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Interzone was a network of William Burroughs' readers founded (1997-2013). Its sites are still accessible at http://www.inter-zone.org/ , but most of them are sites of archives. The site presently active are: - Interzone Éditions http://www.interzoneeditions.net/ - La sémantique générale pour les nuls https://www.semantiquegenerale.net - La sémantique générale pour tous semantiquegenerale.free.fr - Pour une économie non-aristotélicienne https://generalsemantics4all.wordpress.com/

jeudi 2 septembre 2010

Interzone report of July-August 2010

Accueil April-May-June 2010 Contact

Hi all,

August 2nd was the 13th anniversary of Bill Burroughs' death and August 10th , the 13th anniversary of Interzone start. So here we are and here we go again ! About the activities of all those years, see the front page of the site Interzone Report https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/ which contains the links to the reports since August 1997. I dedicate this report specially to James Grauerholz.

As you can state reading it, this summer has been busy on the Zone's side. i cnnot include all the info gathered during those two months in the blog Interzone news : see at http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/ for the details and extra info.

William Burroughs, Charles Plymell and James Grauerholz.

A benefit for S. Clay Wilson :

medical expenses are beyond his ability to pay and have made him and his family paupers. I’d like your help to raise money for S. Clay Wilson’s medical expenses. S. Clay Wilson is a major figure in American comics, a founder of the underground comix movement." David Chelsea
More on Punkglobe at http://www.punkglobe.com/sclaywilsonbenefit409.html

Lorraine Chamberlain and S. Clay wilson

"In November 2008, cartoonist S. Clay Wilson suffered a severe brain injury in a fall. He spent a week in intensive care and faces a long recovery. Even with insurance, Wilson’s

Music

Healing Crazy Minds: Master Musicians Of Joujouka & Morocco's Boujeloud Festival

Following in the footsteps of Brian Jones and Timothy Leary, Richie Troughton heads to Morocco to experience the magical sounds of the Master Musicians of Joujouka

Read the whole article by Richie Troughton in The Quietus at :
http://thequietus.com/articles/04829-healing-crazy-minds-master-musicians-of-joujouka-morocco-s-boujeloud-festival

The Master Musicians of Joujouka are now on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Master-Musicians-of-Joujouka/105892372781794

He Also Took That Boat by Alma/Joe Ambrose

He Also Took That Boat by Alma/Joe Ambrose will be featured in a forthcoming British festival of music created by pioneering plastic artists - Be Glad For The Song Has No End. The track, favourably reviewed in Art Monthly, had its first outing earlier this year in the London gallery show, Dead Fingers Talk – The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs.

Be Glad For The Song Has No End - A Festival of Artists' Music is a day of live musical performances, film screenings and events, set across three uniquely constructed stages in the grounds of Wysing Arts Centre in rural Cambridgeshire, organised and arranged by artist/musician Andy Holden.

Throughout the day artists will perform their music on the two outdoor stages whilst a program of films and performance that explore music from a more documentary or anthropological perspective take place in the cinema stage.

Artists involved in the festival include Archie Bronson Outfit, Luke Fowler, Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, Bob and Roberta Smith, Grubby Mitts, Sam Belinfante, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), and Jutta Koether. The festival is supported by Resonance 104.4FM, Lost Toys Records and The Wire magazine, and is made possible by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England East. For further information on the festival, details of places to stay, transport, and to book tickets visit: www.wysingartscentre.org/news/ 201 + 44 1954 718 881

NOVACRIMINAL music : Thursday July 8th NOVACRIMINAL live dowtown

The group Novacriminal played on July 8th at the the 5 star bar, 267 S Main, Los Angeles, CA

Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : W. Blake, Rilke, Rimbaud

"Some videos from poetry evening in our home town last autumn (also, don't remember, maybe i already sent those links). There I made music for texts of some my favorite poets - W. Blake, R.M. Rilke, A. Rimbaud."
Vasha
- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : "The Smile" by William Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSKPyZtmUo

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rilke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWcacWumGsM&feature=related

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rimbaud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-3WMU1kh0

Mike Watt: dates of the Stooges' concerts, tour July and August 2010 :

In July the Sooges have been touring through France, Belgium and Monaco.

Diary:
http://hootpage.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2010b.html

Diary of April-May http://hootpage.com/hoot_stooges-wattdiary2010a.html .

