Boog City presents Critical Documents and Jason Zeh (fwd)
Alan Sondheim
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Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 02:47:32 -0500
From: David A. Kirschenbaum <edi...@boogcity.com>
To: David A. Kirschenbaum <edi...@boogcity.com>
Subject: Boog City presents Critical Documents and Jason Zeh
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Boog City presents
d.a. levy lives: celebrating the renegade press
Critical Documents
(Oxford, Ohio)
Thurs. Dec. 7, 6:00 p.m., free
ACA Galleries
529 W.20th St., 5th Flr.
NYC
Event will be hosted by
Critical Documents editor jUStin!katKO
Featuring readings from
cris cheek
William R. Howe
Brenda Iijima
jUStin!katKO
Mark Mendoza
Keith Tuma
With music from
Jason Zeh
There will be wine, cheese, and crackers, too.
Curated and with an introduction by Boog City editor David Kirschenbaum
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*Critical Documents*
Critical Documents was started in 2005 by jUStin!katKO. It publishes the
journal Plantarchy as well as chapbooks of contemporary poetry. Plantarchy
brings together the work of established and emerging practitioners from the
U.K. and U.S. Whenever possible, the editorial agenda is to print sequences
or longish excerpts of work. Issue 3, consisting solely of cris cheek's The
Church The School The Beer will be released at Boog City's Critical
Documents evening in NYC on December 7th. Plantarchy is available at Bridge
Street (DC), Rust Belt (Buffalo), Talking Leaves (Buffalo), Normal's
(Baltimore), City Lights (San Francisco), and Woodland Pattern (Milwaukee).
It is archived at SUNY-Buffalo, the University of Kansas, Ohio State
University, and the Marvin Sackner Archive.
*Performer Bios*
**cris cheek is a poet, writer, book artist, publisher, new media
practitioner, talker, and interdisciplinary performer whose writing has been
commissioned and shown all over the western world, often in multiple
versions using diverse media for production and circulation. The work has an
increasingly site-responsive proclivity and is frequently created in forms
of collaboration with other artists. He collaborates with Kirsten Lavers
under the name TNWK. The Church The School The Beer is a book of talks
being released from Critical Documents.
**William R. Howe is a poet, book artist, publisher, editor, performance
artist, and visual artist. He is a visiting assistant professor at Miami
University of Ohio, in Oxford, Ohio. His work, which most often appears in
small event-based editions, has also appeared in Plantarchy, Mirage
#4/Period(ical), Ferrum Wheel, The Gig, and others. Along with cris cheek
and Keith Tuma, he has been accused of being a heretic. He runs the
Putitupor broadside series, and he and his wife, L.A. Howe, edit Slack
Buddha Press.
**Brenda Iijima is the author of Around Sea (O Books). Animate, Inanimate,
Inanimate Aims is forthcoming from Litmus Press and Eco Quarry Bellwether is
forthcoming from Outside Voices. A chapbook, Rabbit Lesson will be published
by Fewer & Further Press. She is the editor of Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs.
Iijima is also a visual artist.
**jUStin!katKO is an intermedia writer and publisher. He has collaborated on
videos and text with Keith Tuma and collaborates with Camille PB under the
collective alias Coupons-Coupons. He co-operates Meshworks: the Miami
University Archive of Writing in Performance, co-edits On Company Time with
Keston Sutherland, and edits the poetry journal Plantarchy (Critical
Documents).
**Mark Mendoza tries hard to listen in Oxford, OH.
**Keith Tuma is the author of Fishing by Obstinate Isles: Modern and
Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers and various essays on poetry,
poetics, and culture. He is the editor of Anthology of Twentieth Century
British and Irish Poetry and Rainbow Darkness, an anthology of African
American poetry and essays about it, and co-editor of books on Mina Loy and
poetry and performance. Holiday in Tikrit is a chapbook from Critical
Documents, written in collaboration with jUStin!katKO. With cris cheek and
Bill Howe (as the Three Little Heretics) he is the author of the multimedia
poem and travelogue Critical Path: Into the Bush. Some of his recent poems
are collected in the chapbook Topical Ointment. He is professor and chair of
the department of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
**Jason Zeh, a magnetic cassette tape composer and Xerox artist from Bowling
Green, Ohio, creates music that successfully combines elements of drone,
electro-acoustic, and noise. Zeh¹s work relies on the creation of intimate
social encounters through the use of extreme quiet punctuated by steep
inclines toward moments of extreme loudness. Live shows combine a mixing of
previously recorded source sounds with real time manipulation of cassette
tape through the use of modified tape decks and dismantled cassettes. The
relationship Zeh has to the cassettes and tape decks used to record and
manipulate the sounds is not unlike that of many laptop artists in terms of
the meticulous sculpting of sound that is employed in order to create
emotionally charged and aesthetically dynamic compositions without the
stifled and overly technical feel of some electronic music produced by
computers. Zeh has performed throughout the midwest and east and west coasts
with noise artists such as John Wiese, Wolf Eyes, Burning Star Core, Hair
Police, Jessica Rylan, Withdrawal Method, Daniel Menche, The Cherry Point,
and Peter B, and he has toured with Mike Shiflet, SIXES, Cotton Museum,
Gerritt, Leslie Keffer, 2673, and Jesse Kudler.
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Directions: C/E to 23rd St., 1/9 to 18th St.
Venue is bet. 10th and 11th avenues
http://plantarchy.us
http://www.thingsnotworthkeeping.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgnBTww4Y0
http://www.slackbuddhapress.blogspot.com/
http://www.muohio.edu/meshworks
http://oncompanytime.biz
http://couponscoupons.blogspot.com
http://www.florb.com/jasonzeh/
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=79
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David A. Kirschenbaum, editor and publisher
Boog City
330 W.28th St., Suite 6H
NY, NY 10001-4754
For event and publication information:
http://boogcityevents.blogspot.com/
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