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VSK CHAPBOOK PAOLO JAVIER AND MATT JONES: FROM THE OCCULT DIARY OF HOSNI MUBARAK

In Uncategorized on December 18, 2011 at 11:41 pm

 

 

The latest VSK Chapbook is  FROM THE OCCULT DIARY OF HOSNI MUBARAK by Paolo Javier and Matt Jones.  It is available for PDF download here.

 

 

 

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The authors provide the following information about themselves:

Paolo Javier is the current Queens Borough Poet Laureate. The recipient of grants from the Queens Council on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, he is the author of four chapbooks and three full-length poetry collections, including The Feeling Is Actual (Marsh Hawk Press, October 2011).

Matt Jones was born and raised in a suburb of Rochester, New York. He received his BFA in art from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2002.

He has had a half dozen solo shows and participated in numerous group shows over the last eight years. He lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He’s also read every book on UFOs, the paranormal, ancient astronaut theory, the Knights Templar, and quantum mechanics he can get ahold of.

Ghostbusters is his favorite movie.

 

 

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Paolo was previously artist in residence for VerySmallKitchen’s DEPARTMENT OF MICROPOETICS at the AC Institute in New York. Details of that project is here.

One starting point for collaboration here was Matt Jones Occult Drawings in 2nd Avenue.

 

 

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Read FROM THE OCCULT DIARY OF HOSNI MUBARAK here.

 

 

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DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS: TALK by PAOLO JAVIER and MAGIC MOVIE DAY 3 + 4 by PAOLO JAVIER & ROBERTO JAMORA

In Uncategorized on October 18, 2010 at 12:41 am

Paolo Javier’s residency at the DEPARTMENT OF MICRO POETICS concluded with a talk/ performance on Saturday 16 October. You can see the talk above. 

Paolo Javier and Robert Jamora also made  a MAGIC MOVIE’s of their third and fourth day working in the DEPARTMENT (see below). The movie of DAY ONE can be seen here. 

A full description of Paolo’s residency can be found here.   Paolo and Roberto have also  produced the silkscreened, multi-folded first issue of the concluding sequence of obb a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy. 

 

Department of Micro-Poetics, AC Institute, New York. Photo: Matt Dalby

 

 

 

 

An e-chapbook of work produced during the residency is forthcoming from VerySmallKitchen.

More info on all this to follow, along with details/ recordings of Matt Dalby’s performance on the 14th, and the complete BULLETINS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS… 

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MAGIC MOVIE: PAOLO JAVIER AND ROBERTO JAMORA AT THE DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS

In Uncategorized on October 15, 2010 at 7:20 pm

 

Paolo Javier sent the above video as a record of his first day in residence at VerySmallKitchen’s DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS, with Roberto Jamora.  Full details of the residency at the AC Institute in New York City can be seen here.  

The residency concludes on Saturday 16th with a reception at 3pm and a talk/performance at 4pm. 

Paolo’s description of the residency is as follows:

During his residency at the Department of Micro Poetics, Queens Poet Laureate PAOLO JAVIER will complete obb a.k.a. the original brown boy, a collaborative multimedia poetry comic begun in 2006 that imagines an octopus and a catfish moving through New York City at the turn of the new millennium. Comic (book art) history, (trans)nationalism, race, and desire are among obb’s many intersections and collisions.

The work also foregrounds the presence of the poetic in comic books, and experiments with it in a fragmented text built on/with/from/through illustration, cut-up, collage, video, and painting. Javier will be joined by collaborators ERNEST CONCEPCION, MIKE ESTABROOK, andROBERTO JAMORA throughout the residency, and will exhibit the entirety of their collaboration with a talk and performance on the last day.

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DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS: PAOLO JAVIER IN RESIDENCE

In Uncategorized on October 10, 2010 at 10:13 pm

The Department of Micro-Poetics concludes this week at the AC Institute in New York with a four day residency by Paolo Javier 13-16th October 2010. Paolo describes his project as follows: 

During his residency at the Department of Micro Poetics, Queens Poet Laureate PAOLO JAVIER will complete obb a.k.a. the original brown boy, a collaborative multimedia poetry comic begun in 2006 that imagines an octopus and a catfish moving through New York City at the turn of the new millennium. Comic (book art) history, (trans)nationalism, race, and desire are among obb’s many intersections and collisions.

 

The work also foregrounds the presence of the poetic in comic books, and experiments with it in a fragmented text built on/with/from/through illustration, cut-up, collage, video, and painting. Javier will be joined by collaborators ERNEST CONCEPCION, MIKE ESTABROOK, and ROBERTO JAMORA throughout the residency, and will exhibit the entirety of their collaboration with a talk and performance on the last day.

 

Paolo will be working in the AC Institute space from Wednesday to Saturday. Join him on Saturday October 16th for a reception at 3pm and a talk/ performance at 4pm.

Goldfish Kisses, a fifty five-page chapbook excerpt from obb, appeared in a limited edition published by Sona Books in 2007. Extracts from the project can be viewed here and here.