The Mine King I/O

THE MINE KING I/O

In June 2010, The Mine King took up residence at galleryHOMELAND during the exhibition Doing It To It from June 11-July 5, 2010. During gallery hours, I rhizomatically read, researched, and wrote five catalogues documenting the work of The Mine King (and wrote a number of poems based on the researches). A sixth catalogue comprising lists of crucial books solicited from a handful of friends and interesting thinkers, is forthcoming.

The Mine King is an ongoing project. See the online repository or breadcrumb trail of The Mine King for regular updates on this ongoing project of reading, writing, of library, of bibliography, idea, installation, essay, poem, publication.

From Catalogue No. 1.

A practice gets a frame. A framing gets a desk. On the desk there is a catalogue, with a hundred more to follow.

The Mining is the practice, the digging down through rich vein of idea (and, not incidentally, language) captured in text, page to dog-eared page (repeat) through to bibliography to jump into another text in the vein.

The Min(e)ing, making mine of mined, refers to repeated readings of beloved writings (gathering books like family), assimilating ideas into my own constellation of ideas, and my practice of “reading” texts, which is to say making-poem-of-found-text via an intuitive paring for sound.

The Mind King [deprecated] was the intermediate step (suggested by sound) from min(e)ing to The Mine King.

The Mine King is both the project and the Mine King. The Mine King is an archive of books, essays, PDFs, handwritten notes, recordings. The Mine King is a set of publications that address the mining and the mined. The Mine King is text constructed from text.