Saturday, August 31, 2013

anvil


Volodymyr Bilyk. This is visual poetry.

bilyk-cover

The backstory of the series is in the aborted project of releasing Raymond Chandler novels. Pieces – which are font collages started as the illustrations. It was to be the blink into the characters mind. Then the project was shut down – but I was too much in this thing – almost obsessed. I was fulfilled by it and I had a need to exhaust it to the bottom.

The central idea is the collision of the dada-sensibility (mostly inspired by the collages of Kurt Schwitters, Hannah Hoch and Raoul Hausmann), the hard-boiled images (Raymond Chandler, Dashiel Hammett, James Cain, Jim Thompson) and the film noir atmosphere (Night of the Hunter, The Big Heat, Touch of Evil, Maltese Falcon). The link between them is Jean-Michel Basquat and his highly expressive, straight-to-the-point chaotic style. His compositional method is the most adequate for the purpose of recreating kaleidoscopical frenzy.

The reader (because the images are built with fonts which contains letter which got the forms of certain images or placed to look as the certain images) is like the private eye remembering his last job. Remembering that he looked for the thing long enough to be haunted by it, to become obsessed by it. All he can remember are this blinks and from the blinks he builds the backstory and the stories between the blinks.

Tuesday, August 27, 2013

_Six Months Ain't No Sentence_ by Jim Leftwich @ differxhost "BOX"


differx and differxhost [see here and here] host right now the books 01-50 (from year 2011 to year 2013) of "Six Months Aint No Sentence", texts and works by Jim Leftwich

[+ a file by John M. Bennett, re-working on J.L.'s texts]

 All the pdf files are freely downloadable here.

(CC) Jim Leftwich, 2011-13 
acknowledgements:

announcement here too: 
   


Wednesday, August 14, 2013

@ the train station / differx. 2013 [document]





 
 
Yesterday @ the Ostiense Station all the looping videos were wonderfully glitched and out-of-synch.
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