Flag
Day
technique/materials:
scissor, paper, paste, postcard
scissor, paper, paste, postcard
“This
piece incorporates both image & glyph/word as image. found object
(flag) as subject. rendering the readable unreadable through cutting,
splicing, overlaying, by using various languages whose meanings are
available/accessible to some but not to others (in this case Arabic,
English, Spanish and Japanese) a visual grid is produced creating
equal value and weight amongst “letters” and (cross-over)
language(s). the “words” blurring both foreground and background.
what results, in this particular piece, is a socio-political/poetical
pictogram.”-- Steve Dalachinsky
Bio:
Steve
Dalachinsky was born in 1946 in Brooklyn, New York after the last
big war. He has managed to survive lots of little wars. His work has
appeared extensively in journals on and off line including;
Ratapallax, Vanitas, Boog City, Upstairs at Duroc, New Mystics,
Evergreen Review, Long Shot, Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat
Jacket, Tribes, Asemic Writing, N.Y. Arts Magazine and Lost
and Found Times. He is included in such anthologies as the
esteemed The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, Beat Indeed, The Haiku Moment, Up is Up But So is Down: NYU Downtown Literary Anthology
and The Unbearables anthologies: Help Yourself, The Worse Book I
Ever Read and the Big Book of Sex (of which he is a co-editor).
He has written liner notes for the CDs of many artists including
Anthony Braxton, Charles Gayle, James "Blood" Ulmer,
Rashied Ali, Roy Campbell, Matthew Shipp and Roscoe Mitchell. His
1999 CD, Incomplete Direction (Knitting Factory Records), a
collection of his poetry read in collaboration with various
musicians, such as William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Daniel Carter,
Sabir Mateen, Thurston Moore (SonicYouth), Vernon Reid (Living
Colour) has garnered much praise. His most recent C.D. is the 2011
Massive Liquidity with the French duo the Snobs (Bambalam
records, Bordeaux). His chapbooks include In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling Press 2005), Christ Amongst the Fishes
(A book of collages, Oilcan Press 2009), The Mantis: the collectedpoems for Cecil Taylor 1966-2009 (Iniquity Press 2010, revised
2011), The Invasion of the Animal People (Propaganda Press
2011) and Long Play E.P. (Corrupt Press 2011). His books
include A Superintendent's Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000, to be
re-issued in an expanded edtion by Autonomedia/Unbearables late
2012), the PEN Oakland National Book Award winning The Final Nite
(complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook, Ugly Duckling Presse
2006) and Reaching Into the Unknown (A collaborative project
with photographer Jacques Bisceglia, RogueArt – Paris 2009). He has
read throughout the N.Y. area, the U.S., Japan and Europe including
France and Germany. He is a contributing writer to Brooklyn Rail.
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