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() Expect the unexpected: everything takes longer and costs more..
() Is Nassim Taleb the Socrates of today? Let the fates return his notebook of aphorisms!
() Every day, money costs more, buys less, and is harder to get!
() A life goal: to understand the things that are, AS they are-without emotional color, prejudice, agenda (often, these are invisible & unknown).
“The avant-garde journal RE/Search, edited by V. Vale and published in San Francisco since 1980, has consistently explored the limits of cultural practices in relation to theories and traditions of artistic expression. Developing out of dada and surrealism and based on the surrealist call to explore the ‘irrational shadow of official culture’, RE/Search addresses contested and subversive aesthetic practices and cultural interventions. Its range of thematic and theoretical concerns (from Angry Women to Industrial Culture) defines the parameters of contemporary conceptions of the acceptable, the permissible and the desirable; its constant willingness to challenge conventions has made it a major feature of the theoretical landscape of contemporary art practice. RE/Search has furthermore been instrumental in promoting and analyzing work by major contemporary artists and writers, including William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Genesis P- Orridge, Gee Vaucher, Annie Sprinkle, Russ Meyer, Valie Export, John Waters, and J.G. Ballard. This session marked the 30th anniversary of RE/Search and invited papers addressed and re-read pertinent concerns and aspects of / related to the journal.” Speakers included: Professor Allen Fisher, Joanne Murray (Birkbeck College, University of London) RE/Search and JG Ballard, and Lauren Wetmore (Ontario College of Art & Design) Mimetized Disasters: Exhibiting The Atrocity Exhibition.
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Keeper of the Light: Keeper of the Light – joi wolfwomyn. Speakers include: T. Thorn Coyle, Sam Webster, Oberon and Morning Glory Ravenheart (all in our MODERN PAGANS book). Authors Circle include V. Vale & John Sulak (MODERN PAGANS). Best Costume prizes for Youth and Adults! Best Float prize! Visit the Pagan Market Place with over 40 vendors and numerous non-profits and organizations. Beloved Dead Altar- Please bring copies of photos that will honor our loved ones that have crossed over.
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() ? Fri May 21, 6-9pm. Exploratorium, S.F.: Members Appreciation Night: Time Machine – Everything old is new again at our fantastical, historical, incredible Members Appreciation Party. Let the Strobe-a-scope capture your image as you travel through space and time, and enjoy complimentary food and drink—including fresh-spun cotton candy! Come in your best Victorian, Edwardian, or steampunk attire and get ready to rewrite history with live entertainment, complimentary food and drink, hands-on activities. RSVP by Friday, May 14, either online or by calling (415) 561-0322.
() $5 Tue May 25, 7pm. Makeout Room, SF. PENELOPE HOUSTON (AVENGERS) will do a poetry reading with JOHNNY GENOCIDE (No Alternative), plus Stephen Elliott, Paul Clayton, Thomas Wood, and Lauren Becker. Hosted by Tony DuShane.
() $ Wed May 26, 7:15pm, “Olivier Bonin’s “DUST AND ILLUSIONS: A History of BURNING MAN” – a beautiful, euphoric, visionary, uber-documentary. Experience the T.A.Z. virtually! Delancey Street Foundation Theater, 600 Embarcadero Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 – Get Tickets Now. (Only 140 seats available) This is the 4th of a series of screenings in San Francisco. DIRECTOR will be in attendance for Q&A. Order tickets etc at http://dustandillusions.com RE/SEARCH will be here selling the **BURNING MAN LIVE** book – visit us!
() $10 Fri May 28, 10pm, The Dark Room, 2263 Mission St, SF. DAN CARBONE performs “New Tales of Mystery & Imagination.” Recommended by the Kuchar Brothers!
() FREE. Fri June 4, 6-8pm. Electric Works, 130 8th St, SF. 415-626-5496. DAN NICOLETTA PHOTOGRAPHY SHOW OPENING.
() $ LONDON. TATE MODERN. May 14-16. “No Soul For Sale” includes group show featuring Cosey Fanni Tutti (TG) & more!
() FREE LONDON. May 28 – July 18, 2010. Coming to LONDON. W. S. Burroughs SOUND INSTALLATION titled DEAD FINGERS TALK. IMT Gallery, Unit2/210, Cambridge Heath Road, London, E2 9NQ UK +44 (0) 20 8980 5475 – During exhibitions IMT is open Thursday to Sunday, 12:00 – 6:00pm or by appointment.
http://www.imagemusictext.com/project-listing/deadfingerstalk “Dead Fingers Talk is an ambitious forthcoming exhibition presenting two unreleased tape experiments by William Burroughs from the mid 1960s alongside responses by 23 artists, musicians, writers, composers and curators.
“Few writers have exerted as great an influence over such a diverse range of art forms as William Burroughs. Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine and Junky, continues to be regularly referenced in music, visual art, sound art, film, web-based practice and literature. One typically overlooked, yet critically important, manifestation of his radical ideas about manipulation, technology and society is found in his extensive experiments with tape recorders in the 1960s and ’70s. Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs is the first exhibition to truly demonstrate the diversity of resonance in the arts of Burroughs’ theories of sound.
