NEWSgrist: Tough Love (Summer Issue)

NEWSgrist: Tough Love (Summer Issue)
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Vol.5, no.10 (June 21, 2004)
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June Headlines
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
Tough Love: Schwabsky's [Ways]

Ways
Price: $12
ISBN 89-950473-2-1 03650

Meritage Press is pleased to announce the release of [Ways], a
co-publication with Artsonje Center (Seoul) of a collaboration between
poet Barry Schwabsky and artist Hong Seung-Hye.

[Ways] is Barry Schwabsky's first publication since his startling debut
collection Opera: Poems 1981-2002, which Publishers Weekly praised as an
"intensely wrought, luminously gripping book" distinguished by what
Bookforum called "dazzling modulations of phrase and tone." Schwabsky's
contribution to the volume is "ways to make a man feel like an unemployed
hearse driver who had had a little trouble with the higher powers" (a
title quoted from Marguerite Young's book on Eugene V, Debs), a curiously
structured sequence of fifteen non-sonnets, a difficult meditation on
difficult love. It is here presented as part of a collaboration with
Korean artist Hong Seung-Hye, whose work appears not as a form of
illustration but rather a deceptively simple, discreet, and elegant
graphic complement to – and extension of – the poet's words.

Schwabsky's "ways…" introduces a new poetic form that Bay Area poet
Stephanie Young christens the "Disappearing Sonnet Comb"…
Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Books | Permalink

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Mind-spinning

Rhythm Science from BoingBoing Friday, June 11, 2004
Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky, has a new book out that melds memoir with
pomo ranting. Published by MIT press, Rhythm Science, is the latest in
the Mediawork Pamphlets series under the editorial direction of Boing
Boing pal Peter Lunenfeld. The Mediaworks Pamphlets pair authors and
designers to create works in the vein of McLuhan and Fiore's seminal The
Medium is the Massage. Rhythm Science contains a mind-spinning
cut-and-paste CD mix of sounds from the Sub Rosa record label archive.
Brion Gysin and Tristan Tzara, meet Scanner and Oval.

This is also the last week for PDM's Paula Cooper show.

Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Books | Permalink

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Project for a New American Century (a hypertext of conspiracy)

My esteemed colleague, ex-gallery mate and fellow Cassandra–and a
brilliant artist–Dominic McGill has a show opening soon:

Dominic McGill - Project for a New American Century
June 29 - August 6, 2004
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 1, 6 - 8 pm


from the press release:
Derek Eller Gallery is pleased to present new work by Dominic McGill.

Like a modern-day Bayeux tapestry, Dominic McGill's latest drawing,
Project For a New American Century, is an epic graphite on paper
panoramic loop that stretches 65 feet. Standing at almost 8 feet high,
the drawing hangs suspended from the ceiling and fills the entire gallery
space.

Project for a New American Century takes its name from a Washington-based
neo-conservative think-tank "The Project for the New American Century".
Drawn largely from historical quotes, political slogans , media
buzzwords, and pop culture references; this endless timeline spans from
Hiroshima through the Cold War to the present, ending and beginning in
nuclear fire. The work functions as a hypertext of conspiracy, the
sensational, the propagandist and the revolutionary…

more about Dominic McGill; and more about his last solo show at Debs &
Co.

Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Art Exhibitions | Permalink

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War & Peace (Politics, Art + Exit Art)

Two articles in three days (Fri + Sun) that discuss politics vis-a-vis
art, and in contrast to Anna Somer's Cocks remarks, both mention the
concurrent exhibitions at Exit Art – Terrorvision and public.exe: Public
Execution – as being both politically and artistically vital and
vibrant:

from "Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects"
By HOLLAND COTTER - Published: June 18, 2004

Call postmodernism an academic delusion if you will, but it has vastly
expanded what art is and what is art. And in doing so it has made a
showdown between political art and beauty art something of a bogus
spectacle. In reality, the present art-world-without borders has plenty
of room for both, and much new work falls somewhere between the two
extremes, as the following look at a few current exhibitions may suggest.

Speaking of extremes, "public.ex: Public Execution" [sic] at Exit Art
represents one of them, at least in terms of format. The show is all but
invisible in the gallery, where another, long-running exhibition takes up
most of the space.

and:

"The Fine Art of Car Bombings"
By AMEI WALLACH - Published: June 20, 2004

The political artists who were celebrated in the 1980's, from Leon Golub
to Barbara Kruger, were enraged and on-message. Their spirit is very much
alive in "Terrorvision," an exhibition on view at Exit Art through July
31, in which 59 international artists confront the politics and
experience of terror, with images that range from photographs of
blood-splattered streets to declassified film of nuclear weapons tests in
the Nevada desert.

Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Art Exhibitions | Permalink

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Destiny: Fahrenheit 9/11

from the NYTimes, Sunday:
"MICHAEL MOORE is not coy about his hopes for "Fahrenheit 9/11," his
blistering documentary attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq. He
wants it to be remembered as the first big-audience, election-year film
that helped unseat a president."

note this paragraph:

Mr. Moore is on firm ground in arguing that the Bushes, like many
prominent Texas families with oil interests, have profited handsomely
from their relationships with prominent Saudis, including members of the
royal family and of the large and fabulously wealthy bin Laden clan,
which has insisted it long ago disowned Osama. Mr. Moore spends several
minutes in the film documenting ties between the president and James R.
Bath, a financial advisor to a prominent member of the bin Laden family
who was an original investor in Mr. Bush's Arbusto energy company and who
served with the future president in the Air National Guard in the early
1970's. The Bath friendship, which indirectly links Mr. Bush to the
family of the world's most notorious terrorist, has received less
attention from national news organization than it has from reporters in
Texas, but it has been well documented.

(from: "Michael Moore Is Ready for His Close-Up," By PHILIP SHENON)

Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Film | Permalink

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Bruce vs Bush!

from Joi Ito: Bush vs Bruce live: something worth watching.

Andrew Rasiej wants you to sign his petition to draft Bruce Springsteen,
outspoken critic of war, to perform at Giants Stadium (which he has
reserved) September 1, the day of the Republican National Convention.
He's put Giants Stadium on hold on the very same day of the convention…

more: ejovi

Sunday, June 20, 2004 in Current Affairs | Permalink

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Thursday, June 17, 2004
Artistic Non-Engagement?

In an article in The Idependent (UK) Anna Somers Cocks (former editor of
The Art Newspaper) asks:

"Why is art not reflecting world events? There is no artistic engagement
with the big, threatening issues that hang over us…"

The Art Newspaper is sponsoring a debate entitled: "In a time of
political crisis does the artist have a special responsibility?" which
takes place on 29 June at the Royal Academy, London:

Tuesday 29 June, 6pm (part of Art Fortnight London)
`Art in a Time of Political Crisis: Do Artists today Carry a Special
Moral Responsibility?'

Panel: Antony Gormley, Grayson Perry, Professor AC Grayling, Sarah
Whitfield
Chair: Anna Somers Cocks
Introduction by Norman Rosenthal

Followed by drinks reception

The Royal Academy
6 Burlington Gardens
London W1V ODS
Tickets: