10s 2021
A. Art works/shows
1. Laurie Anderson (Hirschhorn, DC)
2. Atlantide (Yuri Ancari, Venice Film Festival) 3. Comics in Chicago (MCA, Chicago) 4. Joan Mitchell (SFMOMA) 5. Precious Okoyomon (Performance Space, NY) 6. Philippe Parreno and Pierre Huyghe (Luma Foundation, Arles) It's hard to tell from this picture from the Laurie Anderson show, but this is a huge wall and the floor of this massive room she painted black and then wrote all over. It felt immersive and endless and the storytelling really made it feel like I was in a dream.
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B. Books
1. Common Tones, Alan Licht
2. The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, by Louis Menand 3. Organic Music Societies 4. All of the Marvels: A Journey to the Ends of the Biggest Story Ever Told, by Douglas Wolk |
C. Comics
1. Steeple Vol. 2, John Allison
2. Bubbles Fanzine #9-12, Brian Baynes, ed. 3. Heaven No Hell, Michael DeForge 4. Beta Ray Bill: Argent Star, Daniel Warren Johnson 5. It's Life as I See It: Black Cartoonists in Chicago, 1940–1980, Dan Nadel, ed. 6. Tongues #4, Anders Nilsen 7. The Cardboard Kingdom: Roar of the Beast, Chad Sell 8. Discipline, Dash Shaw 9. Monsters, Barry Windsor Smith 10. Systems, Olivia Sullivan |
D. Music: Neue
1. Lost Futures, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler
2. A Visible Length of Light, Lea Bertucci 3. Made of Sound, Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt 4. Promises, Floating Points, Pharaoh Sanders, London Symphony Orchestra 5. Sankofa, Amaro Freitas 6. Ma délire - Songs of love, lost & found, Myriam Gendron 7. I Stand Corrected, E.R. Jurken 8. How To Moonwalk, Emily Robb 9. Space 1.8, Nala Sinephro 10. Welcome To the Garden, Emily Steinwall The ringer here is my friend Ed Jurken's exquisite song cycle, years in the living and then making, whose emphasis on choral vocals has no other analogue in contemporary popular music that I know of.
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E. Music: Reissues
F. Poems
lusting and unafraid. In this bipedal incarnation
I have always been scared of my own ripening, mother standing outside the fitting room door. I only become bright after Bloody Mary’s, only whole in New Jersey summers where beefsteaks, like baubles, sag in the yard, where we pass down heirlooms in thin paper envelopes and I tend barefoot to a garden that snakes with desire, unashamed to coil and spread. Cherry Falls, Brandywine, Sweet Aperitif, I kneel with a spool, staking and tying, checking each morning after last night’s thunderstorm only to find more sprawl, the tomatoes have no fear of wind and water, they gain power from the lightning, while I, in this version of life, retreat in bed to wither. In this life, rabbits are afraid of my clumsy gait. In the next, let them come willingly to nibble my lowest limbs, my outstretched arm always offering something sweet. I want to return from reincarnation’s spin covered in dirt and buds. I want to be unabashed, audacious, to gobble space, to blush deeper each day in the sun, knowing I’ll end up in an eager mouth. An overly ripe tomato will begin sprouting, so excited it is for more life, so intent to be part of this world, trellising wildly. For every time in this life I have thought of dying, let me yield that much fruit in my next, skeleton drooping under the weight of my own vivacity as I spread to take more of this air, this fencepost, this forgiving light. |
1. Louise Gluck
2. "In My Next Life Let Me Be a Tomato", Natasha Rao 3. O.B.B. a.k.a. The Original Brown Boy, Paolo Javier with art by Alex Tarampi and Ernest Concepcion |
G. Jamz
1. [Ahmed] Nights on Saturn (Communication)
2. Drake featuring Rick Ross, “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” 3. Irreversible Entanglements, “Open the Gates” 4. Jlin, “Embryo” 5. E.R. Jurken, “Gone Gone Gone” 6. Little Simz, “Speed” 7. Polo G, “Bloody Canvas” 8. Marisa Anderson & William Tyler, “News About Heaven” 9. Jessie Ware, “Please” 10. Kanye West, “Jail” 11. Yeat, “Gët Busy” |