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September 22nd, 2009

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Concrete! The Sackner Archive

September 18th, 2009

Fantastic documentary on an extraordinary private collection of concrete and visual poetry, the Sackner Archive.

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William S. Burroughs - Cut-ups

September 11th, 2009

Cut-Ups from Matti Niinimäki on Vimeo.

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bill bissett and bpNichol - Vancouver Art in the Sixties

September 8th, 2009

Incroyable! — Loving the digitized archive more and more each day, a gem of digitized-celluloid, reanimating voices of the since-transformed village elders, here recorded in their prime, near that golden moment we are yet striving to recover… [I’m guessing 1967? I’d love to know, if anyone does]A fortuitous neighborly visit yesterday with first-wave Canadian Concrete poetry innovator Judith Copithorne alerted me to the recent launch of this fantastic new project from Scott Watson at the Morris and Helen Belkin Gallery - Ruins In Progress - Vancouver Art in the Sixties - a digital archive of artwork, ephemera, and film — Effing eh!! This looks amazing!

As an undergrad at UBC [circa 1995] I did some of the early digitization on this archive material, volunteering for the Belkin while studying on the modernist contemporary. I know from experience that this project has been a long-tended and broadly collaborative work-in-progress for far longer than I’ve known about it. Thanks and congratulations to the Belkin team for finally crossing that threshold moment where smashing some champers across the hull and calling her seaworthy has finally arrived.

I’m thoroughly excited to dig through this digital archive, following fifteen years’ anticipation. Alot of extremely weird and wonderful [and largely overlooked] creative experimentation has happened [and is happening] in this town. I recently learned, by tangential example, Jimi Hendrix’s grandmother lived in my neighborhood and had a small restaurant behind our local pub, where the young maestro partied after hours through the summers! Who knew? I’m delighted to.

Many high-water-marks for west-coast culture were set in the psychedelic era, obviously, and a surprising amount of that exploration and evolution happened in the Canadian partition of Free Cascadia. Owing to prevailing political conditions, what has not already been recuperated is still growing underground - those tenebrous self-identified and self-exiled avant-gardes with their necessarily radical social philosophies still have strong legs here in Vancouver; though distribution is ever more effectively disordered, dissipated, stratified, self-serving, so as to be everywhere pushing in conflicting directions. The condition is not unique.

However, in special instances, a spontaneous and entirely self-determined collective new order emerges, and the glimpse of what could be flickers in the eyes of whoever happens to be standing present and attentive nearby. It’s exciting to me to know many artist who together experienced that now-mythic flash of collective immanence, that momentary and irresolvable apocalypse of mutual understanding, are still living in good health, working busily in the neighborhood: available yet to offer challenges to official histories, destabilize any hegemonic re-membering of what we think we know has already happened, providing the inquisitive with salted consultations on where to look next, and which existing routes are impassible. Worthy enough of respect as elders, long-career contemporary artists should be celebrated and commemorated in their lifetimes wherever possible, for presenting a memorably nostalgic [and thus cyclical] antipode to that authoritarian simulacra of culture we morbidly recognize as dominating ‘ours’ today.

This contemporary multitude only finds its bearings in the tracks and trails left by these initial forays. Europe in the 10s or almost anywhere in the 60s, a [half]century of repeating the experimental transdisciplinary research Event: communitarian becoming-happenings, those aperiodic, often accidental gatherings [and subsequent diasporas] of restlessly creative personages, momentarily catalyzing the mutual generation, concentration and productive redirection of great surpluses inquisitive energy; a living, breathing culture surging forth in extraordinary eflorescence, set loose by having decentered all the conventional objectives, to prioritize instead that creative inspiration be raised to a rolling boil within an autonomist culture of participants.

Nods should be tipped at the today-still-smouldering Burning Man, for carrying this psychedelic vision to logical extremes that none might have forseen or expected… Iterations of the meme rippling through time in all directions, betwixt a space no longer measurable in distance or chronology, quality nor category, but instead only by degrees of intensity…

As one, most definitely of many, who intend to participate in the writing of this punctured hypertextual future, I’m glad to be paying attention, again…

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Kelly Mark

August 16th, 2009

Lettraset Drawings- Extraordinary typestract and concretist works:

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Participate, Simulacra!

August 5th, 2009

“In the hype-commodity regime, the moment of consumption is no longer isolatable as such, since commodification is so diffuse that it insinuates itself into every area of ‘everyday life’. In the e-conomy, as we are well aware, ‘attention’ is both a form of consumption and itself a commodity which can be sold. The hyper-commodity is not an object, but an intricate, microsensitive, semiotic web, inducing participation and ‘involvement.’ Baudrillard again, “It is not by chance that advertising, after having, for a long time, carried an implicit ultimatum of an economic kind, fundamentally saying and repeating incessantly ‘I buy, I consume, I take pleasure,’ today repeats in other forms,’I vote, I participate, l am present, ‘I am concerned’.”

- Mark Fisher, SF Capital

“In short, the money in this networked economy does not follow the path of the copies. Rather it follows the path of attention, and attention has its own circuits.”

- Kevin Kelly, Better Than Free

“The simulacrum is never what hides the truth - it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”

- Ecclesiastes, quoted by Jean Baudrillard, opening The Precession of Simulacra

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Sorcerers

July 2nd, 2009

Skull Skates has launched a recording label in support of our amazing amigos the Sorcerers…

Old bro MattO threw them a launch party last friday night, on his birthday, thanks man…

I caught some audio exerpts, dub and thrash examples…

…though the video capture is almost black, listen to the crowd reaction…

I was ridiculously stoked to show some art… All involved thoroughly rule…

Salut, comrades. Rock steady and you don’t stop… - S

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Nathan Jones

June 14th, 2009

Hombre Nathan Jones has posted drawings from his very cool Little Mountain showing last fall, Nuclear Winter…

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Jessica Eaton

June 12th, 2009

Variables, by my favourite contemporary ‘patascientific photographer, Jessica Eaton, opening tonight at the LES Gallery…

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R&Sie(n)

May 19th, 2009

I discovered just recently that my buddy H.R., who’s been away in Paris the past ten months on an internship, has been going to work each day at this place, the home office/laboratory of Francois Roche and R&Sie(n) Architects… Extraordinary generative strategies for a biophilic architecture… sure hope some of this influence comes back with him, if he ever comes home…

“…where Lewis Carroll used mathematics to confuse a little girl’s perception, such apparatuses, including ‘’bachelor machines,” stretch a line of subjectivization to organize repetitions and anomalies using and developing paradoxes that are able to re-complexify and de-alienate the edges of the truth system, in order to re-invert the logic of meaning and turn it into a vanishing point…“

Bruce Sterling makes a friendly guest appearance on the R&Sie(n) website, contributing some future-fiction based in the Spidernethewood house. He also penned this article for Wired in 2005 on the firm’s chief architect-designer Francois Roche.

Recommended are Sterling’s Viridian Manifesto of 2000, and his classic endo-symbiotic bio-punk Schismatrix of 1986. Amazing stuff; ideas which which will play out for generations.

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