Chris Nealon grew up in Binghamton, NY; went to Williams College and
lived in Boston after that, then Ithaca, NY, then Seattle, before
moving to SF to teach at Berkeley. He has written two books,
Foundlings: Lesbian and Gay Emotion Before Stonewall (2001), and The
Joyous Age (2004). Chris lives in San Francisco and in Washington,
DC.
Juliana Spahr's books include This Connection of Everyone with Lungs
(U of California P, 2005), Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You (Wesleyan U
P,2001), Everybody's Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective
Identity (U of Alabama P, 2001), and Response (Sun & Moon P, 1996).
Scott Inguito's poems have appeared in Fence, Aufgabe, 1913: a journal
of forms, DANTA, and Parlour Games. Recent work may be found in
Anthology of Latino Poets from University of Arizona Press, and Bay
Poetics from Faux Press. His chapbook, lection , is out from Subday
Press. Scott lives in San Francisco.
Monday, July 31, 2006
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Poetry Marathon
The LAB presents
2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon
Saturday, July 15, 7-10 PM
Saturday, August 12, 7-10 PM
$3-$15 sliding scale admission
Tickets available at the door or call 415-864-8855 for advance reservations
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
The LAB is pleased to host the third annual Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon. Poets from across the U.S. and the Bay Area join together again to celebrate innovative poetry in a series of readings throughout the summer. Hear some of the most exciting established and emerging poets from the Bay Area and beyond. July 15th readers include Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Steffi Drewes, Kathleen Fraser, and Barbara Tomash. Come join us to hear this year's exciting line-up!
2006 Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon
Saturday, July 15, 7-10 PM
Saturday, August 12, 7-10 PM
$3-$15 sliding scale admission
Tickets available at the door or call 415-864-8855 for advance reservations
This event takes place at The LAB, 2948 16th Street @ Capp, San Francisco
The LAB is pleased to host the third annual Bay Area Summer Poetry Marathon. Poets from across the U.S. and the Bay Area join together again to celebrate innovative poetry in a series of readings throughout the summer. Hear some of the most exciting established and emerging poets from the Bay Area and beyond. July 15th readers include Lee Ann Brown, Maxine Chernoff, Norma Cole, Steve Dickison, Steffi Drewes, Kathleen Fraser, and Barbara Tomash. Come join us to hear this year's exciting line-up!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
our new website unveiled!!!
after what seems like a millennia, we finally have it up & running!!!!
www.artifactsf.org
there are a few things left to be updated, like the staff page, photo credits (thank you Jessamyn Harris, Alli Warren, & Michael Nicoloff for their lovely pics), & the links (which are the same as the blog), but all in due time.
thank you to the genius of Jay Thomas for building the site. I thank myself for designing the site (you're quite welcome) & I also thank Jack Bessey for consulting on it.
www.artifactsf.org
there are a few things left to be updated, like the staff page, photo credits (thank you Jessamyn Harris, Alli Warren, & Michael Nicoloff for their lovely pics), & the links (which are the same as the blog), but all in due time.
thank you to the genius of Jay Thomas for building the site. I thank myself for designing the site (you're quite welcome) & I also thank Jack Bessey for consulting on it.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
7.11-8.12 : Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton
Tuesday July 11 - Saturday August 12
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 7-10 pm
Reading by Dodie Bellamy: Wednesday, July 12, 7 pm
Admission: $8/$5 Members, students, and seniors
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton is a laboratory-style, experiential exhibition modeled after Jock Reynolds' 1978 show Five Habitats for Five Members at Langton's original location, 80 Langton Street. In 2006, Langton challenges artist curators John Baldessari, Keith Boadwee, Matthew Higgs, Joseph del Pesco, and Anne Walsh to each invite five artists working across disciplines for one-week intervals to occupy and activate the gallery space. Korean-born architect Kyu Che designed five habitats in the gallery to be transformed by the artists into open studios, exhibition spaces, lounges, working stations, discussion forums, screening venues, performance settings, and more.
Week One: July 11 - 15
Curator: Matthew Higgs
Artists: Dodie Bellamy, Chris Cobb, Alexis Georgopoulos, Kevin
Killian, and Mitzi Pederson.
Kathy Acker, the novelist and theorist, died from breast cancer in 1997. Her papers are at Duke, but her clothes and accessories remain in the possession of her executor, Matias Viegener. Dodie Bellamy will display a selection of Kathy Acker's clothes during her residency at New Langton Arts, and on Wednesday, July 12 Dodie Bellamy will give a presentation, "Digging Through Kathy Acker's Stuff."
