April 2010
1 post
The Revenge of the Libertines or, Sade’s...
by Beatrice Gross
“Eugenie, let me kiss your beautiful behind while I bugger mamma, and you…Madame, bring yours near, so that I can handle it…socratize it.” (Philosophy in the Bedroom, p. 358)
There is something of Plato’s maieutic in Sade’s pedagogical project, as the frenetic initiations staged in his sadistic utopias tend to reveal innate propensities, awaken,...
March 2010
14 posts
That thing that I meant to mean.
by Anti-painter
I’d like to say something about anything. So I’ll say this… something is better than anything. Because you have at least that, and from there you have the reason to go further. Anything won’t due partly because it doesn’t matter what. If there was totally nothing, it would be hard to get anywhere. If there was no past, it would be; here we...
Ephemera Made Permanent
by Tod Mesirow
I mostly make television. the kind people today often call reality television. I used to object to the nomenclature, considering an Orwellian use of the word. but I’ve come to accept that anything created for television is real. it becomes real. it shapes reality. and in the early days of my work I thought what I made was largely ephemera - it was on,...
Guided by Ozzy
by Jessica Trent
I was living in a massive building in New York with Ozzy Osborne and some other folks. It was a commune of sorts. Ozzy was the leader and the oldest resident by a good 30 years. He was very calm and spoke with great intellect and clear annunciation. Our leader called us all together in the main room which was set up for a conference. I took my chair towards the back amongst...
The Bubble
by Leila Currah
I live in a bubble
just like you the bubble the perfectly circular bubble the nerve-racking, the worrying, the dispiriting, the sad and piteous, pretentious, perfectly circular bubble read the question carefully choose the best answer and fill in the bubble it should say and fill in the piteous, pretentious, perfectly circular bubble not to say I have...
Reflection on Brucennial: Miseducation
by Miklos Legrady
I’m concerned about the work being interesting, hence distracting from what we’ve earned in school is truly important; the artist statement.
Amish Truths
by Allison Sloan Roberts
The Amish will go to court in defense of their rights as American citizens— even though they have rejected the culture and government that establish these rights. They must accept government’s protection in order to reject the government: American citizens with citizens’ rights only when it suits them. This kind of contradiction is endemic within the...
Late Living
by Hectort Canonge
I wake up late every day, but since I have no schedule to follow, it is only in my mind that I’m delayed. With no appointments, urgent calls or actual work to do, I’ve convinced myself that I’m busy and under constant pressure. Someone in my shoes would actually be happy for not having to do the 9 to 5 thing, but not me. I make myself late just by ...
Critical Writings #1 : Ondrej Brody & Kristofer...
by Kristofer Paetau
This text presents a selection of critical responses that our work has encountered so far. We have made a selection of exclusively negative criticism that we could find on the internet - on blogs, through fan-e-mail or from our own website which encourages people to criticize the works we present online. Kristofer Paetau & Ondrej Brody, january 2009 Has art become...
Blue Reincarnation Narcissus Oil painting by...
by Yustas Kotz-Gottlieb
Narcissus is destined to survive by simply changing his role from a passive man to an aggressive woman and so on. To this can be added that, eventually, a man creates a woman whom he loves out of himself or a woman creates a man and loves her own image but in the male form. B raises the problem of conflating ideal actual and the issue of the feminine manhood and...
Shmutts
by Dilian M.
Really? Do we ever think that when done, we will be satisfied? As they wonder around in the astonishment of severe arousal, I praise the work of people preceding me because let’s face it, it would not be easy for any of us to do it without them. Sure, it would be something. But would it be as good? I bet not, but then again when I bet I usually end up not winning so...
As the eve draws nigh...
by Matthew Gaertner
My boy, my dear, come beside my pool. Let me tell these facts. -My lord, My liege, please tell me away. I’ll sit a while, and stay. All day I stand in this pool of water, nearly up to my neck. -Yes sir it is quite deep indeed. I am the lord of the manor, and I am a bastion of order. I’d like you to bring my bathing salts, and lavender to put in the ...
The Intern Apprentice
by Jan Galligan
Today is my high-school student’s, last day. He’s been with us for the past eight weeks, starting the day before I left for vacation.. As a part of his assignment the school requires him to write a daily diary. Here are some excerpts: Journal: 7-12 Because Jan is on vacation, I am working with Bob (the bookie). He showed me the mailroom. We went there three...
