by Chris Livesay
Mass (Colder Darker Matter)
Cornelia Parker
(1997)
The word “mass” elicits a host of images. A mass of people just ran into the breezeway to escape the monsoon showers outside the building I type in. Scores of people across the world are certain to be celebrating the Mass at this moment, in churches both tiny and massive in size. Most fundamentally, there is mass in its scientific context, i.e. mass as the sum total of matter present in an object. In all of these senses, Cornelia Parker’s Mass (Colder Darker Matter) acts as a perceptual and conceptual metaphor.
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by Clifton Smith
they seem,
like anything familiar
(and pleasant),
addictive Read the rest of this entry »
by Dirk Vaughan
“To show the fly the way out of the bottle was the life’s hope of Ludwig Wittgenstein, but the truth is that human beings don’t want a way out of the bottle Read the rest of this entry »
by Justin Sean
I won’t lie & say it went effortless.
I lost loves, such, 18 years worth spent
my head in books, my neck developed
one tremendous kink & adamantly tilts. Read the rest of this entry »
by Clifton Smith
Collaborator: Trevor Helminski
A noteworthy aspect of John Cameron Mitchell’s film Shortbus is that it contains explicit sex. Only a handful of serious films (films that, unlike pornography, attempt more than sexual excitation) have included explicit sex. The most noteworthy aspect of Shortbus is that it gives us explicit, realistic sex in which the participants benefit sexually and psychologically from the sex.
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Deutsche Fassung
by Felix Schulz
view of Wu Tai Shan
My journey to China began some time ago. To be honest, it seems to me as though my relationship to this country has an older history: it goes as far back as a life can go. Read the rest of this entry »
by Caitlyn Conlin
What part of whole
is whole
And who decides this whole? Read the rest of this entry »
by Jon Riley
For several days my car hadn’t been starting. I decided to take the day off from work to get it fixed and had to take a cab to get to my lifeless automobile. This journey was perhaps the most traumatic experience my fragile psyche had to deal with to that date. Read the rest of this entry »
by Craig Nagoshi
April 6, 2007, 5:42
A.M.: Is this the moment to note
In semi-fixed lines taken as wrote Read the rest of this entry »
by Julie Nagoshi
Typical 6am wake-up. Don’t want to get out of bed. Brush my teeth, carefully avoiding the mirror. Quickly bathe myself. Don’t want to touch or even look at my body.
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