Archive for the “Announcements” category
Dust
by Travis Jeppesen on May 9, 2011
“I don’t want a policeman in the room when I’m fucking.” Bruce Benderson and I discuss the subject of youth in the inaugural issue of Dust, which can be ordered here.
Bruce Benderson and Gary Indiana and Eileen Myles
by Travis Jeppesen on April 26, 2011
It doesn’t matter; there is no matter. Memory doesn’t spit out physical objects, all pristine and shiny. If there is such a thing as a truth in writing, about writing, then it’s always located in the roughness around the edges. (…)
Rainer Fetting at the Berlinische Galerie
by Travis Jeppesen on April 24, 2011
“Buildings and walls may be erected and razed, but something about the city always stays the same. Gray, sunless Berlin with its sullen, underfed inhabitants who only come out at night. Berlin in dim, chronically underlit bars where you have (…)
Itchy Homo
by Travis Jeppesen on April 23, 2011
Where the life of the mind is concerned, totalitarianism has already triumphed, and its benefactor has been American-style democracy. This is reflected widely in the “literature” that is most praised and consumed in our culture, a literature that can no (…)
Dieter Roth in London
by Travis Jeppesen on April 22, 2011
He allowed every type of material, organic and synthetic, into his universe, and fittingly, much of the work is now undergoing the kinds of processes the human body endures once life has vacated it.
Stockholm
by Travis Jeppesen on April 21, 2011
At 3am, this is from a much longer work-in-progress, a poem called Europa. About what Europe is and used to be and could be, and who I am with all of it. This section’s a nakedly summer poem, for those (…)
Center of the Earth Gallery in Charlotte to close
by Travis Jeppesen on May 8, 2010
Sad to hear the news about one of my hometown galleries. My earliest exposure to visual art came from this neighborhood, which they nearly singlehandedly pioneered.
Itchy Homo, or Why I Am So Terrible
by Travis Jeppesen on March 23, 2010
An expanded version of my earlier blog post on Baselitz, bad writing, and the making of my novel The Suiciders, can now be read at Open Democracy.
One or Several Wolves: reading in London
by Travis Jeppesen on March 17, 2010
One or Several Wolves: multiplicities and packs in art The event features an exhibition of the photographic work of London-based photographer Tereza Zelenkova, paintings and drawings by the New York-based artist Jason Saager and the novelist and art critic Travis (…)
