bright stupid confetti

used to express farewell

09 May 2012 09:02:05

Since Blogger has decided to change its platform interface, it's no longer a hospitable place for me to curate bright stupid confetti. So, I'm going to have to jump ship, after seven years at this location. More info forthcoming on the new address, but for now, here's the (presumably) last post at the blogspot address...not disappearing, just moving to a better hosting location... Spencer Wohlrab Charlotte Moulard Susana Solano Richard A. Kirk Thomas Woodruff Gordon Cheung Colbert Mashile Yoan Capote Markus Henttonen Odili Donald Odita Jackie Nickerson Vibha Galhotra Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Wilford Barrington Laura Makabresku Brea Souders Melodie Mousset Jennifer Abessira Silvia Bächli Jose Romussi Ayten Alpun Yilmaz Felice Fawn

Will Return In December

18 October 2011 09:36:44

is not dead, defunct or gone, but hibernating...will return in approximately 7 weeks...I promise...

the innocent fruits of conjugal intimacy

21 July 2011 12:25:34

The Vegetable Orchestra - Onionoise (2010) *Ziv Ayal's Allochtoons *Alexi Hobbs *One minute I feel pain, the next minute I feel numb, the next I feel numbing pain. It's like the poem says: the apparition of"Near a Kiosk on the Quad"byJason Bredle*Sven Drühl *Sunn O))) - Belülről Pusztít (Part I & II)*Tanja Rochelmeyer *Angelika Arendt *"Reassemblage" by Trinh T. Minh-ha (1983)*He lit six lanterns that hung by ropes from the cave ceiling. Writing covered the cave walls in bright colors, mostly pictures of animals, a few words in bubbled letters Daniel couldn’t make out. In the center of the opening where they stood, was a huge square built of blue pipes."Discovery of the Pipe Square"byShane Jones*Leszek Andrzej Kostuj *I feel so good when I lock a screen door. I don’t like it when people serve me food. I am nervous at a house party. I secretly hope for blood every time I blow my nose. This is being alone."your comment field is my diary"byFrank Hinton*Breck Young *Jonathan Waiter *Theresa Hak Kyung Cha *Erik Johansson *In B Flat*Jill Magid *Anton Perich - "Ava Maria"*John Ashbery *Bob May *Tim Lukeman *A woman had been pregnant for almost two years. The day after the anniversary of her due date her husband became pregnant as well. It happened all at once."The Pregnant Couple"byMathias Svalina*Leanne Eisen *Aleksandra Waliszewska & Matthew Wascovich *Samrictus *Keening ⎯HeathboundRovesMoonPink ⎯StraddlingNeighingStallion :“HUEESSUEESSUEESSSOOOHYEEEEEE PRUSHHEE HEE HEEEEEEAAAOCHKZPNJRPRRRR HÜ / \HÜÜ HÜÜÜÜÜÜ HÜ-HÜ!”AflushBrinkThroughFoggyBog"Astride"byBaroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven*Zeami *Jurictus Necato *Joe Elias Tsambiras *Nero's Day At Disneyland - "Heaven's Gate"*Jeanne Kelly"These are onionskins of my 2d composite work for The Hyrtl Simulacrum project. For this project I'm forensically reconstructing the likenesses of 8 individuals from the Hyrtl collection at the Mutter Museum."*Jack Spicer’s Ghost ceased haunting EXPLANATORY NOTES years ago. In fact, Jack Spicer’s Ghost ceased haunting anything years ago. The invocation of Jack Spicer’s Ghost in the above dedication is a ploy by the poets to fulfill an unspecified function. While unspecified, the ploy’s failure should be evident, nonetheless, to readers."Homage to Homage to Homage to Creeley"byJoshua Ware*Jarrod Jones *My costume is my brain eating itself.Some nights I can’t get Halloween enough.To the points on the globe, I say next war, next war.I keep the ghosts of birds in my breathing.This is my body. This is the end. I’m going in."3 from Suicide Mountain"byMatthew Suss*Albert Rasyulis *Terra Kate *My wife’s mouth and teeth remind me of mouth and teeth ofhyena, boar, hammerhead, rat, porcupine, bat, aardvark,also beetle, mantis, and water bug mandibles; reminiscentof chimpanzee, snapping turtle, wildebeest, steenbok,skunk, pigeon, and frog is her neck; hands and arms mirrorappendages of starfish, Rottweiler, sea urchin, meerkat,grizzly, octopus, brown recluse;"My wife’s mouth and teeth remind me of mouth and teeth"byGordon Massman*Babe E. - LOA*Kym Ellis *Viktor Gårdsäter *Anna Kamińska *Satomi Shirai *Burn (10min. loop transferred from 16mm)Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley*FACITY manifest for the photo shoot1. Frontal position to the camera (no leaning head).2. Open sharp eyes (focus on the eyes).3. No smile. Natural facial expression.4. Pure faces (minimum of make-up). Hair pulled backward (minimum of hair visible).5. No clothing visible. No glasses, no jewelry (exception: piercings).6. Partial head shot (refer to other faces).7. Only indoor daylight. No artificial light sources. Clean background.8. Aperture 2,8 with a 50 mm lens (or similar conditions).9. Square format (at least 600x600 pixels).10. Minimal processing (as realistic as possible).