Note to the Reader
by Ben Judson
As the rain wanders over the horizon and the rivers recede, I am thinking of you, reader. The demands I have placed on you have been too heavy, even as I have insisted that I am lightening your burden. I ask you to drift alone in a sea that I pretend is not a sea. I ask you to see light where there are only shadows. And after all of this, I ask you to believe that I am lying to...
Indian Summer
by W. Andrew Sterling
you begin to learn the piano, and
you think you know all about it. you grab a piano and tuck it underneath your arm. you sit at a piano think that your parents’ room is hotter than yours, and that you must get practice there too before you can consider yourself thoroughly done. under the goregous panorama of an indian summer you smile at a piano and ...
February 2010
22 posts
Miseducation
By Lanny Jordan Jackson
I. Printing puts an end to book- selling: the end of the world is coming Doomed to drain itself as if by mechanical habit in the gallery, a caterpillar upon a gold person The last ladder on stage is falling, the dress is cursed, the marble table is only used in the orgy scene An intensity of ugly grins: his Cyclops philosophy is only worth six...
Twelve (end-)notes on Ms. Education’s visit to The...
By Z. L.
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[i] The Bruce High Quality Foundation, In Search of Lost Causes (School of Athens), 2009; vinyl...
Soil
By Mary Margaret Rinebold
Wallace hated mud, but mud couldn’t keep its hands off him. It was everywhere, following him like mosquitoes on a humid night. Mud sat outside his doorstep, mud seeped into his brown and green mud boots, mud caked and cracked in the creases of his hands, mud held his hair together like black styling gel and seeped into his brain. There was definitely mud in his...
The Miseducation of Flat Visuality
by P C Smith
Right from the start, here on this page, I think the flat rectangle is a miseducation. Though it was so sought after by the archaic Greeks, and so fetishized by the archaic minimalists, and seems so utilizable—here I am typing on it!—it is a distortion of reality that we really shouldn’t take for granted. I use the flat rectangle even in constructing my...
Learning About Religion
by Jon Handel
A PRIORI, AARON, ABBÉ, ABBOT, ABEL, ABELARD, ABHAYAHASTA, ABLUTION, ABORTION, ABRAMIC RELIGIONS, ABSOLUTE IDEALISM, ABSTINENCE, ABSTRACTION, ABSURD, ABU BAKR, ABU DAWUD, ABU HANIFA, ABU HURAIRA, ACADEMY, ACARYA, ACCIDENT, ACQUISITION, ACTON, ACUPUNCTURE, AD HOC HYPOTHESIS, AD HOMINEM, AD INFINITUM, ADAM, ADAMSKI, ADHAN, ADHARMA, ADI-BUDDHA, ADLER, ADONAI, ADOPTION, ADVENT,...
This Creature: Unsympathetic Portrait of a Redwood...
by Sam Parker
60–100(–110) m tall and 300–460(–900) cm dbh. Trunk much enlarged and buttressed at the base and often with rounded swellings or burls, slightly tapering. Crown conic and monopodial when young, narrowed conic in age, irregular and open. Bark red-brown, to ca. 35 cm thick, tough and fibrous, deeply furrowed into broad, scaly ridges; inner bark cinnamon-brown. Branches downward...
Give It Away Now
by Nato Thompson
If history is written by the winners, then who needs art history? We all know most artists are losers. Forget artists for a second. Most people are losers. We are all losers in a game of a few winners pretending that they actually deserve to get where they are. I suspect miseducation has something to do with this grand problematic. In a world where everyone is a cultural...
From the Series Verses for (Dead) Artists
by Cameron Shaw
The wind puffed the Chinese cemetery, petals laced the ground and your tattoo slid into a backbend blow, horns glowing on that jukebox idol, false and alone and crumbling. The island is blessed but the journey is short, you said, so make haste young Americans. I spoke of fronds veiling the children, black as olives in cans—if you don’t eat the youth whose soul will you...
Brucennial Catalog Entry 02/07/10
by Karl N. David
I think everyone wants to have their ideas acknowledged whether they are tried out or not. However, after a concept is acted upon, its authorship becomes most appealing when the results are satisfactory. Often an idea that turns out badly can be blamed on the other factors involved that were not previously considered.
Where mis-education is defined as a failure to follow...
Sometimes in cultivating a sense of humor,...
by Cora Fisher
I’m walking down Grove Street on a balmy spring day with my Father, Peter, and his buddy Seth after they pick me up from school. The scenery seems out of place with Seth in it, the bright green trees with blossoms contradict the the usual nighttime haunts on the Bowery where he lives. But whenever they’re together the two of them make sense like the odd couple: one...
