- Exposition de machines à rêver
- Présentation de la machine à rêver, de Burroughs et Gysin
- Multimedia:
Audition "Music for Dreamachine" : Optical Sound.
Projection de vidéos de William Burroughs et Brion Gysin
Extraits d'entretiens de Frédéric Mitterrand avec William Burroughs (Arte)
- Expo photos Burroughs - Gysin - Dreamachine
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/
lundi 5 octobre 2009
"LA MACHINE A RÊVER, William Burroughs & Brion Gysin": expo multimedia
INTERZONE REPORT : August-September 2009
Contents of the tomes of the Time of the Naguals : Around Burroughs and Gysin Articles Short stories Poems
Paul O'Donovan: "Beyond The Hyacinth House"
Hi all,
Well, many new things again since the latest report: visit of Zoners for 12th anniversary of Interzone, a new site for Interzone Editions, another one for the music compilation Interzone CD1, and more about the next publishings.
Also a number of exhibitions in the Zone.
Visit of Vasha and Egle:
In the begining of August, Vasha and Egle came to visit, on the way from Portugal to Lithuania. We had a wonderful weather so it was a holiday time for the three of us, while a great context for the 12th anniversary of the Zone.
Dreamachine exhibition
On saturday October 10th I'll make an exhibition on the dreamachine in Airvault. I'll make a video and photos and shall forward the info in the next report.
Interzone Editions
The new site Interzone Editions
I have created a new site for Interzone Editions at http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/ , which was hosted before at www.inter-zone.org/editions.htm .
As English books are being published, I'll make an English version of the site. At the moment, see the pages :
Homepage: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/
About us : http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx
Available titles: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/titres.aspx
Korzybski's seminars: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/korzybski.aspx
The Taxidermist : English and French versions: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/letaxidermiste.aspx
Stella Matutina: English and French: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/stellamatutina.aspx
Publications to come: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/aparaitre.aspx
List of authors: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/auteurs.aspx
Buy on line: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/achat.aspx
Links: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/liens.aspx
Contact us: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/contactus.aspx
Site map: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/sitemap.aspx
Publications to come:
At the moment, here are the publications to come:
"Le Temps des Naguals - Autour de Burroughs et Gysin" :
Compilation of interviews, articles and texts by Willi
am Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Victor Bockris, Ramuntcho Matta, Isabelle Aubert-Baudron, realized in Interzone. Many colour illustrations and original photos.The book is now ready. The n° ISBN is 978-2-9531513-6-7. Only the number of dépôt légal is going to come soon.
"The Time of the Naguals":
Compilation in English of Interzone wirtings. It contains 7 tomes. Too big to be printed, each tome is published in pdf file on a CD.
- "Around Burroughs and Gysin" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/aroundb&gcontents.htm
- "Articles" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/articlescontents.htm
- "Research": not finished yet.
- "Poems" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/poemscontents.htm
- "Cut-ups" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/cutupscontents.htm
- "Short stories" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/shortstoriescontents.htm
- "Theater" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/theatercontents.htm
"Le Carrefour des Impasses": Isabelle AUBERT-BAUDRON
Document on psychiatry. A previous version has been hosted in Interzone Library at http://www.geocities.com/interzonelibrary/0Sommaire.html. The published version will contain some more chapters.
Some chapters have been translated in English, some of them by Jill Fryer who revised my previous translation. The first one I wrote was in the early eighties, and was written directly in English, for William Burroughs : it was a translation of the transcription from a recording of a schizophrenic man explaining his system of inner perception : see "Mr B" http://www.geocities.com/interzonelibrary/13mrbeng.html
"Enquêtes sur les mécanismes et les conséquences de l'économie de marché dans le domaine de la santé": Isabelle AUBERT-BAUDRON
This book contains investigations on market economy realized since 2003, a number of which are on line at http://semantiquegenerale.free.fr/enquetes.htm The version to be published is a revised version, not ready yet.