During his one-week residency at Langton, Chris Cobb creates a lounge area to listen to the music of Devendra Banhart and the Hairy Fairy Band . Cobb, a big fan of Devendra's "freak funk" music, proposes a space that welcomes visitors to listen to the band's albums. It also includes a large number of photographs of them--both in concert and back stage--taken by Cobb.
Musician, composer and artist Alexis Georgopoulos presents ARP, occupying the smallest space Kyu Che designed for the exhibition. As such, Georgopoulos has chosen the intimate idea of getting together with a friend or acquaintance to share a cup of tea, to take a moment, to slow down, and perhaps, reflect. Georgopoulos places a table, a tea set for two, and two speakers in the space. In this intimate, almost cocoon-like setting, the music Georgopoulos has composed as ARP will play as a backdrop.
San Francisco writer Kevin Killian re-stages an exhibition presented earlier this Spring at White Columns, New York, Other People's Projects: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian . At White Columns Killian and Bellamy presented a complete run of their pioneering literary 'zine "Mirage/Period(ical)" alongside contributions from some of the artists and writers who have appeared on its pages. At Langton Killian will display 132 issues of the zine, and artworks by a variety of local and international artists.
Mitzi Pederson creates a new installation that explores ideas of tension, gravity, and systems interconnectivity. Pederson uses the "subterranean space", which is transformed into a private de-orchestrated piece, where the presence and movements of multiple bodies determines the effects on the space, ranging from calm qualities to periodic audible and visual disruptions.
Tuesday July 11 - Saturday August 12
Opening Reception: Tuesday, July 11, 7-10 pm
Reading by Dodie Bellamy: Wednesday, July 12, 7 pm
Admission: $8/$5 Members, students, and seniors
New Langton Arts
1246 Folsom Street
San Francisco, CA 94103-3817
For further information: 415.626.5416
www.newlangtonarts.org
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton is a laboratory-style, experiential exhibition modeled after Jock Reynolds' 1978 show Five Habitats for Five Members at Langton's original location, 80 Langton Street. In 2006, Langton challenges artist curators John Baldessari, Keith Boadwee, Matthew Higgs, Joseph del Pesco, and Anne Walsh to each invite five artists working across disciplines for one-week intervals to occupy and activate the gallery space. Korean-born architect Kyu Che designed five habitats in the gallery to be transformed by the artists into open studios, exhibition spaces, lounges, working stations, discussion forums, screening venues, performance settings, and more.
Week One: July 11 - 15
Curator: Matthew Higgs
Artists: Dodie Bellamy, Chris Cobb, Alexis Georgopoulos, Kevin
Killian, and Mitzi Pederson.
Kathy Acker, the novelist and theorist, died from breast cancer in 1997. Her papers are at Duke, but her clothes and accessories remain in the possession of her executor, Matias Viegener. Dodie Bellamy will display a selection of Kathy Acker's clothes during her residency at New Langton Arts, and on Wednesday, July 12 Dodie Bellamy will give a presentation, "Digging Through Kathy Acker's Stuff."
During his one-week residency at Langton, Chris Cobb creates a lounge area to listen to the music of Devendra Banhart and the Hairy Fairy Band . Cobb, a big fan of Devendra's "freak funk" music, proposes a space that welcomes visitors to listen to the band's albums. It also includes a large number of photographs of them--both in concert and back stage--taken by Cobb.
Musician, composer and artist Alexis Georgopoulos presents ARP, occupying the smallest space Kyu Che designed for the exhibition. As such, Georgopoulos has chosen the intimate idea of getting together with a friend or acquaintance to share a cup of tea, to take a moment, to slow down, and perhaps, reflect. Georgopoulos places a table, a tea set for two, and two speakers in the space. In this intimate, almost cocoon-like setting, the music Georgopoulos has composed as ARP will play as a backdrop.
San Francisco writer Kevin Killian re-stages an exhibition presented earlier this Spring at White Columns, New York, Other People's Projects: Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian . At White Columns Killian and Bellamy presented a complete run of their pioneering literary 'zine "Mirage/Period(ical)" alongside contributions from some of the artists and writers who have appeared on its pages. At Langton Killian will display 132 issues of the zine, and artworks by a variety of local and international artists.
Mitzi Pederson creates a new installation that explores ideas of tension, gravity, and systems interconnectivity. Pederson uses the "subterranean space", which is transformed into a private de-orchestrated piece, where the presence and movements of multiple bodies determines the effects on the space, ranging from calm qualities to periodic audible and visual disruptions.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
7.8.06: Pancake Breakfast Benefit for Bird & Beckett Books
BENEFIT FOR
BIRD & BECKETT
SAT. JULY 8TH - 9 a.m.