July 11, 2010 featuring: remote broadcast from marseille, france in the Watt from Pedro show http://twfps.com/

The dates of the concerts of August in UK , Sweden, Russia, Netherland and US are on line in Mike Watt Hoot Page at http://mikewatt.com/

Mike Watt Interview and Bass Lesson. PlayThisRiff.com :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqj8Ob5htW8&feature=player_embedded

Chicago Tribune: Concert review: Iggy and the Stooges at the Riviera

http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicago-tribune-concert-review-iggy-and.html

Los Angeles Times: Mike Watt fills in the spaces for the Stooges

http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/08/los-angeles-times-mike-watt-fills-in.html

(From left) Mike Watt, Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and James Williamson in London, May 3, 2010. (Courtesy of Columbia Records)

Grant Hart at Cakeshop VIDEO by Laki Vazakas; Photo gallery by Phil Scalia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQdhaFehGG8

Photo gallery by Phil Scalia: Grant Hart http://www.philipscalia.com/gh/index.htm

Petra Haden Sings 'The Who Sell Out'/sound. at the Ford

On line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNFoNBz9Dbs&playnext_from=TL&videos=Imv9ZQLRfbk

Ricardo Mbarkho: Soon the National Tabbouleh Day

THE NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY 2010
http://www.nationaltabboulehday.com/

Since 2001, a yearly national day, celebrated the first Saturday of the month of July (this year the 3rd of July, 2010), is dedicated to TABBOULEH.
During this day, Lebanese and their friends everywhere in the world meet in private or in public around this king of the mezzé. This artistic, cultural, gastronomic and touristy feast presents them an opportunity to show and to reinforce their attachment to their country. In 2007, the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism granted its approval and its patronage officially for the NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY.
Many events will take place all over the world! wherever there are Lebanese and friends. In downtown Beirut, for example, a big public gathering is organized at Souk el Tayeb in Saifi Village, where savoring and competitions of the best TABBOULEH will take place (www.soukeltayeb.com).
Let's celebrate all together the next NATIONAL TABBOULEH DAY that will take place on Saturday July 3, 2010. How? Here are some suggested ways:
In July 3, 2010
- Think about Tabbouleh
- Or do Tabbouleh alone or with friends
- Or do a public Tabbouleh event on your way
While doing so, know that you’re sharing these moments with all the others.
I all cases please take photos and share them on facebook for example. You can also send them to contact@nationaltabboulehday.com so we can publish them on the Website www.nationaltabboulehday.com and/or facebook…
Happy Tabbouleh Day!!!!!
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=121197891505
forward the good news!

Exhibitions
Mino D.C.: Tableau d'herbes

l'atelier-jardin de mino d.c. à http://ateliermino.free.fr/

Nicolas CUSSAC: exhibition from 1st to 19th September

Preview of the exhibition: Saturday September 4th, 11 AMAt CAPELLETA de CERET
rue Pierre Rameil
Exhibition from September 1st to 19th 2010
Gallery on line in Interzone Galleries
Nicolas CUSSAC : Peintures 2006-2007 - Cartes postales 2006-2007
Peintures 2008   - Cartes postales 2008

Optical Sound :
Updates at http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/vernissage-previously-on-optical-sound.html and http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/07/previously-on-optical-sound-derniers.html
Stéphan Barron: [09carnet_1]ORIENT EXPRESS - STEPHAN BARRON - OSTRALE, DRESDEN 2010
ORIENT EXPRESS à OSTRALE, DRESDE, 2010
New version, will show in Dresden, Ostrale international exhibition from 27.8 to 19.9 2010
video edition dvdremix, and paper edition.
More at http://www.technoromanticism.com/en/projects/OSTRALE/orexp_ostrale_en.html
invitation exposition andré willequet - galerie didier devillez

http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/
Galleries
Two slide shows from Collage Art by Claude Pelieu & Mary Beach by Ginger Eades
Slide Show from Collage Art by Claude Pelieu & Mary Beach
http://realityandotherfantasies.blogspot.com/p/slide-show-of-claude-pelieu-mary-beach.html
& http://picasaweb.google.com/Highjiver/BeachPelieu?authkey=Gv1sRgCIDJ57rC8eTHCw#slideshow/5234270719383855442
Phil Scalia : Photographs and Wikigraphs:
Photographs at http://www.philipscalia.com/
and Wikigraphs: Page 1 https://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia-htm
Page 2 https://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia2-htm
Page 3 https://sites.google.com/site/interzonegalleries/phil-scalia3-htm
and in Picasaweb : View Album http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=phisca&target=ALBUM&id=5497141549901079617&authkey=Gv1sRgCOG7rp3y5ODrjQE&feat=email Play slideshow http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/sredir?uname=phisca&target=ALBUM&id=5497141549901079617&authkey=Gv1sRgCOG7rp3y5ODrjQE&feat=email&mode=SLIDESHOW