“The exhibition includes work by Alma/Joe Ambrose, Steve Aylett, Alex Baker & Kit Poulson, Lawrence English, The Human Separation, Riccardo Iacono, Anthony Joseph, Cathy Lane, Eduardo Navas, Negativland, o.blaat, Aki Onda, Jörg Piringer, Plastique Fantastique, Simon Reuben White, Giorgio Sadotti, Scanner, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomson & Craighead, Laureana Toledo and Ultra-red, with performances by Ascsoms and Solina Hi-Fi.
“Inspired by the expelled Surrealist painter Brion Gysin, and yet never meant as art but as a pseudo-scientific investigation of sounds and our relationship to technology and material, the experiments provide early examples of interactions which are essential listening for artists working in the digital age.
“In the case of the work in the exhibition the contributors were asked to provide a “recording” in response to Burroughs’ tape experiments. The works, which vary significantly in media and focus, demonstrate the diversity of attitudes to such a groundbreaking period of investigation.
“Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs is curated by Mark Jackson. The project is supported by the London College of Communication, CRiSAP and ADi Audiovisual and has been made possible by the kind assistance of the William Burroughs Trust, Riflemaker, the British Library and Donlon Books.” Talk/Private view Thur May 27, 2010.
() To All who Sent us Books / CDs / DVDs / Magazines, we will try very hard to list what you sent in our NEXT NEWSLETTER.
() We saw and enjoyed BANKSY’s “Exit Through the Gift Shop” — go see it while it’s still at the theater! There are several BANKSY-credited graffiti’s around San Francisco now — one nearby in Chinatown on Commercial Alley near Grant. We met a couple on a bike-tour to see all of them around town one evening. Street art — a 24 hour gallery.
() Michael Shepard, who produced the Los Angeles and San Francisco THROBBING GRISTLE “final” concerts in 1981, visited us yesterday and gave us his new DVD release of Klaus Maeck’s film DECODER featuring William S. Burroughs, Christiane F, F.M. Einheit (Einstruzende Neubauten) and actor Bill Rice. There are “extras” such as a long interview with Klaus Maeck. The new color transfer looks great, too. He also gave us a book and CDs featuring Italian pianist ALESSANDRA CELLETTI (one CD features a collaboration with Hans-Joachim Roedelius). Alessandra Celletti played San Francisco two nights ago… Write RE/Search for ordering details!
() $ MAY 3 THE YES MEN gave a presentation at The Commonwealth Club, S.F. Did anybody see it? If so, please write us a description of what happened!
() FREE. Fri May 7, 6-8:45pm. DeYoung Museum. Jack Napier and Milton Rand Kalman of the Billboard Liberation Front [featured in our PRANKS 2 book] spoke at the DeYoung Museum. Mission Muralismo series presented “Directional Signals: Pranksters and Preachers, Paste and Stencil” featuring talks by Rigo, and John Jota Leaños. Also, Jack Napier, BLF co-founder, and Milton Rand, Kalman BLF chief scientist, gave a presentation titled “The Art and Science of Billboard Improvement,” plus stencil cutting demonstration by Russell Howze author of Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art.
Joe Sarno was a real mensch: a savvy, self-made creative New Yorker, deeply cultured and cosmopolitan and well travelled. I totally identified with him when I met him with Vale in 1983, the year I moved to Manhattan. In 1985 I photographed Joe for the RE/Search Incredibly Strange Films book project. As a filmmaker, Joe had an anthropological/documentary approach to camerawork and he taught me how to shoot portraits, how to pose people to make them more attractive, about the basic portrait lighting set-up, etc. But the trick in shooting good portraits was in the eyes. He said that since the eyes are liquid they must reflect light in order to be seen by film at all, otherwise they come out looking hollow and dead. He suggested I wear a white shirt when photographing people, as a ready-made reflector/diffuser to add that sparkle of life’s spirit to my subjects’ eyes that are looking at me, the camera.
Joe Sarno in Manhattan, 1985.
() “Collectors make a world for themselves. They make a little world all around them, select certain icons from ‘reality’ and turn them into the chief characters in that artificial world.” – ibid.
() From Tristan P in Glasgow, Scotland: “Dear V, Thanks for that. I had thought you might be in town for the conference anyway after seeing it in the RE/Search newsletter – anyhow, my apologies for not raising the invite of a place to stay sooner. Any plans to take your talk/slideshow/performance that was done in Donlon Books on the (British) road again?
– x-section of the spine and x-section of the urethra: look very similar.
– Duchamp’s notes on “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” cast it is a “delay in glass”: what is it to take TAE as “a display in novel”?
– TAE 1990 Re-Issue: JGB as author, RE/Search as ‘curator’ / “did not ‘kill the author’, but allowed the text to live” / treating the novel as a ‘living text’, allowing other voices to speak, with the annotations as “time-travelling artist’s statement”.
– Impact / influence egs. : ‘The Crash Show’ 1984 – ‘Ralph Nader and Ronald Reagan’s combined [actualised] worst nightmare”!
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