Oh, Don’t Get Carried Away - KP Poetry Volume I
October 2009
Kunstprojects presents the first in a series of KP Poetry Journals. Each issue collects specially commissioned work from an invited group of artists, musicians and writers, redefining the term poetry in its loosest pictorial and compositional sense.
Are Blytt, Stefano Calligaro, Hsiao Chen, Sujey Colon, Drawing Guts, Edward Eke, Edvine Larssen, Thurston Moore, Donata Rigg, Ama Saru, Antonio Serna, Susanne Winterling
Edited and compiled by Declan Rooney
Limited Edition of 200
Black and White Photocopied Zine
29.5 x 21cms
5.00 euros (excluding postage and packaging)
To order please contact: info@kunstprojects.com
Contributor Biographies:
Are Blytt (born 1981 in Bergen) is a Norwegian artist living and working in Oslo. His practice is primarily painterly although he works with sculptures and installations as well.
In the work of Stefano Calligaro (born 1976, lives and works in Rotterdam) sculpture is just a way to understand the rules of the space, every work both suggests and hides form and narration developing images that find their balance between two and three dimension. In this way the sculpture becomes sign, border between its surface and the surrounding environment. The product is the project and the project is a complete form even when it looks only a sketch or an essential shape wood, pencils, paper and holy geometry.
“What I try to do in my works is to create sculptures that are as similar as possible to drawings, I like the idea of realizing a sketch that finds its surface in the space, and that keeps in its shape its projectual component also. Making a sculpture means to me not only building something and then place it in a physical space, but using this space to understand which is the role of the things it contains, in this way the object and its environment are on the same surface just like an ink line on a sheet of paper and complete themselves.”
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, Hsiao Chen currently lives and works in New York City. He was a core participant of the Night School program at New Museum, an exhibition as school organized by Artist Anton Vidokle, where he and other core group participants met regularly attending and hosting seminar discussions. Together with fellow artist Ama Saru, they formed the collective Ama Saru & Hsiao Chen. They have completed a performance method project at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center. Collaborated with artist/designer Antonio Serna, co-created a one-day experimental art event “OPEN WORKS” at the Industry City Brooklyn, in an effort to provide gallery space for any artist to show work while in return, the participants engaged in critical discourse during the event. Ama Saru and Hsiao Chen will perform in the works of artist Marina Abramovic for her 2010 MOMA retrospective “The Artist is Present”.
http://www.worksfromthebalcony.com
Sujey Lee Colon is a Los Angeles based writer, currently working on a collection of poetry and short stories to be published next year. You can find her work on bathroom walls, scraps of paper and in bottles.
The unstoppable peeks a gasp and uses no knowledge of the destination. the fool always knows how to dance. But What About Drawing Guts? He might be a Jnani, he might be as free as your blue back wonder… or maybe just shameless and free! rejoice! reality wont even get dressed anymore! More rules are falling everyday in a time when you think you can’t shine in a sink pit. We are not the audience we are the actors… everything is playing with itself and we still have time to make our own soap operas. The drawing of the guts has just begun.
http://www.myspace.com/drawingguts
Edward Eke is a musician, writer and performer. He has released music under various guises - the most recent being ‘The Pan I Am’. He plans to release a full length LP next year under a working title of ‘Screaming Body’. His short play, ‘Camusflage Krokodial’ featured at The London Word Festival and The Laugharne Weekend last year. He co-runs the small independent film company ‘Machine Channel’, and his film society ‘O Dreamland’ stages its first event at the end of this year. He has written for various journals and most recently published a piece in the anthology ‘Punk Fiction’ (Portico 2009).
http://www.edwardeke.blogspot.com/
Edvine Larssen (1977) Lives and works in Trondheim, Norway. She is educated at Kingston University in London (Ba. Honours) and Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (MFA). In 2006/2007 she participated in the CCA Kitakyushus Research Program in Japan. She was invited to the residency program W17 at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, where she worked for 4 months in the summer of 2009. Edvine Larssen works mainly with large-scale installations and sculptural works. She is opening a solo exhibition curated by Maaretta Jaukkuri at Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo in the fall of 2009.
Thurston Moore is in Sonic Youth, runs Ecstatic Peace Records + Tapes and publishes books under the imprint Ecstatic Peace Library. His latest book of poems is New Poems (2009, Ecstatic Peace Library) and he has a forthcoming solo recording due in 2010.
http://www.ecstaticpeacelibrary.com/ http://flowersandcream.blogspot.com/
Donata Rigg was born in Konstanz in 1976. She has a Master in Humanities and a Diploma from the Deutsches Literaturinstitut. After years in Berlin and Leipzig she now lives in Hamburg and has been awarded several fellowships (Akademie Schloß Solitude for example). She has finished her first novel to be published in early 2010.
Ama Saru was born in Bucharest, Romania and currently lives and works in New York City. As a conceptual artist she works in mediums appropriate to the nature of each project. She currently collaborates with Taiwanese artist Hsiao Chen and recently completed the performance “Open Quotes” at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center through their residency in May 2009. In 2009 Ama also collaborated with artist Antonio Serna for “Open Works” offering exhibit space in exchange for democratic critique outside the institution. In 2010 Ama and Hsiao will be performing in the works of artist Marina Abramovic in her MOMA retrospective “The Artist is Present”.
http://www.worksfromthebalcony.com
Antonio Serna is an artist working in New York City. His work has been exhibited in New York, Spain, Mexico, and Texas. In addition, Antonio has been fortunate enough to collaborate on several internet projects with seminal artistic figures in New York such as Laurie Anderson, David Byrne, and Trisha Brown. Currently he is working on his MFA with Masters Seminar Professor Vito Acconci at Brooklyn College. Antonio has taught and lectured at Parsons School of Design, St. Johns University, and will be teaching at Brooklyn College in the Spring of 2010.
http://www.resource.muserna.org
Susanne Martha Winterling, artist, born in Rehau, lives in Berlin.
