Interdisciplinary Mayhem

HELLO, GODDARD PEOPLE ~ WANNA PARTICIPATE?

  

TIFFANY LEE BROWN: 
THE EASTER ISLAND PROJECT

We are compelled to create—to make, write, act, and give birth. How do we manifest this deep desire? How do our creations—novels, babies, and atom bombs—affect our lives, our culture, and our planet?

The Easter Island Project invites audiences to explore the questions through the act of creation itself with Plazm editor and 2GQ director Tiffany Lee Brown, as she prepares for an interdisciplinary art expedition to Easter Island in the South Pacific. 

Inspired by Tiffany's investigation into biological childlessness in contemporary American culture, the Easter Island Project is an ongoing participatory art and performance work. Participants and audience members "seed" the project by generously contributing their own creativity in person, online, and through the mail. UPCOMING EVENTS: Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Prescott AZ, San Francisco Bay Area, and New York City.

"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:

We Just Made This Gorgeous Hunk of Recycled Trees.

PLAZM is having a party this Wed, Sep 26, to celebrate the release of our NEW ISSUE, Plazm #29.

The NEW ISSUE ("Collective Memory" theme, includes the "End of War" project I was on about) is awesome. As an editor, am I allowed to say that? Oh feckit, I'm saying it. The thing's just beautiful and interesting.

Find out party details here: clicky-clicky no. 1
Read what the Portland Mercury says about the NEW ISSUE and the party here: clicky-clicky no. 2

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.

ANIMATED MINI-POEM: very nice.

Despite the death knells, poetry will never kick it! Billy Collins meets animation on YouTube...  Thanks to Jane Hirshfield for the pointer... And if there are any animators reading this who want to make something cool with *my* poetry, collaborate a little? Please o please, get in touch. (Send email to the current year at 2GQ.org -- for example, in 2003 you'd send mail to 2003@2GQ.org . It's a spam thing.)

IS THE U.S. MORE AFRAID OF LESBIANS OR TERRORISTS? Ask a legislator.

"If the terrorists ever got hold of this information, they'd get a platoon of lesbians to chase us out of Baghdad."

--New York Congressman Gary Ackerman (D-NY), urging Secretary of State  Condoleeza Rice to consider hiring military linguists discharged under the federal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on lesbian, gay and bisexual service members. Read it all at PR Newswire. Thanks to levant for the pointer...

Li Po/em

The birds have vanished down the sky.
Now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.

                            Li Po