Well, here are some pictures from traveling (from England and New York, specifically), some pictures from around Minneapolis, and some pictures of yours truly.
I guess I'm interested in myself. Aren't we all??
Interested in me, I mean!
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You can listen to some of my poetry with my poetry band The Bruitists. Listen to 41 written after the Diallo verdict in New York.
These take a few minutes to download and after you play them, hit *Back* on your browser to get back to my page or back to MySpace.
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Carole Maso is amazing! I highly recommend her novels Ava, Defiance, and Ghost Dance, as well as her book on writing, Break Every Rule and her Frida Kahlo biography, Beauty is convulsive.
I do text-based performance art, which basically includes turning predominantly non-performance text into performance or mixing elements of text with dance, sound design, visual art, video, etc.
I write surrealist, non-linear poetry, narrative pieces (fiction & creative nonfiction) and performance pieces, plays, etc. My work is intended simultaneously for page and stage. Check it out at http://www.fluffysingler.homestead.com/readFluffy.htm
Since 1997, I have published Karawane: Or, the Temporary Death of the Bruitist featuring experimental plays, manifestos, performance art pieces, musical scores, etc. (Karawane has a MySpace, too at http://www.myspace.com/karawane.)
Fluffy Singler If I were a rapper I'd call myself Tallullah Abdullah. 於 2009/4/5。 檢視更多
As a writer and performance artist, my work is devoted to the Surrealist goal of the liberation of the imagination as a political act. I am interested in the use of language and of poetic text in performance in non-discursive, imagistic ways. In a culture in which almost everything we see and hear is designed to influence us to buy certain things, think certain ways, believe what we're told by government, media, and corporate interests, I believe strongly in the power of language that is used nonlinear, nondiscursively, to rewire the way we think and to engender a creative response on the part of the spectator/viewer/ participant. I believe that words can be made to function on the level of the visual, that a poem can have the same effect on the viewer as a Jackson Pollock, and by presenting language live, through performance, we can capture the alchemy of bodies and harness this imaginative response.
I write poetry and also more "traditional" plays that tend towards the absurdist and the surrealist. Absurdism has fallen out of favor in the moment--in the trend of Beckett and Ionesco--toward an emphasis perhaps on camp and spoof, but I believe that there is still a place for taking the everyday and making it strange and unfamiliar, in forcing us to look at what we otherwise pass over and accept rather than seeing the complications we create for ourselves.
I believe that theatre belittles itself and betrays an inferiority complex when we try to compete with movies and television. It means that we do not understand the power of the live, the alchemy of bodies--raising energy as pagans say; "When two or more are gathered in my name" as Christianity teaches. There are many important things that live performance of work--plays, poetry, readers theatre, music, dance, etc.--offer us that cannot be gained by mediated performance, no matter how good or moving those media might be.
我想認識： I'm here to connect with people interested in avant garde writing and performance, performance art, dadaism, surrealism, absurdist theatre, etc.
Be sure to stop by my website to read some work samples
including poetry, performance pieces, manifestos, and the beginnings of my
dissertation, among other things, although the dissertation is now in the process of going up through the blogs, too!
Hey! I am alive! I was actually thinking about you the other day. About the old days when life was more dramatic but entertaining. I've become embarrassingly boring. No.. I have been just trying to survive financially. So that has been on my mind a lot. I have been trying to think of what to do with life. So the usual.But we are going to be leaving Florida soon.Don't know where yet. But hopefully somewhere less ghetto. How have you been?!!!! How's life? Fabulous I bet..
Hot off the press!!! Celebrate with me the debut of my poetry book Friday Feb 27th at 7:00 pm at Homewood Studios 2400 Plymouth Ave N, Minn Going to Chicago next week.....yipee!!! for more info www. wendybrownbaez. com
"PolyRhythmic Without a Trace" will be at The Spot, 4437 N Broadway, on Tuesdays during January and February while Trace is closed for renovations. This coming Tuesday, January 20th, Emily Rose will be our feature. You don't want to miss this funny and sexy lady poet. Open mic sign-up starts at 10 pm. 21 and over please. We'd love to see our friends, old and new and the ones we haven't met yet, at our new temporary home, upstairs in the "green room. " PolyRhythmic endures and lives on! Vive la Revolution!