Musique: "Interzone compilation 1":
This compilation was realized in 2000 : see the report of November 2000 at http://www.inter-zone.org/reportnov00.html Originally it was a group experiment of selfproduction at the scale of Interzone: we wanted to try to get organized at the level of the Zone to produce ourselves our creations, and it did work: a real compilation came out of it. It was gathered by Steve Ray, whom the musicians sent their song to, and who put it on line then in the site "Interzone CD Project" which does not exist anymore. As we had no individual CD burner yet at this time, Paul Sinclair, who was working for a CD burner society, made about 20 copie of the CD, one for each participant.
Since it has been stopped. Each musician was free to do what he wanted with his copy: put it on line, copy it and stread it, etc.. With Interzone Editions, I can now publish it officially. It contains the CD of music and a booklet with the illustrations each musician sent with his song.
I have sent a mail to the people who where involved in it then, but it's not easy to join people after 9 years. I intend to go on with the experiment at the financial level: how much shall we sell it ? What shall we do with the money ? There are questions I cannot answer to alone.
I have created a site in MySpace to host some of the songs : see Interzone CD1: http://www.myspace.com/interzonecd1 If you are the author of a song of this compilation, please let me know if you allow me to upload it in this Myspace site. You already gave it when the CD was originally produced in some copies, and put on line in the site Interzone lotsarock but you might have changed your mind about the contents, or want to change your song.
Chicago Reader: William Burroughs, Unabridged
Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering the literary icon’s entire life.
The article is on line at http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/william-burroughs-unabridged/Content?oid=1186237 with more photos and video.Music:
Shocker_TV : Laptop Battle 1.0
Hosted by Uno Momentum
08/22/2009 10:00 PM
the Bunkhouse
124 S. 11th Street
Las Vegas, Nevada 89101
View Map
www.myspace.com/shockertv
The Wire Magazine Feature Article and free download of Master Musicians of Joujouka
The Whirling Dervish: Message from the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Galleries:
Paul O'Donovan
http://interzone.galleries.googlepages.com/odonovan58.htm
Une collection particulière à la Galerie Didier Devillez
devillez@skynet.be
http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/
je tenais à vous informer que l'installation "TRAME" sera diffusée à la Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale, durant le Festival "Temps d'Images" (co-réalisé avec Arte), programme "Temps d 'écoles d'images"du 02 au 11 Octobre 2009.
Je serai présent le 02 Octobre lors du vernissage et espère vous y rencontrer.
Bien à Vous.
Anthony Rousseau
Le programme complet est disponible à cette adresse :http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/IMG/pdf/Prog_TDI_2009-9.pdf
http://anthonyrousseau
From Noëlle Pujol : The Invisible Generation in Melbourne
The Invisible Generation in Melbourne
A Vision Forum project devised by Per Hüttner and Daniele Balit
Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery
07-09-09 – 10-10-09
http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com
info: vfprog@gmail.com
The Invisible Generation (TIG) is a series of contemporary art interventions organized by Vision Forum and inspired by texts by American writer William S. Burroughs. The project will primarily be made up of unannounced performance-based interventions in the public space in Beijing, Melbourne, Shenzhen and Kiev.
A large number of interventions will be introduced at the Anti-Hospital hosted at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery in Melbourne from September 7h to October 10h, 2009. The actions take their starting point in an experimental and evolutive exhibition made up of various elements including two installations: Polka Dot by Mark Geffriaud and Do Not Go Gentle Court, a site specific piece by Per Hüttner.
The Anti-Hospital and TIG Archive in Melbourne
The projects in Melbourne do not have a definite starting point or public opening. They are built around a number of events, evolutive interventions and social platforms which together create new vantage points to what an exhibition, performance or workshop can be.
The Anti-Hospital will be the central to coordinate various activities and to host social events that replaces the traditional opening. The production and installation of the exhibition becomes public and part of an open-ended process. The gallery is the locus where a large group of artists and other cultural practitioners together develop different interfaces to connect the inside of the gallery awith the outside world, allowing viral forms of art to infiltrate the surrounding city and the lives of its inhabitants.
The Anti-Hospital also includes an archive of artistic documents providing instructions on performances, workshops and actions to be realized primarily in the public space and in an everyday context. The instructions are formulated as possible actions, performances, temporary artworks, objects and social situations, scores and sonic interventions proposed by absent artists and realized by local artists, non-artists and the visitors the gallery. Instructions also include Burroughs's own suggestions that can re-interpreted and re-enacted by visitors to the gallery.
