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WEEKEND 1
Christian Bök / Terri Kapsalis
February 3, 2006
Friday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
Bök is the author of the award-winning books Crystallography
and Eunoia, and is Professor of English at the University of Calgary.
Eunoia is a benchmark of experimental literature in the lineage
of Georges Perec: each chapter features words exclusively employing
one vowel (the narrative in “Chapter A” is composed
of words where “A” is the only vowel used, and Chapters
E through U follow suit). Bök’s impish playfulness reveals
the inner music of words and the mystery of the common materials
of language. Kapsalis' latest fiction has appeared in 3rd bed, Parakeet
and The Baffler; she is the author of Public Privates: Performing
Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum.
Christian Bök / Judd Morrissey
February 4, 2006
Saturday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
An evening of readings by Bök and hypertext narratives by Morrissey.
Morrissey’s works include an unstable, self-evolving, virtual
page that continuously re-writes itself in response to the reader;
for Links Hall, he presents work from his project The Error Engine,
which explores memory, accident, and the book.
Relaxation Record (Jim Dorling)
/
Jesse Seldess
February 5, 2006
Sunday 7:30pm
Admission $10
Relaxation Record, a solo project by Jim Dorling of the influential
acoustic ensemble Town and Country, presents the musical performance
Let your mind dissolve in the pitch black space within your head.
Seldess, editor of the journal Antennae, and co-curator of the Discrete
Reading and Performance Series, presents a pre-recorded video reading,
made with Leonie Weber.
WEEKEND 2
Jeff Kowalkowski and Friends /
Ben Brown / Meg Nafziger
February 10
Friday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
An evening of music by Kowalkowski (keyboards), Jen Clare Paulson
(viola) and Sam Bradshaw (bass), with readings by Brown and Nazfiger.
Brown will read THE FORTUNES, which dissects the moment a person
wakes up (remembering nothing) and the rush of accusations which
follow. Nafziger is a Chicago-based poet, visual artist, and maker
of books.
Björn Ross / Lou Mallozzi
February 11
Saturday,7:30pm
Admission $10
Ross is an enigma that only Stockholm could produce: a musician
equally adept at Baroque music and at contemporary experimental
sound art, web art, and video. Ross is an innovative artist, supportive
curator, and indefatigable creator of provocative events. Tonight,
Ross presents an audiovisual performance remix based on his last
10 years of work, exploring relations and interferences between
sound, music, text and images. Mallozzi is a radio artist, improviser,
conceptual artist, and Director of the Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago.
Björn Ross / Fessenden
February 12 at
Sunday,7:30pm
Admission $10
Ross presents of a selection of Danish and Scandinavian sound artists
and musicians (including Jacob Nielsen, Michael Mørkholt,
Lars Hansen, Mikko Mansikkala Jensen, Kristian Vester, Jacob Kirkegaard,
Tanja Schlander), alongside a musical performance by Fessenden.
The Chicago-based electro-acoustic trio Fessenden (Joshua Convey,
Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess) creates atmospheric and progressive
sound collages, delicately balancing acoustic, electric and electronic
sounds.
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WEEKEND 3
Jen Bervin / Petrova Giberson /
Trent Smith
February 17, 2006
Friday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
An evening of readings by Bervin, Giberson, and Smith. Bervin is
a poet and visual artist, and teaches writing at New York University
and Pratt Institute; Bervin’s “Nets” uses Shakespeare’s
Sonnets to mine new poetry, unlocking the unexpected from older
textual sources through thoughtful appropriation and reconfiguration.
Giberson works with fiber, photography and text, making books and
installations. Smith is a visual artist and writer, currently studying
at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jen Bervin / Lilli Carré
/ Erin Tikovitch & Tony Rosati
February 18, 2006
Saturday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
An evening of readings with Bervin and Carré, and a text/sound
performance by Tikovitch and Rosati. A collection of Carré’s
comics will be published by Top Shelf in 2006, and she is to be
included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Graphic Narratives
series. Tikovitch and Rosati’s Papered & Twined investigates
delicacies of code through ceremonies of secret language and mapping.
