Spring 2017 Readings & Events

Fri Feb 17:  Reading w Edwin Torres & Yesi Padilla, Verbatim Books, San Diego, 7pm

Sun Feb 19: Performance w SE Barnet, for her Drawings and Other Writing, Poetic Research Bureau, LA, 2pm

Wed Feb 22: Roof Books reading, w Laura Moriarty & Jean Day, Moe’s, Berkeley, 730pm

Tue March 21: Roof Books NY book releases, w Anna Vitale & Marie Buck, Le Poisson Rouge, NYC, 630pm

Thur March 23: Hunter College, details TBA

Fri March 24: “Poetry in a Time of Crisis” w Anna Vitale, Marie Buck, Jasmine Gibson, & Paolo Javier. Berl’s, Brooklyn, 7pm

Sat March 25: reading w Anna Vitale & Marie Buck, The Hiding Place, Philadelphia. 

Thur April 13: reading w Paula Mendoza & Bob Perelman, The Republican, Salt Lake City, 730

Fri April 14: Unpaged: a talk w Craig Dworkin, Salt Lake City Public Library, 1pm 

TRAMMEL @ MILK BAR : MARCH 23 & 30

TRAMMEL

a performance-installation by Abby Crain & David Buuck

with Tom Comitta, Lara Durback, Olive McKeon, & Sophia Wang

music by Samuel Hertz

Sundays March 23 & March 30

5-8 pm (come and go anytime between 445-730)

at the Milk Bar

851C 81st Ave @ San Leandro, Oakland  / Directions

TRAMMEL is a durational performance which explores the work of real-time documentation of live movement as it unfolds over time. The work comes out of an ongoing collaboration between dancer/choreographer Abby Crain and writer/performer David Buuck, its current manifestation engaged with the architecture and “rehearsal aesthetics” of their Milk Bar Projects Room residency. You are invited to arrive at the Milk Bar Project Room anytime during the performance, as it will be unfolding and accreting over three hours each Sunday.

“So Much Depends” @ Floor

new work from We Do the Polis @ Floor ….

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—

Fresh Festival 2013

I’m dancing with Abby Crain/LOOK next Saturday night as part of a showing of new/work-in-progress, on a bill with the amazing Scott Wells & Jess Curtis. All part of La Alternativa’s Fresh Festival. (plus a ‘sound session/closing party’ after the show!)

details at http://www.la-alternativa.us/News.html (scroll down for performances)

Sat 1/12, 830 pm / $15
KUNST-STOFF arts | 1 Grove Street | SF
415.647.6165

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 

Bruce Value

for the Bruce Andrews Symposium

Bruce Value

Detroit Events: Sep 21/22

9/21 – reading & talk with Wendy Kramer: 319 Garland Street, Ypsilanti, 730pm

9/22 – performance and forum @ Imaging Detroit, Perrien Park, Detroit, all day/eve.