late, unformatted, jeweled phantasmagoria

01 July 2011 08:09:21

Flesh Morphing by Dietrik Klomberg*Christian Breitkreutz *Animal Core *My nails are a reminder of difficult times. My fingers worry over their own disuse. My hands do not know what to do. My wrists feel tight. My forearms rest heavy. My elbows are bony knobs on this desk. My shoulders hunch. My neck hurts. My throat hurts. My eyes hurt."MY HOUSE IS FILLED WITH FLOWERS. THE WALLS ARE BARE."byMolly Gaudry*Marc Torrent *Mark Leidner, An Ounce of Cruelty*Bearmod - "Put It On Ya"*bl pawelek *Goddamn Electric Bill - "Lost In The Zoo"*Kate Clark *Laura Splan *Oct 29asperger's-y grocery checkoutboy advised me to "slow down & enjoy the 10 cents you saved using your kroger plus card on this soy sauce sale"SELECTIONS FROM BLAKE BUTLER'S TWITTER ACCOUNTBY BLAKE BUTLER, EDITED BY TAO LIN*Alfred Kubin *David Byrne / Jeff Koons 52 Bond St /Summer 1975*Gideon Rubin *Mitsuko Nagone *Winston Chmielinski *"Hobo Clown" (2008)by Allison Schulnik*Lu Cong *Shana Moulton - "Mountain Where Everything Upside Down" *Pablo Alonso Alonso *Jann Averwerser *Tony Orrico *Barbara Hast *The success, even the survival, of the arts has come increasingly to depend on their ability to defeat theatre....Art degenerates as it approaches the condition of theatre....The concepts of quality and value-and to the extent that these are central to art, the concept of art itself-are meaningful, or wholly meaningful, only within the individual arts. What lies between the arts is theatre.“Art and Objecthood”byMichael Fried*Satoko Kako *Three by OH-SEOK KWON"schere""my room""BRUECKENHAUS"*Bo Christian Larsson *Kaori Nakajima *Fumie Sasabuchi *REMEMBER REMEMBER - "Imagining Things"directed by Gregor Barclay*Martin Hast *Intermission sound collage created by David Harrington and Calvin Ll. Jones. Constructed from field recordings by Wu Man, Chen Shi-Zheng, Gregory Dubinsky, and Jeremy Cowperthwaite, and additional sources*Art is a history of doing nothing and a long tale of useful action. It is always a fetishization of decision and indecision—with each mark, structure, and engagement. What is the good of this work? The question contains a challenge to contemporary practitioners—or “current artists,” a term I will use, as contemporary art no longer accounts for what is being made—that is connected more to what we have all become than to what we might propose, represent, or fail to achieve. The challenge is the supposition that artists today—whether they like it or not—have fallen into a trap that is pre-determined by their existence within a regime that is centered on a rampant capitalization of the mind."The Good of Work"byLiam Gillick‎*Taiyo Kimura *Robert Longo *end with a waker walking out more awake. It could require a long long reality spoon to reach a long long time ago, or a multidimensional long-reach-reality stapler, but then again, some of the parts might jelly, and it’s hard to staple together jelly parts. This is how you will know it’s time to go. Stretched intoA REAL GONERbyEric Ellingsen*Anna Taratiel *Vicky Leandros - "Noch einmal"

