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Joe Sacksteder

Joe Sacksteder: FANTASY ENOUGH (from FUGITIVE TRACES)
 
My album Fugitive Traces culls the audio commentary from about a dozen films by Werner Herzog. For this suite, I revisited the music I wrote for my film Silo, then decided to merge the sound poems back with the film. [ ... ]

Julie Reverb

Julie Reverb: YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING ON YOUR FACE
 
Maybe it was my cracked form—its last gasp, ill-thought-out angles—that lent the incontinence weighing down every grope, like those stretched earlobes and necks you see in a vomity waiting room magazine, the bad news swilling in [ ... ]

Nick Potter

Nick Francis Potter: HERBERT 2B MAKES A MESS OF THE LOCALS
 
Herbert is a kind of a moose-like equipment the way it gets through a doorframe, and what Herbert did was make it that we are all out of doorframes—who knew my wife’s liked the whole set of doorframes so much? [ ... ]

Matthew Derby

Matthew Derby: HOME RECORDINGS
 
The ending of each day had the habit of getting right up in my face, with little or no advance warning. I locked down the house I was sounding, a massive, interbred structure buttressed by haughty, overnourished columns and balustrades, [ ... ]

Luca Arnaudo

Luca Arnaudo: PHOTOFINISH
 
This fading out manifested itself through a gradual blur in the visibility of things, a discolouring process shortly followed by an unbelievable flaking off that left no traces or rubble, only an empty space—as it was used to describe with [ ... ]

Dmitry Babenko

Dmitry Babenko: 6 spreads from the artist book AQUA
 
Dmitry Babenko [ ... ]

Amy Wright

Amy Wright: from THE BUTTERFLY NAIL: Prose translations of Emily Dickinson
 
There is a biological or psychological or spiritual compulsion to horde energy. Metaphorically it is the knowledge the serpent taught Eve, since it is the drive of creation by which one can tease oneself furious or passive that its reins fit [ ... ]

Giancarlo DiTrapano

Giancarlo DiTrapano : THE MORROW'S STANDING DREAM 

“Enough with your poems!” I pointed my finger, / And tapped the blackbird on the tip of his singer. / “I comprehend neither your song, nor your meter. / And nor meta-physical creeds from your tweeter.” [ ... ]

Elisabetta Diamanti

5 etchings by Elisabetta Diamanti
 
Elisabetta Diamanti
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David Wirthlin

David Wirthlin : AN ABRIDGED GENEALOGY OF OUR MOTHERS 

There she lived on wild flowers and herbs and eventually regained fertility, birthing Fjell. They remained in their mountain home until Fjell was of age, but records of their existence end there. It is believed they went north. [ ... ]

Mariangela Guatteri

Mariangela Guatteri : the INTERRUPT set
 
Mariangela Guatteri
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Norman Lock: The Sleep Institute

Norman Lock : THE SLEEP INSTITUTE
 
"No paper, ink—no postage. No inconvenient customs declarations. Nothing between the original thought and the unconscious mind of the subscriber. Think of it, Norman!" He put on his hat. "And now I really must go."
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