The 6 Ghosts of Fear / Ginger Krebs
/ Erin Moore
February 19, 2006
Sunday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
The 6 Ghosts of Fear perform No Reason to Lie, directed by Ginger
Krebs; this collaborative performance looks at several key places
where the truth of the ideal and the truth of the real collide,
including love online, holidays, psychic self-defense, and stage
illusions. Krebs' video orbit will also be shown. Moore (NYC) will
read selections from a body of work based on Raymond Chandler’s
creative process as he wrote his first novel, The Big Sleep.
WEEKEND 4
Kenneth Goldsmith / Matthew Goulish
/ Ken Fandell
February 24, 2006
Friday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
Goldsmith (NYC) is the founding editor of the online poetry archive
UbuWeb (ubu.com),
and an experimental text artist interested in cataloging, collection,
and duration. With each new project, from the verbal mapping of
the movements of his body in a single day (Fidget), to a catalog
of his formidable record collection (6779), compiling misheard song
lyrics (Head Citations), and transcribing everything said by the
artist in one week (Soliloquy), Goldsmith’s work challenges
our assumptions about poetry and art through projects of Herculean
proportions and consistent rigor. With humor and intellect, Goldsmith's
work humbly reflects the common language and life around us. Also
on this program: The Brightest Thing in the World, a new work by
Goulish for The Institute of Failure, read by Goulish with Mark
Jeffery and Andrea Rexilius; and Fandell’s video Sitting on
My Porch as the Sun Goes Down in the Year 2000.
Kenny Goldsmith / Matthew Goulish / Lilli
Carré
February 25, 2006
Saturday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
An evening of readings by Goldsmith; The Brightest Thing in the
World by Goulish with Mark Jeffery and Andrea Rexilius; and the
animation Mooning by Carré.
Justin Cooper, with Christopher Lavery
February 26, 2006
Sunday, 7:30pm
Admission $10
Cooper and Lavery perform Sharks don't ever sleep, and they don't
have any bones, a multi-part, collaborative performance work that
addresses the wonders and horrors of pubescent change.
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THROUGHOUT THE MONTH:
Daniel Borzutzky: (Proxy) Missives
from Turkey
Each night a member of the audience will be invited to read one
of a series of twelve short texts specifically written for each
evening of an incomplete map of everything by Borzutzky from the
Yerebatan Cistern in Istanbul. Borzutzky's book Arbitrary Tales
was published by Triple Press in 2005. His translations of Chilean
poet Jaime Luis Huenun appear in Circumference and are forthcoming
in Fascicle; they will be also be used as part of the Poetry Society
of America's Poetry in Motion program and will be hung on buses
in Los Angeles. He is a professor in the English Department at Wright
College in Chicago.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES
Jen Bervin
Jen Bervin, poet and visual artist, is the author of A NON- BREAKING
SPACE (Ugly Duckling 2005), NETS (Ugly Duckling 2004), UNDER WHAT
IS NOT UNDER (Potes & Poets 2001), and numerous artists’
books. Bervin received a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, an MA in Poetry from the University of
Denver, and an Edward M. Lannan Prize from the Academy of American
Poets. She teaches writing at New York University and Pratt Institute.
Daniel Borzutzky
Daniel Borzutzky's book Arbitrary Tales was published by Triple
Press in 2005. His translations of Chilean poet Jaime Luis Huenun
appear in Circumference and are forthcoming in Fascicle; they will
be also be used as part of the Poetry Society of America's Poetry
in Motion program and will be hung on buses in Los Angeles. His
work has been published or is forthcoming in the following publications:
American Letters and Commentary, Antennae, Blaze Vox, Bridge, Cimarron
Review, Chicago Review, COLUMBIA, Denver Quarterly, Elimae, Fence,
Frakcija Performing Arts Magazine (Zagreb, Croatia), Golden Handcuffs
Review, Kulture Vulture, Jacob's Ladder, Journal of Experimental
Fiction, La Petite Zine, LIT, LVNG, Magazine Cypress, Milk Magazine,
Minus Times, MiPoesias, Mississippi Review, Near South, New Orleans
Review, Octopus Magazine, Pom², Salt Hill, Snow Monkey, Spoon
River Poetry Review, Tin Lustre Mobile, Third Bed and Word For/Word.
