Impossible to work

I just got back from an afternoon spent watching the Goat Island Summer School performances at the SAIC. There were 7 performances total today, and they were all worth my time. There were obviously some I enjoyed more than others, but there was something in each that really struck me as interesting or beautiful. If […]

Last night was the 3rd annual Printers’ Ball, hosted by the Poetry Foundation at the Zhou B. Center. It was really awesome, until the cops shut it down (around 10:30 or so). This was the best possible event anyone could have hoped for. For my own part, I walked out with about 20 pounds worth […]

Don’t be so shocked that I’m back.
You might recall that Sarah and I were making a zine. That zine is called Try Less Hard, and if you haven’t gotten a copy, you’ll be able to pick one up (for free!) at the Printers’ Ball, which will be at the Zhou B. Art Center on the […]

I haven’t posted in a while because I’ve spent the past week with my nose firmly stuck in Alasdair Gray’s Lanark. If you haven’t read it, or don’t know who Alasdair Gray is, you should really get started on correcting this deficiency. I’ll help you out.
Alasdair Gray is a Glaswegian novelist, poet, playwright, visual artist […]

Once upon a time, the members of Lucky Pierre came across a URL. That URL, no longer active, was a listing of the final meals of death row inmates in Texas. Here’s a cached version from The Memory Hole. This website spawned a rather large scale project of filming individuals (all volunteers) eating the last […]

A few weeks back, I took Sara Wookey’s workshop at Links Hall. By day three, my ass had been kicked. Why is that? Because I’m ridiculously out of shape and Sara Wookey is agile and athletic. Was this a bad thing? No. It was good to just move. There was a lot of moving, lots […]

Wow, that was pretty.
Much gratitude to Sarah for giving me her extra ticket to the show.
I didn’t know if I was going to like Eiko and Koma’s new piece, but I did. The sort of movement that these Japanese-born New York artists use is slow”a1a” and sometimes” a2a” uncomfortable. There were definitely times during the […]

I spent yesterday in Hyde Park with Kath going to the Renaissance Society, the Seminary Co-Op”a1a”, and a reading by Lyn Hejinian presented by Poem Present at the U of C. After the reading, everybody went up to the tea room on the second floor of the SSRB to hob nob with the poet.
The show […]

Take a look at that picture. When we started our durational performance/installation/creative playground on Saturday, there was no yarn. The volume of yarn that we went through indicates to me that Structures Without Integrity’s first piece “Simultaneous Landscapes” was a success.
If you were able to come and take one (or more) of our tours, I […]