IN FRONT OF THE STORE
2788 Diamond, at Chenery, in Glen Park
great grub - cheap books
idle away some time with your neighbors and
help us fight the summertime slump!
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
a good read
Chris Stroffolino has put up an insightful article on the relationship btwn poetry/lit & the weeklies (East Bay Express, SF Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, etc.) over the years. In it also discussing Michelle Tea's article last week on Artifact in the SFBG. A good beginning for conversation here.
His blog is here.
His blog is here.
Monday, June 26, 2006
in the news again...
Hats off to Michelle Tea!
Her lovely article, The Salon, on the Artifact Reading Series & Press has just appeared in this past week's Lit Section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her ongoing House Hunter column, searches out Bay Area small presses & does a pretty little dance about them. They are always a great read. In this article Michelle does a splendid job of talking up Sara Larsen's doubly circulatory (which is on sale for a mere $6!--just email us at artifactsf@gmail.com for ordering info).
Click here to read the article.
Many thanks to you Michelle!
Her lovely article, The Salon, on the Artifact Reading Series & Press has just appeared in this past week's Lit Section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. Her ongoing House Hunter column, searches out Bay Area small presses & does a pretty little dance about them. They are always a great read. In this article Michelle does a splendid job of talking up Sara Larsen's doubly circulatory (which is on sale for a mere $6!--just email us at artifactsf@gmail.com for ordering info).
Click here to read the article.
Many thanks to you Michelle!
say, can you spare a space?
dearest darling artifactees,
we've discussed this in the past, taken polls, etc. & have heard a resounding ambivalence towards even the suggestion of moving the artifact reading series to a larger, public venue, however, with all this delightful publicity we're nearly too big for our britches & getting bigger every second. rather than resorting to the grapefruit diet, I'm thinking, branch OUT.
if you have in your possession or are connected with a larger space (one that may house 45-80 people reasonably & legally) in san francisco & might like to lend us a mere 3-4 hours one saturday a month, then we would like to hear from you. we're thinking, gallery, artspace, etc. a space that may continue in the vein of intimacy that our living room has held, welcoming experimental writing & its community into its fold.
(we also enjoy sunsets, long walks on the beach, fine wine & dining).
sound lovely to your ears? please contact me @ artifactsf@gmail.com.
yrs,
melissa benham
we've discussed this in the past, taken polls, etc. & have heard a resounding ambivalence towards even the suggestion of moving the artifact reading series to a larger, public venue, however, with all this delightful publicity we're nearly too big for our britches & getting bigger every second. rather than resorting to the grapefruit diet, I'm thinking, branch OUT.
if you have in your possession or are connected with a larger space (one that may house 45-80 people reasonably & legally) in san francisco & might like to lend us a mere 3-4 hours one saturday a month, then we would like to hear from you. we're thinking, gallery, artspace, etc. a space that may continue in the vein of intimacy that our living room has held, welcoming experimental writing & its community into its fold.
(we also enjoy sunsets, long walks on the beach, fine wine & dining).
sound lovely to your ears? please contact me @ artifactsf@gmail.com.
yrs,
melissa benham
Monday, June 12, 2006
hooke press hits the interweb
it's happened & it's beautiful...
for Norma Cole's At All (Tom Raworth & His Collages)
& soon to arrive books by Lauren Shufran & Kevin Killian
check out the beautiful & the delicious at www.hookepress.com
ABOUT HOOKE PRESS
Hooke Press was founded in late 2005 by Neil Alger and Brent Cunningham. It was named for Robert Hooke, a 17th century British scientist and the first Curator of Experiments at the Royal Society. Inspired by Hooke’s experiments and observations across an astonishing number of disciplines, Hooke Press seeks to publish small-run books of poetry, criticism, theory, writing and ephemera that share his ecumenical spirit (but which do not necessarily share his famously sullen temperament). It is our conviction that “poetry” has gradually become less a genre than a locale. Under its banner, a wide array of thought, writing and activity now takes place which can find no other home in an increasingly restricted publishing and political environment.Our initial chapbook series includes books by Norma Cole, Kevin Killian and Lauren Shufran.
Hooke Press wishes to thank the Holocene Research Society (HRS) for its past support. The HRS is a “shell society” for the Research Foundation of the Holocene (RFH), which we also wish to thank for fronting the HRS. In addition we wish to thank the Society for Research into Holocene Culture (SRHC) which currently acts as the European parent company for the RFH.
More directly, Hooke Press is affiliated with the Artifact Reading Series and Press in San Francisco.
(Quoted from their site)
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