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this fifth issue is in fact the third as the journal is a continuation thirty years later of a journal of the same title zamân which in persian and in arabic means time edited by the current editor s father and uncle iranians in exile in paris in the late 70s and which had only two issues back then the journal is all in french though there is one place in the us where it can be found the saint marks bookshop ghassan zaqtan trans fady joudah like a straw bird it follows me and other poems yale 2012 one of my regrets for 2012 is to not have met ghassan zaqtan at the poetry center in san francisco on april 5 he was not granted a visa to go to the usa apparently poet palestinian dangerous the event still took place and steve dickison as always made it a warm occasion ghassan gracefully sent a video of his deep raspy voice and fady joudah read from his beautiful translations to a packed room in the face of the absence that never stops omar berrada s contributions to attention span for 2009 return to 2012 directory written by steve evans december 16 2012 at 2 14 pm posted in attention span 2012 commented list tagged with attspan books francophone literature literature poetry attention span 2012 suzanne stein leave a comment charles atlas hail the new puritan distributed by eai 1985 1986 it s the 80s in post punk london this 87 minute docufantasy follows the michael clark dance company while they re rehearsing new puritans that s a paraphrase or direct theft of the wikipedia entry or else the blurb at eai the film is a sunrise to sunrise day in the life of michael clark and company via a sequence of camp vignettes and staged scenarios including a space age crash pad where it seems the martians are getting ready to go clubbing interlaced with studio and full dress rehearsals a scripted subtitled interview with mark e smith and brix smith and as noted by ad jameson assless dance pants starring and with choreography by michael clark sets and costumes by leigh bowery music by the fall pure charles atlas with signature intercuts still snaps cinema vérité views and jumpy mixes gorgeous mesmerizing and seductive virtuosity in abandon i wandered into the media galleries at work for a ten minute break early this summer and emerged an hour and a half later purified like i drunk myself sober a clip http www youtube com watch v bbqi3uvytca the bhagavad gita yoga is a harmony not for her who eats too much or her who eats too little not for her who sleeps too little or for her who sleeps too much a harmony in eating and resting in sleeping and keeping awake a perfection in whatever one does rudyard kipling kim doubleday page company 1901 kim s an orphaned english boy in india raised by a half caste opium smoker and trained later as a spy whose job it is to go into rooms and remember everything in them to be reported upon later or that s how the story was told to me and how i told it later although that s not precisely what happens to kim it amused me no end that the story begins when kim becomes chela disciple to his lama outside the gates of the wonder house the lahore museum it s possible to read kim as more or less a religious text a propaganda of occult imperialism whose motivating subtext is the occult adventure of the lama on the path who after hundreds of pages of kim s thrilling pretextual escapades is allowed to tumble finally into the waters of enlightenment only shortly to be saved therein from drowning by a punjabi operative working for the british frances yates the art of memory chicago 1966 my obsession with my fantasy of the memory theater of giulio camillo has lasted nearly twenty years since borrowing this book from an acquaintance with a strange sounding name i still suspect was an anagram in l idea del theatro di giulio camillo we were able to trace in detail the basis in the hermetic writings of camillo s efforts to construct a memory theater reflecting the world to be reflected in the world of memory if man s mens is divine then the divine organisation of the universe is within it and an art which reproduces the divine organisation in memory will tap the powers of the cosmos which are in man himself bob flanagan slave sonnets cold calm 1986 it s rare it s fierce in its abjection it s tender it has a cover by mike kelley and i got it free in the reading room at the berkeley art museum in march because camille roy left it there the cover is black and white with a herringbone pattern behind an upside down white heart ass balls whatever and inside the heart is another heart one of those mexican loteria el corazon style ventricled cartoon hearts red skewered from the bottom up by a huge hunting knife and the word love written across it in a sort of punk gothic tattoo script a month before a friend whose life changed almost every aspect of my own life died and on the same day mike kelley died also that day the person i was long distance dating and sort of in love with who was still