TIG Anti-Hospital will act as a platform to re-distribute artistic actions in the social space of the city. Through this process, the artwork is transformed and the notion of authorship is re-negotiated between the passages of instruction, interpretation and realization. The instructions will be exhibited in the gallery, and the display will include new ones collected in Melbourne, as well as documentation about the realized actions.
The Installations
In dialogue with the social interventions two main installations will be presented in the gallery :
Do Not Go Gentle Court, a new site specific piece by Per Huttner. It both blocks out the daylight in the space and at the same time uses quantum physics as an inspiration to invite the audience to re-negotiate and rethink the relationship between the living and the dead.
Polka Dot, by Mark Geffriaud: is an installation which uses our visual perception to play tricks on our minds. It uses the dark and a strong light source to rethink how meaning is created in cinema, history and its connections to technological progress in general and our views on our solar system in spec
Scheduled Activities:
Scheduled activities include: the Laoban Speaker Workshop,coordinated by Jon Phillips, the Stethoscope performance by Yan Jun, The Sunday Anti-Olympics, Calaibi Yau actions, and several actions connected to the instruction archive. For updates keep your eyes peeled on the TIG blog.
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The Invisible Generation: a project by William S. Burroughs filtered through time and Per Hüttner and Daniele Balit.
web: http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com
mail: vfprog@gmail.com
Projects by: Yan Jun / Mark Geffriaud / Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Loulou Cherinet / Natasha Rosling / Per Hüttner / Michael Yuen / John Phillips and Matt Hope / Hu Xiangqian / Nadège Maïon / Yang Zhifei.
Organized by: Vision Forum in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, Les Kurbas Centre in Kiev, CPU 798 in Beijing and OCAT in Shenzhen.
Supporting institutions: French Embassy in Australia, French Embassy in Kiev, Swedish Embassy in Peking, Swedish Embassy in Kiev, the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, The Consulate of Sweden in Guangzhou, Längmanska Kulturfonden in Stockholm and Linköpings Univesitet in Norrköping.
A special thank you to FRAC Île-de-France.
MINO.DC : journées européennes du patrimoine 19 et 20 septembre 2009
Atelier Jardin de Mino D.C.
12 rue du Lavoir
Le Grand Moiré de Soulièvres
Airvault
Visite guidée: (présentation des installations fixes, éphémères ou en cours de création.
mémoire et vieillissement des matériaux et des objets. projection de films expérimentaux)
samedi et dimanche 10h -19h (G)
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A l’intérieur du Show Room # 2, laboratoire dédié à la jeune création, c’est à Pierre Beloüin que nous avons passé commande d’une œuvre destinée à une chambre de l’un de nos hôtels :
Dreamachine Room « la première œuvre d’art destinée à être regardée les yeux fermés » qui sera présentée en avant-première durant Art-O-rama, à la Friche Belle de Mai, du 10 au 20 septembre / 2009 Fondation Vacances Bleues.
Olivier Huz / Co-auteur, Design graphique + Catalogue
Servovalve / Développement informatique Semuta
Vincent Nicolas / Conception mécanique Dreamachine
Mécénat / Fondation Vacances Bleues
Remerciements à copirel - Epeda et Baze
pour le mobilier de la chambre
extrait des plans de la Dreamachine Brion Gysin & Ian Sommerville
New pages on line:
In Interzone sites :
About us : http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/aboutus.aspx
Available titles: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/titres.aspx
Korzybski's seminars: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/korzybski.aspx
The Taxidermist : English and French versions: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/letaxidermiste.aspx
Stella Matutina: English and French: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/stellamatutina.aspx
Publications to come: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/aparaitre.aspx
List of authors: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/auteurs.aspx
Buy on line: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/achat.aspx
Links: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/liens.aspx
Contact us: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/contactus.aspx
Site map: http://interzoneeditions.livres.officelive.com/sitemap.aspx
- " Around Burroughs and Gysin" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/aroundb&gcontents.htm
- "Articles" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/articlescontents.htm
- "Research": not finished yet.
