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Pictured: RoseLee Goldberg, Rachel Lois Clapham,Kenny Ulloa, Peter Walsh, Patricia Milder, Mary Paterson, Ryan Tracy, Rebecca Armstrong, Tyler Coburn
A Question of Biography:
Question 1 Name 2 the name your family or partner calls you (nick-name) 3 the city you live in 4 what you `do’ 5 your home town 6 University course you are doing or did recently (course, subject and location) 7 the subject and result of your lowest High School grade 8 a job you had in 2008 9 a book you are reading for pleasure 10 a book you have not read because you tried and found it off-putting or too difficult 11 your worst job ever 12 current writerly fascinations 13 Football team you or your partner supports 14 what job you are doing now 15 the most you have been paid for a art/writing commission 16 a book you are really looking forward to reading 17 favorite word 18 a mild fascination that could develop into an obsession if you had more time.
1. Rebecca Armstrong 2. bo 3. New York 4. make art, write, think 5. Danville, PA 6. Islands and(as) Altered States, English Literature, taught, Los Angeles 7. Calculus, B 8. home school tutor for professional tennis player 9. Stempenyu: A Jewish Romance by Sholem Aleichem 10. Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science ed. Lorraine Daston 11. working at the Gap 12. medieval and early Renaissance gender-switching, the boundaries of language (where the body starts), violence, silence 13. Queen Elizabeth I (who figures prominently in 12) delighted in bear-baiting. When I go to sports, I cheer whenever anything happens, regardless of team. 14. ad hoc writer, tutor 15. depends on what counts as a commission, anywhere from 2 copies to $1,000. 16. I’m really enjoying Andre Lepecki’s Exhausting Dance. 17. brain as a verb (he brained her, she brained him, they brained them) 18. memorization of originally spoken older texts, memorization in general
1 Rachel Lois Clapham 2 Poo 3 Bradford 4 Curator and Writer 5 Manchester 6 MA Contemporary Art Theory Goldsmiths College 7 Physical Education: E 8 Curator of Nahnou-Together Now at Tate Britain 9 an exhibition of socially engaged art 10 Will Self `How the Dead Live’ 11 Deleuze & Guattari `A Thousand Plateaus’ 12 Sanitary Waste Collector (Dog Units) Fullwood Prison 13 live writing, performance criticism, improvisation, contingency and the porosity of text 13 Leeds United 14 Co-Director of Open Dialogues 15 £1500 16 Jeff Nuttall `Bomb Culture’ 17 marginalia 18 Second Life.
1. Tyler Coburn 2. ________ 3. New York City 4. I’m an artist and and critic by night, and have rather boring, Clark Kentish day jobs by, ahem, day 5. New York City 6. Oof. It’s been a long, long while. One of the best classes I took, at the end of my undergrad at Yale, was “Literatures of Judgment and Forgiveness,” taught by psychoanalytic critic Shoshana Felman. She’s written a book of the same name that I recommend 7. It must have been a science class… 8. I was a staff writer for Rhizome @ the New Museum 9. The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Pretty middling as literature, definitive in the steampunk genre – and very relevant to a project I’m working on. 10. Tropic of Cancer. I’ve picked it up five-odd times. Not difficult or off-putting, per se, but has never welcomed me beyond page 50. 11. I once interned in marketing at Dolce & Gabbana. The work was dreadful, but the people pretty remarkable…I have odd memories of getting lessons in Foucault and Derrida in the lunch-canteen. 12. Alongside the steampunk, I’ve been reading a lot of science-fiction. 13. I’m shit with the sports, but do love my tennis. Sharpova is quite a dresser and really owns the court. 14. A mix of things. I work part-time at Harris Lieberman, as a contributing editor to ArtReview, and do freelance event photography and commercial production to round things out. 15._________ 16. Salt: A World History. It’s been on my list for ages. 17. __________ 18. Second Life 19. http://www.tylercoburn.com/