sort of in love with an ex girlfriend called to tell me his ex girlfriend s ex boyfriend just killed himself maybe over the girlfriend later that afternoon i discovered that my long distance boyfriend s ex girlfriend s boyfriend was mike kelley i googled the girlfriend she has a mike kelley tattoo on her chest that looks a lot like the cover of bob flanagan s slave sonnets jalal toufic distracted tuumba 2003 because it is included in this list you know that this was one of the nine most important artworks i lived with this year why now that i am looking inside it again do i feel like i ve never even laid my eyes on it the relation to the past has nothing to do with memory and everything to do with telepathy the only freshness is the untimely then i look at it again and find it a little irritating or dazzling brandon brown the poems of gaius valerius catullus krupskaya 2011 65 the sixty fifth poem in the corpus of catullus is addressed to his friend hortalus the poem is in the vocative and is usually read as epistolary a letter to accompany a translation that catullus has made of a poem by callimachus this work of translation has been incredibly difficult because there is a crisis in the life of catullus that has made prosody frustrating the crisis in the life of catullus is that his brother is lying on the beach dead in troy and a wave licks his little pale foot the death of his brother has made it impossible for him to produce the sweet fruit of the muses as if prosody were a redemptive tactic against the total loss effected by death i find it interesting that catullus who remains associated with the anachronistic but persistent mode of the lyric constructs a practice almost always including appropriation translation and certainly as catullus himself practices it is an artwork of appropriation and yet much contemporary translation as much as contemporary works of appropriation purport to cancel the somatic vehicle for lyric material that is the conventional picture of translation in which the translator is invisible which excludes her body from the scene of translation does not suggest a space in which the translator s desire or grief can find any entry into the imporous mimetic activity they understand as translation the last ten lines of the callimachus poem translated by catullus as the 66th poem in his corpus were missing even when catullus makes his translation instead of making the loss of the text legible catullus inserts a brief catalogue of prayers more in line with his own not callimachus aspirations e g for concord in marriage and reciprocity in love the word catullus uses for translation is expressa an expressor is someone who presses or forces something out of something else the word as it pertains to translation implies both the physical labor of the agent appropriating from the text which precedes the proceeding writing known as translation as well as a directionality characteristic of the epistemic tradition of translation and appropriation someone makes something out of something else again catullus makes an oath to the negative space once inhabited by his brother consisting of a promise to always love him in whatever figuration love of negative space can be attained this love however is primarily activated by the promise to constantly write poems morte or about his death about what s he going to press out of his experience of being in love with negative space as a demonstration of his enduring love for his brother it s hard to say there s only one other poem in the whole corpus about his brother and his brother s death but like several poems about loathsome politicians we can t know how much of his work might have been translation we know that catullus 51 is a translation of a poem by sappho and that 66 is a translation of callimachus in other poems he makes references to having done translations in many of his poems something like an appropriative gesture of citation takes place recuperating tropes from classical greek and hellenistic poems in order to express an original affective sentiment this particular translation is accomplished despite the fact that catullus s mind has been itself appropriated by profound grief lawrence rinder revenge of the decorated pigs publication studio 2009 more eso and exo teric sex and art worldly intrigue and adventure with siblings doubles or twins take your pick disguised identities mystical revelations love hermeticism earthworks and ben jerry s in this roman à clef ish tale from curator museum director larry rinder kevin stretched and felt his muscles come alive he wondered why he d stopped going to yoga there s nothing like getting fucked to remind you that you have a body he thought cliff hengst maybe live performance part of stage presence at the san francisco museum of modern art thursday august 9 sunday august 12 2012 in fact all of stage presence both the series of performances curated by frank smigiel in the tucker nichols designed media theater and the exhibition