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lundi 7 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project 49 : Donna Marie de Creeft

Gourd book with Asemic Writing

“As a child, before I learned to read, I used to leaf through an obsolete dictionary for hours..Each section was marked by shiny black tabs with gold letters, the pages were tissue thin, and embedded within the incomprehensible text were exquisite engravings. It was like entering a cabinet of wonders. All the books I make are inspired by that early sense-memory. The gourd books, in particular, serve as mnemonic devices sparked by a myriad of ideas and visuals that reference the chaotic order of nature. They are loosely based on the accordion-fold design, with text in the form of asemic or illiterate writing. Using a palette and iconography that reflect the natural world, I use basic technology and a “pre-literate” working process. The goal is to cross and re-cross the boundaries between cultures, art and craft, ideas and experience, physical and metaphysical concepts.”-- Donna Maria de Creeft

BIO:

Donna Maria de Creeft is a native New Yorker. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. Some of her venues include Central Booking, and Proteus Gowanus in Brooklyn, NY, Jersey City University, Moravian College, West Virginia Wesleyan College and PS 1 Museum. Ms. de Creeft’s work is in the permanent collections of the University of Southern Maine, Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, The Center for Book Arts, and the library collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University. Website: dmdecreeft.com, Facebook: art.dmdecreeft@gmail.com

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dimanche 6 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project 48 : David Kelly

Michael Steven Bublé

“Using techniques I would usually save for producing visual art comes Michael Steven Bublé. I wanted it to be read in as many ways as possible but also to be made and presented simplistically. One page of text on papier calque, one page on plain white, scrambled text, backround being as foreground, foreground being as backround. A grande desire for the demise of something, an indolent acknowledgement of the demise.”-- David Kelly

BIO:

David Kelly is a London-based artist currently stamping tickets and analysing ancient Egyptian Gibbon sculptures at the British Museum for money. Often construed as a poet translating ideas only to the visual mediums, occasionally in reverse. Please also see his blog at: http://erkembode.wordpress.com/

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samedi 5 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 47 : Truong Tran

The Lost Poem #1

Photo courtesy of Bob Hsiang photography

for the Mina Dresden Gallery, San Francisco CA

“It is part of a series in which I develop methods of work where I am able to compose a poem on a piece of art and lose it in the art simultaneously. In this particular piece, I wrote the poem using lettrasets while rotating the art on a spinning wheel. Evidence of the poem can be seen but impossible to read.”—Truong Tran

BIO:

Truong Tran is a poet and visual artist. His publications include, The Book of Perceptions (Kearny Street Workshop 1999, finalist in The Kiriyama Book Prize), Placing The Accents (Apogee Press 1999, finalist in the Western States Book Prize for Poetry), dust and conscience (Apogee Press 2000, awarded the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Prize), within the margin (Apogee Press 2004) and Four Letter Words (Apogee Press 2008). He is the recipient of three San Francisco Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Grants, An Arts Council of Silicon Valley Grant, a California Arts Council Grant, a Creative Work Fund Grant and a Fund For Poetry Grant. Truong lives and works in San Francisco and is currently the visiting Professor of Poetry at Mills College. Truong's collection Dust and Conscience was just published in Spanish. His Artwork has been shown at Intersection for the Arts, Kearny Street Workshop, and the California Historical Society. In February of 2010, Truong had his first solo exhibition at The Mina Dresden Gallery in San Francisco. In 2011, Turong along with Poet Laureate Robert Haas represented the United States at The Poetry Festival International, in Rotterdam. 2012 Truong had an exhibition of large scale sculptures at SOMArts entitled At War. See more on his home site: http://gnourtnart.com/home.html and also truongtran.tumblr.com

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vendredi 4 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 46 : Amanda Earl

Decortication: swirl

“I fall in love with words because of their sound. Often my understanding of their meaning is based solely on sound& completely wrong. In this case, the sound of the word "decortication," which means uncovering the surface, suggested unravelling from a tight coil to me.”—Amanda Earl

BIO:

Amanda Earl's visual poetry will be in the Last Vispo Anthology to be published by Fantagraphics Books in November 2012. Her vispo has also appeared in DrunkenBoat.com's visual poetry issue in 2009, the Bleed 1.0, the new post literate gallery of asemic writing, Tip of the Knife. Her visual poetry chapbook "a field guide to fanciful bugs" was published online by avantacular press in 2010. She has published a chapbook as part of Dan Waber's "this is visual poetry" series. Her vispo blog is eleanorincognito.blogspot.com & site is www.amandaearl.com . Follow Amanda on Twitter @KikiFolle.

