fair

The Editions and Artists' Books Fair is upcoming. My work will be there this year, and so will I, at Johan Deumens booth. If you're in the neighborhood, come and say hi!

interior monologue

My work Interior Monologue has now been published in an edition of 20 signed and numbered copies. It pairs images of Parisian apartment interiors from a real-estate catalogue with texts found in the “literary phrases” section of Kleiser’s Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases.

Unbound artist book in a portfolio box (box made by Atelier De Distelkamp in Dodewaard). 128 pages, inkjet printed. 5×7 inch.

For more information on the project and links to images please visit my website. The work is on view at Johan Deumens Gallery until November 14th.

gezond verstand

"Beyoncé's platte buik mag je motiveren, maar verwacht niet dat je haar kunt evenaren."
(gezondheidsnet)

defect

exhibition

holland

I'm back in Holland for the Summer, working on a new poetry book with Johan Velter (Druksel) and preparing an exhibition that will open in September at Johan Deumens Gallery in Haarlem. If you're in NYC in July, there is a project of mine included in the show Susan Kismaric (MoMA) curated at Soho Photo Gallery. Also, some images of a recent installation at Poetry International are now online. Meanwhile I'm enjoying Dutch scenery and perplexities.

also in progress

Work on the Image Process Literature book is moving along, with the perspective of many strong contributions. Here an overview of some samples we put online.

in progress

I'm preparing a bookish work that will be installed at the 40th anniversary of Poetry International in June this year. Bas Kwakman, the Director of Poetry, invited me and others to come up with a reaction to a text by Marcel Duchamp, part of L'Infinitif (1967). Bas is really to be saluted for his ongoing mission of including visual art in this literary festival; thereby extending the notion of what literature may look like.

My project uses photos of Parisian apartment interiors that I assembled, together with phrases found in a book of "Useful Phrases". Altogether this will be an unusual dictionary showcasing the "linguistic utterances of empty rooms" (quoting Chris Burnett here; we're thinking about perhaps doing a collaboration involving my Parisian apartments and his approach in Domestic Philosophy).

Bas and I met in 2003 when he gave a wonderful speech on occasion of the launch of my book Let us go then, you and I. The short of it: if you're in Rotterdam in June, please stop by!

upcoming

Two upcoming juried exhibitions include my books: one is the Photo+Book show in Portland, Oregon, which showcases photography books produced with print-on-demand techniques, the other is the 2009 Lakeside-Statewide exhibit in Oswego, New York.

road trip

On the way to Corning, I got stranded in a place called Painted Post. The name is Native American and the tow truck driver told me there is an actual painted post around somewhere. I saw a vibrantly glowing plant at Mc Donalds.