Tisa
Tisa I do not come to you as the reality. I come to you as the myth. Because that's what black people are. Myths....I come to you as a present from your ancestors....We just want to speak of realities. No myths! Sun Ra

Female
43 years old
BROOKLYN, New York
United States



Last Login: 11/10/2009
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    Tisa's Interests
GeneralI'm learning to sew, mulling a seasonal return to crochet, yoga, understanding the impact of architecture on social history, particularly in working class neighborhoods. I'm fascinated by the eruvim of Brooklyn, though they are very hard to photograph! It appears my love of plants is verging on fetish.
MusicThe Knife, Alice Coltrane, Tomas Doncker, Jorge Ben, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, William Grant Still, Sun Ra, Os Tribalistas, Cassandra Wilson, Frederic Chopin, Nina Simone,
MoviesMan from London, Secret Sunshine, Following Sean, The Hours, Eternity and a Day, Mandaabi, Space is the Place, La Jetee, Mansfield Park, Millennium Mambo, What Time Is It There?, The Eel, Body and Soul, Looking for Langston, Black Girl (Ossie Davis), Illusions, Black Girl (Sembene Ousmane), I Can't Sleep, A Woman Under the Influence, The Kid Stays In the Picture, LOUD Quiet LOUD, Life and Debt, Spirited Away, 100% Arabica
BooksBloodbeats Vol. 1 by Ernest Hardy, Erzulie's Skirt by Ana-Maurine Lara, In the Pines by Alice Notley, Between Dog and Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics by David Levi Strauss, The Marvelous Bones of Time by Brenda Coultas, The Putterer's Notebook by Akilah Oliver, The Open Curtain by Brian Evenson, a half-red sea by Evie Shockley, When Thy King Was a Boy by Ed Roberson
HeroesMy mother: expressive, hardworking, beautiful, fiercely protective, full of laughter, smart, great dancer, complicated, flawed, mysterious, beloved, ancestor.

     Tisa's Details
Status:Single
Here for:Networking, Friends
Hometown:Boston
Religion:Other
Zodiac Sign:Cancer
Education:Grad / professional school
Occupation:Writer, Professor of English

   Tisa's Schools
Brown University
Providence, RI
Graduated: 2004
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Creative Writing
 

2002 to 2004

   Tisa's Networking
Publishing - Writer - Other
prose, poetry, criticism, cross-genre on film, literature, visual arts
Publishing - Editor - Other
Co-Editor of The Encyclopedia Project. See MySpace Page!



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   Tisa's Blurbs
About me:
I am a writer whose work often traverses the boundaries of genre, culture and history, and is lately focused on the act and art of seeing. My writing has appeared in The Believer, Curve, Girlfriends, and Xantippe, is forthcoming in 1913: A Journal, and has been included in gallery shows for artist Laylah Ali. I've served as a juror for the San Francisco International Film Festival and for Frameline.

My first book, Unexplained Presence, is now available from Leon Works!

Please go get you one!
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Unexplained Presence is a collection of hybrid essays that remix stories from novels, paintings and films to zoom in on the black presences within them, and explore the continuum of racialized narratives within Eurocentric art. Moving from interrogations of Francois Ozon's 8 Femmes and Virginia Woolf's Orlando, to the machinations of the Regency House Party reality TV show, Unexplained Presence weaves threads of myth, fact and fiction into previously unexplored narratives lurking in our collective imagination.

I'm thrilled to have cover art byWura-Natasha Ogunji. Her piece is the perfect visual conception of my words, right down to the process: stitching colored threads, using solid and broken lines, through layers of transparent tissue paper.

I also have a chapbook, Tzimmes, a prose poem published in 2000 by A+Bend Press.

Tzimmes Cover

Tzimmes (pronounced "sim-mess" or "sim-meez") is a Yiddish word meaning either 'casserole,' or 'to make a big deal about nothing.' The book connects Barbados genealogy research, breast cancer, the films of Yvonne Rainer, and a potluck Passover seder, and riffs off of the definitions for tzimmes.

I co-edit and publish The Encyclopedia Project , a series of five hardcover annual publications, the first of which is Encyclopedia Vol. 1 A-E.

Encyclopedia Vol 1 Cover

Each book in The Encyclopedia Project is laid out like a reference book (complete with cross-referencing!), reads like a literary journal, and includes a color art portfolio of the caliber found in artists catalogues, all with the aim of exploring narrative possibilities, and expanding literary community. We're working hard on producing Vol. 2 F-K at this very moment.