- "Poems" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/poemscontents.htm
- "Cut-ups" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/cutupscontents.htm
- "Short stories" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/shortstoriescontents.htm
- "Theater" http://aubert.isa.googlepages.com/theatercontents.htm
In the other Zoners' sites :
http://interzone.galleries.googlepages.com/odonovan58.htm
http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/IMG/pdf/Prog_TDI_2009-9.pdf http://anthonyrousseau
devillez@skynet.be http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/
Optical Sound: FLicKeR http://www.art-o-rama.fr/editions/edition-2009/show-room-2 Dreamachine Room ~ Vernissage 10 SEPTEMBRE
More on Optical sound at : http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2009/08/optical-sound-september-newsletter.html & http://interzone-news.blogspot.com/2009/09/middle-september-lovers-newsletter.html
samedi 26 septembre 2009
The Wire Magazine Feature Article and free download of Master Musicians of Joujouka
Installation "TRAME" à la Ferme du Buisson
je tenais à vous informer que l'installation "TRAME" sera diffusée à la Ferme du Buisson, scène nationale, durant le Festival "Temps d'Images" (co-réalisé avec Arte), programme "Temps d 'écoles d'images"du 02 au 11 Octobre 2009.
Je serai présent le 02 Octobre lors du vernissage et espère vous y rencontrer.
Bien à Vous.
Anthony Rousseau
Le programme complet est disponible à cette adresse :http://www.lafermedubuisson.com/IMG/pdf/Prog_TDI_2009-9.pdf
http://anthonyrousseau
Middle September Lovers Newsletter
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Festival Ososphère ~ du 25 SEPTEMBRE au 3 OCTOBRE - Strasbourg
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"Les installations de Cécile Babiole, Christian Vialard et P. Nicolas Ledoux, Antoine Schmitt, Patrick Fontana, Aelters, Pierre-Yves Fave, Nathalie Nambot, Eddie Ladoire, Olivia Louvel et Paul Kendall, Sébastien Roux et Vincent Epplay, Black Sifichi, Blue Baboon, sont proposées en intelligence avec Pierre Beloüin".
PROGRAMME COMPLET
A ne pas rater le live de Vincent Epplay et Sébastien Roux Concatenative Mu le Samedi 26 Septembre à partir de 17H00 à la mythique salle de l' Aubette réservation obligatoire : rendezvous@ososphere.org en précisant l'aubette 090926 dans l'objet du mail.
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ECHOS FLOTTANTS le 25 et 27 Septembre et le 3 et 4 Octobre
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CARTE BLANCHE A OPTICAL SOUND
L’Ososphère présente, sous l’intitulé Échos Flottants,une série de croisières sonores sur les canaux strasbourgeois, proposant aux spectateurs de découvrir de nouvelles circulations et points de vue sur la ville dans le cadre d’une programmation de formes artistiques touchant à la musique, la plastique sonore, le soundscape etc. Cette année, Ososphère propose à Pierre Beloüin et au label Optical Sound de prendre en charge la programmationde ces Échos Flottants. Créée et dirigée par Pierre Beloüin, artiste, curateur et surtout complice de longue date de l’Ososphère, la plateforme d’édition Optical Sound diffuse depuis 1997 des œuvres sonores de de musiciens expérimentant le son ou, à l’inverse, des musiciens s’intéressant aux arts plastiques.
les départs des croisières se font sur le quai du mamcs (musée d’art moderne et contemporain), puis elles se déroulent dans les canaux Strasbourgeois de l’ill. l’accès à ces croisières est gratuit (sur réservation).
les inscriptions (dans la limite des places disponibles) pour les croisières sont à réserver par mail à l'adresse rendezvous@ososphere.org en précisant le numéro de la croisière dans l'objet du mail. par exemple, pour blue baboon, mettre "croisière 1" dans l'objet du mail.