"art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear"

24 May 2011 15:50:06

says Beckett, in “Intercessions by Denis Devlin” (1938)*Maxence Cyrin - "Where Is My Mind"*Camilla Engman *Katinka Lampe *Katrina Dautremont *Marianne Kolb *Melissa Brown *Georganne Deen *Francis Bacon Documentary[parts 2-6]*Micha Patiniott *Can we really kill genius, the masterpiece, creativity and originality? In the twentieth century, any number of great artists tried to kill genius — Duchamp, Warhol, Cage, Mac Low — yet all did it in the most exquisitely personal way, killing it with the best of taste.On Brion Gysin, "Minutes to Go"byKenneth Goldsmith*Cat Roif *Patte Loper *David Lyle *Hannah C. Price *Peter Bonde *A. Dola Baroni Bifano *Hum Who Hiccup by Chris Mason (Narrow House 2011)*Masha Demianova *Bebe Zeva *Rachel Louise *I was a sorcerer today—it’s true,I used my dowsing rod on you.I came with sticks to extract youfrom me."Forgiveness"byLisa Marie Basile*Mark King *Keyboard Kid - Based in the Rain mixtape (2011)*Amandine Paulandré *Stéphane Dafflon *Inka Lindegård & Niclas Holström *Christopher Smith - Gently GentlyDirected by SALAZAR*Pascal Lièvre *Eric Ruby *Allyson Mitchell *Matthew Atkinson *Anton Perich *The first time that my son arrived home from school covered in blood that was not his own I was concerned. The second time it happened I called the principal to registehttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifr a complaint. The messaging system was voice activated & after repeatedly saying "Principal Butler" & having the system retort in its staticky female voice "I'm sorry could you repeat that" I gave up. The third time my son returned from school covered in blood that was not his own he also had a chunk of meat hidden in his backpack."School"byMathias Svalina*STIGMATAVISION 1: HOLY FOOLby Kate Durbin

return, recuperation, resurrection

02 February 2011 06:25:37

Karin Lindholm *Trish Tillman *Alex Kisilevich *if you want to live, go get a mechanical heart,inhale the red-hot blast of furnacesand powder your lovely face with chimney soot;then shoot a million volts into your system!from "Let the Moon Be Damned"byEnrico Cavacchioli*Sophie Duran *Lukasz Wierzbowski *Lara Gasparotto *"Food Poisoning; After Eating Human"by Sarada Rauch*On the Ning Nang NongWhere the Cows go Bong!and the monkeys all say BOO!There's a Nong Nang NingWhere the trees go Ping!And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.from "On the Ning Nang Nong"bySpike Milligan *Michael Williams *Cassie Rose Kobeski *Jennifer Sullivan *Jennifer Caviola *"Through the Eyes of a Predator"directed by Frank Zadlo[2008. all of the point-of-view shots of the Predator in slow-motion, from Predator (1987)]*Pascual Sisto *Peter Lapsley *Jana Flynn *Julia Dault *If marijuana was the wedding ring, the child was the language of Hip for its argot gave expression to abstract states of feeling which all could share, :at least all who were Hip. And in this wedding of the white and the black it was the Negro who brought the cultural dowry."The White Negro"byNorman Mailer(Dissent, Fall, 1957)*Emily Noelle Lambert *Andrea Aversa *Jeremy Dyer *Matt King *For me it is realistic to be paradoxical, poly-vocal, cacophonous. Stories where everything is tidy and psychologically or symbolically closed seem hopelessly incomprehensible, totally unlike lived experience. Whose universe is that?Interview with Thalia FieldbyMiranda F. Mellis*Nick van Woert *Dave McDermott *Alex Da Corte *Langdon Graves *"Peepshow"directed by Ken Russell(1956)*Givenchy(Spring 2011 Couture)*Jean Paul Gaultier(Spring 2011 Couture)*Christian Dior (Spring 2011 Couture)*"The first time we see the work appeared pretentious, because Godard robbed the audience with fast cuts the ability to read his writing tablets."Interview with Jean-Luc Godard*Javier Piñón *A+OSpring.Summer2011CollectionVideo*TOMOKO KAWACHI *Phil Hale *pia-mélissa laroche *Fabio Villafane *Chelsea Long *David WojnarowiczA Fire In My Belly (Film In Progress), 1986-87Super 8mm film, black and white & colorSilentTRT: 00:13:06

