Tuesday, May 4, 2010:
Many more newses
EP Released into the Wild, as of April 27th!
Get it while it remains hot, here.
Megapolis May 14, 15, 16
I'll be leading a workshop and performance using my GSR biofeedback setup. The idea this time will be to get people improvising together using inadvertant biofeedback signals related to their excitement/anxiety levels. Lucky Dragons—amazing people—will also be there, most likely using a different implementation of similar technology! Different implementations! Rock!
MakeMusic June 21
I'll be working with my friend Phil on some circuit-bending workshops and performances at Make Music NY this year. More updates as they come.
Reading at Stain of Poetry in August
I'll be reading some prose-poems at the illustrious series (seriously, it's really good—please go to some aside from my reading, if you go at all).
Chashama North Residency August-October
I'll be the food-coordinator there, which means I get to work with the nearby organic farm to select and cook food for the groups that pass through, and get to meet multiple sets of residents. Looking so forward.
Machine Project Residency January 2011
My puppetting friend Katie Shook and I are working on a set of individual puppet shows that will also function as a scientific experiment. Stay tuned for how to participate—bearing in mind that I can't give you details about the experiment itself.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Many Newses
1. Release date set for Oh, Light, full-length album
2. Release date set for Careful EP
3. Cake Shop show in NYC
4. REDCAT collaboration
5. [out of nothing] 3 release
New Full-Length Album out June 29th (digital), July 20th (physical)
Oh, Light, recorded in my partner's closet over the course of a month, will be released in glorious, informative, digital format on June 29th, before it's physical manifestation becomes available July 20th. You can find both at The Sounds Super site.
New Digital EP out April 27th
Careful, a set of four songs pulled from unreleased demos, nightcat!, and the upcoming Oh, Light album, will be available for download at The Sounds Super site on April 27th.
Cake Shop Show April 25th
I'm playing with the considerate and considerably talented Cars & Trains and Girls in Trouble at Cake Shop on the lower east side of Manhattan. I play at 8pm, so be there squarely.
REDCAT Collaboration April 12th
A short performance piece, The Accumulative Years, with director/actor Emily Mendelsohn and designer Shannon Scrofano is going up at REDCAT on April 12th. It's going to appear with a few other, most likely amazing pieces.
New Issue of [out of nothing] Available Online
[out of nothing] 3—a journal of experimental writing and art I edit with Janice Lee and Joe Milazzo—is up, with work from Achraf El-Bahi, Douglas Kearney, Teresa Carmody, Alfred Brown, Jen Hofer, Jenny Yurshansky, Jesse Seldess, Kevin Varrone, Kyoung Kim, Luis Panini, Mathew Timmons, Matias Viegener, Morgan Craft, Nikki Allen, Tim Kahl, and Vadim Bystritski.
Sunday, February 28th, 2010
Tour Cancelled—See Below
March 7: Cameo Gallery, NYC w/Dearling Physique, Eric Hassle, Data Dog
is still on, but:
March 9: PJ's Lager House, Detroit, MI w/ Dearling Physique, White Boss
March 10: Darkroom, Chicago, IL w/ Dearling Physique,
March 11: The Project Lodge, Madison, WI w/ Dearling Physique, Julian Lynch
March 12: Sauce, Minneapolis, WI w/ Dearling Physique, Bella Koshka
March 17: TBA, Dallas, TX
March 19: Mountain House, Austin, TX
are cancelled.
Friday, February 19th, 2010
March Tour Dates, Gallery Show in Los Angeles
1. Dates for cross-country tour as Careful with Dearling Physique.
2. Queer Territories show in Los Angeles, curated by Nicholas Grider.
1. Don't Mess with This Particular Sub-National Entity
I'm touring with Dearling Physique from NYC, through Minneapolis, down to Texas, for SXSW.
March 7: Cameo Gallery, NYC w/Dearling Physique, Eric Hassle, Data Dog
March 9: PJ's Lager House, Detroit, MI w/ Dearling Physique, White Boss
March 10: Darkroom, Chicago, IL w/ Dearling Physique,
March 11: The Project Lodge, Madison, WI w/ Dearling Physique, Julian Lynch
March 12: Sauce, Minneapolis, WI w/ Dearling Physique, Bella Koshka
March 17: TBA, Dallas, TX
March 19: Mountain House, Austin, TX
(edit: All strikethrough dates are cancelled)
2. Marked Territories
From April 3–May 2, Nicholas Grider will curate Queer Territories at Sea and Space Explorations, April 3–May 2, with work by Kaucyila Brooke, Michael Buitron, Joanne Mitchell, Matthew Siegle, and myself, along with some of Nicholas's own work.
The show began as a response to Nicholas's prompt to address "queer abstraction." He and co-exhibitor Michael Buitron exchanged a lovely set of emails and blog entries on the subject, but seeing as those seem to have poofed out of existence, I'd like to add my individual cents.
To my mind, queer identity is shaped by at least two factors: first, that the body generates a certain physiological response to members of roughly the same physical sexual expression—something that can be interpreted as a love closer to the love of the self, or a doubling of the self; second, that queerness is, broadly speaking, an abjected identity—a political reality in the United States, certainly, which has resulted in a rich history of evolving, fractured strategies for survival and representation.
My interpretation hinges on the popular imagination of queer humor—in my estimation, a social camoflauge for both meaningful critique and the ever-present self-loathing in the queer community: the joke undoes itself and the speaker, by siting itself in a kind of pragmatic misrule (a space adjective, ultimately related-but-not-essential to reasonable life). I don't think of humor as being particular to queer people or identities, but—if you'll let me beat "the popular imagination" to death (god knows it's a fantasy of mine)—the popular imagination associates queerness with a kind of passive-agressive-if-buoyant, flighty humor.
I won't connect all of the dots—I mean, it's exciting material to me, but is a little too confining to the images to write out completely what I think is going on. So, long-story-short: I—now in the over-confident, literalizing language of the artist's statement *ahem*—employ humor to complicate the strange physical magic by which two similar bodies might exist in space together, associated by the modern, invisible contract of a love-relationship.
And they're, like, four photos, my things in the show.