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BIO
Michael Szpakowski is an artist, composer, writer and educator.
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
CV:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/szpakowski_cv.pdf
Video work:
http://www.somedancersandmusicians.com/vlog/ScenesOfProvincialLife.cgi
Stills:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/szpako
12 Remixes:
http://www.michaelszpakowski.org/mickiewicz/
Re: BEACON
I thought I'd hate this, but I love it - what poetry!
michael
--- Jon Thomson <j.thomson@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> BEACON. A new on-line artwork by Thomson &
> Craighead, 2005.
>
> At 00.00hrs on January 1st 2005 an automated beacon
> began broadcasting
> on the web at:
>
> http://www.automatedbeacon.net
>
> The beacon continuously relays selected live web
> searches as they are
> being made around the world, presenting them back in
> series and at
> regular intervals.
>
> The beacon has been instigated to act as a silent
> witness: a feedback
> loop providing a global snapshot of ourselves to
> ourselves in
> real-time. As resources become available,
michael
--- Jon Thomson <j.thomson@ucl.ac.uk> wrote:
> BEACON. A new on-line artwork by Thomson &
> Craighead, 2005.
>
> At 00.00hrs on January 1st 2005 an automated beacon
> began broadcasting
> on the web at:
>
> http://www.automatedbeacon.net
>
> The beacon continuously relays selected live web
> searches as they are
> being made around the world, presenting them back in
> series and at
> regular intervals.
>
> The beacon has been instigated to act as a silent
> witness: a feedback
> loop providing a global snapshot of ourselves to
> ourselves in
> real-time. As resources become available,
Re: Protest Censorship
I did a quick trawl for e mail addresses to send
letters of protest.
The best I could come up with was
info@birmingham-rep.co.uk
I suggest people head it
'For the Attention of Stuart Rogers'
Please do write!
michael
--- Ivan Pope <ivan2@ivanpope.com> wrote:
>
> Theatre ends play in Sikh protest
> *A play which led to violent protests among the Sikh
> community in
> Birmingham has had its run cancelled by the city's
> Repertory Theatre. *
>
> The theatre said it had refused to censor the work
> and was abandoning it
> purely on health and safety grounds.
>
> Three police officers were hurt during clashes after
> 400 demonstrators
> gathered outside on Saturday.
>
> Protesters said Behzti, which depicts sex abuse and
> murder in a temple,
> portrayed the Sikh faith negatively.
>
> The theatre said the "ugly" violence had caused free
> speech to be curbed.
>
> Stuart Rogers, the executive director of the Rep,
> told a press
> conference that the decision had been taken after
> discussions with
> police and Sikh community leaders on Monday morning.
>
> Mr Rogers said: "The theatre vigorously defends its
> right to produce
> Behzti and other similar high-quality plays that
> deal with contemporary
> issues in a multicultural society.
>
> "We sincerely hope that the play will be produced
> again as we are
> certain that it is a work that should be seen and
> discussed.
>
> "It remains a matter of great concern to us that
> illegal acts of
> violence can cause the cancellation of a lawful
> artistic work."
>
> A spokesman for the Sikh community in Birmingham,
> Councillor Chaman Lal,
> predicted there would have been larger protests had
> the play's run
> continued.
>
> He said: "The theatre has made the right decision in
> response to a
> peaceful protest.
>
> "There are no winners or losers - common sense has
> prevailed."
>
> Cllr Lal did not accept that the theatre had bowed
> to the threat of
> violence and mob rule.
>
> *Appease*
>
> "We have nothing against freedom of speech, but you
> do not make a
> mockery of someone's faith or beliefs. That is
> oppression."
>
> Earlier, the theatre said short of "blatant
> censorship" and cancelling
> the production, it could not have done more to
> appease the Sikh community.
>
> Behzti, which translates as "dishonour", was written
> by a young female
> Sikh, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatt, and was said to have been
> inoffensive to many
> among a younger generation of Sikhs.
>
> However, religious leaders, including the Roman
> Catholic Diocese of
> Birmingham, had urged a boycott of the play.
