‘Nothing happened today’ (2013) by Li Ming
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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)
Mark Manders
Mark Manders‘ ‘Newspaper’ series is an ongoing series of printed newspaper editions often free for the public to take home and available only during his exhibitions.
Using a nonsensical combination of English words, their text creates a pretense of legibility that dissolves upon closer inspection.
Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara, ‘Desk job’ (2009)
“A typewriter sits in the middle of a desk surrounded by a litter of screwed up paper, notes typed on file cards, and reference photographs of architectural details, erotic sculpture and gay pornography. Copies of the one-page synopsis of the novel are stacked on the desk, setting the fictional parameters as it describes the novelist’s thwarted attempts to write, his ultimate seclusion and his indulgence in clandestine sexual activities inspired by and in defilation of the building’s sleek Modernist architecture. The synopsis ends with the first line of the novel: ‘A novelist is living in an exquisitely crafted modernist house …’, a line we see typed on the sheet of paper in the typewriter.” (Kirsty Bell in Frieze Magazine, Issue 132, June–August 2010)