His work appears in the chapbook Rebel Road 5: Poems in the Garden
(w/Brenda Coultas and Marta Lopez-Luaces). He has written book reviews
for Chicago Review, Rain Taxi, Jacket and Bridge. He is a professor
in the English Department at Wright College in Chicago.
Christian Bök
Christian Bök is the author not only of Crystallography (Coach
House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, but also of Eunoia (Coach House Books,
2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which has
gone on to win the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök
has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of
sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His
conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s
cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery
in New York City. Bök is currently a Professor of English at
the University of Calgary.
Ben Brown
Ben Brown is an artist living, working, and living in Kansas City,
Missouri. He has a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
THE FORTUNES is the complete three parts of the Moonlight Iowa/Cairo
Lines Project: Part 1 – “When We were Young.”
Part 2 – “The Dunes Rearrange Themselves.” And
Part 3 – “My Palms are Black, My Tiger Strips are Black.”
There is the moment between the instant when a person wakes up (remembering
nothing and feeling no need to recover memory) and the instant of
accusations (this is where I am at, and this is how I got here).
The startling rush between these two points is the essence of accumulation,
it is an immediate search to make a distinction between meaning
and meaningless. THE FORTUNES wonders: is this an incorruptible
event?
Lilli Carré
Lilli Carré was born in 1983 in Los Angeles and currently
lives in Chicago, where she is studying Animation and Print. In
2006, a collection of her comics is to be published by Top Shelf,
and she is to be included in Houghton Mifflin's Best American Graphic
Narratives series. Many members of her extended family are competitive
divers, though she herself is not.
Justin Cooper, with Christopher
Lavery
In utilizing the mediums of performance, video and sculpture, Chicago
artist Justin Cooper creates provocative relationships that explore
issues of balance, of the power dynamics that exist between people,
the struggles of growth, and the simply absurd workings of the human
psyche through work that is both highly personal and weirdly socially
relevant. Lavery is a multimedia artist based in Boulder, CO. Justin
and Chris have collaborated numerous times in the past, working
in performance, sculpture, video and sound to name just a few genres.
To see more of Chris’ work please visit godzillalaughs.com
“Sharks don’t ever sleep, and they don’t have
any bones” is a multi-part, collaborative performance work
that addresses the wonders and horrors of pubescent change. With
a diverse range of media, and audience participation, “Sharks…”
is a funny and delightfully touching work.
Ken Fandell
Ken Fandell is an interdisciplinary artist working mainly in photography,
video, and sculpture. His work has been exhibited extensively in
the United States. Fandell’s art is represented by Bodybuilder
and Sportsman Gallery in Chicago.
Fessenden
Joshua Convey, Stephen Fiehn, and Steven Hess have been actively
writing and performing as Fessenden since 2004. This Chicago-based
electro-acoustic trio creates distinct, atmospheric and progressive
sound collages, at times weaving quietly subtle textures against
harsh moments of volume, low hums and buzzes against crisp percussion,
while drones interplay with staccato chords. Each performance by
this trio displays a delicate balance of acoustic, electric and
electronic sounds.
Petrova Giberson
Petrova Giberson is the youngest daughter of a glass blower; she
was born in 1977 in the woods and hills of New Hampshire. She works
with fiber, photography and text, making books and installations.
She lives and works in Chicago and NYC.
Kenny Goldsmith
Kenneth Goldsmith is author of eight books of poetry, founding editor
of the online archive UbuWeb ubu.com),
and the editor of "I'll Be Your Mirror: The Selected Andy Warhol
Interviews," Goldsmith is also the host of a weekly radio show
on New York City's WFMU. He teaches writing at The University of
Pennsylvania, where he is a senior editor of PennSound, a online
poetry archive. More about Goldsmith can be found on his author's
page at the University of Buffalo's Electronic Poetry Center: epc.buffalo.edu/authors/goldsmith.
