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sMeSs

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

SMeSs burps text messages to (un)known targets un(knowingly). The penultimate Surrealist Act (according to Niels Bohr) is walking out of the shower and texting your girlfriend in the middle of the night. This program misses the mark by far. It will blind a cat however, and it puts the keys to probable chaos in the hands of anonymous gentlemen and wildwomen. Must enlist to receive arms.

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eMaim

Monday, March 15th, 2010

eMAIM fires off blind and random e-mails to any one of a collection of (somewhat) willing victims. The ultimate surrealist act (according to Breton) is walking out into the street with a gun and firing at random. This is a less dire implementation of the same intent. Send poetry to who knows who. You’ll never get it back. You’ll never hear of it again. Get it out of your life and into someone else’s.

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Sounds from the Swamp

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Drum Swamp 02.04.2010 FULL AUDIO>>

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Inside the Great Pyramids

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

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Stratham College of Art and Mechanics

Saturday, February 20th, 2010

Announcing the Stratham College of Art and Mechanics – issuers of a quality education in both the Arts AND Mechanics. There are so many benefits to being enrolled in an Art School. Won’t you join us.

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Ubu Roi Apohadion

Monday, January 18th, 2010

The other night some of us did this. This is proof.

“Ladies and Gentlemen: it would be superfluous – aside from a certain absurdity in an author’s speaking of his own play – for me to come here and preface with a few wor, after such famous critics have cared to discuss it — among whom I must thank, and with these few all the others, M.M. Silvestre, Mendès, Scholl, Lorrain and Bauer —, if I did not feel that their benevolence had found Ubu’s belly big with more satirical symbols than we can possibly pump up tonight. The Swedenborgian philosopher Mésès has excellently compared rudimentary creations with the most perfect, and embryonic beings with the most complete, in that the former lack all irregularities, protuberances and qualities, which leaves them in more or less spherical form, like the ovum and M. Ubu, while the latter have added so many personal details that they remain equally spherical, following the axiom that the most polished object is that which presents the greatest number of sharp corners. That is why you are free to see in M. Ubu however many allusions you care to, or else a simple puppet — a schoolboy’s caricature of one of his professors who personified for him all the ugliness in the world.”

Next (only other) show, February 4th a Space Gallery

Photos by Jon Donnell

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162 things

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

162 bottles were hung with 162 notes inside. A participant would enter the room and take the knife hanging on the wall to cut one of the 162 strings, dropping a bottle and shattering (generally) it on the floor. If the bottle was not broken it would be handed to the participant to dash against the wall. Upon successful breaking I would rifle through the shards and pull out the participant’s fortune, silently handing it to them.

photos by Jon Donnell

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Sacred & Profane 2009

Monday, October 5th, 2009

162 x
bottles
slipknots
hooks
nails
messages
broken bottles
12ft lengths of string

Jon Donnell’s S&P Photos

Sacred & Profane happens every year at Battery Steel on Peaks Island in Portland, Maine. It is an amazing event that arises out of the community with no fees, no paperwork, no contracts, no applications, no advertising, no marketing, and no shit. An increasingly rare breed of pure events with no commercial or bureaucratic concerns. It makes me fall in love with Portland even more all over again. I am honored to have been a part this year.

More thorough commentary when I can muster it.

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S&P 2009

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

10.3.2009
2:15pm $10
Peaks

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crashing and smashing success: Drum Truck

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

Last night’s Drum Truck was an absolute and total blast. Aside from the long and unmoving line at U-haul there were little to no hitches …omitting the constantly blaring horn at Tommy’s Park when it became stuck. It was a while before we found that perfect combination of punches and curses that would stop its wail. There were cops everywhere we went, but never for us. At Longfellow square a squad car pulled up right behind us. I ran to him waving my permit saying “I bet you wanna talk to me. We DO have a permit.” He looked puzzled and said, “What? No, someone got laid out across the street. I’m not here for you.” I said “…oh, well… we have a permit.” He said “Great, have fun.”

click the picture for the first wave of photographs:

the Drummers were:
Mike Cunnane
Jon Donnell
Andrew Fredrick
Elliott Heeschen
Ed Knisely
Ian Riley

Jenn Batchelor drove.

Andrew Lyman was excited.

Thanks to Nick Schroeder and Katie Hatch for water.

Extra thanks to Katie Hatch for homemade oatmeal cinnamon chocolate chip cookies!

Thanks to Diane for letting me make buttons.

Thanks to everyone for being around when this happened!!!

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Originally posted on MENSK

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