our monstrous worship of facts, Art will become sterile, and beauty will pass away from the land

24 November 2010 06:59:39

Sam Sax » Literary Death Match11-19-2010*Pawel Jaszczuk *with a capsule comment: my lungswant to breathe you in while my bodybrays at the open sky in a calmand reassuring way. An android fullof nut butters and quinine. Do you feelfrom "Gas Stations & Weirdos"byTodd Colby*Leah Fusco *I’m going to diction. I’m going to shiftingtone: serious consideration given to the Fancifulbursting off. I’m going to poem this poem into poem& call it Flamingo. I’m going to mimetic theory.from "Flamingo Poem"byNate Pritts*Liam Stevens *I have a bucket in my hand. What about you? What’s inyour hand? A flower. Flowering plants have dominatedthe plant scene since dinosaurs and it is a lessonin perseverance. Yet paleontologists keep changingtheir minds just like everyone else. Can you makeyourself completely independent of daylight?from "We Are Hearing the Loudest Animal Be Its Loudest"byEmily Pettit*Stephen J. Penry *Bobby Doherty *Frederico Pellachin *Sabrina Bte Abdullah *Willow Smith vs. Sesame Street - "Whip My Hair"(Mec Jagger Rmx)*Michael Barry *Before the sun had come around the top of where we could see a fire in the south over the planets, there, already, they had him by the hair. Had the Dealer in the middle of where he had been spotted on by the birds, where he had lain filthy in Samantha’s dinner.from "ON THE MOUNTAIN"byBrian Kubarycz *Allison Sommers *Chad Moore *LIL B - Based Codeine Pt.1 (Chopped & Screwed by DJ Tryll Dyll ){genre: Syrup-Soaked, Slur, Drone Hop}[thanks, Mike}*Christine Gray *Hillary Boles *Ilse Versluijs *Maria Friberg *Lita Cabellut *Full trees yield a battlefield of apples the birds take to. Into the trees Bebe Faye climbs with her string to tie to the ends of the birds. To snare them, she says, to set a trap.from "Crimped, Gunwales Under"byHeather Palmer*Olivia Megalis *Linnea Strid *Nosaj Thing "Us (Jon Hopkins Remix)"Created by: Anthony Ciannamea & Mark Wisniowski*Ondine de Kroon *The lady on stage is screaming. Her legs are splayed, her makeup is smeared and the crowd leans forward, eager to see what's coming next. The menacing mute in white-face looms over her, a nurse's hat perched on his head. His newly found voice channels through the screaming woman.from "The Secret Lives of Puppets"byLindsay Gibb*Adam Hunter Caldwell *Wiz Khalifa - Kush & Orange Juice (2010){genre: Mixtape, Weed-Fed Flow}*Brian M. Viveros *LV feat Okmalumkoolkat - "Boomslang" (Hyperdub 2010)Directed/ Edited by Mello Moropa*Laura Lancaster *Stefan Strumbel *DJ Screw - 3 'N The Mornin' Parts I & II (1995){genre: Mixtape, Chopped & Screwed, Syrup-Soaked}

in whose white alabaster brest did sticke a cruell knife, that made a griesly wound

