C'était Lucien

Lucien is moving

2011-06-16T17:18:00.000-07:00

…kinda sorta. I think. New posts about art projects and performances will appear at xafec.com. Other things TBD. How's that for definitive?

Astonishing Viola

2010-02-19T17:18:00.000-08:00

If you're in Portland between now and May 16, hie thee to Portland Art Museum's Disquieted exhibition and watch Bill Viola's breathtaking Quintet of the Astonished (2000). Shot on high-speed film, this ~15-min piece is a moving painting (in both senses) after Hieronymus Bosch’s depiction of a quartet of executioners surrounding Christ. We got lucky, walking in a few seconds before the loop

Vrouw zit 2,5 jaar dood op de bank

2010-01-27T14:28:00.000-08:00

Only in Finland — from nu.nl: HELSINKI - Een bejaarde vrouw heeft tweeënhalf jaar dood op de bank van haar appartement in de Finse hoofdstad Helsinki gezeten.Medewerkers van een renovatiebedrijf vonden haar, toen ze de raamkozijnen onder handen wilden nemen. Dat meldden Finse media woensdag.De vrouw, van wie de exacte leeftijd niet bekend is gemaakt, was niet getrouwd en had geen kinderen.Haar

Ursonate Distilled, Pictured

2010-01-26T19:27:00.000-08:00

Karl Lind of In the Can posted his great pics of Marko & me doing the Ursonate on January 9 at Distilled. More pix here.

Le plum-pudding de Monsieur de Fontgibu

2010-01-23T22:00:00.000-08:00

Emile Deschamps, auteur du livret "Les Huguenots", a raconté dans ses mémoires une étrange histoire qui lui est arrivée. Emile Deschamps, author of the book "Les Huguenots," recounted in his memoirs the story of a strange experience he had had. Lorsqu'il était enfant, en pension à Orléans, il fut invité avec des camarades chez Monsieur de Fontgibu où il dégusta un délicieux plum-pudding. When

Ursonate Distilled

2010-01-09T23:27:00.000-08:00

Marko & I did another, still different performance of our Ursonate remash duet, this time at Distilled, the Performance Works Northwest fundraiser in the Alembic series.— Rakete (rinzekete)

Fougyre et vortille

2009-10-08T10:10:00.000-07:00

It's good to see that science is validating my lifelong M.O. And yes, bien sûr there's a correlation between John Cage and French language skills.

Bulb Check

2009-09-11T17:23:00.000-07:00

Another guerrilla happening. Get the full scoop here.

Hapax Legomenon

2009-09-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

The all-new, same-as-it-ever-was Hapax Legomenon is back online.Have a nice ipicoquiscro!

à la recherche des visions fugitives

2009-08-13T13:51:00.000-07:00

Back in 2004 I did three videos for Prokofiev's very short piano solo pieces, Visions Fugitives (1915–17), performed by Judith Cohen. They were meant to be a proof of concept for a complete set, with piano by my dad, a student of Judith's.Somewhere along the line I lost the final versions of two of the three pieces, though I still have all the raw footage. But I recently rediscovered a VHS tape I

Three Scrapettes

2009-05-04T23:33:00.000-07:00

present 2 + 2 = 3 sound poetry and paraperformance live at Three Friends, PDX May 4, 2009