, and have been doing this for thirty years. They have exhibited at Harvard University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smith College, San Francisco's Center for the Book, London's Victoria and Albert Museum, The Tate, MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Gallery of Art, The Getty, Corcoran, The Walker, and the San Francisco MOMA.
On this day we were listening to Albert Ayler and Sun Ra. Faust told me one of his favorite drummers was Andrew Andrew Cyrille. We agreed also on Han Bennink. When I brought up William Parker something shifted in his speech, and he said, I've played with him. You've played with William Parker? I said. Once, he said. Faust was talking about his trombone, which was propped up under his extensive cd collection. Who is this man? Letterpress expert AND trombonist? This is no ordinary print shop. Check out their inventory if you will. Instabooks, Purgatoys, yearly datebooks all in limited runs. Does Dikko Faust have a batmobile? I wouldn't be surprised.....
It's getting better and better. This email is from today, from the one and only Munter Jack, with a link to a new interview in Word Riot by David Hoenigman, author of Burn Your Belongings. Hoenigman hosts a wacky performance art show in Tokyo, Japan called Paint Your Teeth. The shows he is archiving on video as well. The last video David sent me there was an impromptu stripper -- according to David his wife was only surprised that she stripped for free. Who strips for free? she said. Performers at Paint Your Teeth strip for free, apparently. What other antics happen at these events? Check for yourself. But first, read the interview he did with Munter Jack.
Here is an excerpt I really enjoyed from the interview:
Who or what has influenced your writing?
Old people. The older and madder the better. When I return to my home town in the north of England I spend a lot of time standing around in charity shops, listening to old people talking about hip operations, cataracts and mad stuff like someone they know who got CJD from eating squirrel brains. They have these fantastically dark and at the same time very humorous conversations as they rummage through large boxes of second hand underpants.
(cute email from Munter Jack posted below)
Hey David,
I'm in Word Riot. Your mate Mr Hoenigman did an interview. And, I owe you big thanks. Once again! Cheers mate, he found me through you and Louffa Press. Thanks a lot! He says you're going to publish some of his work. Go for it fella.
Munter Jack
Here is an excerpt I really enjoyed from the interview:
Who or what has influenced your writing?
Old people. The older and madder the better. When I return to my home town in the north of England I spend a lot of time standing around in charity shops, listening to old people talking about hip operations, cataracts and mad stuff like someone they know who got CJD from eating squirrel brains. They have these fantastically dark and at the same time very humorous conversations as they rummage through large boxes of second hand underpants.
(cute email from Munter Jack posted below)
Hey David,
I'm in Word Riot. Your mate Mr Hoenigman did an interview. And, I owe you big thanks. Once again! Cheers mate, he found me through you and Louffa Press. Thanks a lot! He says you're going to publish some of his work. Go for it fella.
Munter Jack
BIG LANGUAGE: If WOODY ALLEN and HENRY ROLLINS had offspring that was then mutilated in a sixty car pile up and survived a plutonium cockroach attack, we would have something that sounded like BIG LANGUAGE. If CAN, HELLA, MASSACRE, FAUST, DAVID CROSS and THE HOLD STEADY joined forces and vomited on the grave of VLAD THE IMPALER, we would have something that sounded like BIG LANGUAGE. Thank you.
This friday Beatriz Albuquerque is showing in NYC one of her video-performances in an event called GiSCA Palooza. Beatriz did not mention what GiSCA stands for, but it sounds to me like the Romanian word for goose. Gîscă would be the correct spelling in Romanian. But I'm sure this has nothing to do with geese. What makes me so sure? I'm going to ask Beatriz, and I'll get back to you.
GiSCA Palooza 2010 -- GiSCA Palooza 2010
An Evening of the Arts and Social Change
April 23rd * 7-9pm. Milbank Chapel, 525 W. 120 Street, New York, New York.
This GiSCA Palooza 2010 event is free and open to the public.
Beatriz Albuquerque
Current / Upcoming Exhibitions:
2010 GiSCA Palooza, Milbank Chapel, New York - USA.
2010 Fluxhibition #4 – amusements, diversions, games, tricks and puzzles, FluxMuseum: A Wing of the Ontological Museum, Forth Worth - USA.
2010 Forum de Ermesinde, Ermesinde - Portugal.
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