Isabelle Pauwels, ‘It’s like another planet…’ from ‘In it for the Lifestyle’ (2013)
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Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel, ’56 Brushstrokes’ (1990)
The ’56 Brushstrokes’ are the product of a Painting Machine designed by Rosemarie Trockel. Seven rows of eight brushes are attached to shafts oufitted with steel rollers, which are drawn along a track approximately two meters long by a spool driven by an electric motor. The brushes are manufactured by Da Vinci, the painter’s brush factory in Nürnberg, with the hair of real artists. As they are pulled along, the brushes are first dipped in watercolors and then drawn over Japanese paper, so that they leave behind eight different brush strokes running in multiple broken “autograph marks” parallel to one another.
Marcel Broodthaers
Marcel Broodthaers, ‘Minuit’ (1969)
Part of a series entitled ‘Industrial Poems,’ ‘Minuit’ is made of a thermally shaped plastic sheet, making it possible to reproduce infinite copies of the same thing.
André Breton and Philippe Soupault
André Breton and Philippe Soupault, excerpt from ‘The Magnetic Fields’ (1920)
Translated by Maria Elena Buszek
Magical squares do not make good stopping places.
Charles Bukowski
‘8 count’ by Charles Bukowski, from ‘Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame: Selected Poems 1955-1973′
Tina & David Meltzer
Lamentation for Hank Williams
—If I can’t finish writing a song in ten minutes then it ain’t worth the finishing,
said Hank to a reporter.
A camera was busy taking pictures for LIFE magazine.
–I’ll never get out of this world alive,
wrote Hank in a song
sung for millions at The Grand Ole Opry
published by Acuff-Rose Sales Inc.
recorded by MGM records
flat-picking his D-28
backed up by The Drifting Cowboys
night after night & during the days
playing at picnics, rallies
supermarket gala openings
–There’s no dreams but bad ones,
Hank told his wife Audrey
who told her lover who told the doctor
who could not heal him
places no longer places
velocity of faces
& he burned down, died at 29 of an overdose
kindly rocked to sleep in the back seat of his Cadillac
being driven to a concert
New Year’s Day 1953
by Tina & David Meltzer (listen here)