>
> Three people were arrested in connection with
> Saturday's demonstration.
>
> The theatre said some protesters managed to get
> backstage, where they
> smashed equipment and destroyed a foyer door.
>
> Mr Rogers added that the Rep's other production, The
> Witches, would be
> staged as usual.
>
> --
> Ivan Pope
> ivan2@ivanpope.com
>
> Studio website -->http://ivanpope.com
> Absent Without Leave --> http://blog.ivanpope.com
>
>
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letters of protest.
The best I could come up with was
info@birmingham-rep.co.uk
I suggest people head it
'For the Attention of Stuart Rogers'
Please do write!
michael
--- Ivan Pope <ivan2@ivanpope.com> wrote:
>
> Theatre ends play in Sikh protest
> *A play which led to violent protests among the Sikh
> community in
> Birmingham has had its run cancelled by the city's
> Repertory Theatre. *
>
> The theatre said it had refused to censor the work
> and was abandoning it
> purely on health and safety grounds.
>
> Three police officers were hurt during clashes after
> 400 demonstrators
> gathered outside on Saturday.
>
> Protesters said Behzti, which depicts sex abuse and
> murder in a temple,
> portrayed the Sikh faith negatively.
>
> The theatre said the "ugly" violence had caused free
> speech to be curbed.
>
> Stuart Rogers, the executive director of the Rep,
> told a press
> conference that the decision had been taken after
> discussions with
> police and Sikh community leaders on Monday morning.
>
> Mr Rogers said: "The theatre vigorously defends its
> right to produce
> Behzti and other similar high-quality plays that
> deal with contemporary
> issues in a multicultural society.
>
> "We sincerely hope that the play will be produced
> again as we are
> certain that it is a work that should be seen and
> discussed.
>
> "It remains a matter of great concern to us that
> illegal acts of
> violence can cause the cancellation of a lawful
> artistic work."
>
> A spokesman for the Sikh community in Birmingham,
> Councillor Chaman Lal,
> predicted there would have been larger protests had
> the play's run
> continued.
>
> He said: "The theatre has made the right decision in
> response to a
> peaceful protest.
>
> "There are no winners or losers - common sense has
> prevailed."
>
> Cllr Lal did not accept that the theatre had bowed
> to the threat of
> violence and mob rule.
>
> *Appease*
>
> "We have nothing against freedom of speech, but you
> do not make a
> mockery of someone's faith or beliefs. That is
> oppression."
>
> Earlier, the theatre said short of "blatant
> censorship" and cancelling
> the production, it could not have done more to
> appease the Sikh community.
>
> Behzti, which translates as "dishonour", was written
> by a young female
> Sikh, Gurpreet Kaur Bhatt, and was said to have been
> inoffensive to many
> among a younger generation of Sikhs.
>
> However, religious leaders, including the Roman
> Catholic Diocese of
> Birmingham, had urged a boycott of the play.
>
> Three people were arrested in connection with
> Saturday's demonstration.
>
> The theatre said some protesters managed to get
> backstage, where they
> smashed equipment and destroyed a foyer door.
>
> Mr Rogers added that the Rep's other production, The
> Witches, would be
> staged as usual.
>
> --
> Ivan Pope
> ivan2@ivanpope.com
>
> Studio website -->http://ivanpope.com
> Absent Without Leave --> http://blog.ivanpope.com
>
>
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Re: Overcast
This is *such* great work Lewis.
There's the delirious and gorgeous imagery that has
always been such an attractive component of your work,
but here also (and did I not notice it so much before
or has it been slowly crystallizing?) a rigorous,
almost steely control of the materials.
The sense of storytelling, the incorporation of
dialogue, the confidence to mix the heady stuff with
the almost prosaic...
a complete pleasure to read.
michael
--- Lewis LaCook <llacook@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I had this feeling that I was
> worth loving, and you let me
>
> have it: a month of solid
> silence and invisibility, and you've
>
> forgotten me now, I'm sure:
> haven't even taken the movies back.