Matthew Goulish
Matthew Goulish, performer and writer, has published extensively
and collaborated on the creation of eight performance works with
the group Goat Island. Routledge published his book 39 Microlectures
- in proximity of performance in 2000. He teaches writing at The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and coordinates The Institute
of Failure with Tim Etchells (UK).
The Institute of Failure presents: The Brightest Thing in the World
This 50-minute presentation began as a portrait of early-twentieth-century
naturalist W.N.P. Barbellion. In his autobiography The Journal of
a Disappointed Man, Barbellion chronicled his childhood love of
nature and his young adult years in London: surviving a zeppelin
raid, working at the British Museum insect room, starting a family,
and discovering that he was dying slowly from a degenerative disease.
The project of writing a Barbellion portrait was interrupted, however,
by the sudden and unexpected death of Chicago historian and teacher
George Roeder. With The Brightest Thing in the World, The Institute
of Failure attempts two incomplete tributes to these two remarkable
men, spliced together into one presentation. Written by Matthew
Goulish; read by Matthew Goulish, Mark Jeffery, and Andrea Rexilius.
Terri Kapsalis
Terri Kapsalis' latest fiction has appeared in 3rd bed, Parakeet
and The Baffler. She is the author of Public Privates: Performing
Gynecology from Both Ends of the Speculum and teaches at the School
of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jeff Kowalkowski
Jeff Kowalkowski is a composer, performer (with Lucky Pierre) and
educator (at DePaul and Northeastern). He has made many, many musical
scores which rarely see the light of day. Hence, he is happy to
bring some theory into practice in this live recital of 30 minutes,
with assistance from Jen Clare Paulson (currently completing a Doctorate
in viola performance at University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Sam
Bradshaw (double-bass player and general laborer). Jeff Kowalkowski
and friends are Jen Clare Paulson (viola), Sam Bradshaw (bass),
and Jeff Kowalkowski (keyboards).
Lou Mallozzi
Lou Mallozzi is a radio artist, improviser, conceptual artist, and
Director of the Experimental Sound Studio Chicago. He is Adjunct
Associate Professor in the Sound Department of the School of the
Art Institute of Chicago, where he has taught since 1985. He regularly
performs live audio and music pieces, exhibits sound installations,
and produces recorded and broadcast pieces. He has received numerous
grants and awards, including three fellowships from the Illinois
Arts Council and a Bellagio Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Two CDs of his work, Radiophagy and Whole or By the Slice (with
Hal Rammel), are available on Penumbra Music.
Erin Moore
Erin Moore is an artist living in New York City whose work integrates
design with the visual arts and written word. Recently, she has
focused on the creative and sometimes quirky documentation of a
particular idea or event specifically as it may relate to her own
creative process. Erin’s work is included in the Joan Flasch
Artist’s Book collection (at SAIC) and she is currently collaborating
with The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s MFA Writing
Program and Powell’s Books on a series of limited edition
projects that will be distributed at the Powell’s North reading
series.
Judd Morrissey
Judd Morrissey is a writer and computer artist whose work in electronic
literature has been widely and internationally received and exhibited.
With his hypertext The Jew's Daughter, he introduced his unique
form of digital narrative, an unstable, self-evolving, virtual page
that continuously re-writes itself in response to the reader. My
Name is Captain, Captain, a digital 'night-flight' poem created
in collaboration with Lori Talley, was published by Eastgate Systems
in 2002. Judd is now concentrating on The Error Engine, an experiment
in writing and artificial intelligence that reflects his ongoing
concerns with the relationship of literature and accident, and the
nature and future of the book. He teaches in the Art and Technology
Studies, and Writing departments at the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago and is an associate member of the performance group Goat
Island.
Meg Nafziger
Meg Nafziger is a Chicago based poet, visual artist, and maker of
books.
