At The Library

The Ohio State University Libraries' catalogue record for Arty Party.
And their record for This is a Comic Book.

The Chicago Underground Library's catalogue record for the CSBYS March 2010 issue. 

Poem For OSU's Yearbook + 2

 I submitted the following poem to be included in OSU's yearbook. The theme of the call for submissions is "Faces of Reality." This poem will not be published in the yearbook, it is safe to say.

BTW: On June 3rd I will be reading some poems somewhere at OSU for The Grove, an online literary journal published by OSU undergraduate students. My jocular cat poem Thurber is in their new issue which you can find here.

On June 5th I will be performing with Marina Goldshteyn at Junctionview Studios during Creative Arts for Women's Sadie Hawkins show. I'll be composing a poem on the spot which will be projected onto the wall. While the poem is being written Marina will paint the words I am using as I use them - materializing the layers of the writing process that normally go unseen and creating a bright mess of a mural.

The poem for OSU,  LIKE "WHO NEEDS IT?", is after "The Jump" as is two more.

BORING, FOR CLASS

Go below for sentences like, "Her head is in the top fifth of the picture plane."

PARTY PICS

OCT. 31, 1978

I was forced to enroll in an internet class to keep my financial aid while I work an internship in Chicago that is the last requirement of my degree. The class has ridiculous assignments. This one was to write a story or narrative about a piece of artwork we had previously described. Here is what I rattled off,  A DEAR DIARY from On Kawara on OCT.31,1978. Why am I still in school? It is after "the jump" but I wouldn't bother if I were you.

Michael D. Hall's New Book on Emerson Burkhart

Michael D. Hall's new monograph published by Scala.

My last story for the Lantern is a preview of a book presentation by Michael D. Hall, the  Columbus Museum of Art's adjunct curator of folk art. Hall has spent the last ten years developing a book on Emerson Burkhart, an odd local/regional figure who didn't "fit" into the larger themes of the art world of his time. By all accounts he was flagrantly egotistical, arrogant, and stubborn. Also, a 20 year-old prostitute was the last person to talk to him before he fell into a coma and died in 1969. So, apparently, a personable gent. This info is a little annoying to know - I used to revel in Burkhart's paintings while in high school. He painted obnoxiously thick, something I was obsessed with at the time. His palette centered on hyper pastels, another tic I cultivated without regard for my teachers' eyesight. I stopped searching his work out when I stopped painting in oils but a recent visit to the Convention Center renewed my interest. His mural there, "Music," is really beautiful - though Hall and a few other commentators online seem to dismiss it as derivative - which it is - but so is his whole oeuvre. After all, he was a Columbus artist.

"Music" at the Convention Center. History of the piece here.

An MP3 of my interview with Hall here.
My story plus more of Burkhart's paintings after "the jump."

Wexner Center Media Arts Seminar Blog

A Cassavetes film Green's students wrote about for their class blog.

I recently wrote this story - my second to last for the Lantern - about Ron Green's partnership with the Wexner Center to develop a public blogging mechanism for his seminar class devoted to the Wexner's Media Arts programming. Set ups like this are sort of a no-brainer to me yet they seem to not be a widespread practice at OSU. Of course, that's OSU. So kudos to Green and the Wexner for attempting something out of the norm.

An interview with Chris Stults, the Wexner Center's assistant curator of film/video - here.
An interview with Dan Guarnieri, a student in the class - here.

The story is after "the jump." So is my interview with Green.

Politics & Punk Houses

                                                Cassie.

Yesterday, during a show at the Monster House, my roommate Cassie Troyan interviewed me about my views on the political ramifications of punk houses. I take on a desultory, jaded tone about it. I believe she is using this interview as the basis of a story for The Journal of Radical Shimming.

                                       MP3 of interview here.

Some topics covered: Paris in 68, Jehovah's Witnesses, Grunge, Dutch Pillarisation, OSU riots in 1970, Punk House as Frat House, CSBYS history, Cat and Girl, Clinton-era political correctness, psychology of solidarity, Luc Tuymans, fetishization of radicalism, Kevin Tavin, social networking, Against me!, upward mobility, Barack Obama, Ivy League vs. State Universities, mediation.

During our talk these bands played:

Warm Hands

Ginger Fetus

Ginger Fetus + Toby

13 E. Tulane

Story below on 13 E.Tulane / itlookslikeitsopen project space/place. Sandy Plank and Jessica Alcalde have a show there December 5th that everyone should be sparkling about.

Lantern version here: (note - they are not current students.)

Andy tells me:

"I think I'm hanging some recent photos actually. And some paper things. All of it will be highly questionable of course.

Rough Draft of OSU RIOTS

Story after "the jump."