events
siglio in May: Back to LA for Printed Matter’s Art Book Fair, May 15-18 then NYC on May 22 for the “After Words” round table on visual poetry at the Grolier Club.
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events
siglio in March and April: East Coast West Coast Pt. 1! Find siglio at AWP in LA and at Artists’ Book Day at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA.
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books
THE SLEEPERS by Sophie Calle | In one of Calle’s first experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances, and strangers to sleep in her bed which would be continuously occupied for 8 days.
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books
Suite Vénitienne by Sophie Calle | Intentionally losing herself in the labyrinthine streets of Venice, searching for Henri B., the city becomes a repository of her desires.
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books
THE Hotel by Sophie Calle. | Working as a chambermaid, Calle stashes her camera and tape recorder in her mop bucket, sorting through and surveying the evidence of the guests’ lives.
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reviews
New Yorker | THE HOTEL BY SOPHIE CALLE: “What interests her most is the seduction and projection involved in knowing another person” —Lili Owen Rowlands
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✼ ex libris:
What’s going to happen in the next four years? A 1600+ page cautionary tale… Clearly, not enough people are reading anymore.
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“It Is What It Is” — Introduction by author Richard Kraft: “One of the English tabloid newspapers summed it up with its Cockney-rhyming slang headline: ‘No, it wasn’t a dream folks … THE WORLD REALLY IS DONALD-DUCKED’.”
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affinities
Print this! | Richard Kraft invokes Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi to respond to the Trump Presidency: “And it’s your fault I’m stupid.”
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✼ the improbable:
from Issue, No. 1 (Time Indefinite), “Dick Higgins, Publisher: Notes Toward a Reassessment of the Something Else Press Within a Small Press History” by Matvei Yankelevich: “To find connections between poetry, small press publishing, and the art scene of the early 1960s, one may look no further than Higgins’ own network.”
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Intermedia, Fluxus and The Something Else Press: Selected Writings by Dick Higgins, edited by Steve Clay and Ken Friedman
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the improbable
No. 1 Time Indefinite — TRACIE MORRIS: “There are intersecting communities of experimental artists … We are perpetually in conversation with each other across, time, space, beingness, perspective and geography”
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affinities
Appreciation | JOSHUA BECKMAN AT POETs HOUSE: “My hope is to share some of the exuberance I have found … in the things Dick Higgins put in the world.”
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affinities
List | Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press Lives On: A bibliography of Something Else Press reprints, facsimiles, etc. that evinces the enduring love for SEP
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the improbable
No. 3 Lingual Music — IN THIS ISSUE & INTRO: Guest edited by Alex Balgiu and Chloé Gourvennec, this issue is a catalyst, a manifesto, a conversation across time, language and musical propositions.
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