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jeudi 3 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 45 : Deborah Poe

Brodsky

“I toy with bookmaking, mixed media objects, and film because of the different dimensions pieces may take. Pointing to, challenging, undermining, and complicating meaning through bookmaking, mixed media objects, and film compels me. I want to shake up the inherent binary nature of language. Visual manifestations of work on the page allow me to, in the Derridian sense, play. For when the clairvoyant pauses, Lori Anderson Moseman sent me a collection of her poems entitled UTMOST brevity. In those poems were various actions of a clairvoyant, such as “when the clairvoyant pauses.” I wrote a poem that referenced the phrase, as well as a short fiction piece “City of Clairvoyance. Then I conjured this visual séance. The two pieces embodying the gloves were published in Fact-Simile Magazine. Pamela Paulsrud’s Touchstones, also in this photograph, were part of the annual Handmade/Homemade Exhibit (2012).”-- Deborah Poe

BIO:

Deborah Poe is author of the poetry collections Elements (Stockport Flats Press 2010), Our Parenthetical Ontology (CustomWords 2008), and “the last will be stone, too,” as well as a novella in verse, “Hélène” (Furniture Press 2012). She has several chapbooks, including a four-part-edition as part of the Dusie Kollektiv (5). Her poetry is forthcoming or has recently appeared in 1913, Shampoo, Denver Quarterly, The Dictionary Project, Mantis and Bone Bouquet. Her visual work—including video and handmade book objects—will appear or has appeared in University of Arizona Poetry Center’s Poetry Off the Page (Tucson 2012), the Handmade/Homemade Sister Exhibit at Brodsky Gallery (Philadelphia 2012), and ONN/OF “a light festival” (Seattle 2012). Online exhibits of her visual and text work include Yew Journal, PEEP/SHOW, Elective Affinities, and Trickhouse.

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mercredi 2 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 44 : Rebecca Dolinsky

The Iynux

“…photograph of the artist's book The Iyunx from The Round Library. Iyunx means desire in Ancient Greek. The iyunx was a toy that Ancient Greek women used to cast a magic spell on their lovers. Shaped like a yoyo the women would spin the iyunx to cast the spell that would make the beloved come to them. The text is from Theocrates Idyll II. The witch Saimantha speaks and says, "Turn Magic Wheel." In this case, the text is taken from a French translation. This book was recently shown in Moveable Feast, curated by Erin Lawlor at the Hotel de Sauroy on the rue Charlot, Paris.”—Rebecca Dolinsky

MOVE

ABLE

FAST

moves between countries, media and meanings

able was I, ere I saw elba

my feast is fast my fast is feast

BIO:

Rebecca Dolinsky is a New York artist who came to Paris to study as a foreign student at the E.N.S. rue d'Ulm. Her paintings and sculptures have been shown in New York by Dore Ashton and Michael Brenson as well as at the DAAD in Berlin. She showed the installation je possede LE LOUVRE at the infozone with the participation of Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy and Georges Didi-Huberman. and Delivering the Mail : For Jacques Derrida as part of DE-COR-INSTANZ: DECONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION, ORENSANZ at the Angel Orensanz Foundation in New York. Her films Venus in Fur and The Desiring Machines were shown at the Paris Underground Film Festival and at the Strip Film Festival. She taught Eat Your Dasein at the Ecole Normale de Lyon and has been published in Vacarme. She has worked with the Magnetic Laboratorium for the performances Paris Action and M9 Colors. Among her artist's books Please Louise was published by Sanzo Kuhnam with a book signing at Le Palais de Tokyo, PATIENT was part of CURE at the Paul Brousse Hospital, and Finn Again Begin Again from the Round Library has travelled as part of the collection of Leo Koenders' James Joyce Unique Books, of note to the Neue Sachsische Galerie Chemnitz and to the State Archives of Ludwigsburg, Germany. She performed I PHONE at the Nice Institution and participated in the fashion show for the QQQOC event #1, Don't Mop It, Wear It, at the gallery LA B.A.N.K. Her new book, YOU GO FOR FASHION, I GO FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS as well as the iyunx from The Round Library were part of the show Moveable Feast curated by Erin Lawlor at The Hotel de Sauroy this April in Paris.

