an archive of all the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List announcements (or as many as I've been able to gather...it's a work in progress...and progress is slooooooowwwwww...)
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Date: June 21, 2003 I've been neglecting my duties in regards to this list, though it's not hard to understand why I might procrastinate about the following statement. It is with great sadness that we at I.B.R.I. acknowledge the passing of two fellow travelers, Ted Joans and Laurence Weisberg, both of whom died earlier this year. Information on Ted Joans can be found at http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/tedjoanslives.html Unfortunately, little exists on the web in regards to Laurence Weisberg, but write to me and I'll be happy to pass along what information I have. - William A. Davison |
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Date: June 4, 2003 Two important book launches happening here in Toronto next week. --- Beatriz Hausner's first book of poems has been published by Ekstasis Editions and will be launched on Monday June 9 at 8pm at Bar Italia, 582 College Street, Toronto (for information phone 416-926-8238) The Wardrobe Mistress Erotic, surrealist and musical, the poems of The Wardrobe Mistress invoke the notion of the wardrobe as a world where the keeper of clothes is the keeper of keys that will unlock every inner secret. Smart, funny and seductive, these poems entice and entrance …a bold new voice in Canadian poetry. --- And Stuart Ross sends us this invite: > Hi there, friends! --- Very excited about both of these readings/launches and hope to see some of you there! - William A. Davison ------------------------------------------------------------ This message has been brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, shaking the crumbling hands of burnt wood houseguests, etc.). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: May 28, 2003 Hi all, Just a quick note, mostly to those in Toronto, that I'm playing in the Distillery Jazz Festival this Thursday night (29th) with ATM+Guy Electric Orchestra. Details can be found at http://www.distilleryjazz.com/ - William A. Davison |
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Date: May 18, 2003 Hi, That's weird...it appears that I've agreed to do a "poetry reading"...what could I have possibly been thinking!? ------------------------ Poetry at Le Gourmand "Several Species Of Birds" The Birds are: "This carnival head is (more examples of Davison's automatic writing can be found at http://members.rogers.com/recordism/WDWA.html) ----------------------------- Hope to see some of you there! - William A. Davison ********************************************************** This message has been brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, removing the floating hands from boiling oceans, etc.). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: April 25, 2003 Hi all, Just a quick note to let you know I'm performing with a couple of friends this coming Monday evening. Here are the details: > Monday April 28 Hope to see some of you there! - William A. Davison ------------------------------------------------------- This message has been brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, baking our hands into loaves of bread, etc.). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: April 12, 2003 A few items of interest from I.B.R.I. -------------------------------------------------------- 1) I'll be performing with some friends at the Oasis this Sunday night. Those of you in or near Toronto might want to check it out, looks like a pretty good line up and it's free! Here are the details: > 8TOES. Sunday April 13, 2003. -------------------------------------------------------- 2) Speaking of good shows...(also for those in the Toronto area) I highly recommend the Guy Maddin and the Royal Art Lodge exhibitions, both at the Power Plant until May 25/03. Amazing! The Royal Art Lodge show, called "Ask the Dust", is actually on tour. After the Power Plant it will be heading to De Vleeshal in Middleburg, the Netherlands with further destinations to be announced. Visit www.thepowerplant.org for more details. -------------------------------------------------------------- 3) Presumably if you're reading this, you have a computer and web access so there's no excuse for missing this exhibition because it's online! Daniel Hanequand informs us he's in a show called "The Severed Garden" in an online gallery called The Hammond Gallery. I've always enjoyed Daniel's work and some of the other work in the show is very good too! Pop over to http://www.theseveredgarden.hammondgallery.co.uk/ and have a look. -------------------------------------------------------------- 4) The current issue of Rampike magazine contains a two-page spread (photos and text) describing a recent performance by Songs of the New Erotics (that's me!) called "Tiny Gifts". Of course it's chock full of other interesting poetry, essays, visual art, etc. as well...as usual! It's available across Canada as well as in the United States, the U.K., Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, Italy, Switzerland, and Australia. ---------------------------------------------------------- 5) Johannes Bergmark is performing in Athens, Greece next Thursday! He sent us the following information: > Dear friends, collegues, contacts, ------------------------------------------------------- 6) VBOR site updates: - I've begun archiving these announcements on the website. You can now read past I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List announcements at http://members.rogers.com/recordism/MLArchive.html - info on how to join the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List has been added to the Com. Div. and "About VBOR" pages (can't believe I'm just getting around to doing this!). Of course, if you're reading this you're probably already on the list so who cares! - new work added to the Dept. Of Recordist Objects (W.A.Davison - Drawings section) at http://members.rogers.com/recordism/DORO.html - a poem by Beatriz Hausner has