Kansas Mandala by Phil Scalia
Collage: Baud: Afternoon sphere play

Collage : Wild Dog, by Bob Branaman
http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2010/08/collage-wild-dog-by-bob-branaman.html

Video

Vasha & Egle: videos on the roads of Europe

Those videos are made by Egle, dureing their trip from Lithuania to Portugal in 2009:

- keliones pradzia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdxekonmAw4
- keliones II dalis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHf0p1R4qbk&feature=related

- keliones III dalis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MJos87RWZc&feature=related

Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : W. Blake, Rilke, Rimbaud

Some videos from poetry evening in our home town last autumn (also, don't remember, maybe i already sent those links). There I made music for texts of some my favorite poets - W. Blake, R.M. Rilke, A. Rimbaud.
Vasha

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : "The Smile" by William Blake: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esSKPyZtmUo

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rilke
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWcacWumGsM&feature=related

- Poezijos ir muzikos vakaras: Vaidas Šadeika : Rimbaud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJ-3WMU1kh0

Video on Herbert Hunke 1983 by Lazi Vazakas

On line at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAf16_hn5cQ

Thurston Moore : Ecstatic Peace

Videos on line at
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/bangs/ecstatic-peace-part-1

This report is on line at https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/reportjuly10-html and in French at https://sites.google.com/site/aubertisa/reportjuly10fr-html . Between two reports, the info is gathered in Interzone news which is regularly updated.

Wishing you all the best for keeping on your activities after the holidays.

Cheers.

Izzy

mercredi 1 septembre 2010

Richard Krech: "Playing the Game" from S.A. Griffin’s “POETRY BOMB” 2010

The Great Game

they called it
in the last years of the 19th Century.

The “Fin de Siecle” time
when the sun never set
on the British Empire,
the fierce Waziristan of Rudyard Kipling
at the center of the “Game”
the center
of the struggle between
Russia and Great Britain.

Lord Durand drew a line
along a map delineating
British India from Afghanistan.

Drew a line thru tribal areas
controlled by the tribes and jirgas
since Alexander.

Drew a line oblivious to the blood
and flag and language ties
on either side
of his scribbles on a map
in London
half a world away.

Mortimer Durand’s arbitrary line
created the no-man’s land
between the tectonic plates
of Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent
where al Qaeda - the base - still thrives.

Irredentist warriors
from the 10th Century
nurtured by the arrogance
of game players
sipping tea in the parlor
in honor of the Queen

10/30/08
Richard Krech

The Poetry Bomb - Project by S.A. Griffin

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1768073198/the-poetry-bomb

The Poetry Bomb is a former U.S. military practice bomb. The artifact will be completely converted into a beautiful object filled with poetry from around the world. When finished, it will have a primo paint job just as if it were a classic car, complete with pin-striping. It will also have a window or portal that will open and close making it possible to not only see inside of the piece, but to take poems out at performances to read out loud, and to add future submissions. Once converted, I will take The Poetry Bomb on tour across the United States, and then, who knows? Plan on beginning the tour in late April of 2010.

I am soliciting funds not only to create The Poetry Bomb, but also, to then take The Poetry Bomb on tour.

Everyone who contributes anything at all will be listed as a participant in the project as a part of The Bomb Squad on Facebook and in any subsequent documentation.

You can follow the progress of the project, help spread the word and get more specifics about submissions (everyone is welcome, everyone!) at the Facebook fan page, "The Poetry Bomb". Please, SUBMIT TO THE BOMB!

(*The short presentation film, "THE POETRY BOMB" is by Christopher Lockett, that's his music in the background too. Thanks Chris!)