entire subtitle theatricality in art and media curated by rudolf frieling belongs on this list it would be an endless catalogue to say all that i loved in them but as a quick gloss the landscape i found so compelling here is intimate fractured lyric narrative broken reconstituted reinvented identity and humor and spirituality light and black all of these things inhabited or tried on in the most playful and political possible ways from fischli and weiss s existentially inflected rat and bear films sharon hayes s re performances of the patty hearst tapes geoffrey farmer s exquisite magazine cut out puppet collages the aforementioned charles atlas and so much more costume mask rehearsal reenactment reversal repetition mirroring comedy it s all there the backdrop of the exhibition was the precisely right situation for cliff hengst s reprising of a suite of short works from two decades of performances cliff is an artist longtime star player in kevin killian s troupe of regulars for san francisco poets theater and so is very familiar to bay area poets in his infinite incarnations in some sort of drag of hilarious killian esque characters many of them without a doubt written specifically for cliff but many of us probably are less familiar with cliff s performance works less even than with his paintings and drawings which like the live works are also funny unfathomable spirit works as much as they are spot on gestural reflections and appreciations of hi lo culture all the stage presence iterations were three show runs a thursday evening followed by saturday and sunday afternoon performances cliff began each of his three shows with ballimbo 2004 carrying an uninflated balloon he approached an audience member at the front of the darkened theater leaned in close as if to whisper in her ear or kiss him and then after a few moments stepped back and blew into the balloon a little bit before proceeding to a next participant when he stopped with me i felt he was gathering up a bit of my juju my essence and i felt this tenderly though not everyone seemed so comfy with his approach when the balloon was fully inflated with audience spirit don t you know he tied it to the front of the stage and commenced the rest of that day s performances on thursday evening it was incantation to destroy a cultural institution 2012 which included cow bells shaken at all corners of the stage and other curious ritualistic gestures along with a spooky live set by aero mic d cliff with scott hewicker and wayne smith i wasn t at work on the friday and missed the saturday series but when i returned sunday afternoon my colleagues all said thank god cliff was going to remove the hex everything was going crapwire the museum was surely about to actually collapse had he only but waited another day sunday s centerpiece for me was maybe 1999 a lip synch to the three degrees cover of the blues classic maybe the media failed three times during cliff s attempt to perform this piece and with consummate grace under pressure he finally gave it up after the third try hex incompletely dissipated in shout out to all my departed pets 2001 he called for his pets like anyone calls theirs home snooooowwwballll followed by the equally drawn out i miss you all the departed pets porsche gingerbear snowball sylvester moses and texas the afternoon closed with stink bomb 2005 the artist sprays himself with a full can of drugstore issue men s cologne head to toe til the can is empty that cleared the theater such tenderness and deep deadpan hilarity throughout cliff s signature style waiting for him to clean up for the party a dozen of us went into the media gallery and sat on beanbags in the dark watching hail the new puritan and then downstairs to drink wine and eat chinese food and celebrate our friend in the catering kitchen after other works performed that day when life puts that juju on me 2009 you can if you think you can 2012 you 2004 cliff hengst maybe http blog sfmoma org 2012 08 stage presence cliff hengst maybe the three degrees http www youtube com watch v j1ghhdj8uhi hail the new puritan closing sequence http www youtube com watch v lkgo juzwac suzanne stein is community producer at the san francisco museum of modern art and the author of tout va bien displaced press 2012 suzanne stein s contribution to attention span for 2011 2010 2009 return to 2012 directory written by steve evans december 12 2012 at 3 53 pm posted in attention span 2012 commented list tagged with art attspan books literature performance art poetry attention span 2012 corrine fitzpatrick leave a comment lisa robertson nilling prose essays on noise pornography the codex melancholy lucretius folds cities and related aporias bookthug 2012 evan kennedy a cyclist fourteen stops toward a san franciscan terra firmament self published and live performed 2012 jacqueline waters one sleeps the other doesn t ugly duckling 2011 bhanu kapil schizophrene nightboat 2011 maria lind 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