Archive for the “Announcements” category
Andrej Dubravsky
by Travis Jeppesen on October 2, 2012
“This is the place where the narcissism of youth—and especially this generation of youth—melts in the face of the artist’s chief tendency, which is that of expressionism; for what else is expression if not the sacrifice of the self at (…)
Mansudae Art Studio
by Travis Jeppesen on September 16, 2012
“No matter how hard enemy forces may strike, these works imply that the eternal fatherland will forever remain standing, solid, tough, and unforgiving as the mountains that form its core.” A review of the Mansudae Art Studio at Galerie Son (…)
Arirang
by Travis Jeppesen on September 15, 2012
“In the course of the ritual, any division between “us” and “them,” participant and audience member, is dissolved in the experiential spectacle of mass being.” On the last ever performance of the Arirang Mass Games in Pyongyang.
Diane Arbus
by Travis Jeppesen on August 27, 2012
“Arbus was the photographer America never wanted, but always deserved. She was the first to show us what’s wrong with the country in a non-documentary way. It’s difficult to imagine how subsequent dissident clickers of the country’s uglier private reaches (…)
METALAB PRESENTS: Object-Oriented Writing with Travis Jeppesen
by Travis Jeppesen on July 15, 2012
Friday, 20th of July, 6-8.30pm V&A Seminar Room A London SW7 2RL (meet at side entrance on Exhibition Road) This workshop, led by Travis Jeppesen, explores an approach to writing that attempts to inhabit the object. Travis’s object-oriented writing positions (…)
blip drip
by Travis Jeppesen on October 16, 2011
The Lisbon-based musician/sound artist Motile has turned the poem “Blip Drip,” from my 2006 collection Poems I Wrote While Watching TV, into a song. flip the want to get us through lack of sensate warmth stare at artificial stars (…)
The Names
by Travis Jeppesen on October 9, 2011
The Names is a section from The Suiciders, a novel. Read it here.
I’m in China
by Travis Jeppesen on June 22, 2011
….in case you haven’t heard. Will be until late July, it looks to be at the moment. If you need to get in touch, the best way is through e-mail: travis.jeppesen@gmail.com. Facebook don’t work.
Longitude’s Necklace
by Travis Jeppesen on June 4, 2011
“Her heart is boundless, bleeding. She is the porn star mother of us all, the whore, and she doesn’t even acknowledge her own presence once the forest threatens to overtake her human-style longing. She dresses in fur and feathers, leaves (…)