> I feel I might've excited you. True,
> you said, "You're mischievous,
> undermining, it gets you hot
> to be bad," with the heroin
> of your eyes pushing through me,
>
> "I need all your attention."
> Client status: Connected.
> In cramped shoes I'm
> transparent on milk
> ice: sliding over islands, mortar,
> crystals lateral with morphine
> lapsed into strings,
> stillness; my lace.
> Cerebral, but rebellious.
>
> The secret to rolling a great joint
> is to roll it tight enough to smoke well
> but loose enough to let any left-
> over stems elude piercing the paper.
>
> I feel it might be exciting
> to feel loved. Someone rubs me
>
> until I blossum. Until it
>
> rains on my tongue. This is free.
> There are only so many
>
> kinds of sense. One in which
> you're thick, surrendered
> to golds and reds, wear glasses
> and have supper with your
> mother. Meanwhile, outside
> our encampment, fat
> velvet fires rescue air from
> almost total transparency.
> I suck up files from a remote
> location for work. Wake up
> with my eyes already sunk,
>
> jerk off: get high. Client status:
> Connected. A tartly-intelligent
> girl with her hand on my belly.
> She says she likes it too much.
> She has all my attention.
> Character sets legitimize
> where the pre-dawn wind
> plies from you in heavy draughts
> your childhood, your child, rubber
> nipples: reading under a passive
> milk of electric, not walls.
> They hug cattle before they
> shoot them in the brain.
>
> I sleep past waking.
>
> Everyone will be infinitely home soon.
>
> I was dreaming in blush sundaes,
> before, though: we are the wasps
> that would rather sting themselves
> to death, if that means we escape
> a natural terminal port: we're
> those literal motherfuckers
> who will not hover, but sparkler
> and cackle like it's all that's
> holding us down. I hate the royal
> we. Dreaming about licking
> the heart of red, the pith of gold,
> cleaning you of stalwart
> impurities. Ever feel
>
> like you're just marking a beat
> in a line. Smoke orally
> inflates the room. Filtration
> flirts with purity the way eightball
> chicks glom to money;
>
> it makes them feel loved. Even
> common houseplants know
> where the sun is, swoon and go
> limp when she's gone. I'm still
>
> waiting for that Saturday you promised me
> not thinking about me at all not thinking about
> you at all not thinking about you at all.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
***************************************************************************
>
> Lewis LaCook
> -->poet-programmerhttp://www.lewislacook.com/
>
> http://www.corporatepa.com/
>
> XanaxPop:Mobile Poem Blog->
> http://www.lewislacook.com/xanaxpop/
>
> Collective Writing Projects--> The Wiki-->
> http://www.lewislacook.com/wiki/ Appendix M
> ->http://www.lewislacook.com/AppendixM/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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There's the delirious and gorgeous imagery that has
always been such an attractive component of your work,
but here also (and did I not notice it so much before
or has it been slowly crystallizing?) a rigorous,
almost steely control of the materials.
The sense of storytelling, the incorporation of
dialogue, the confidence to mix the heady stuff with
the almost prosaic...
a complete pleasure to read.
michael
--- Lewis LaCook <llacook@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> I had this feeling that I was
> worth loving, and you let me
>
> have it: a month of solid
> silence and invisibility, and you've
>
> forgotten me now, I'm sure:
> haven't even taken the movies back.
> I feel I might've excited you. True,
> you said, "You're mischievous,
> undermining, it gets you hot
> to be bad," with the heroin
> of your eyes pushing through me,
>
> "I need all your attention."
> Client status: Connected.
> In cramped shoes I'm
> transparent on milk
> ice: sliding over islands, mortar,
> crystals lateral with morphine
> lapsed into strings,
> stillness; my lace.
> Cerebral, but rebellious.
>
> The secret to rolling a great joint
> is to roll it tight enough to smoke well
> but loose enough to let any left-
> over stems elude piercing the paper.