17 November 2010 19:38:29

Girl Talk - All Day (2010){genre: Mashup / Remix / Cut Heaven}*Lauryn Holmquist *Tomorrow is like a woodconehumming microphone.battered dinnerware.We were where we ever were.Dipping oar into water"We like things that look steady"byMolly Dorozenski*Celia Gómez de Villavedón *I dreamed you wouldn’t let me sleep in your bedIn a phone call they told me the poem was overI was choking and there was no one to wave to"Girl"byBen Fama*Julian Zigerli *Albert Foolmoon *Lydia Roberts *Young Cold *Alexander Bulich *Kelly Webster *How To Dress Well - Love Remains (2010){genre: kc and jojo meets witch house. meets ariel pink.}[thanks, Matthew]*Dejona *Britta Thie - "Shooting"*Fabian Sollinger *When you laugh have it be like the limb of a tree breaking off. Have it be the only thing heard for miles on end. Be warmed by it.Be an angry mob, a lick of flame, a gunpowder stain barking like a dog all night long."Instructions For Whistling In The Dark"bySasha Fletcher*Francesca Tallone *Mathilde Aubier *Julien Pacaud *Charles Glaubitz *Hildur Björk Yeoman *Kai Asserson Nødland *Marigoldby TEST*You're welcome. This mattress is now a bomb.What will it take to excommunicate my lower half?Is it nearly day enough for a jumpsuit?At last I've found the store that sellsquality replicas, but today we wear our real heads.from Junk ParadebyAnne Cecelia Holmes*Aëla Labbé *Stephen Brace *Elizaveta Porodina *Babe Rainbow - "Shaved"created by SALAZAR*Thomas Raimondi *Bree Dentice *Trine Søndergaard *Kwon KyungYup

The Time Has Come

06 October 2010 21:27:07

The Time Is Now THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MARVIN K. MOONEY IS NOW AVAILABLEIN VARIOUS FORMATSPHYSICAL AND E-BOOKALSOCOMPLETE & UNABRIDGED AUDIOBOOK!!!

runs out, is running, time

29 September 2010 06:09:21

Yes, time is running out for you to get a free book...*Wu Fei - A Distant Youth (2007){genre: Beautiful Avant Chinese Classico-Contemporary}*Nick Howard *Ponytail - "Celebrate The Body Electric (It Came From an Angel)"directed by Sophia Peer*Sebastian Komicz *Ryan Berkley *Yukari Hotta *Nikola Tamindzic *Stéphane Obadia *DeAngel *Nadia Moro *Olaf Martens *Marcus Coates *Paul Sharits T O U C H I N G (1969){thanks, Ken}*"I’m going to deliver your birthday cake out my womb. It’s a marble with buttercream frosting and its name is Anything Goes."Meat From a Meat ManbyLindsay Hunter*Valentin Ruhry *Jon Rutzmoser *Asta Gröting *"A slack dog snake driver scuttled up the hill. Admiring the tree ripples, the blackberries, beloved, the nestles. Past the Mound of Hostages, a tower, stairless, lay. Up there were wheel throwers, tarmac hammerers, spud farmers, barn babies. They threw down triangle-faced icons; shoe shrines. Spat prophesies, an eyeless woman, laughing.""The Gospels of Movement"byShane Anderson *Rebecca Horn, Berlin, 1974, (West Berlin)*"Gail Kern-Paster in her introductory chapter to The Body Embarrassed: Drama and Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England talks about the way the classical body - the body in art - was all surface, no interior. The grotesque body leaks, has orifices, strange fluids, mutates. Then she goes on to discuss the many threatening leaks of the Early Modern Euro female form, which threatening leaks are still with us today, even if more thoroughly plugged. The Meat Dress is a fashion exoskeleton of sorts. It says, here is my permeable leaky toxic delicious juicy fascinating interior, on my exterior, protecting my interior!" --Danielle PafundaGimme Some of That Bad Girl Meat Dress!A discussion with Kate Durbin, Lara Glenum, Cheryl Helm, Eddie McCaffray, Danielle Pafunda, Vanessa Place, Marie Smart, Carolyn Thompson, and Meghan Vicks*Maldoror (Merzbow and Mike Patton) - She (1997){genre: Noise Glitch, Carnival Explosion, Echochamber Ghoulish}*Sarah Small