tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28448288093104356722024-03-21T04:09:59.919-07:00MATTHEW THURBERAre Snakes Necessary?I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-45663501561713067232017-08-02T13:38:00.001-07:002017-08-02T13:38:05.100-07:00ART COMIC #5<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The 5th, final issue of Art Comic is now available!<br />
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This issue details the origin of the Free Little Pigs and of Cupcake's adventures as Matthew Barney's stunt double.<br />
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<span title="Edited">Mr Colostomy Book One:<br />Now available. Collects the first strips published daily at <a href="http://instagram.com/mtshelves">instagram.com/mtshelves</a><br />48 pages with some in full color, staple bound. Edition of 100.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;">CURTAINPHONEHORN</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">New drawings by MT Shelves, aka Matthew Thurber.</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">These
are all pencil and colored pencil drawings on paper. Some drawings are
perforated with a secondary image hiding in the negative space, an idea
inspired by shadow puppets or Victorian postcards. </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Watch
out! Dangerfield! flashing bike lights reveal another thing to think
about! Gaze into the latent acupuncture! Hissing victrola pencil! Your
imagery is always a concealment! </span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">Can you please get that horse off the barrel? Its time's up</span><br /><span style="color: black;"></span><br /><span style="color: black;">But
first: we must relive 2015. The musk of militarized Security-boar
climax. We went (Freddie) gray-scale, in despair. Victim expired turning
into laundry. World map laid out to dry before door to door Doctors.
Rodney's face appeared in the moon to tell USA bowtie nose to stop
fracking it. Total oracle, Bro. Draw back the paper curtains:
Introducing "Bowtie Nose" into the 'vocabulary'.</span><br />
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Scott Indrisek interviewed me at Art Info.... <a href="http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2016/01/07/line-by-line-matthew-thurber/">click link.</a> </div>
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So happy its 2016!!!!<br />
Highlights of this year:<br />
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Mouse Maze is now installed permanently at <a href="http://www.ps35q.org/home">PS35Q</a> in Jamaica, Queens. thanks to <a href="http://www.samantha-holmes.com/">Samantha Holmes</a> the brilliant fabricator! (see pic above.)<br />
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Art Comic #2 and #3 were released by<a href="http://www.swimmersgroup.com/"> www.swimmersgroup.com</a><br />
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Also available with other books at <a href="http://www.matthewthurber.com/">www.matthewthurber.com.</a><br />
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Drawn and Quarterly <a href="https://www.drawnandquarterly.com/blog/2015/06/dq-25-pr-dq-publish-matthew-thurbers-art-comic">announced </a>that they will be releasing the collected Art Comic graphic novel...sometime... <br />
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An excerpt of INFOMANIACS (2013) appeared in the Jonathan Lethem-edited <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Best-American-Comics-2015/dp/0544107705">Best American Comics 2015.</a><br />
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Mrs. William Horsley is a new puppet theater dedicated to experimental science based works, pre cinematic performances and Punch and Judy shows, containing a small mobile bar.... Several works were performed in 2015: (links to video) "<a href="https://vimeo.com/119880477">Personal Item</a>" at Dixon Place in Feb. 2015 and "<a href="https://vimeo.com/126063868">Eklipso</a>" at Standard Toykraft in April 2015. Also performed "Jailcation" at the Wythe Hotel for the CAB festival in November.<br />
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Following the CAKE festival in Chicago, the <a href="https://vimeo.com/148282524">AMBERGRIS OLFACTORY NASORCHESTRA</a> performed at the Observatory, and was nearly run out of town for smelling up the place.<br />
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Performances with Brian Belott as Court Stenographer and Young Sherlock Holmes Jr were as follows:<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ze4a5XYu4">July 2015: </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9Ze4a5XYu4">A comedy show at the Funny Hole. </a><br />
May 2015 at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBZYdirmYXQ">NADA fair in Basketball City. </a><br />
May 10, 2015<a href="https://vimeo.com/127655511"> at 247365 for Mr. Belott's art show Dr. Kid President Jr.</a><br />