Project location: Los Angeles, CA

See also on You Tube: How to build a poetry bomb :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbps2kVoAQ&feature=channel

mardi 31 août 2010

MILK - A poetry magazine

A Poetry Magazine

Volume 1, Number1

Summer 2010

David Barker • Lisa Birman • Dave Donovan

Dan Fante • Nathan Graziano • Andrew Hilbert

Stephen Hines • Jordan Hurder • Justin Hyde

Richard Krech • Linda Lerner • Lyn Lifshin

Ellaraine Lockie • Gerald Locklin

Hosho McCreesh • Brian McGettrick

Brown Miller • Jack Moxie • Michael Phillips

Charles Plymell • M.P. Powers

William Taylor Jr • A.D. Winans

Price: $ 5

http://www.milkpoetrymagazine.com/

Buy at http://www.milkpoetrymagazine.com/purchase.html

Chicago Tribune: Concert review: Iggy and the Stooges at the Riviera

On line at http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2010/08/concert-review-iggy-and-the-stooges-at-the-riviera.html

More on Iggy Pop, read an interview HERE: Iggy Pop interview: Playing with the Stooges is like being beaten up by a middle-aged gang
http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2010/08/iggy-pop-interview.html

(From left) Mike Watt, Iggy Pop, Scott Asheton and James Williamson in London, May 3, 2010. (Courtesy of Columbia Records)

Mediapart: Harvey Pekar

See the video "Harvey Pekar on Letterman ": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBr4NxujLvw&feature=related downloaded from http://www.ddy.com/dl29.html

samedi 28 août 2010

Los Angeles Times: Mike Watt fills in the spaces for the Stooges

The busy bassist, best known for his work with the Minutemen, says the time spent under Iggy Pop has been invaluable.

More at

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-0829-mike-watt-20100829,0,2668529.story

SIGN OF THE TIMES by AD Winans

SIGN OF THE TIMES

By AD Winans

Market Street once
The queen of the city
Now a gaudy whore
Worn with time

I pass the Hamburger Palace
The home of the ninety-nine cent burger
Its doors closed down
Its windows streaked with grime

Inside streaks of mustard and ketchup
On the counter
A crushed soft drink cup
Lies in dirt
A paper napkin floating ghost like
In the wind

THEY TOO MAY EMBRACE THE RATTLESNAKE by Charles Plymell

THEY TOO MAY EMBRACE THE RATTLESNAKE
By Charles Plymell

"The Time of Nobody and Nothing has come."
----Elliott Coleman

I know the shipwreck is out there & spacesuit above the sunflower
But I have no god to pray to before the deep dark sleep takes over
There might be a hologram at the edge of space indeed to hold
Old captains afraid to sail beyond the seas tangled in the ropes

I have only chance to pray to and long for the bodies in my bed
Displayed in desperation on the screen flickering cooperations
That have claimed like figurines my possibilities & weary dream
Nothingness has ever been more profound to the boy on a bike

Peddling into unknown possibilities all over and again each day
Oblivious to the eternal connection of love beyond the playmate
Carrying in him the basic traits of human politics and a history
Of cheating, lying, stealing all tattooed once more in the years

To come clinging like lichen to the seawreck'd hope of shore
If only displayed in artificial form as parasite, vamp, old whore
I've climbed that rigging and never fell but to the hype & prize

I've held on to the wheel alongside the road of progress like
The grass, the weeds always half beaten down & sorrowful
Dandelion pride under the feet of those who walk unawares.

He Also Took That Boat by Alma/Joe Ambrose

Mary Beach: collage

Thurston Moore : Ecstatic Peace

Videos on line at
http://www.vbs.tv/watch/bangs/ecstatic-peace-part-1

mercredi 25 août 2010

Nicolas CUSSAC: exposition du 1er au 19 septembre 2010

Nicolas CUSSAC

a le plaisir de vous inviter au vernissage

de l'exposition de ses peintures

SAMEDI 4 SEPTEMBRE - 11 h

CAPELLETA de CERET

rue Pierre Rameil

Exposition du Mercredi 1er

au Dimanche 19 Septembre 2010

Galerie en ligne dans Interzone Galleries

Nicolas CUSSAC : Peintures 2006-2007 - Cartes postales 2006-2007

Peintures 2008 - Cartes postales 2008

samedi 21 août 2010

Collage : Wild Dog, by Bob Branaman

Just married: Lorraine Belcher Chamberlain and S. Clay Wilson

Lorraine Belcher Chamberlain and S. Clay Wilson got married on August 10th 2010 !