The Miseducation of:
by Legacy Russell
1. Arbus they say she was a cold body before the warmth even left her that she was confused, often too imaginative, and in this way child-like no woman ought to do those things—naked tea parties, fights with husbands, neglecting neatly manicured lawns and nails during excavations of jungles behind basement doors that were not her own under supermarket-manufactured fluorescent...
The Job Market
by Alexander Seth Cameron
The nice thing about flirting with the check out girl at the movie rental store is that, so long as you don’t return your movies on time, she’ll call you. And she did. And a month or so later we were in love, I was working next door at the take-out pizza place, and she would drive me the mile and a half home when I worked late with a blow job pit stop in the church...
You Want Character
by Beckett Bowes
You want character, fuckhead? I’ll tell you. Character is what you decide. Show me a judge’s gavel and I’ll break your goddamn nose with character. Judgment, cuntface, that’s all. You, you slo-dry retardant, are nothing but a jumble of stupid-ass lessons. Everything’s a lesson, and you learn it all like a fire-hydrant-humping, bucktoothed sponge. You learn it all and miseducate...
One line poem as a sculpture:
by Devin Kenny
I found a 10 foot long, 3 foot high, 2” diameter, freestanding rod of rebar, painted white though now very worn, bent to resemble a staple as it would look if removed from a stack of papers by hand without that little brown claw office supply; it made me think of the hundreds of cover letters, CVs and resumes I printed on 8.5 x 11” in those dark white days, how many...
Carbones Calientes
by Jan English Leary
To shake off a hangover, Liz decided to walk to Lake Michigan for the sunrise. She dragged on her yoga pants and ratty tee-shirt, laced her gym shoes, keeping her head level so it wouldn’t spin. On the front porch, she took a deep breath, steadied herself on the banister, then pushed on. Swinging her arms, she walked past the produce store gone belly up, the hot-sheet...
Ongoing Education
by Kevin Gallagher
ONGOING EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION AMERICAN EDUCATION BAD EDUCATION GOOD EDUCATION FASHIONABLE EDUCATION APPLE EDUCATION VIRTUAL EDUCATION VISCERAL EDUCATION VERBAL EDUCATION TIME-BASED EDUCATION SPACE-BASED EDUCATION FREE EDUCATION EXPENSIVE EDUCATION HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION OLD EDUCATION NEW EDUCATION LEFT-BRAINED EDUCATION LEFTIST EDUCATION GREEN EDUCATION SYSTEM OF...
Will I Grow Up To Paint A Square?
by Carmelle Safdie
I made a panting of a square. D’you notice it? Is it way too spare? Does it make you a little more aware? Would it look good on a wall that’s bare? Does it need a pair? Could it have more flair? Like a shape that’s rare. Is it your nightmare? Or just another step in the stair. If it’s Drawn in ink Will it catch your eye? Will it make you think? When it’s...
A Lesson in History
by Maxwell Heller
In 1996, Director of Real Estate Development for the Arts Anne-Brigitte Sirois heated up Chelsea’s residential property market with activist sales that brought commercial art galleries into neglected West-side avenues. Here we see a new development—large publishers supporting independent houses by purchasing reprint rights to successful front-list titles. Chain buyers can...
A Portend of the Artist as a Yhung Mandala
by Ad Reinhardt
The Art World was created in 4 Days, in 4 Sections, 40 years ago, and originally 4004 B.C. Today minor artists have 400 Disciples, and more favorable mediocre Artists have 44,000 Devotees, approximately.
PERENNIAL s
by Susan LaMarca
Not quite the fourth of July, but almost. David was listening to Rock and Roll part one, mesmerized. Before he realized the song could go on forever, his feet perpetually shuffling in tune, David put a cigarette in his pocket and hoped it was still lit so his pants could catch on fire. “He was there, 1999. The summer of rain. The start of the coldest summer that...
The Misallegiance
by Mitchell Marco
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. - English I pledged that loyally to US’s flag and the Republic which represents to it: Under a God’s country, not separable, with all freedom and unjustness. -Chinese I link faithfully to the...
Now It Is
Welcome to the Brucennial 2010: Miseducation Literary Supplement.
Over the course of the exhibition (on view until April 4th), we’ll be posting literary contributions on the theme of Miseducation.
To contribute your thoughts on the matter, upload your (400 words or less) text here:
Miseducation Supplement
We’ll be adding them to this blog roll as they come in.