BIO :
Rebecca Dolinsky est une artiste new-yorkaise, venue à Paris comme pensionnaire étrangère, à l’ENS de la rue d'Ulm. Ses tableaux et scuptures ont éée exposés à New York par Dore Ashton et Michael Brenson ainsi qu'au DAAD à Berlin. Elle a exposé Je possède LE LOUVRE à l'Infozone avec la participation des philosophes Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy et Georges Didi-Huberman. Elle a montré Deliveing the Mail: for Jacques Derrida pour l'exposition DE-COR-INSTANZ: DECONSTRUCTION, INSTALLATION, ORENSANZ au Angel Orensanz Foundation de New York. Ses films Venus in Fur et The Desiring Machines ont été présentés au Paris Underground Film Festival et Au Strip Film Festival. Elle a enseigné Eat Your Dasein à l’ENS de Lyon et a publié dans Vacarme. Elle a travaillé avec The Magnetic Laboratorium pour les performances Paris Action and M9 Colors. Parmi ses livres d'artiste, Please Louise a été publié par Sanzo Kuhnam avec une signature au Palais de Tokyo, PATIENT a fait parti de CURE à l'hôpital Paul Brousse, et Finn Again Begin Again de La Bibliothèque Ronde a voyagé dans la collection « Leo Koenders James Joyce Unique Books » notamment au Neue Sachsische Galerie Chemnitz et au State Archives de Ludwigsburg, en Allemagne. Elle a présenté I PHONE au Nice Institution et a défilé en serpillière avec le QQQOC pour l'événement #1, Don't Mop It, Wear It, à la galerie LA B.A.N.K. Son nouveau livre est YOU GO FOR FASHION I GO FOR PSYCHOANALYSIS.

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mardi 1 mai 2012

Lex-Icon Blog Project Post 43 : Jean-Jacques Dumont

TOTO

2004

Acrylique et huile sur médium (+ animation en boucle)

Réactivé au Frac Alsace par Paul Souviron pour « Déplacement de compétences », octobre 2010

« TOTO, MOMO, ZOZO.... un ensemble de redoublement de syllabes composé d’une consonne et de la lettre O qui nous renvoie à diminutif, un surnom, une formule enfantine.... Cette pièce a été créée au printemps 2004 pour une exposition personnelle intitulée Bip Bip* qui rassemblait des projets de nature très différentes renvoyant à la notion de mouvement : dessins, enseignes, animations, éditions, objets...

Les tableaux qui composent TOTO étaient accrochés méthodiquement sur un mur peint et associés à une animation sur un moniteur posé au sol. Cette pièce a été présentée à nouveau en 2010 sous diverses formes dans le cadre du projet ‘Déplacement de compétence’ en Suisse et en Alsace.

La photographie montre ici une version proposée par l’artiste Paul Souviron lors d’une soirée au Frac Alsace. Il a invité des volontaires parmi le public et les artistes présents à s’emparer de ces tableaux à la fois comme les pancartes d’une manif ou les cartels géants identifiants leurs porteurs. Même si ce n’est pas le même sujet, cela me renvoie à une discussion très récente sur la position debout devant des ensembles de textes et d’images dans une exposition.

Notre résistance est particulièrement limitée pour la lecture de longs textes au mur, c’est la station assise qui est privilégiée et il en est de même de plus en plus souvent pour les images qu’elles soient en mouvement ou non. » -- Jean-Jacques Dumont

* Bip bip / centre d’art contemporain Faux Mouvement, Metz, Printemps 2004

BIO :

Jean-Jacques Dumont, né en Normandie, artiste, professeur à l'ÉSAL, école supérieure d’art de Lorraine, chargé de cours à l’ÉSADS, École supérieure des arts décoratifs de Strasbourg. Il développe des projets qui questionnent les systèmes de représentation et de communication à travers des techniques mixtes : dessin, animation, installation... L’édition est une de ses pratiques privilégiées et met en jeu à chaque nouvelle proposition son économie de production. C'est le cas aussi du dessin : des manipulations minimum sur papier à la découpe d’objets manufacturés. Qu’ils soient customisés, effacés, détournés, les objets renvoyant souvent au monde du travail jouent dans les dernières pièces un rôle de catalyseur. Quels que soient les supports, tous les projets se développent dans un va et vient entre des règles définies et des pertes de contrôle programmées ou non. Actualité : Entre les lignes, Fabrikculture, Hégenheim, 18 mars au 22 avril 2012 / Portée, Glassbox, Paris, 29 mars au 27 avril 2012 / À force de regarder au lieu de voir, art-cade, galerie des grands bains douches de la plaine, Marseille, 17 mai au 30 juin 2012. Site : http://www.jeanjacques-dumont.org/ Blog : http://jeanjacquesdumont.blogspot.fr/

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