been added to the Dept. Of Recordist Word Art (http://members.rogers.com/recordism/DORWA.html) - many new links added to the Communications Division (http://members.rogers.com/recordism/CD.html) - the Disembraining Songs links page (http://members.rogers.com/dis.songs/DSLinks.html) has been updated - minor tweaks and corrections here and there - the Whats's New page (http://members.rogers.com/recordism/WhatsNew.html) details all recent site updates and the Site Map (http://members.rogers.com/recordism/SiteMap.html) has been updated too I'm currently working on revamping the Songs of the New Erotics performance documents section (http://members.rogers.com/recordism/SOTNE.html), adding text descriptions for all the performances and more photos. It's going to take awhile though. I'll keep you posted. I'm also working on a whole new site called "Carbon Cult" which will document the early years of Recordism, and other anti-social behavior, in Truro, Nova Scotia through the 80's. BIG project though, could be many, many months before anything sees the light of day. -------------------------------------------------------- 7) Finally, my nephew Chris Davison sent us this link (thanks Chris!). If you like your humor dark, absurd, and existential (and who doesn't?) check out these great flash animations: http://www.hoogerbrugge.com/ml.html --------------------------------------------------------- That's all for now (and I'm sure that's enough! Whew...my typing finger is tired!). Hope to see some of you Sunday evening at the Oasis! - William A. Davison ******************************************************************** This message has been brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, flying from room to room on discarded moth wings, and so on). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: Mar. 13, 2003 I know I said I would be quiet for awhile but gosh darn it there are just so many exciting things going on right now! Like this... *** > Dear Citizen, *** If you are in the Oakland/San Francisco area or can get there in the next week, you absolutely must go see both of these shows! Don't argue with me...you have to go. Just look at the poster Mr. Waldron has created for the show!! http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~scharpen/IrrAppPerf2003.html For further information on irr.app.(ext.) and the Oneiromantic Ambiguity Collective I recommend a visit to their website at http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~scharpen/OAC.html Stay surreal! - William A. Davison *************************************************************** Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, inhabiting the abandoned husks of dead insects, and so on). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: Feb. 27, 2003 First off, many thanks to all who made it out on Tuesday evening to see/hear Steve Venright and myself at Le Gourmand. Excellent turnout and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves...almost as much as Steve and I ;-) Many thanks as well to Paul Bouissac for organizing the event! On an entirely different note, I'm curious about some e-mail I received recently. I'm wondering if anyone else in the surrealist community has received this message, quoted below:
> From: Posada El Castillo <info@junglegossip.com> If you have received this message (or even if you haven't, but have some comment on it), write me and let me know what you think. Obviously, Posada El Castillo is interested in drumming up some business but the idea of a "gathering of surrealists" does intrigue me and I wonder how serious they are and what exactly they have in mind, if anything. I will write to them directly soon but I thought I would put this network to work first and see if anyone else has some inside information. That's all for now. My apologies for the slew of announcements recently, hope I haven't made a nuisance of myself. I expect to fall silent again for a month or so. In the meantime, write to me regarding the above (or anything else). - William A. Davison ******************************************************************* Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, and rolling up small balls of hair). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: Feb. 21, 2003 Hello again! Several more announcements from I.B.R.I. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Steve Venright and I will be doing a collaborative performance this Tuesday evening. Here are the details: Poetry @ Le Gourmand "Reading With Sound Slopes" Steve Venright* - The Black Domain and other poems "There is one more frame of film I exposed in this sequence. Moments after the camera captured my moth-embellished pose, I rigged the device for another shot. My breathing was hindered more and more by the overlay of wings. There was little hope now of clearing my eyelids without harming the delicate creatures that roosted there. Sightless and covered in moths, like a somnambulant entomologist overcome by his specimens, I groped my way toward the camera. Only with difficulty did I perform the necessary prehensile gesture to set the timer in motion. Retreating softly into focus range, barely breathing, I awaited the click of the shutter. In that interval, those few mechanical seconds between action and reaction, I left the Black Domain. I am standing in my living room, clothed as I was upon entering the forest, my eyes closed as if in prayer. Last slide, please." * www.torporvigil.com FYI, the "sound slopes" mentioned will be an improvised collage of ambient, electronically manipulated sounds, mostly found on the premises of Le Gourmand (a small cafe/shop on Spadina, just south of Queen) ------------------------------------------------------------- 2) A couple of recent Canadian publications have featured Recordist work. The Winter 2002 issue of Geist magazine (No. 47) includes a photo essay by Scott MacKay which documents the Sept. 2002 Songs of the New Erotics performance entitled "The Lovers". Issue # 74 of Artfocus magazine features a wonderful article by Ray Ellenwood entitled "Canada's Forgotten Surrealists". The article discusses the much-overlooked history of surrealism in Canada, siting many examples including the work of Jean Benoit and Mimi Parent, Ludwig Zeller and Susana Wald, and, with a nod to current manifestations, the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation. Both of these magazines are currently on the stands (though perhaps not for much longer!). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3) I have a short piece of Recordist Word Art called "The Apple Hat" in the online publication Muse Apprentice Guild available at http://www.muse-apprentice-guild.com/ Lots of other good stuff there, do check it out! More Recordist Word Art is of course available at the Dept. Of Recordist Word Art, http://members.rogers.com/recordism/DORWA.html --------------------------------------------------------- 4) Site updates to the Virtual Bureau Of Recordism include the following: Included a copy of the Breton Petition that was circulating a while ago in our Theoretical Division. Go to http://members.rogers.com/recordism/NoForcedSale.html to see it. Since uploading it, I actually discovered that Zazie's site has a better version of it. Do pay her a visit at http://www.zazie.at/ Finally got around to adding a copy of the Globe and Mail article about I.B.R.I., including our many additional notes and corrections, to the Theoretical Division, http://members.rogers.com/recordism/Globearticle.html Added documentation of the "Tiny Gifts" performance to the Songs of the New Erotics Page, http://members.rogers.com/recordism/SOTNE.html New images added to the Recordist Scrapbook, http://members.rogers.com/w.a.davison/Scrapbook.html Numerous new links added to the Communications Division, http://members.rogers.com/recordism/CD.html What's New and Site Map pages have been updated to reflect all new additions to the site, http://members.rogers.com/recordism/WhatsNew.html and http://members.rogers.com/recordism/SiteMap.html ----------------------------------------------------- That's about it for now, hope to see some of you at Le Gourmand this coming Tuesday! Drop me a line if you feel so inclined, I'd love to hear from you! - William A. Davison ************************************************************************** Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, and whatever the hell else we feel like). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com
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Date: Feb. 13, 2003 More news from I.B.R.I. 1) First off, thanks to everyone who came out to the Ambient Ping to see Tomasz, Aidan, and myself. It was a good crowd and we had a blast! 2) Daniel Hudon writes: > Dear All, Thanks Daniel. Sounds good, we'll be there. 3) Thought I'd also pass along SU-EN's recent info on workshops and performances: > SU-EN Butoh Company Spring Season 2003 4) Finally, if you've got the Winter blahs and need a good laugh, do yourself a favor and check out this link (thanks to J. Bailey for passing this along): http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song/ That's all for now, more to come soon! - William A. Davison ************************************************************ Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, and so on). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |
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Date: Feb. 9, 2003 Greetings, I have a bunch of stuff to pass along but will have to do it in installments. Only have time tonight to quickly forward this one item regarding an upcoming performance. For those of you in the Toronto area I will be playing at the Ambient Ping this Tuesday evening. Here are the details (courtesy of the Ping guys): ---------------------------------------------- THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com This Tuesday February 11th - Tomasz Krakowiak Percussionist Tomasz Krakowiak has fashioned a distinctive Tomasz Krakowiak http://www3.sympatico.ca/krakowiak/ -------------------------------------------------------------- Hope to see some of you this Tuesday! - William A. Davison ******************************************************* Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, yada, yada, yada). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com
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Date: Jan. 17, 2003 Hi, For those of you in the Toronto area, I will be performing some improvised music with a couple of friends at the Oasis this Sunday. Here are the details (extracted from Soundlist): *** Sunday January 19, 2003 Free Event Set One: 7:00pm. Set Two: 9:00pm. Set Three: 11:00pm. *** Should be a hoot! I've also been working on the website recently. Here's a list of updates and additions: - I.B.R.I.'s Business Division now has a page. And if the spirit of giving is still lingering with you after the holidays, why not visit the Business Division webpage and find out how you can make a donation to I.B.R.I. (and maybe receive a free gift in return!) - the site now has a "What's New" page with quick links to recent additions - new material added to Recordist Scrapbook (I.B.R.I. Archives) - Documentia section (I.B.R.I. Archives) has been updated (Documentia 2002 completed. Documentia 2003 begun) - new definitions added to Recordist Lexicon (Dept. Of Recordist Games) - additions to Communications Division links page - minor corrections and tweaks (reworked some of the gif animations to make them smaller, faster loading, and smoother running) That's all for now. Hope to see some of you this Sunday evening! - William A. Davison ####################################################################### Brought to you courtesy of the I.B.R.I. Global Mailing List - an e-mail list with a focus on contemporary surrealism, the absurd, and the fantastic, as well as the activities of the International Bureau of Recordist Investigation (film, performance art, visual art, music, poetry, theory, networking, publishing, curating, yada, yada, yada). If you'd like to know how you got on this list or if you would rather just be removed, drop us a line with your request and we will kindly oblige. w.a.davison@rogers.com or recordism@rogers.com |