Best wishes of happiness to them !

AD Winans : America

A new poem by AD Winans :

America

http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans4.html

See also:

the outlaw poetry network » a.d. winans | memories & the demise of jazz in north beach

outlawpoetry.com

William Burroughs, Charley Plymell and James Grauerholz

Bill Burroughs, charley Plymell and James Grauerholz

"We had to do a special grocery shopping for Ginsberg, who spent most of the time at dinner talking about his special diet that had to be sugar free. They were both asked earlier on stage at Kansas University in Lawrence what their favorite line was in all literature. Bill answered, "Tomorrow,tomorrow tomorrow," and Allen answered "That in black ink my love may still shine bright." After dinner, we reflect and I thought Bill's lines were all too familiar to describe what one goes through trying to score, but of course it had greater connotations. Allen tried to remember and recite the sonnet his lines came from, but couldn't. I said it was easier if he started at the beginning and recited the whole sonnet which I began to do. About halfway through Bill started figiting with his hand in his pocket of his.38 Special. James put his hand on his shoulder to comfort him and whispered "let him finish". Bill wasn't known for liking poetry that much as such, especially my long recital. I laughed to myself while continuing the sonnet, imagining and old cowboy western movie I'd seen where the guy got on stage out in Nevada or somewhere reciting Shakespeare and a drunken cowboy pulled out his revolver to shoot as his feet. They were both impressed at my reciting the whole sonnet.

Soon the Kansas moon lit the sky and Bill was prowling around outside in his pyjamas while James and I talked under a Cottonwood tree. When we came back in, Allen was offered some desert with us, and he reminded us that he must not eat sugar. Bill had been showing off the famous skull from Mexico carved from sugar. I quipped, "At least Allen won't eat your skull!" That got a big chuckle from Bill, who replied in that flat St. Louis voice, "No. Ginsberg won't eat my skull."

That was the last dinner Bill and Allen would have together. It embodied the love that he would later write on his funuary card."

Charles Plymell, "SOME MOTHERS' SONS", http://www.cherryvalleyeditions.com/

Healing Crazy Minds: Master Musicians Of Joujouka & Morocco's Boujeloud Festival

Richie Troughton , August 18th, 2010 13:37

Following in the footsteps of Brian Jones and Timothy Leary, Richie Troughton heads to Morocco to experience the magical sounds of the Master Musicians of Joujouka

Read the whole article at :
http://thequietus.com/articles/04829-healing-crazy-minds-master-musicians-of-joujouka-morocco-s-boujeloud-festival

jeudi 19 août 2010

Phil Scalia's new wikigraph

phisca added a photo to Wikigraphs

Aug 17, 2010 6:43:45 PM

Charles Plymell at Bitter End.

Charles Plymell reading JFK Jr. poem at Bitter End, NYC. after his plane crash.

Baud: Afternoon sphere play

By Baud

Chinese Modern Art: The Last Banquet by Zhang Hongtu, the Chinese Warhol, painted in 1989.

More paintings by Zhang Hongtu at http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/04/chinas_warhol_gets_dirty?page=0,2

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Herman Leonard passes away

Herman Leonard in 2004

Source: blogs.tampabay.com/.../06/herman-leonard.html

mardi 17 août 2010

Phil Scalia: View of Citi Building

View of Citi Building from a cemetery in Queens NY

by Phil Scalia

http://www.philipscalia.com/

lundi 16 août 2010

Sunday August 15th NOVACRIMINAL and THE RADIO SWEETHEART live in Long Beach

It's the last show we'll play before William takes off for Ireland so come on down!

Clancy's 803 E. Broadway Long Beach Ca

The Radio Sweetheart
novacriminal
...
9PM
21+
FREE

Stéphan Barron: [09carnet_1]ORIENT EXPRESS - STEPHAN BARRON - OSTRALE, DRESDEN 2010

ORIENT EXPRESS à OSTRALE, DRESDE, 2010
New version, will show in Dresden, Ostrale international exhibition from 27.8 to 19.9 2010
video edition dvdremix, and paper edition.