Infos Artistes
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No(t) Music ~ Fort du Bruissin / Francheville / du 14 septembre 2009 au 03 janvier 2010
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Avec Pierre Beloüin, Davide Bertocchi, Dominique Blais, Pascal Broccolichi, Pierre-Laurent Cassière, Sammy Engrammer, Laurent Faulon, Emmanuel Lagarrigue, Jonathan Loppin, Arnaud Maguet, Gérald Petit, Jérôme Poret, Ttrioreau...
Comme son titre l’indique, l’exposition « NO(t)MUSIC» n’est pas le lieu de l’expérimentation musicale mais un panorama subjectif d’interactions entre le sonore et l’art contemporain.
Avant tout visuelle, « NO(t)MUSIC » ne prétend pas non plus poser un regard rétrospectif.
Il s’agit plutôt de montrer, au travers d‘oeuvres contemporaines, comment les artistes se sont, très différemment, emparés de cette matière sonore. Cette exposition tente de clarifier l’autonomie et la spécificité des pratiques
(même dites « multi ou transdisciplinaires ») des artistes de l’art contemporain, et trouve sa richesse dans l’éclectisme de ses approches et la diversité de ses sources.
Exposition : NO(t)MUSIC
du 14 septembre 2009 au 03 janvier 2010
Ouverture : Vendredi, Samedi et Dimanche de 15h00 à 19h00 et sur rendez-vous.
Francheville 69 Fort du Bruissin -
Centre d'art contemporain Chemin du château d'eau 69340 Francheville
Tél : 04 72 13 71 00 INFOS
Accès bus : Ligne 30 directe (Bellecour / Francheville-findez)
Au premier plan Dominique Blais, au mur Arnaud Maguet, au fond Pierre Beloüin et Cocktail Designers
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Thanks for reading - Pierre Beloüin ~ Optical Sound
105 rue des Volubilis 83190 Ollioules
18 Rue de Stosswihr 67100 Strasbourg
Season of Mist is the official French distro of Optical Sound in France / Distribution France Season of Mist
Vente format numérique OTOTOÏ
The Optical Sound CD's are always available in regular store, on-line it's better for us / les éditions Optical Sound sont disponibles
chez tous les disquaires, et sur la boutique en ligne Buy on-line with Paypal, quick and secure sending.
lundi 14 septembre 2009
invitation vernissage galerie didier devillez
devillez@skynet.be
http://www.galeriedidierdevillez.be/
dimanche 13 septembre 2009
From Noëlle Pujol : The Invisible Generation in Melbourne
The Invisible Generation in Melbourne
A Vision Forum project devised by Per Hüttner and Daniele Balit
Melbourne: Margaret Lawrence Gallery
07-09-09 – 10-10-09
http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com
info: vfprog@gmail.com
The Invisible Generation (TIG) is a series of contemporary art interventions organized by Vision Forum and inspired by texts by American writer William S. Burroughs. The project will primarily be made up of unannounced performance-based interventions in the public space in Beijing, Melbourne, Shenzhen and Kiev.
A large number of interventions will be introduced at the Anti-Hospital hosted at the Margaret Lawrence Gallery in Melbourne from September 7h to October 10h, 2009. The actions take their starting point in an experimental and evolutive exhibition made up of various elements including two installations: Polka Dot by Mark Geffriaud and Do Not Go Gentle Court, a site specific piece by Per Hüttner.
The Anti-Hospital and TIG Archive in Melbourne
The projects in Melbourne do not have a definite starting point or public opening. They are built around a number of events, evolutive interventions and social platforms which together create new vantage points to what an exhibition, performance or workshop can be.
The Anti-Hospital will be the central to coordinate various activities and to host social events that replaces the traditional opening. The production and installation of the exhibition becomes public and part of an open-ended process. The gallery is the locus where a large group of artists and other cultural practitioners together develop different interfaces to connect the inside of the gallery awith the outside world, allowing viral forms of art to infiltrate the surrounding city and the lives of its inhabitants.
The Anti-Hospital also includes an archive of artistic documents providing instructions on performances, workshops and actions to be realized primarily in the public space and in an everyday context. The instructions are formulated as possible actions, performances, temporary artworks, objects and social situations, scores and sonic interventions proposed by absent artists and realized by local artists, non-artists and the visitors the gallery. Instructions also include Burroughs's own suggestions that can re-interpreted and re-enacted by visitors to the gallery.
