Hey, if you want to check out Rubicon Press on line, I believe the
publisher might still have some T-shirts with poems on the back, one
she did was with a Denise Riley poem. Now wearing that would be fun,
indeed.
She also publishes chapbooks, of course....
Doug
On 13-Jun-07, at 2:25 PM, Stephen Vincent wrote:
>> I heard about a workshop he ran a while back, in which people had to
>> write
>> or paint or embroider words onto pieces of fabric, which they then
>> cut out
>> and sewed to the backs of other people's clothes, without showing them
>> first. So you walked around for the rest of the day, if you were brave
>> enough, with an unknown phrase etc on your back.
> Sounds like possibly an interesting exercise in human trust, and
> depending
> on the phrase, imagination. Malevolence does not seem to be at the
> heart of
> the exercise, in any case. Participating, and the mystery of the kind
> of
> public exposure you are providing others with words that you have not
> seen,
> I am sure takes some bravery. As say different from wearing designer
> label
> clothes that function as advertisements for others. I once had a dream
> of a
> garment manufacturer that put "poetry" as a tag on the shirts and
> clothes,
> where one would normally find, say, the "Levis" label.
> I still think it's a pretty good idea!
>
> Stephen V
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
> Currently home of the unauthorized Sol Lewitt Memorial Site (Sight)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>
>> Rather reminds me of Valerie Laws' Quantum Sheep, where she
>> spray-painted a
>> letter or two onto the back of each sheep in a small flock, and noted
>> down
>> the combinations as they moved about the field -- that must have been
>> much
>> the same from the sheep's point of view.
>>
>> There are some interesting ideas blowing about in this north-east air
>> .....
>>
>> joanna
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:04 PM
>> Subject: Re: Bill Gates funds research into 'red verse'
>>
>>
>>>> A lot of Alec's work seems to be very visual -- did he train as a
>>>> artist, do you know?
>>>
>>> I don't know, I'm afraid. I wouldn't be surprised, though would
>>> suspect
>>> something more like a combined art history/literature course of the
>>> kind
>>> Edinburgh U runs.
>>>
>>>> He runs a small press called Morning Star -- Alec, I mean, not the
>>>> dog.
>>> Has
>>>> this anything to do, I wonder, with the Communist daily paper of
>>>> that
>>> name?
>>>
>>> I'd never thought about it, I guess I assumed it was a nautical
>>> reference --
>>> Stella Maris, that kind of thing.
>>>
>>> P
>>>
>
>
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