numen / for use




performance, sculpture

Jonathon Keats: Jargon Watch

“Space Invaders n. pl. A nickname given to the transposons responsible for injecting reptilian and amphibian DNA into mammalian genomes 15 to 46 million years ago. We have good reason to dread the return of the virus-borne gene reprogrammers—their first appearance coincided with mass extinctions.”


conceptual work



art, language, performance, polyartist, posthuman

HERMAN KOLGEN



performance, posthuman, video

Dexter Sinister



academia, adversary, performance

if:book: what’s the word’s worth on the world wide web?

Mark Amerika: “The most successful writer-personas now and into the future -? at least those interested in “making a living” as you put it -? will be those who can take on varying flux personas via the act of writing.”



digital poetics, performance, writing

Tagny Duff

Cryobooks (2008) :
made from cloned biological viruses
genetically modified with a jellyfish gene (RFP).
displayed at -80 degree temperature



bioart, books, performance

text message by Benjamin Lotan

text message from Benjamin Lotan on Vimeo.

Innately devout and idiosyncratic.



face, libido, narcotics, performance, text

Festival Voix d’Amériques

Off FVA 2009 — Sortir de l’écran



digital poetics, orality, performance, polyartist

Onyx:

Onyx: a open source flash VJ performance tool



beatbox in abox



open source, performance, tool

sponge/projects/M1



“M1 explores the cusp between visible and invisible performance, between scripted and chance events and emergent social patterns.

M1 can be performed by anyone, anywhere. The first iteration of M1 by sponge took place at Tressider Plaza, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Califonia during the spring of 1997.

M1 is a barely perceptible anomaly that does not emerge into the visible during one cycle of viewing. It makes a slow and cumulative imprint.”



anomalies, art, performance, practice

Vexations – Erik Satie:


“In order to play this motif 840 times consecutively to oneself, it will be useful to prepare oneself beforehand, and in utter silence, by grave immobilities.”



performance

Frozen Grand Central at Improv Everywhere




“On a cold Saturday in New York City, the world’s largest train station came to a sudden halt. Over 200 Improv Everywhere Agents froze in place at the exact same second for five minutes in the Main Concourse of Grand Central Station.”



collaboration, performance

Bas Jan Ader




anomalies, art, artist, performance



concept, performance, time

NOTATION AND THE ART OF READING, Karl Young


“The idea of notation implies, if not demands, performance. Virtually any form of writing is a kind of notation and any form of reading is a type of performance. Poetry is an intensely physical art, one that activates several senses at once. In aural societies poetry has traditionally been accompanied by facial movement, gesture, manipulation of symbolic objects, the drawing and painting of figures, the wearing of costumes, etc. — all of which, in a tribal context, are read. Poetry still is a physical art using multiple senses: the body as a whole equals or sometimes replaces the voice in performance art, and even silent readers turn pages, move their heads, their eyes, the roots of their tongues if not their tongues and lips, and so forth.”



academia, oral, performance, reading