>
> I feel it might be exciting
> to feel loved. Someone rubs me
>
> until I blossum. Until it
>
> rains on my tongue. This is free.
> There are only so many
>
> kinds of sense. One in which
> you're thick, surrendered
> to golds and reds, wear glasses
> and have supper with your
> mother. Meanwhile, outside
> our encampment, fat
> velvet fires rescue air from
> almost total transparency.
> I suck up files from a remote
> location for work. Wake up
> with my eyes already sunk,
>
> jerk off: get high. Client status:
> Connected. A tartly-intelligent
> girl with her hand on my belly.
> She says she likes it too much.
> She has all my attention.
> Character sets legitimize
> where the pre-dawn wind
> plies from you in heavy draughts
> your childhood, your child, rubber
> nipples: reading under a passive
> milk of electric, not walls.
> They hug cattle before they
> shoot them in the brain.
>
> I sleep past waking.
>
> Everyone will be infinitely home soon.
>
> I was dreaming in blush sundaes,
> before, though: we are the wasps
> that would rather sting themselves
> to death, if that means we escape
> a natural terminal port: we're
> those literal motherfuckers
> who will not hover, but sparkler
> and cackle like it's all that's
> holding us down. I hate the royal
> we. Dreaming about licking
> the heart of red, the pith of gold,
> cleaning you of stalwart
> impurities. Ever feel
>
> like you're just marking a beat
> in a line. Smoke orally
> inflates the room. Filtration
> flirts with purity the way eightball
> chicks glom to money;
>
> it makes them feel loved. Even
> common houseplants know
> where the sun is, swoon and go
> limp when she's gone. I'm still
>
> waiting for that Saturday you promised me
> not thinking about me at all not thinking about
> you at all not thinking about you at all.
>
>
> =====
>
>
>
***************************************************************************
>
> Lewis LaCook
> -->poet-programmerhttp://www.lewislacook.com/
>
> http://www.corporatepa.com/
>
> XanaxPop:Mobile Poem Blog->
> http://www.lewislacook.com/xanaxpop/
>
> Collective Writing Projects--> The Wiki-->
> http://www.lewislacook.com/wiki/ Appendix M
> ->http://www.lewislacook.com/AppendixM/
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: Re: Jacir Exhib. Goes Forward
Well! After all the words expended on this list
recently explaining why protest is useless, how nice
to see that simple good old fashioned solidarity wins
the day -& anyone who thinks the authorities would
have spontaeneously changed their minds without the
campaign of protest is living in a *dream world*.
Leaves the abstentionists looking a bit daft eh?
michael
--- Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com> wrote:
> via:
> From the Floor
>
http://fromthefloor.blogspot.com/2004/12/emily-jacir-exhibition-to-proceed.html
> Writing about looking at art. From the floor of the
> gallery, the museum,
> and the private collection.
>
> By Todd Gibson
> Thursday, December 16, 2004
> Emily Jacir Exhibition to Proceed without Conditions
> Wichita State University has announced that the
> Emily Jacir exhibition
> scheduled to run January 20 - March 6, 2005, at the
> Ulrich Museum of Art
> will do so without any conditions.
>
> Elizabeth King, Vice President for University
> Advancement, released the
> following statement late this afternoon:
>
> Wichita State University is aware of the
> discussion generated by the
> scheduled exhibition of work by artist Emily Jacir
> at the Ulrich Museum of
> Art. The University is committed to going forward
> with the exhibition
> without conditions or limitations that could be
> considered to compromise
> the integrity of Ms. Jacir's work as an artist. The
> University appreciates
> the widespread interest in the artist and the
> exhibition.
>
> Judy Press, Executive Director of the Mid-Kansas
> Jewish Federation, said
> yesterday that members of her group had seen images
> of Jacir's works on
> the Internet and had objected to what they perceived
> to be the
> single-sidedness of the exhibition. "The work
> focuses on the inability of
> Palestinians to travel freely, and it blames Israel
> for that inability.
> But it does not explain why Israel must take these
> measures," Press said.
