Author Archives: jolanta

As a musician, when I think about sound, I almost immediately focus upon being in the city. It’s where almost every idea about sound that I’ve had recently has sprung from, solely from being out on the street, walking amongst the people and the traffic.  From the moment I emerge from my doorway and step […]

I was 16 when I first came across an image of Kembra Pfahler in a magazine that some punk friend had given me. The image hit me over the head like a glass bottle at a rock show. I was a sheltered teenager who grew up less then a mile away from George Bush Senior, […]

I am a Beautiful Monster is the first definitive edition in English of writings by the poet and consummate anti-artist Francis Picabia (1879-1953) published recently by MIT-Press. With lightning wit and, speedy contradictions and a slight of hand, Picabia created works and wrote text demonstrating that “abstractionism”; Ddada and Ssurrealism can be as powerful and […]

The marriage, or partnering, of performance and sound begins with the wails and squished faces of babes—improvised acts, attempts to draw response and be provided for. Mirror Mirror aim to indoctrinate us and our offspring. As the marketing and inspirational face of The Society for the Advancement of Inflammatory Consciousness, they beckon us to come […]

Creative Time: The Book exposes how Creative Time, the New York City–based arts organization, has changed the notion of art in the public realm over the past 33 years. Creative Time has made it possible for more than 1,300 artists to create over 300 public works that have enlivened and transformed the city. With contributions […]