The project was realized during a pivotal phase of european history, two years before the fall of the Berlin wall, there is an almost premonition sense of the rejoining of the post war divide.
This work is highly significant in its use of networks, digital technology and art on global scale. Ideas that seem omni-present now, ecology, travel and changes in our perception of time and space are all thoroughly explored in this mid 80`s work.
Orient express is important in the canon of technoromanticism, there are echos of the work of Caspar David Friedrich exploring common themes of distance, scale, spiritualism and fraternity by employing the tools of our time. By way of co-incidence Friedrich`s ¨The big enclosure¨ (Das große Gehege - Ostra Gehege) was
painted in 1832 at the site that is now the Ostrale.
More at http://www.technoromanticism.com/en/projects/OSTRALE/orexp_ostrale_en.html

Orient Express, Paris, 1991

The Huffington Post: Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/04/gerard-malangas-journey-f_n_670629.html
Screen Test Superstar:

How Gerard Malanga's poetry defined the early Andy Warhol era

Chelsea Weathers

Poetry Foundation

Phil Scalia: new wikigraphs

phisca added 2 photos to Wikigraphs

Aug 9, 2010 10:58:00 AM

invitation exposition andré willequet - galerie didier devillez

http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/

samedi 31 juillet 2010

Literary Kicks: "Appreciating Andrew Wylie, Evil Bohemian Jackal" by Levi Asher

http://www.litkicks.com/EvilBohemianJackal

Phil Scalia: vacation 2010 + Wikigraph

Workin on a tan!

http://www.philipscalia.com/

Wikigraphs: View Album Play slideshow

Joyce Meets Burroughs by Way of Mary Beach

On line at :
http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/2010/07/joyce_meets_burroughs_by_way_o.html

The Beach-Plymell Collection

Mary Beach & Claude Pélieu Art
http://www.beachpelieuart.com/

Charles Plymell: In Paris (June 68)

http://www.inter-zone.org/charlesplymellinparis.html

Charles and Pam Plymell, 1966

AD Winans : A Call to Poets

http://www.inter-zone.org/adwinans3.html

Photo of A.D. Winans by Janusz Zalewski.

jeudi 22 juillet 2010

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Après son exposition collective « Sound by artists » en 2009, la galerie Frédéric Giroux entame en 2010
une série d’expositions personnelles d’artistes sonores :
Pascal Broccolichi du 20 mars au 15 mai,
Pierre Beloüin du 22 mai au 19 juin
Optical Sound du 6 au 24 juillet
Jérôme Poret du 4 septembre au 30 octobre
et Pierre-Laurent Cassière du 6 novembre au 23 décembre.

Previously on Optical Sound…
Du 6 au 24 Juillet
Galerie Frédéric Giroux 8 rue Charlot 75003 Paris
http://www.fredericgiroux.com/

Optical sound est une structure hybride et atypique, furtive et mobile qui dessine ses propres frontières entre musique expérimentale et art contemporain. Bien avant l'exode des musiciens vers les contrées plus accueillantes des arts plastiques - crise du disque oblige et soif insatiable de nouveauté - Optical sound œuvre depuis 1997 au mixage interdisciplinaire et produit sans distinction projets de musiciens-artistes- graphistes… : disques, dvd's, badges, sérigraphies, éditions limitées, interfaces, expositions, revues… Pas de dogme, ni de chapelle mais la cartographie d'un territoire animé par un réseau serré d'intervenant qui travaillent en cooptation, par le truchement des productions, des rencontres et du partage des données et des passions. Ici règne la Direction artistique au sens noble du terme, Pierre Beloüin en est le gardien - du studio d'enregistrement ou de la salle de concert, en passant par le Black Cube… - selon. Graphistes, plasticiens, écrivains, journalist es, musiciens font partie d'une dynamique de production, d'une marque de fabrique qui traverse les aléas de la production culturelle underground dans un pays peu réceptif aux décloisonnements et au transferts de genres. Cette exposition fera la part belle à ce qui peut-être vu - galerie oblige - mais lézardera le long des murs et dans les écouteurs cette musique qui depuis la naissance du label hurle en faveur d'un projet mixed media toujours bien vivant.