Below: NADA fair. <br />
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<a href="http://www.tomatohouse.org/">Tomato House </a>went into dormant state after a great run of shows: Laura Perez-Harris' "Belly of the Beast", Ian Gerson's "Future Floor," and posters by Caroliner and also Commode Minstrels in Bullface.<br />
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I had a short comic published in Lumpen (Download comics issue <a href="http://www.lumpen.com/pdf/lumpen126_web_final.pdf">here</a>)<br />
Reviewed Bendik Kaltenborn's book <a href="http://www.tcj.com/reviews/adult-contemporary/">"Adult Contemporary"</a> at tcj.com<br />
Wrote <a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/american_book_review/v036/36.2.thurber.html">a piece on Tim Hensley's "Ticket Stub"</a> for American Book Review<br />
Had a piece in Smoke Signal, Winter 2015. <br />
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MEMORABLE ENCOUNTERS OF 2015<br />
Sibyl Kempson's play "<a href="https://www.elevator.org/shows/fondly-collette-richland/">Fondly, Colette Richland"</a> at NY Theater Workshop<br />
<a href="http://rebeccabird.info/#artist">Rebecca Bird's</a> solo shows at William Holman Gallery and Kopeikin Gallery<br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhbWsjzFV98">Ulrike Ottinger</a> films esp. "Joan of Arc of Mongolia"<br />
<a href="http://www.saic.edu/academics/librariesandspecialcollections/rogerbrown/">The Roger Brown Study Collection, Chicago</a><br />
The <a href="http://aresnakesnecessary.blogspot.com/2016/01/2016-stenographic-accounting.html">Velaslavasy Panorama </a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhbWsjzFV98">Walerian Borowcyzk retro</a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhbWsjzFV98">spective</a> at Lincoln center <br />
<a href="http://lagonrevue.com/">The Lagon Revue</a><br />
Sculpting In Time by Tarkovsky<br />
<a href="http://www.biglittlebooks.com/whitman.html">Little Better Books</a><br />
<a href="http://spectralworlds.tumblr.com/">Lane Milburn </a>comics<br />
Performances by <a href="https://haord.bandcamp.com/album/macula-dog">Macula Dog</a><br />
Performances by <a href="http://osr-tapes.com/ceschneidertopical/">CE Schneider Topical</a><br />
<a href="http://www.fantagraphics.com/piratesintheheartland/">The Mythology of S. Clay Wilson</a> books from Fantagraphics<br />
Erik Duvivier's film of "La Femme 100 Tetes"<br />
Guy Maddin's <a href="http://theforbiddenroom-film.com/">The Forbidden Room </a><br />
<a href="http://www.discogs.com/Various-Hungarian-Instrumental-Folk-Music-Magyar-Hangszeres-N%C3%A9pzene/release/4019530">Hungarian Folk Music 3 LP set</a><br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-82535303952391335062015-08-19T11:22:00.003-07:002015-08-19T11:22:55.280-07:00Tiles<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I've been working with the mosaic artist Samantha Holmes on a mural that will be installed at PS 35Q in Jamaica, Queens, in Fall 2015. Here are some of the pieces she has created out of ceramic tile from my designs.<br />
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Beach Towels<br />
Suntan Lotion<br />
Calamine Lotion<br />
Bottled Ectoplasm<br />
flattened into drawings on paper.<br />
Check out the bargains on arts from 1995-2014:<br />
<a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/houseofthurber">https://www.etsy.com/shop/houseofthurber</a><br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-22426218754259804112015-06-03T06:27:00.003-07:002015-06-03T06:27:33.180-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I will be at CAKE chicago June 6 and 7 hawking copies of Art Comic 2.<br />
Also, Ambergris will be performing a special Olfactory set, during the CAKE After party,<br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-7289415055081420642015-06-01T12:04:00.001-07:002015-06-01T12:04:25.152-07:00INTERVIEW<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
About performance art, Ambergris, and so forth<br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-26647038021114547172015-05-20T13:29:00.002-07:002015-05-20T13:29:15.208-07:00In An Art Gallery<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Same duo to Perform<br />
at NADA Art Fair,<br />
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at 6:30 PM !<br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-58201140400780534542015-04-28T21:26:00.002-07:002015-04-28T21:26:52.867-07:00Performance video: Mrs William Horsley, "Eklipso"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="https://vimeo.com/126063868">Watch a video documentation of Mrs William Horsley's "Eklipso" from The Consequences, April 24, 2015.</a><br />
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MRS WILLIAM HORSLEY will present "Eklipso", an abstract puppet performance about life on board a masturbation-powered spaceship,<br />
at The Consequences. an evening of performances presented in conjunction with the Brooklyn Zine Fest.<br />