We shall sit around the table in silence as you smile your crooked smile and dance your jerky dance and tell all those little jokes that so amuse your witty friends, for we are your family: stuffed and severe.
We have survived the cycles of screaming birth and squalid death through rituals of muted colors and perfumed notes. We have held back the Flood through the unrelenting litany of our judgments. So your bright lies will not rattle our teacups.
The music of your festivals will fade away at our doors as you turn your back upon that army of stray dogs and children which follows you through the streets.
Then you shall be stuffed with white meat, mashed potatoes and gravy, until your limbs stick out stiff and straight like a hand-sewn doll with a painted face. You shall sink down slowly into the cushions of our couches; and then you shall become -one of us.
Wednesday, October 22nd at 4:30pm Kellogg Park, Kellogg & Wabasha, St. Paul
From mass police brutality during the RNC, to the everyday brutality against people of color and poor people in the streets and in the jails. Something has to be done to end their reign of terror. • We need a real civilian review authority that holds cops accountable and isn’t just a rubber stamp agency! • End beatings and abuse in jails - and prosecute the brutal jailers! • No more bogus charges against police brutality victims. Prosecute brutal cops! • Drop ALL charges against the RNC arrestees - Dissent is not a crime! • Fire cops who lie in police reports or in court!
We must let the authorities know that we will no longer be silent in the face of police brutality!
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Join us also to commemorate Stolen Lives - people who have died at the hands of law enforcement officers in Minnesota. These people can no longer speak for themselves - we must speak for them.
STOLEN LIVES REMEMBERANCE Sunday, October 26th at 6:00pm Walker Community Church 3104 16th Avenue South, Minneapolis
Want to get more involved? Check out www. cuapb. org or come to one of our meetings - every Saturday at 1:30pm at Walker Church
Great video! I've copied it from your page to mine.
People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they'll need inspiration too. An echo of an echo of Buddha or Jesus becomes encrusted in ritual, and loses context and content. Still, we write what we can. Try to hear the questions behind people's questions. ¶ This world's diverse evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, and murderers — in market, government, and elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, greed, fear. They want us to share that belief, for they use it to justify themselves, to keep us apart, to control politics and the economy, perpetuating war, poverty, and ecocide. Their power comes not so much from cabals as from trojan memes, ubiquitous propaganda, implicit in ads and in their framing of the news. ¶ But they're mistaken about our motives. You and I have found love inside ourselves and our friends. It's in everyone, if only we can wake them, for we're all one flesh and blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor and temporary. The bureacracy of brutality cannot stand if we open the eyes of its workers. ¶ What is human nature? Our task is not just to describe what we see, but to choose what we hope to become. The ideological battle between love and fear shapes the world, and its outcome is not yet written. Watching, voting, shopping are not enough. If you haven't already, join the global conversation, in whatever way feels right for you. Worldwide enlightenment has no precedent, no rules; we must discover and erase them en route. Make love not war is as serious as Orwell and as light as "Chocolat." ¶ For a start, just talk with people; that may not sound like much, but really it's huge. Spread the word. Each of us knows only part of the song, but keep singing, hoping, resisting, questioning. Hand in hand, we may heal this world yet. — Eric
Yes indeed, Dérive is happening again. Here's the details...
Dérive 2 Flaneur Productions' annual evening of short performance works
Flaneur's own Jim Bovino directs Samuel Beckett's short play "What Where"; John Bueche, HIJACK, and The International Novelty Gamelan create short works responding to it. As in the Situationists' dérive, a group of individuals starts a stroll from a single spot, heading towards an unknown destination.
Like most of Beckett’s works, the short play “what where” resists an absolute interpretation, but it does feature interrogation which may or may not be violent, and disappearances which may or may not be permanent – timely themes for the 2008 Republican National Convention.
Thursday through Saturday, August 21-23 and 28-30 Monday, August 25 All Shows at 8:00pm At OPEN EYE FIGURE THEATER, 506 East 24th Street, Minneapolis Admission $14, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds
Reservations: (612) 203-9560, or don@flaneurproductions.com