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*"A4" : sous la forme d'œuvres inédites en vente, spécialement conçues pour l'occasion par plus de cent artistes :
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J.G. Thirlwell, Alain Declercq, Barbara Breitenfellner, Rebecca Bournigault, Pascal Broccolichi, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Jérôme Poret, Sophie Sommerlatt, Marjolaine Bourdua, Cathryn Boch, Emeline Girault , Cendrillon Bélanger, Philippe Perreaudin, Claire Moreux, Lydie Jean Dit Pannel, Serge Comte, Pascal Béjean, Loïg R, Goran Vejvoda, Ian Simms, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Nicolas Simonin,Jill Gasparina, Frederic Nogray, Frédéric Post, Alain Declercq, Stéphane Sautour, Claude Lévêque, Rainier Lericolais, Christian Vialard, P.Nicolas Ledoux, Guillaume Ollendorf, Simon Fisher Turner, Isabella Turner, Sébastien Roux, Eddie Ladoire, Lionel Marchetti, Black Sifichi, Norscq, Cocoon aka Christophe Demarthe, Stéphane Thidet, David Michael Clarke, Anabelle Hulaut, Philippe Lepeut, Christophe Bailleau, Olivia Louvel, Thierry Weyd, Samuel Ruchot, Julien Sirjacq, Cécile Babiole, Gilles Berquet, Mirka Lugosi, Mathias Delplanque, Alia Daval, Dorota Kleszcz , François Ronsiaux,Wild Shores, Hervé TTrioreau, Laurent Faulon, Davide Bertocchi, Alexandre Bianchini, Dominique Blais, Vincent Epplay, Gérôme Nox, Scanner…

En vente à la galerie jusqu'au 24 Juillet, de 50 euros à 1500 euros

À l’occasion de cette exposition les éditions Optical Sound seront disponibles intégralement sous la forme d’un lot unique contenant la collection complète des 13 ans de productions.
Par ailleurs un nouveau numéro "manifeste !", hors série de la revue Opticalsound consacré aux Manifestes sera proposé en exclusivité et en parallèle à sa présentation à l'Espace de l’Art Concret,(Mouans –Sartoux) à l'occasion de l'exposition "le temps des manifestes". du 22 mai au 19 juin

commissariat de l'exposition :
Pierre Beloüin avec P.Nicolas Ledoüx et Olivier Hüz.

Artistes invités :

*La Vitrine par : Eddie Ladoire « ENJOY THE SILENCE » :

Feuille d’acier de 5mm d’épaisseur + découpe laser (140x90) Tirage unique
« Enjoy the silence» est le titre d’un album du groupe de pop électronique anglais : Depeche Mode.
Fixer cette phrase hors de son propos, sur un support non musical et dans un contexte de bruit, devient un geste quasi fictionnel, et sculptural

*Black Sifichi (13 years continuous mix, vidéo)(www.blacksifichi.com)

*Ototoï (Borne interactive développé par Servovalve et Marie Destandau pour le site www.ototoimusic.com)
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Bob Branaman's illustration of Chances R

Bob Branaman's illustration of Chances R, famous gay bar in 50's published with Ginsberg poem when he visted Charles Plymell in Wichita in 60's.

Mike Watt Completing 3rd Punk Opera

http://www.blurt-online.com/news/view/3824/

Harold Norse Memorial Celebration

http://haroldnorse.com/438

Photo Frances Mac Cann

Charles Plymell : videos by Mike Zombek

Charles Plymell Sings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Juma6hYzwZo

Charles Plymell Gets his Gas in Beer :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBFXto0-09M&feature=channel

Pen Pals: Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Literary World They Made

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/20/books/20book.html?_r=1
By JANET MASLIN

Published: July 19, 2010

A late-1950s New York minute: clockwise from far right, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso (in cap), the painter Larry Rivers, Jack Kerouac and the musician David Amram.

In one of Allen Ginsberg’s more crazily virtuosic letters to his sometime soul mate, Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg included an apology of sorts. “I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude about it, with all my harlequinade and conscious manipulation of your pity,” he wrote. He also looked back on his life as an artist and described it witheringly: “Art has been for me, when I did not deceive myself, a meager compensation for what I desire.” And he acknowledged being worn, enervated and world-weary. “I am sick of this damned life!” he complained.

The year was 1945. Ginsberg was a precociously ancient 19-year-old. He would grow friskier, more pragmatic and less self-dramatizing during the course of his long correspondence with Kerouac, but one thing never changed: Ginsberg’s insistence on keeping the friendship alive. It lasted until Kerouac disappeared into an alcoholic haze and died in 1969, despite Ginsberg’s best efforts to save him.

