11/13/2009: MENSA & AMJ CRAWFORD.



Friday, November 13th
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

AN EVENING OF MYSTICAL DO-WOP-ING BY THE MENSA COLLECTIVE & A POETRY READING BY THE WONDERFUL ALEJANDRO MIGUEL JUSTINO CRAWFORD.

- MENSA / AMJ CRAWFORD COLLABORATIVE BROADSIDES READY & WILLING FOR THE PICKING & KEEPING -

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"We are mensa ::gong:: there is no tao for this sort of thing. there are no cults or team sports or nature retreats that fix this for us. each day is a buffet of choice, have you been eating well today? we’ve been communing with nature and so far what we’ve heard is that a vast fleet of insects have gone into rebellion. rogue warriors. manifest destineee! we’re working on our fun skills. Prescriptions for your mother gurus for your friends. Fun fun fun it’s where the sidewalk ends."

Mensa is a performance collective formed by the installation artists Ariele Affigne and Sarah Maurer and performer Jordan Petros-Chin. Maurer and and Affigne are previously known for work that may be described as nested architectures: built spaces which make physical the personal within a larger area. Synthesizing the structural conceits of a magician’s theater with the discourse charged trans-identitarianisms (and object mutation) of alchemical practices, their performance for the Poetry Project will seek to enact this prescriptive fun within the spaces and sensoria made available by their audience. Jordan Petros- Chin is a dynamic singer, actor, and creative mind whose vocal talents have been lended both to rock bands and classical theatre.

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AMJ Crawford is the author of Morpheu (BlazeVOX 2009), editor of zenSLUM, & co-editor of Le Dodo. He is a former Fulbright Scholar to Portugal and currently studies at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.

11/06/2009: JOSÉ FELIPE ALVERGUE & PATRICK LOVELACE.



Friday, November 6th
10PM - MIDNIGHT
$8 General / $7 Students & Seniors / $5 or FREE for Members

With an MFA from the Cal Arts School of Critical Studies, José Felipe Alvergue is currently a student of the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program. His writing on the poet/artist Cecilia Vicuña & the architect Toyo Ito, and the Tijuana based art collective Torolab & the philosopher Martin Heidegger have been presented at academic conferences at home and internationally. He has been published in Nocturnes, Black Clock, P-Queue, Jacket Magazine, and has written a definition of “Impermanence” for the Dictionnaire International de Termes Litteraires (International Dictionary of Literary Terms in criticism). He is the author of us look up/ there red dwells (Queue Books 2008).

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Patrick Lovelace resides in Brooklyn. His publications, through Patrick Lovelace Editions (PLE), include books and other media with Jarrod Fowler, Marie Buck, Brad Flis, Seth Kim-Cohen and Danny Snelson. The Collective Task, a project featuring a dozen poets and artists, edited by Rob Fitterman and designed by Dirk Rowntree, is due in the fall. His most recent endeavor is an executive production collaboration with the CLEVELAND TAPES collective. Forthcoming projects are numerous and dubious.