1-Patricia Milder 2- 3- New York City 4- Graduate Student/Writer/Yoga Teacher 5- Los Angeles, CA 6- Currently at the School of Visual Arts, Art Criticism and Writing MFA 7- Um…Calculus, A- 8- Teaching Yoga 9- There is no reading for pleasure in graduate school. 10- I half attempted to read Susan Buck-Morss’s “Dialectics of Seeing” before seeing her speak last year but didn’t give it much of a chance. 11- . 12. Discovering a more creative approach to serious critical inquiry. Always clarity. 13. Yankees. 14- Working for Performa, teaching a lot of yoga around Manhattan. 15- 16- A friend just gave me Lorrie Moore’s first novel, “A Gate at the Stars,” but I have to wait until the semester is over to start it. 17- I never pick favorites 18- Pottery. 19- www.patriciamilder.com
1. Mary Paterson; 2. baboon; 3. London; 4. writer and producer; 5. London; 6. MA Film and Visual Cultures, Middlesex University; 7. Physics, B; 8. General Manager, Extant; 9. Peter Ackroyd, ‘First Light’; 10. James Joyce ‘ Ulysses’ ; 11. jewellery shop assistant – there was an air lock on the door and the shop was lined with mirrors; 12. brevity; 13. none; 14. General Manager, Extant/ Writer in Residence, Live Art Development Agency/ Co-ordinator, the Western Wedge/ Evaluator, Open Doors/ Co-Director, Open Dialogues; 15. £1000; 16. Margaret Atwood, ‘Lady Oracle’; 17. soporific; 18. physics; 19. www.open-dialogues.blogspot.com
1-Ryan Tracy 2-Ryan 3- Brooklyn, NY 4- Composer, Performer, Writer 5- Redding, California 6- Masters in Music Composition, Mannes College of Music, NYC 7- Chemistry, C 8- Contributor for the New York Press 9 -”Salt: A World History” by mark Kurlansky 10 – not because it’s off-putting or too difficult, but “A la recherche” has lost me a few times now 11 – temping for a fashion designer for 8 hours 12 – all of it, the internet, defining art, definitions in general, art and morality, music 13 – a fierce tennis fan 14 – the job we call “day” 15- $175 16 – “Infinite Jest” by David Foster Wallace 17- “Yes” 18- Musical Illiteracy 19 – countercritic. com, myspace.com/ryantracyworld, collectiveopera.com, for the NY Press, for Chez Bushwick.
1-Kenny Ulloa 2-Ken 3- Brooklyn 4- digital technician 5- Queens / Elmont, Long Island 6- writing tutorial, Brooklyn College 7- Health Class, F 8- I went to Prague for a ‘Head & Shoulders’ advertisement, and the clients were from Russia and Saudi Arabia – it was weird. 9- this book of new poetry i found at a consignment shop, it doesn’t have a title, but it does have an illustration of a hot air balloon and a tiger on it. 10- Underworld by Don Delillo , difficult because i can’t necessarily fit in into my coat pocket .. and i get self conscious being the ‘guy
reading the big book’ on the subway. 11- I used to spray people with women’s fragrance at Macys 12- dramatic and over analytic essays about commercial hiphop culture 13 – never got into sports 14- purchasing digital equipment for Armani, explaining to them why
computers cost so much …15- 250 16- George W. Bush Memoirs 17- elbow 18- Google. 19-
1 Peter Walsh 2 My older brother John used to call me Pedrito and sometimes Pete, but most people do use Peter 3 Brooklyn, NY 4 Artist, critic, curator 5 Baltimore (although I was born in New York City) 6 I guess it must be said: I dropped out of college in 1981! 7 “AP Physics” got an “F” from my now good friend Neil Mackie 8 Walking my son Louis to sleep at 3am 9 just finished “Sea of Poppies” by Amitav Ghosh 10 “Infinite Jest” 11 Working at an art museum for low pay and no benefits 12 being coherent within experimental forms 13 mountain-climbing 14 administrator at a law school 15 $350 for writing; more for art projects and curating 16 Keynes: The Return of the Master, Robert Skidelsky 17 I’ve been enjoying short, old words like: fickle, stitch, hoard and cobble 18 drawing portraits by looking at people, not photos 19 – http://www.peterwalshprojects.us http://www.plebiscite2004.org http://baltolink.org
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