Relaxation Record
Relaxation Record is a solo project of Jim Dorling. Dorling is a
Chicago based musician and member of the influential minimalist
acoustic ensemble Town and Country (new album "Up Above"
released on Thrill Jockey label January 2006) and Dream Weapon.
Relaxation Record performs a new work entitled "Let your mind
dissolve in the pitch black space within your head”, a reworking
of a 1962 Folkways Recording by Milton Feher called "Relaxing
Body and Mind; the Relaxation Record." Combining live electronic
sound with Feher's voice (which also triggers a lighting effect)
the piece, just under a half an hour, is a very deliberate and transparent
attempt at trance music.
Bjorn Ross
Artist; born in Stockholm, Sweden; lives and works in Copenhagen;
works with sound, video, photography, internet and multimedia installations.
Ross has exhibited widely in the Nordic countries, as well as in
Germany, Switzerland and Canada. Major internet project s/z [mapping
aarhus], part of stedet3.dk, comissioned by Statens Kunstfond, Copenhagen,
in 2000. His most recent large-scale project is PlayDead, a multimedia
installation produced with Leonard Forslund, was shown in Denmark
2002-2003 and at Landskrona Konsthall, Sweden in Jan-Feb 2004. Parallel
with his art practice, Ross is engaged with music of all kinds,
ranging from early renaissance music to contemporary sound art.
His main focus during the last 10 years has been to fuse this wide
range of different practices, which has also led him into new roles
as a curator, producing both international sound art festivals (2004)
and renaissance music festivals (2006). Forthcoming projects include
both sound installations and early opera projects with videographic
stage settings (2007).
Jesse Seldess
Jesse Seldess is the founder and editor of Antennae, a journal of
experimental writing, music, and performance, and, while in Chicago,
he founded and co-curated the Discrete Reading and Performance Series.
His poems have most recently appeared in the journals Crayon, Kiosk,
Traverse, and First Intensity, and chapbooks of his poems have been
published by Answer Tag Home Press, Bronze Skull Press, and the
Chicago Poetry Project. His first full-length book of poems, Who
Opens, is forthcoming from Kenning Editions. Seldess currently resides
in Berlin.
The 6 Ghosts of Fear
Ginger Krebs directs the collaborative performance group The 6 Ghosts
of Fear, whose members include Jozef Amado, Isil Egrikovik, Morgan
Higby-Flowers and Gretchen Holmes. The group presented its first
work, amphibious, in 2005 at Performing Arts Chicago’s PAC/edge
festival. In 2005, Ginger also performed in a program of butoh choreography
at the Chicago Cultural Center and made an interactive sound installation
for the Hyde Park Art Center. She earned an MFA from the University
of Illinois at Chicago, and now teaches in the Performance Department
and the First Year Program at the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago. No Reason to Lie is a tribute to the heroic in human beings;
to the staggering resilience, in the face of constant change and
relative powerlessness, of our effort to make life Mean something.
This piece looks at several key places where the Truth of the Ideal
and the Truth of the Real collide, including love online, holidays,
psychic self-defense, and stage illusions. Happy Valentine’s.
Trent Smith
Trent Smith is a visual artist and writer. Trent grew up all over
the Midwest, moved to Plano, Texas, graduated from Plano West Senior
High, and now resides in Chicago. He is currently a student at The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Orange Blinds and Animals
is based on a dream. It explores fear in unthreatening situations
and the truths that one hides.
Erin Tikovitch & Tony Rosati
Erin Tikovitsch is an interdisciplinary artist working in sound,
video, performance, and writing. Anthony Rosati is a musician interested
in musical and theatrical performance. Both are pleased to present
their first collaboration Papered & Twined. In a performance
of text and live sound the delicacies of code are investigated through
ceremonies of secret language and mapping, disassembled and embodied.
They currently reside in Chicago.
an incomplete map of everything was made possible
with support from The Boeing Company, The Danish Arts Agency (www.kunststyrelsen.dk),
The Poetry Center of Chicago, Poets & Writers, and The School
of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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