>
> The Federation had asked the University to display
> additional information
> about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to balance
> the presentation. "We
> made a request to the University, and we are under
> the impression at this
> point that this was not an appropriate request,"
> Press said. "We did not
> realize that this was considered inappropriate or
> infringing on the
> artist's rights. We need to not ask for that if it
> is not appropriate."
>
> David Butler, Director of the Ulrich Museum, said
> this afternoon, "I'm
> relieved that we are doing the right thing, and I am
> happy this has been
> resolved. I have not spoken with Emily yet, but I
> hope she will be pleased
> as well."
>
> Emily Jacir was traveling this afternoon and was not
> available for
> comment.
>
> [See the original NEWSgrist post for more
> information.]
>
> Posted by Todd Gibson, 5:15 PM | Permanent Link |
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recently explaining why protest is useless, how nice
to see that simple good old fashioned solidarity wins
the day -& anyone who thinks the authorities would
have spontaeneously changed their minds without the
campaign of protest is living in a *dream world*.
Leaves the abstentionists looking a bit daft eh?
michael
--- Joy Garnett <joyeria@walrus.com> wrote:
> via:
> From the Floor
>
http://fromthefloor.blogspot.com/2004/12/emily-jacir-exhibition-to-proceed.html
> Writing about looking at art. From the floor of the
> gallery, the museum,
> and the private collection.
>
> By Todd Gibson
> Thursday, December 16, 2004
> Emily Jacir Exhibition to Proceed without Conditions
> Wichita State University has announced that the
> Emily Jacir exhibition
> scheduled to run January 20 - March 6, 2005, at the
> Ulrich Museum of Art
> will do so without any conditions.
>
> Elizabeth King, Vice President for University
> Advancement, released the
> following statement late this afternoon:
>
> Wichita State University is aware of the
> discussion generated by the
> scheduled exhibition of work by artist Emily Jacir
> at the Ulrich Museum of
> Art. The University is committed to going forward
> with the exhibition
> without conditions or limitations that could be
> considered to compromise
> the integrity of Ms. Jacir's work as an artist. The
> University appreciates
> the widespread interest in the artist and the
> exhibition.
>
> Judy Press, Executive Director of the Mid-Kansas
> Jewish Federation, said
> yesterday that members of her group had seen images
> of Jacir's works on
> the Internet and had objected to what they perceived
> to be the
> single-sidedness of the exhibition. "The work
> focuses on the inability of
> Palestinians to travel freely, and it blames Israel
> for that inability.
> But it does not explain why Israel must take these
> measures," Press said.
>
> The Federation had asked the University to display
> additional information
> about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to balance
> the presentation. "We
> made a request to the University, and we are under
> the impression at this
> point that this was not an appropriate request,"
> Press said. "We did not
> realize that this was considered inappropriate or
> infringing on the
> artist's rights. We need to not ask for that if it
> is not appropriate."
>
> David Butler, Director of the Ulrich Museum, said
> this afternoon, "I'm
> relieved that we are doing the right thing, and I am
> happy this has been
> resolved. I have not spoken with Emily yet, but I
> hope she will be pleased
> as well."
>
> Emily Jacir was traveling this afternoon and was not
> available for
> comment.
>
> [See the original NEWSgrist post for more
> information.]
>
> Posted by Todd Gibson, 5:15 PM | Permanent Link |
> E-mail a Link
>
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letter to Kansas
& mine:
Dear Mr Butler
I am a digital artist and composer based in the UK.
I am writing to express my concern about the conduct
of your institution with regard to the forthcoming
exhibition by Emily Jacir and the rather bizarre idea
of providing a platform to people who have a
political/religious bone to pick with her work.
This notion of 'balancing
Dear Mr Butler
I am a digital artist and composer based in the UK.
I am writing to express my concern about the conduct
of your institution with regard to the forthcoming
exhibition by Emily Jacir and the rather bizarre idea
of providing a platform to people who have a
political/religious bone to pick with her work.
This notion of 'balancing