Interdisciplinary Mayhem

"HOUSE BOUND" TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE TO LIMITED AUDIENCES

howdy y'all ~ here's info about "House Bound," a show I'm in, happening in a couple weeks for one day only.

"Kinesthetic salon" delivers unusual, immersive experience of art, food, performance, and installation at Performance Works Northwest on April 13

NEW NEWS: our poster will be on display this week in Zagreb, Croatia, at ZGRAF, an international exhibition for graphic design and visual communication established in 1975. designed by award-winning Plazm art director Josha Berger, it features Emily Stone in a video still from Tiffany Lee Brown's "Home Movie".

Ticket price includes hors d'oeuvres, wine, and tea. Tickets cost $15 in advance or $20 at the door, via Brown Paper Tickets online or by phone at 503 475 2306. Performance Works NW is located at 4625 SE 67th Avenue; various show times occur April 13 at 11 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:00, 3:30, and 5:00. "House Bound" is co-presented by 2GQ, a project of the non-profit organization 2 Gyrlz Performative Arts.

For details, keep reading...

NYMPHE and SELLING OUT

So why haven't I been posting here? Well, I'm sitting around frozen in terror that I'm about to start my G5 and kick in on my thesis/portfolio!

Not really. I've been very busy with artstuff. I have a number of projects in the works which deal directly with the issue of being a childless woman in a family-focused society.

My musings about being alternately happily childfree and miserably childless can be found on the NYMPHE blog.

If you are interested in my various selling out discussions, you might want to buy (heh, that's right, *buy*) a copy of a chapbook we at Plazm wrote and created for our recent event at the back room. I believe it even comes with your own little button that says "WHORE." The book is called "The Wife, the Mistress, & the Prostitute" and is available at Plazm Books (click on the very last, dark-covered book).

MORE COMPENDIUM/AGAINST THE WALL PICS

by steve fritz these... others are by me.

PHOTOS FROM "AGAINST THE WALL"

"Against the Wall" was an installation by Tiffany Lee Brown and Clare Carpenter, featuring their book A Compendium of Miniatures and a 24-foot wall of documentation, proofs, and other ephemera related to their collaborative process. Part of the group show Construct/Re-Construct at Cathedral Park Place in Portland, it ran Sept 29-October 29, 2007.

Click through for some pics by Steve Fritz, Tif, and Josh Berger:

There is a transparent peace tower in NYC...

"There is a transparent peace tower in New York City which casts no shadow and, therefore, very rarely recognized." -- Yoko Ono       Questionnaire: Grapefruit, 1966

In real life or online, visit the Imagine Peace Tower dedicated to John Lennon on October 9th. Join the peace demonstration.

PLAZM, PARTY, BOOK, INSTALLATION...Stufff....

I posted all about all this stuff I'm doing -- Plazm issue + party Sept 26, Compendium of Miniatures book and installation, a little about doing The Walk workshop at the Port Townsend Goddard residency in August -- come checkit on my Ye Olde Official Website at magdalen.com.

IDEAS, RAMBLING, STUFF.

From my art journal thingy:

Dear Packet #1:

I spent some time with my weblog, http://magdalen.blogs.com/goddard , changing it around and adding the Idea Bucket. This, I thought, would be a good way to claim ideas without having to do tthem.

But here I am talking to myself on paper. There is a reason for keeping half-baked ideas private. I mean, hell, let’s be honest here, I experiment and I send many half-baked ideas into the world. Intentionally making a public list of them seems smirky and stupid, now that I have tried it. It’s like trying to claim everything at once.

(Click "continue" for more rambling)...

PRE-ORDERS AVAILABLE: A COMPENDIUM OF MINIATURES

A Compendium of Miniatures
by Tiffany Lee Brown
(Tiger Food Press * 2GQ Press)

Miniature narratives and rhythmic metaphors redefine the words that tell life's big stories. Limited edition of 50 signed, numbered books hand-bound in silk; case-bound. Hand-set in Deepdene and letterpress printed in two colors on 100% post-consumer recyled paper using soy-based inks by Clare Carpenter.

Books begin shipping September 23, 2007. Pre-orders accepted; reserve a copy today via:

Purchase online with credit card at plazm.com ($55 plus shipping & handling). US, Canada, international.

Purchase via mail order: $58 includes shipping & handling. Make checks out to "2GQ" and send to PO Box 2863, Portland OR 97208. Includes a splendid mailing box you will want to crawl inside. Price includes all applicable taxes, shipping, etc. USA and Canada only.

Email the authors at 2007@2GQ.org with inquiries or to be notified about our September installation and performance at Cathedral Park Place in Portland.

DOING NOTHING

i've been assigned a task: to do nothing.

i'm cheating right now. writing on this blog.

but doing nothing is difficult.

can you do it?

i think it's easier to run around, perform actions, make art, work for money, write, do stuff for other people, and generally attempt to excuse my existence on the planet in a variety of ways.

what if i don't need an excuse for my existence on the planet?

HAIR, RAPUNZEL, & TEMPORARY SCULPTURES

MK Guth's blog about her recent installation at Linfield College is intriguing and touching; I look forward to seeing what she'll do with the project in Brasil. I dicovered the blog while investigating the website for PNCA, the Pacific Northwest College of Art. I do a fair amount of writing and interviewing for PNCA, and will soon begin discussing their new MFA in Visual Studies with Guth, who chairs the program.

THE END OF WAR

I started working on a new project a couple months ago called "The End of War." The results of its first phase will be published in PLAZM magazine's issue #29, as artists and writers participate in an interpretation of that phrase. It looks like participants will include Rebeca Mendez, Lidia Yuknavitch, Devora Neumark, Kristen Tsiatsios, Sue Coe, Magdalen Powers, Jamie McMurry, David Tartakover, Reza Abedini, and Alex Lily.

The phrase "The End of War" inspired me because it is open and beguiling. It could engender utopian visions, angry political statements, and everything in between.

CHOCOLATE JESUS

Yessir, controversial art is still alive -- even the old-school kind. Seems a Canadian artist named Cosimo Cavallero is displaying an all-chocolate Jesus (with private parts) in a NY gallery. The Catholic League got upset; here's a video or here's a transcript of what happened when the artist (who is, incidentally, a Christian himself) and the head of the CL got together on TV. The video is better so you can get some of the crosstalk.

OK, uncompassionate non-ultra-perfect-Progressive-Education-non-Buddhist-non-Goddardy speech follows in the next paragraph. Avert your eyes if you're allergic to spitfire realist bloggers with opinions, cuz I am still one of those.

Catholic League dude (whose fame I will not assist by writing out his name) is the classic right-wing American bully piece of shit, double chin spilling out over his uptight collar, ugly tan suit, bullying and blustering in a wide stupid accent, like someone out of central casting. Amazing. An embarrassment to pretty much everybody. He says stuff about "loser artists" and, because he's speaking to an artist, says "I've got a job and you don't."

Baudrillard is dead.

(Long live Baudrillard?)

More info here.