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with nothing it’s impossible and easier, the same but really close to one another but unbridgeably far from one another, the way we flee a broken park when the island is a shipwreck and a language lab and half of school falls away.
- Fred Moten, The Feel Trio
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October 15, 2015
The mid-career blues...
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Of course, in a way, I meant that I have something like the mid-career blues: a feeling that I've done a lot already and it's not as clear as it was before what else I should do, how or why. If I can actually do anything better than I've done before and what attitude I might take, or what kinds of changes I might make, to make it so. But I also had the thought that 'the mid-career blues' are something that exists, something that's going around: that many people who have been making art for a good while, who most likely have as much behind them as they perhaps have ahead, might feel something a bit like this. That it might be normal, and even that it is perfectly understandable.
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Of course, in a way, I meant that I have something like the mid-career blues: a feeling that I've done a lot already and it's not as clear as it was before what else I should do, how or why. If I can actually do anything better than I've done before and what attitude I might take, or what kinds of changes I might make, to make it so. But I also had the thought that 'the mid-career blues' are something that exists, something that's going around: that many people who have been making art for a good while, who most likely have as much behind them as they perhaps have ahead, might feel something a bit like this. That it might be normal, and even that it is perfectly understandable.
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October 14, 2015
letters we wrote to friends after reading "polyamorous love song"
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Jasna Zmak in Croatia has started this beautiful thing:
letters we wrote to friends after reading "polyamorous love song"
An excerpt:
"It was then when I decided this was something I ought to do. So, I am giving this book to you, as a present. I am giving it to you, but on one condition. Or actually two. The first one is that you read it. The second is that, upon reading it, you do the same as I did: you think of a friend who you think might like it, who you think will be a nice addition to our small community, you give it to him/her as a present and along with it, write a letter to explain why you think this person and this book might go so well along. Then you give them the letter and the book, and you forward the letter to me, so I could publish it here.
You decide on the length of the letter, I am just asking for the language to be English so that more people could understand it… and, of course, at the end of the letter you make a small note about this principle so that when your friend is done with reading, he or she can send it to the next person, including a personalized letter, so that this circle could go on expanding…"
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Jasna Zmak in Croatia has started this beautiful thing:
letters we wrote to friends after reading "polyamorous love song"
An excerpt:
"It was then when I decided this was something I ought to do. So, I am giving this book to you, as a present. I am giving it to you, but on one condition. Or actually two. The first one is that you read it. The second is that, upon reading it, you do the same as I did: you think of a friend who you think might like it, who you think will be a nice addition to our small community, you give it to him/her as a present and along with it, write a letter to explain why you think this person and this book might go so well along. Then you give them the letter and the book, and you forward the letter to me, so I could publish it here.
You decide on the length of the letter, I am just asking for the language to be English so that more people could understand it… and, of course, at the end of the letter you make a small note about this principle so that when your friend is done with reading, he or she can send it to the next person, including a personalized letter, so that this circle could go on expanding…"
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October 5, 2015
The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information in Europe
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Coming soon:
The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information in:
Birmingham (Fierce Festival, Oct 10-11)
Manchester (Contact Theatre, Oct 14-15)
Bordeaux (Festival Novart, Oct 17-18)
Munich (Spielart/Pathos, Oct 31)
Cardiff (Experimentica, Nov 4-5)
Bonus: A letter about The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information
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Coming soon:
The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information in:
Birmingham (Fierce Festival, Oct 10-11)
Manchester (Contact Theatre, Oct 14-15)
Bordeaux (Festival Novart, Oct 17-18)
Munich (Spielart/Pathos, Oct 31)
Cardiff (Experimentica, Nov 4-5)
Bonus: A letter about The DJ Who Gave Too Much Information
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