Sound, Silence, and Jaap Blonk
by Lightsey Darst
Here’s the joke: with a name like Jaap Blonk, how could you not be a sound poet?
Let’s skip the intro and get straight to the action. 3/28/12, 12 p.m., fresh off the plane, Dutch sound poet Jaap Blonk speaks at Lind Hall, University of Minnesota.
We warm up with [...]
Tweets on Ice
In which Lightsey Darst and MC Hyland discuss contributions to The Shantyquarian, a tweet-sourced letterpress paper that Hyland and friends are running at the Art Shanties.
mnicebike: Shanty Haiku I.
Biked here on Christmas.
Westerly headwinds blew
hard. Surveyed the lake ice.
LD: This one comes from your very first issue. My take: you’re just getting going [...]
Dance As Still Life
By Lightsey Darst
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On a Saturday afternoon at the Walker, in Dance Works I: Merce Cunningham/Robert Rauschenberg, people wander about. Lurking in the little study area under the guise of perusing books on Cunningham and listening to various people talk on headphones, I watch my fellow gallery-goers, who mostly give this gallery a hasty glance. They [...]
Body Cartography
Let’s look at a dance.
Let’s look at you looking at a dance.
Let’s look at you dancing.
When we look at you, you are dancing. How does it feel?
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Here’s a dance to look at. It’s by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, otherwise known as The BodyCartography Project. It’s an excerpt from Mammal, a recent commission [...]