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Friday April 24<br />
Standard ToyKraft<br />
722 Metropolitan Ave.<br />
Brooklyn<br />
8 PM<br />
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10$<br />
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MRS WILLIAM HORSLEY is a mobile puppet theater sculpted out of a single chunk of hematite discovered in the Pacific Northwest in the 1950s. It functions as a research vehicle for investigations into abstract and literal puppetry and storytelling, mechanical phenomena, magnetism and physics.</div>
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-82453908646637044262015-04-07T13:50:00.001-07:002015-04-07T13:50:22.080-07:00Mouse Maze<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Coming soon to PS35Q (Jamaica Queens)...MOUSE MAZE! a 14' square Ceramic tile mural.<br />
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I.M.A. Pelicanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06369629829652467565noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2844828809310435672.post-7632881157776106622015-03-18T23:36:00.001-07:002015-03-18T23:36:28.860-07:00"NUCLEAR FILTH"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I recently saw the movie "Wings Of Desire" made in 1987 by Wim Wenders.<br />
<br />A couple of days later this thought occurred to me:<br /><br />
I don't know if this has ever come up in conversations or interviews with the director, but one possible interpretation of the movie is that it is "about" government surveillance, specifically the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi">Stasi's</a> ubiquitous presence in East German daily life between 1950 (when the service was created at the beginning of the Cold War) and 1989 (when the Soviet Union collapsed and Berlin was re-unified). In "Wings of Desire", invisible and immortal angels exist in Berlin. They are able to overhear people's thoughts, which in the film are beautifully recorded voice-overs of interior monologues. The story focuses on the angels Damien and Cassiel. Damien is compelled by his love of a woman to give up his status as an angel, becoming mortal, but able to enjoy the use of his senses (symbolized by the film's shift to color photography)- to eat and drink, feel pain, or tactile pleasure. (To poop?) At the end of the movie Cassiel remains untransformed, while the audience learns that Peter Falk (playing himself) is also an ex-angel who has renounced his status. <br /><br />
The angels are portrayed as benevolent beings. They are witnesses to people's thoughts. They occaisonally intercede, as their presence has a calming effect on upset people. Children, being pure of heart, can see them.<br /><br />
In one of my favorite scenes, Damien and Cassiel sit in a shiny convertible recounting all the notable 'stories' of the day- as if the thoughts, feelings, and events they observe were news items. This scene is beautifully filmed and acted- the angels seem to revere the variety of expression they are priveleged to observe. It also reminds me of a meeting between spies, in a secure location, where intelligence is being exchanged.<br />
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A library, in which mortals are at their best, their thoughts lucid as
they write or study, is an angel magnet. They lean over the shoulders of
people reading, and after the library is closed, they are still hanging
around like roosting pigeons. The library is a place where privacy and
silence is greatly respected so it makes sense that the angels would
concentrate there. It is interesting to think of the archives of the
Stasi as a kind of library of concealed human thought as well. According
to the Wikipedia entry, "During the Peaceful Revolution of 1989, Stasi
offices were overrun by enraged citizens, but not before the Stasi
destroyed a number of documents (approximately 5%) consisting of, by one
calculation, 1 billion sheets of paper."<br /><br />
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February 16 at Dixon Place's Little Theater will be the debut of...<br />
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<span lang="EN">MRS WILLIAM HORSLEY, a mobile proscenium stage
sculpted out of a single chunk of hematite discovered in the Pacific
Northwest in the 1950s. It contains a puppet theater with mechanical
orchestra, and a small bar offering refreshments. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Performing "Personal Item", a
puppet play about an airport baggage claim. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN">Mrs William Horsley is owned
and operated by the cartoonist and performance artist Matthew Thurber.</span><br />
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<a href="http://dixonplace.org/performances/little-theatre-at-dixon-place/">http://dixonplace.org/performances/little-theatre-at-dixon-place/</a><br />
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