"He entered his three-windowed study, raised the cracked green shades without looking into the street and arranged himself at his desk. From the top drawer he removed a portion of the manuscript. Harry felt a momentary sense of loss, regret at having given his life to writing, followed by a surge of affection for the imaginative self, as he read yesterday's page and a half and found it solid, sound, going well. The book redeemed him. Another two or three months ought to finish it. Then a quick last rewrite of the enterprise--call it third-and-a-quarter draft--in about three months, possibly four, and he'd have it made, novel accomplished. Triumph after just ten years."-Bernard Malamud, from The Tenants
Reading Malamud
eXfoliation was a success! The new quarterly reading series at bookculture on 112th street between Broadway and Amsterdam in Manhattan. The next eXfoliation (winter edition) will be Wednesday, February 18, 2015.
This November 6th, LOUFFA PRESS was more than pleased to present eXfoliation: two poets and two writers of prose at bookculture. Hosted by David Moscovich and Justin Maki.
eXfoliation
November 6th, 7PM
@bookculture, 536 W 112th St (NY,NY)
Subway 1: Cathedral Parkway/110th St
FREE
featuring:
A. H. JERRIOD AVANT, poetry
MATT DOJNY, fiction
AMY FUSSELMAN, nonfiction
CLAUDIA SEREA, poetry
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eXfoliation was a success! The new quarterly reading series at bookculture on 112th street between Broadway and Amsterdam in Manhattan. The next eXfoliation (winter edition) will be Wednesday, February 18, 2015.
This November 6th, LOUFFA PRESS was more than pleased to present eXfoliation: two poets and two writers of prose at bookculture. Hosted by David Moscovich and Justin Maki.
eXfoliation
November 6th, 7PM
@bookculture, 536 W 112th St (NY,NY)
Subway 1: Cathedral Parkway/110th St
FREE
featuring:
A. H. JERRIOD AVANT, poetry
MATT DOJNY, fiction
AMY FUSSELMAN, nonfiction
CLAUDIA SEREA, poetry
Bookculture is located on 112th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam in Manhattan. Louffa Press is featured in the newly appointed small press section at Bookculture.
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Performance Concept for a Japanese Public
Here is a performance concept for a Japanese public that occurred to me recently. It has its basis in my knowledge of Japanese culture and a curiosity for testing the limits of the kata, and Japanese behavior in general. This performance is intended specifically for a Japanese public but could probably apply to other cultures, although not with the same effect. This performance concept is based on the idea that in Japanese culture, when a person drops an object, it is polite to pick it up and hand it back to them if a witness to it.
Location: Street, Train, Bus, or other public place
Idea: Performer drops an object (handkerchief, lipstick case, matchbook, lighter, etc) in the presence of other people. Performer does not pick up object but waits instead for someone to hand it to them.
Performer may repeat action any number of times, or go to another location and drop another object or the same object, wait for someone to hand it to them or offer it to them. Ideally, the performer would be walking and dropping objects on a busy street, so that several people would offer the object back to the performer.
This performance concept is copyright © 2014 by David Moscovich, all rights reserved. Use of this performance concept is permitted only with proper credit to the original concept by David Moscovich. Contact david at louffapress .com to use this idea for a performance.
Thank you.
SURREALIST MANIFESTO REMIXED
BY DAVID MOSCOVICH
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This performance is based on an excerpt from The First Manifesto of Surrealism by Andre Breton, written in 1924, which concerns Breton’s approach to writing surrealist composition. The performance is a remix and collage of a live, non-linear reading with a video projection of the same text, rendered in color for the big screen.
The text is reordered into 11 different permutations, so that each remix or permutation contains the text placed out of its original space. It then is dismantled then reconfigured visually, with characters juxtaposing and superimposing for the video. The text is approached as a medium of surrealism itself, and is molded in the shape of a re-reading as if directly from dreams and the subconscious. The text is meant to be read aloud in the precise spirit of Breton’s original instructions on surrealist composition, with the visual remix of the video projected behind the reader, and for simultaneous broadcast on the radio of the spoken delivery. The original text is not to be read, only the remixes. The voice then, will triangulate the visual collage of the surrealist manifesto.
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Art In Odd Places Project Proposal
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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..."
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