Many of the two men’s letters went to separate university archives, Kerouac’s to Columbia, and Ginsberg’s to the University of Texas. And there they sat for decades, not without good reason. These letters can be as long-winded, rambling, visionary and impenetrable as each man’s writing style would suggest. But they can also be sharp, lucid, funny, tender, intimate, gossipy, jubilant and absolutely honest about the two aspiring authors’ gigantic ambitions.

And if their correspondence sounds one loud cautionary note, it’s a warning to be careful of what you wish for. The free-spirited energy of their early communications can be seen slowly ossifying into the discourse of eminences too busy being famous to be friends. As Kerouac predicted to their mutual friend and mentor, Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Someday ‘The Letters of Allen Ginsberg to Jack Kerouac’ will make America cry.”

In the seductive collection they’ve called “Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters,” the editors Bill Morgan and David Stanford stake out a distinct piece of literary turf. They do this despite the fact that Kerouac and Ginsberg were expansive letter writers, that each wrote to many correspondents, and that reams of these other letters have already shown up elsewhere. A third of the Kerouac-Ginsberg letters in this bumpy but transfixing volume have also been published before.

But this book’s emphasis is on the intensity and passion of two writers’ long conversation. That such a paper trail exists is never taken for granted. Amazingly, they wrote expansive, soul-searching letters even when in close proximity, let alone during the lengthy periods spent (as one of them put it) on the road. And the arc of the friendship is fully preserved here, from the hot-air excesses of college days to the chillier, fame-ravaged exchanges of later years. Each was an important critic of the other’s work. Each read as voraciously as he wrote. What Ginsberg called “the secret knowledge of reciprocal depths” helped bind them.

And neither was above noticing how the magazine Mademoiselle chose to cover the newly famous Beat Generation, once these two and their friends managed — to the everlasting amazement of one and all — to become published, celebrated, imitated and, in some quarters, reviled.

“Hasn’t it been awful?” Kerouac would write to Ginsberg in 1959. “We were so swingy? And now young poets are sneering at us?” Two years earlier it had been Ginsberg sagely advising Kerouac to be wary of becoming a symbol for the so-called Beat Generation: “You have too much else to offer to be tied down to that and have to talk about that every time someone asks your opinion of weather.”

But the Beat aura hangs over this book. Hindsight has made it impossible to avoid the shared myth that enveloped Kerouac, Ginsberg, their very close friends Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs, and the wider circle that included Gregory Corso, Lucien Carr, Peter Orlovsky, Paul Bowles and Gary Snyder. And Mr. Morgan, one of the letters’ co-editors, is the authoritative Beat bibliographer who has devoted many years to the archives of Ginsberg, Burroughs, Mr. Ferlinghetti and many others.

Partly because Mr. Morgan has already mined this vein for other books — including the Ginsberg biography “I Celebrate Myself,” the Ginsberg-Snyder letters and Beat walking literary tour guides to New York and San Francisco — he has written a concise but broad survey of Beat history. It’s called “The Typewriter Is Holy,” and it’s a helpful, even necessary, companion piece to the letters, which are only minimally annotated. It’s also a book that tries to put the far-reaching Beat tentacles and vast Beat cultural legacy into perspective.

Mr. Morgan has said that he finds two different kinds of people interested in the Beats: either those who know nothing about them or those who know everything. “The Typewriter Is Holy” deliberately caters to both types.

For the unknowledgeable, it can be blisteringly obvious, as in: “Kerouac, a fast typist, decided that he would ignore punctuation, paragraph breaks and traditional form, and type the story in one long sustained burst of energy. For this book, he would put the words down on paper as fast as they came into his head without stopping to revise.” These same readers may be surprised to learn that “On the Road” was typed on an enormous paper scroll.

For readers who are already familiar with biographies of Beat personnel, Mr. Morgan just means to help with logistics. Who was in Tangier when? Or at the City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco? Or the Beat Hotel in Paris? Or visiting Neal Cassady? Or avoiding Cassady, as Kerouac did when his friend wound up in San Quentin on a drug charge?

Though “The Typewriter Is Holy” is most useful in conjunction with other books, it does neatly condense Beat lore. And it makes the same point to which Mr. Morgan has devoted decades’ worth of archival work. Both of these books underscore the very un-Beat concept of Beat power. One book shows where it came from. The other explains why it’s not going away.

A version of this review appeared in print on July 20, 2010, on page C2 of the New York edition.