george maciunas
Monday, July 24th, 2006
George Maciunas (November 8, 1931 – May 9, 1978) was an American artist who was a founding member of the Fluxus movement. He is generally credited with having invented the name “Fluxus.”
Archive: July, 2006
gertrude stein / alice b.toklas
Monday, July 24th, 2006Hubby/Wifey
From 1911 to 1946, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas lived together in Paris as husband and wife. Although they were not “out” as lesbians, the inseparable duo forged a prophetic and enduring same-sex union.
In HUBBY/WIFEY, the new short film from the husband & husband team of director Todd Hughes (THE NEW WOMEN, DING DONG) and producer P. David Ebersole (STRANGER INSIDE, DEATH IN VENICE CA), a modern lesbian couple shares a fever dream with their foremothers, Gertrude and Alice, of the joys and trials of gay marriage.
The film pays homage to Stein’s legendary salon of Parisian visionaries, Man Ray, Picasso, Dali and Buñuel and is set to a moving love letter Stein wrote late one night in the early 20’s for her beloved to find on the morning of her birthday. …
emmett williams
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Emmett Williams was born April 4th, 1925, in Greenville, South Carolina, grew up in Virginia, and lived in Europe from 1949 to 1966.
le déjeuner en fourrure
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Méret Oppenheim (October 6, 1913, Berlin—November 15, 1985, Switzerland) was a German-born Swiss Dada and Surrealist artist, and photographer. After growing up in Switzerland, Meret Oppenheim traveled in Paris and enrolled at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere. After meeting Giacometti, Arp, and Man Ray, she became absorbed in Surrealism, first contributing her sculptures to their exhibitions in 1933.
chie mukai
Sunday, July 23rd, 2006
Chie Mukai started studying improvised music under Takehisa Kosugi in the late 70s, and was a member of the renowned Japanese freeform group East Bionic Symphonia at this time. Kosugi was the one who gave Mukai her first er-hu, a bowed Chinese “violin” of challenging tonalities. The instrument (and its Japanese variation, the kokyu) has been a central part of Mukai’s creative endeavours ever since. In the early 80s, Mukai started playing in various improvised contexts, and she also formed her own folk-psych unit Che-SHIZU, a group which stil exists and has released five full albums to date.
“Ã gertrude stein”
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
Christoph Gallio “Ã Gertrude Stein” percaso production CD 016
Christoph Gallio: soprano & altosax
Ellen Christi: voice
William Parker: bass
Rashied Ali: drums
Words by Gertrude Stein, Music by Christoph Gallio except
2,8,13,17 by Gallio / Christi / Parker / Ali
Recorded October 10 and 11, 1994 by Rick Rowe and Royston Langdon at Baby Monster Studios, New York. Mixed and edited by Max Spielmann at Elephant château, Basel. Mastered by Glenn Miller at Greenwood Studio Nunningen. Cover Art: Claudio Moser
Musicians Marilyn Crispell and Ellen Christi add fresh sounds to the male world of jazz.Jennifer Lawhorn
Ellen Christi displays a wide load of stylistic jumbling, often changing voices several times…Her technique involves lots of jamming together of words and non-word events, and if you’re not a square, you can handle it.Byron Coley
gertrude stein / poetry
Wednesday, July 19th, 2006
[adapted from an entry in the (c)Encyclopedia Britannica] (b. Feb. 3, 1874, Allegheny, Pa., U.S.–d. July 27, 1946, Paris), avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius, whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II.
Stein spent her infancy in Vienna and Paris and her girlhood in Oakland, Calif. At Radcliffe College she studied psychology with the philosopher Willia James. After further study at Johns Hopkins medical school she went to Paris, where she was able to live by private means. From 1903 to 1912 she lived with her brother Leo, who became an accomplished art critic; thereafter she lived with her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967).
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