Who I'd like to meet:
The dancers, the singers, the painters and swingers, the homemade philosophers with their handmade theories, filmmakers on paper, writers on film, amateur botanists and female turntablists, collage artists and intuitionists, free and wild stylers, plus the button-downs, the natty, the dreamy, pragmatics....animators of this creative life

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crystal wilkinson

Crystal Wilkinson



Jun 25 2008 11:50 PM

I look forward to reading your book.
Ms B.L.U - C.E.O of Organik B.L.U

Ms B.L.U  -  C.E.O  of Organik B.L.U



Jun 5 2008 8:08 PM

How you doing?

We are here to support each other. We look forward to you joining the Organik B.L.U family. In the meantime stay beautiful and continue with the GR8 work!

Mwah - Ms B.L.U
www. organikblu. com
www. organikblu. ning. com

Sarah Sarai

Sarah Sarai



Jun 19 2008 2:03 AM

You were great tonight. Nice meeting you. I love the Sun Ra quote.

xox,

Sarah
UCHE NDUKA

UCHE NDUKA



May 1 2008 3:32 AM

Back in town?Your new profile photo is lovely.
la kamioncita

la kamioncita



May 1 2008 6:40 AM

ooo! cute profile pic!

the earrings are fab. but the eyes have it.
corinne

corinne



May 3 2008 6:51 PM

any chance you are coming west antyime soon?
pdx needs some of that bryant style sass!
Radius Recording Studio & Performance Center

Radius Recording Studio & Performance Center



Apr 19 2008 12:45 AM

Thanks for the add!
Joey
www. radiusrecording. com
Recording Studio Traverse City, MI
UCHE NDUKA

UCHE NDUKA



Mar 17 2008 5:39 PM

A bowl of greetings...Where are you these days?Love,love.
TOMÁS DONCKER

TOMÁS DONCKER



Mar 17 2008 10:21 PM

Hey everybody, I want to personally thank all of you for your friendship and you can expect lot of exciting changes to my myspace page over the coming months. Stop by and leave comments anytime, and have a listen. Also I have a gig coming up at the Shrine in Harlem April 3rd, mark your calendar because the last gig at Grand 275 was crazy and this is gonna be even better. We are working on getting videos up on the youtube channel. Hope to see you in Harlem on April 3rd. Tomas Doncker
TOMÁS DONCKER

TOMÁS DONCKER



Mar 6 2008 12:08 AM

Hey everybody, I want to personally Thank all of you for your friendship and you can expect lot of exciting changes to my myspace page over the coming months. Stop by and leave comments anytime, and have a listen. Tomas Doncker
Marcin Langer

Marcin Langer



Jan 21 2008 9:39 AM

Hi Tisa,
very interesting profile!
Thanks for your friendship!
Wish you a great new week!
Marcin
c. Love

c. Love



Feb 10 2008 1:40 AM

hi tisa
UCHE NDUKA

UCHE NDUKA



Jan 2 2008 12:04 AM

Have a fabulous new year,Tisa!
seinberg

seinberg



Dec 14 2007 7:51 PM

CONGRATUALTIONS!!!! i am so excited to go get my new book to read.
UCHE NDUKA

UCHE NDUKA



Dec 12 2007 12:25 AM

Hearty congratulations on the appearance of your exciting book,Tisa!
corinne

corinne



Nov 13 2007 12:22 AM

mi amiguita
i would rather find you down the street instead of in cyberspace. but its good to see you here and maybe... in new york at a book release party? congratulations! i am going to try to make it down.
i miss you.
even more when i walk by the gaggle of chirping birds hidden in your old tree. i think they miss you too.
Goddess Jams

Goddess Jams



Nov 14 2007 2:54 AM

DEAR PROFESSOR TISA JI, THANKS FOR CHECKING OUT GODDESSJAMS.
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OMY



Nov 10 2007 12:48 AM

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EllaRegina

EllaRegina



Nov 9 2007 11:21 PM

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Thank you for being my friend.

Truly flattered!

xoxo

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la kamioncita

la kamioncita



Nov 3 2007 6:49 PM

hey miss tisa! thanks for hittin' me up.
Ernest

Ernest Hardy



Nov 2 2007 6:26 AM

You know... when we talked @ Grand, your description of your book didn't do it justice. It sounded intriguing but after reading the description on your page, it really sounds dope as fuck. I'm headed back to NY for the first week or so of Dec., and we'll have to swap books when I get there. Be well...
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