Diese stopmotion Animation Projekt zwischen Catalysis Projects Künstlern Paetrick Schmidt (Malerei und Video) und Quintan Ana Wikswo (Musik, Text und Stimme) ist ein zweiundzwanzigstes Abenteuer in der Zeichnung ein Gedicht!
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Open this back door of text and image—the jouissance in what’s missing. The absences, omissions, and empty spaces. Something else dwells in the interwoven space between the lines. Something new is invoked and evoked.
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On Tuesday, December 7th in Los Angeles I will be presenting an artist lecture, slideshow and salon discussion about my newest work in the Blue at the Base of the Flame project – photographs from sites of genocide in Germany, France, Portugal and Czech Republic. I am one of four artists curated by Open...
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Within the phenomenon of translation, two word worlds are forever locked in an embrace of argument and seduction. As though they are lovers locked in a train berth, embarked on a cross-continental journey. In this awkward, unfamiliar, clumsy space, sudden intimacies take place. For the native tongue, a second language requires a tongue touching...
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Sometimes we create through doors like this, that connect the Ukraine to Brazil, Oran to Paris, Berlin to Culver City. Languages disoriented by translation. Our Ls and Cs and Fs impounded as we pass through the opposite of what is being approached.
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This video-text-music-voice installation has been a very thrilling collaboration with composer Veronika Krausas (my fellow core artist at Catalysis Projects), Aron Kallay (co-Director of People Inside Electronics and visiting artist at Catalysis Projects), the poet Andre Alexis, actor John Payne, and soprano Kira Dills-DeSurra. We’re thrilled it will be screening in Lyon (France) at the...
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Maybe in making art of resistance, we must accept and then ignore its contemporary inutility, its contemporary uselessness, its awkward, impractical, magnificent powerful pointlessness and instead communicate directly with a distant future we envision but may never see.
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One week, two states, and two fabulous series: the Drunken Boat Issue #12 reading in NYC and the Trickhouse #10 reading at Casa Libre de Solana and the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson. So thrilled to be performing new work with marvelous people, in marvelous places, and adventures out and...
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What is the implication of constructing an aesthetic encounter with genocide? The still-palpable vitality of these phantomed spaces is a testimony to how large a shadow can be cast by mass murder. The dark shadows stretch on and on, but only because there is such tremendous light being shined against the walls.
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NOTES FROM A YEAR LATER: 7.22.11 It’s been exactly a year since I went to Terezin/Theresienstadt Concentration Camp in Czech Republic. At the time, the experience was beyond words. I wondered if it would stay that way, and it has. In hindsight, it was a point after which I was different, and I could...
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At the Spanish Synagogue in Prague today, extinction-porn tourists gathered round an unexpected attraction: schoolboys from Israel. “Look – LIVE Jews!!” As if a sabre-tooth tiger had appeared, or a Pterodactyl, or a Comanche princess. Cameras clicking in their faces. Children pointed. Muttering spread throughout the exhibit (because it’s not a shul anymore, it’s a...
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On Sunday 11 July, the Oberpfälzer KünstlerHaus outside Regensburg, Germany, will exhibit my works-on-paper, and I will read from my recently-released book of photographs and a long prose poem: Schwarzer Tod und die Nutzlosen Esser/Schwarzer Tod and the Useless Eaters (Catalysis Projects), accompanied by selections from the book’s German translation (by Dorothea Herreiner). I will also...
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