Works
- Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs
- The Mine King
- Sentences on Sentences on Paragraphs on Paragraphs (Why I am not a painter)
- stroke
- (de)composition
- Theories and Documents (Overprint)
- experiment in offhand design
- SHUFFLE: Eight x Eight
- The King Of Denmark
- Language To Be Looked At, including a Poem Ending in “The”
- No No Deluxe
- The Mine King I/O
- OPEN
Writings
- Body | Building
- Statement
- Making a Center Far From the Center
- On Don’t Worry We’ll Fix It
- Some Documents. Some Archives. A List.
- On Abra Ancliffe’s American to Icelandic Dictionary Dictionary
- On ART NOW, DURATION IN COMMON, CONTENTS. Sarah Greig + Thérèse Mastroiacovo
- Lee Kelly
- On Mel Douglas’ Eventide
- Review: HARD COVER
- Bruce Conkle: Magic Chunks
News
- COPIER: Horizons
- Portland Art Museum Talk
- Art Focus with Eva Lake
- Reading.Writing.
- CONFERENCE OF CONFERENCES
- Silence is a Blessed Hell: The Po(aesth)etics of Excision
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Silence is a Blessed Hell: The Po(aesth)etics of Excision
When you cut into the present, the future leaks out.
William Burroughs
Going, going, gone? Cut it out, cut it up, or otherwise erase parts of found text or image; excision is a big piece of contemporary practice in both visual arts and poetics. Silence is a Blessed Hell: The Po(aesth)etics of Excision is a lecture/performance I'm doing addressing work made via excision that also asks questions about the broader implications of the practice. It's Wednesday, November 10 at 6 PM at Nationale (811 E Burnside), and I hope you'll come because after and the next day, I'll want to talk about it! It's all I'm thinking about.
Exhibit A: In 1953 Robert Rauschenberg addresses the anxiety of influence head on, infamously erasing a Willem de Kooning drawing resulting in “Erased de Kooning Drawing.”
Exhibit B: In 2000 Kenneth Goldsmith erases all but the punctuation in the Gertrude Stein essay “On Punctuation” for his “Gertrude Stein on Punctuation.”
What do we gain via excision? What do we lose? When the cow eats all the grass and leaves and we are left with the blank white sheet of paper, then what?
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