TIG Anti-Hospital will act as a platform to re-distribute artistic actions in the social space of the city. Through this process, the artwork is transformed and the notion of authorship is re-negotiated between the passages of instruction, interpretation and realization. The instructions will be exhibited in the gallery, and the display will include new ones collected in Melbourne, as well as documentation about the realized actions.
The Installations
In dialogue with the social interventions two main installations will be presented in the gallery :
Do Not Go Gentle Court, a new site specific piece by Per Huttner. It both blocks out the daylight in the space and at the same time uses quantum physics as an inspiration to invite the audience to re-negotiate and rethink the relationship between the living and the dead.
Polka Dot, by Mark Geffriaud: is an installation which uses our visual perception to play tricks on our minds. It uses the dark and a strong light source to rethink how meaning is created in cinema, history and its connections to technological progress in general and our views on our solar system in specific.
Scheduled Activities:
Scheduled activities include: the Laoban Speaker Workshop,coordinated by Jon Phillips, the Stethoscope performance by Yan Jun, The Sunday Anti-Olympics, Calaibi Yau actions, and several actions connected to the instruction archive. For updates keep your eyes peeled on the TIG blog.
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The Invisible Generation: a project by William S. Burroughs filtered through time and Per Hüttner and Daniele Balit.
web: http://theinvisiblegeneration.blogspot.com
mail: vfprog@gmail.com
Projects by: Yan Jun / Mark Geffriaud / Juan Pedro Fabra, Michele Masucci and Loulou Cherinet / Natasha Rosling / Per Hüttner / Michael Yuen / John Phillips and Matt Hope / Hu Xiangqian / Nadège Maïon / Yang Zhifei.
Organized by: Vision Forum in collaboration with VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery and Satellite in Melbourne, Les Kurbas Centre in Kiev, CPU 798 in Beijing and OCAT in Shenzhen.
Supporting institutions: French Embassy in Australia, French Embassy in Kiev, Swedish Embassy in Peking, Swedish Embassy in Kiev, the Swedish Institute in Stockholm, The Consulate of Sweden in Guangzhou, Längmanska Kulturfonden in Stockholm and Linköpings Univesitet in Norrköping.
A special thank you to FRAC Île-de-France.
samedi 12 septembre 2009
Interzone CD1 on My Space
dimanche 6 septembre 2009
Chicago Reader: "William Burroughs, Unabridged"
Jonathan Leyser works to finish the first documentary covering the literary icon’s entire life.By Ed M. Koziarski
50th-Anniversary Celebration of William S. Burroughs's The Naked Lunch
With Peter Weller, Bill Ayers, Penny Arcade, Hal Willner, James Grauerholz, Anne Waldman, John Giorno, John Long, Kurt Hemmer, and Tony Trigilio, music by Maya Jensen, and catering by David Leigh, Fri 8/28, 5:30 PM, Th!nkArt Salon, 1530 N. Paulina, suite F, 773-394-8170, $60 at burroughsthemovie.com, $75 at the door.Afterparty
Jonathan "Yony" Leyser's brief career has been all about celebrating outsiders, in sordid but sympathetic portraits of transgender and anarchist communes, addicts and migrant workers. Now the 24-year-old filmmaker and photographer, who's been kicked out of two art schools, is nearly finished with an ambitious assessment of perhaps the greatest literary outlaw of the 20th century.
Burroughs also spent some formative years on the shores of Lake Michigan, though he didn't speak as fondly of them. In a passage he later excised from Naked Lunch, he wrote, "There is something about Chicago that paralyzes the spirit under a dead weight of a formalism dictated by hoodlums, a hierarchy of decorticated wops . . . And everywhere the smell of atrophied gangsters, the dead weight of those dear dead days hanging in the air like rancid ectoplasm . . . You suffocate in the immediate past, still palpable, quivering like an earthbound ghost . . . Here the dream is suffocating, more real than the real, the past actually, incredibly, invading the present."
