The Simulators @ Artbound

29 Palms Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center

an excerpt from a novel in progress…

thanks to Hillary Mushkin for the solicitation–

A Neural Net

downloadable here 

Collectively assembled by Rachel Levitsky & Ira Livingston (OoRS), Jen Hofer (ANTENA), Jen Scappettone, Kathy Westwater, & Seung-Jae Lee (PARK), and myself (BARGE)

for the Ecopoetics Conference panel “Ground Scores: Unburying Ecologies Through Embodied Practice”

 

New publications

“Push” – a performance text by myself & Abby Crain, in the new Itch #15

& “17 Reasons Why” in Mission 17, 2004-2009, ed Clark Buckner & Laura Mott

On Performance & Writing @ Jacket2

Blogging at Jacket2 for the next few months …

Updated Pennsound page

new & old work, including video, here

thanks to Michael Hennessey for putting it together—

INDEX @ Under Under

“Index” for Under Under
at Konsthall C in Stockholm, Sweden
by David Buuck and Juliana Spahr
images by Mikael Lundberg

wall text:
One thousand, nine hundred and ten. Twelve thousand, seven hundred and ninety three. Five. Five hundred. Three hundred and forty thousand. One hundred thousand. Six eight thousand. Four point seven percent. One point two percent. Three point eight percent. Three thousand one hundred and forty. Thirty one thousand. Fifty nine thousand. Six billion, eight hundred and eleven million. Seven hundred and eleven billion, four hundred and twenty one million. Eight hundred and seventy eight million.

Participants wrote the numbers by jumping up as high as they could. And they wrote them as large as they could. Attention was paid to the jump, not the writing. They did not erase or edit. It was okay if the numbers overlapped. And they didn’t have to go from left to right. They wrote the numbers in whatever medium they desired. Sharpee was fine. Charcoal was fine. Ideally the writing instrument produced black marks. As many people as desired were used. And these people did this either before or at the opening. The point here was not legibility but difficulty. Yet the piece was not just the jumping, it was also the results. What was created was a collection of number-referencing abstract marks.

Underneath the text the following videos looped:
Call Me Maybe Cover – Kunar, Afghanistan – US Army Soldiers 
SABATON – In the army now (Afghanistan War) 
Images of US Soldiers With Afghan Corpses (Graphic NSFW) 
Tribute To The Swedish Soldiers In Afghanistan 
U.S. Army Sniper Engages Enemy Forces In Afghanistan 
Spectacular Footage of Taliban Attacking US Military Base, Afghanistan. 
Swedish soldiers VS Talibans in Afghanistan 
US military, CIA out of control in Afghanistan 
Swedish forces fighting the Talibans in Afghanistan 2011 
US Troops Burning Afghan Taliban Corpses 
Swedish Army Elite – The One And Only 
Gimme Shelter in Iraq and Afghanistan 

New work in The Capilano Review

excerpts from “We do the Polis in Different Voices” in the latest TCR – part of a Bay Area section edited by Roger Farr – thanks R!

“An Army of Lovers” @ BombSite

a chapter from the book, co-written w Juliana Spahr, forthcoming from City Lights in 2013…

New work in Boog City

…in the OWS anniversary issue, as well as the special Bay Area issue…

thanks to editor David Kirschenbaum –

Boog City West reading & publication: 10/3

Boog City Goes West 2012

Wed. Oct. 3, 7:15 p.m. sharp, free

Books and Bookshelves

99 Sanchez St.

San Francisco

Micah Ballard / Amy Berkowitz  / David Buuck  / Ivy Johnson  / BC editor David Kirschenbaum  /  Jill Stengel   / Sunnylyn Thibodeaux / and music from Greg Ashley

& here’s the “Occupy at One” issue of Boog City, with an excerpt from “Mayday Mayday”