After failed stints in grad school and the army (and a month in Bellevue for cutting off the tip of his own finger in a fit of jealousy), Burroughs returned to Illinois and enrolled at the Lewis School of Aeronautics, run by Catholic monks in Lockport, to get his pilot's license. In the summer of 1942, he moved into a rooming house in Buena Park. He worked as an accounting clerk at a rubber plant, a fraud investigator, and an exterminator, according to Grauerholz's research.
"They call me the Exterminator," Burroughs wrote in Naked Lunch. "At one brief point of intersection I did exercise that function and witnessed the belly dance of roaches suffocating in yellow pyrethrum powder ('Hard to get now, lady . . . war on. Let you have a little . . . two dollars.') Sluiced fat bedbugs from rose wall paper in shabby theatrical hotels on North Clark and poisoned the purposeful Rat, occasional eater of human babies. Wouldn't you?"
During this period Burroughs attended weekly therapy sessions at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis in River North. He hatched frustrated plans to rob an armored car and a bathhouse (fueled, Grauerholz speculates, by a desire for manly achievement after his aborted military career). But as he wrote in his 1995 memoir My Education: A Book of Dreams, "My criminal activities (minimal to be sure) were as hopelessly inept as my efforts to hold a job in an advertising agency or any other regular job."
Photo by Carl Fischer
Burroughs wrote Naked Lunch from 1954-'58, while living in a rooming house in Tangier, Morocco. The novel careens through a series of nightmarish, orgiastic vignettes involving sexual and pharmaceutical exploration, brutality, double identities, and various kinds of domination. In 1958, portions of it were published by a University of Chicago student literary magazine, the Chicago Review. After Chicago Daily News columnist Jack Mabley condemned the issue as "one of the foulest collections of printed filth I've seen publicly circulated," the university suppressed it. Most of the editors resigned to found Big Table magazine, printing another excerpt in the inaugural issue. The Chicago post office seized all 10,000 copies, triggering an obscenity trial that attracted enough publicity to get the full manuscript of Naked Lunch published by Paris's Olympia Press in 1959 (as The Naked Lunch) and launching Burroughs's literary star. (This series of events is detailed in Gerald E. Brennan's two-part 1995 Reader story "Naked Censorship.")
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Jean Genet, Allen Ginsburg, William S. Burroughs
Grauerholz was a 21-year-old Kansas transplant to New York in 1974, when he met Burroughs through Ginsberg. "I was, in this sequence roughly, his fan, his live-in boyfriend, his otherwise-romantically-coupled secretary and friend, his tour booker and road manager, his personal editor, etc, etc," Grauerholz says.
In Lawrence, Burroughs lived on a steady diet of vodka Cokes—a drink someone in Leyser's footage refers to as a "Burroughs"—and nursed his interests in guns and deadly snakes. He slept with a gun under his pillow and wore one on his belt when he went out. "Burroughs said a paranoid is someone who has all the facts," Leyser notes. "Freud said a paranoid is a repressed homosexual. [Burroughs] was a deeply paranoid person. He believed all these guns would be a protection. He carried a cane that had a sword in it. He had blowguns and a throwing star."
Burroughs wrote less in his later years and experimented with visual art. He'd shoot cans of spray paint, exploding them against sheets of plywood. Some of these pieces will be on display at the 50th-anniversary event.
Bill and Anna is an explicit, 20-minute documentary portrait of the relationship between a severely obese fortysomething Palatine carpet cleaner and a crack-addicted prostitute. "I'd always been fascinated with outsiders," Leyser says, "and Bill was the ultimate outsider."
Upon earning his diploma in 2002, Leyser enrolled at Northern Illinois University, where he submitted Bill and Anna to the student film festival. "We submitted a version without nudity," he says, "and slipped in the nudity before the film screened." The movie was stopped, and the projectionist went on to the next film.
He moved back to Chicago last year, working as a telephone fund-raiser for nonprofits to pay for A Man Within. Last summer he cohosted a 40th-anniversary reenactment in Grant Park of the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests, with friends Chip Butler and Brett Koontz. Leyser portrayed Ginsberg and a friend went as Burroughs. Leyser's mother played Jean Genet. "She speaks French and she enjoys acting," Leyser explains.
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