protestpoem for Jamyang Kyi

on water we write that
winds will blow words
will bulge ripples will

burst into sound & pictures
will show & wavelets will
grow. arrest jamyang

kyi & winds will blow
words will bulge ripples
will burst into sound


dv, 11/05/2008

----- Original Message ----
From: Protest Poems' Call for Words <writeprotestpoems@gmail.com>
Subject: Sing For Free Speech: Poems and Lyrics of Protest!

Before May 15th!

Current Writing Prompt:
Independence or Freedom to Associate or Women' Voices*

Jamyang Kyi

On April 1, Chinese authorities detained the popular Tibetan feminist, writer, singer, television producer and blogger Jamyang Kyi.

Jamyang Kyi's computer and other personal property were confiscated, though no charges have been disclosed in regard to an arrest.

Her husband, Lamao Jia, has not been allowed to see or speak to her since April 7.

Jamyang Kyi's writings and songs have not been considered political, but the Times speculates that she may be detained on suspicion of her having had contact with exiled Tibetan groups while traveling abroad.

More information can be found online. A google search will bring several pages of detailed, current links. Direct links can be found on the protestpoems.org website.

Please express your outrage in form: a poem, a song about independence, about feminist ideals, about whatever you think is appropriate. MP3 and video files are welcome, and will be posted on the Babel Fruit journal website.

I will send the compilation off to the authorities on May 15th. As always, we hope she's released before then.

*******

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Thank you for taking part!

We have added you to our mailing list, and you will receive requests for poems of protest to support a specific writer about once a month.

I hope you will support a colleague/kindred-spirit who is being persecuted for exercising his or her right of Free Speech. 15 minutes of writing can make a difference.

Remember to send poems to write@protestpoems.org
(If all else fails: renka@online.no)

*Note: Please make sure that your email application is configured to accept multiple recipient emails from this address:

writeprotestpoems@gmail.com


If you have questions or, for any reason, you would like to be taken off this list, send an email to: write@protestpoems.org

Thank you again!
Ren

table aid for the Klebnikov Carnaval

we have a design!

I'm making a table, to be sold on Ebay when it's done. I will be selling it in order to buy me some time for the Khlebnikov thing in August.

The table is part of the Thing as it happens. It's the code of Plateau 15 of the Path of the Weeping Night applied to painted toys, garbage, glass and paint.

Here's some pictures already, my daughter Charlotte took most of them:

the wheel's from an old toy charriot


me while i'm at it

The little pyramid thing's a bit of packaging support painted black.

that's a nice painting composition!



Here's the main figurine sweating it out in his sack of felt ( that's vilt in Dutch): i bought this male barbie doll for less then 2 euro in the recycling shop.

All of it 's garbage, in fact.

Vlak 13 on Daily Motion

Vlak 13 van Het Pad van de Wenende Nacht
Video sent by vilt001

This is a performance of part of my rewrite of Khlebnikov's Zangezi by dirk vekemans and ilse derden directed by dirk vekemans and arnout camerlinckxs
recoded to be able to be viewed on blogs

Plateau 13 from The Path of the Weeping Night

Note: Both the web-version and the gallery version are looped and start with a 20 second black nothing

Web-version : http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/data/downloads/chlebnikov/vlak_13_web.html (25 mb)

Gallery version: http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/data/downloads/chlebnikov/dirkvekemans.zip (50mb)

About Plateau 13 of The Path of the Weeping Night

"This is a performance of the existing code for plateau 13 of The Path of the Weeping Night

The Path of the Weeping Night is the ‘score’/ ‘source code’ written by dirk vekemans for the performance of his re-write of Velemir Khlebnikov's Zangezi totalling 20 such planes or plateau's one for each part of the Russiian original. Not unlike dv's New Cathedral of Erotic Misery (see http://www.vilt.net/nkdee - an update of Schwitters original Kathedrale des erotischen Elends), the Path is faithfull to the original work only in spirit.

The code is to be used freely for non-commercial purposes. In fact everyone involved in this International Celebration of Russia's foremost Modernist Poet would very much like to see some more 'performances' of existing code along the Path. Authors and performers are advised to go about this in a very free way, in fact throwing away the existing code might in some cases be a better way than trying to make something of it. Heck it’s in Dutch anyway.

There's consistent rumours of a Great International Khlebnikov Carnaval to be held from august 11 to 17 , 2008 in Kessel-Lo, near Louvain in Belgium, so it might be a good idea to start thinking about your contribution right now.

Source code (in Dutch) for the Path is made available through http://khlebnikov.wordpress.com

In any case Dirk refuses responsibility for any damage to performing players or machines."

This Plateau premiered at the *ZAOEM festival of Present Day Poetry in Gent earlier this april: http://www.krikri.be/zaoem

Performers

Text: dirk vekemans

Recitation and singing: dirk vekemans en Ilse Derden

direction: dirk vekemans en Arnout Camerlinckx

Ilse Derden en Arnout Camerlinckx and their assorted friends together form the art-collective Grapes of Art, see http://www.grapesofart.org

Web-version : http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/data/downloads/chlebnikov/vlak_13_web.html

Gallery version: http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/data/downloads/chlebnikov/dirkvekemans.zip (50mb!)

(please send us a picture and some details of whereabouts if you ‘re showing the gallery version)

Please spread this message as you see fit.

To conclude here’s some lines from the master himself, from a longer poem
that sets out with “When autumn comes to turn the trees[…]then we think of spring and Mardi Gras!”:

“Good friends, arise! And stand prepared
to follow her with heaps of light
and woven strands of mist and flowers!
Wilder than the sea at dawn,
spread yourselves in streams across
the east and watch, enchanted by
the air’s blue escapades,
As dreams uncoil like waking snakes.
Iridescent as the flowers,
blown by the breath of human mouths,
Spring arises from her sleep,
all men who scrabble after profit,
who reckon days in gain and strain,
who reckon days in trade and coin,
all have joined the single flood
of love for the Virgin Spring, loyal subjects
sure her CARNIVAL will last forever.”

Velemir Khlebnikov – from ‘ The Poet’ transl. by Paul Schmidt

Please spread this message as you see fit.

Thank You.

split second

Elfabetisation - C

cola (cola)
chora (chora)
citrus (citrus)
clan (clan)

china (china)
cheops (cheops)
crisis (crisis)
carnaval (carnaval)

code (code)
cello (cello)
cenobiet (cenobite)

cantus (cantus)
cactus (cactus)
cro-magnon (cro-magnon)

Elfabetisation - B

boter (butter)
braambes (blackberry)
bottel (to bottle)
boek (book)

boven (up)
bengel (rascal)
braken (throw up)
bloed (blood)

biezen (braid)
botsbal (gummi ball)
brak (brackish/broke)

binnen (inside)
boksen (box)
beenderzak (sack of bones)

Cycling through the Elfabet - A

A

aria (aria)
amber (amber)
aksel (aksel)
aberrant (aberrant)

aandacht (attention)
aftel (counting down)
aas (bait, carrion)
albast (alabaster)

azen (prey on)
amper (scarcely)
als (as)

almaar (constantly)
aster (aster)
aangedaan (affected)

pixels#20

pixels#21

FFX! hear da viskals

FFX! hear da viskals wegewaaien over all! Ier yorwick is fliksing in brightsels. Man had er ingeswimd driewerf da Fuckerde Hoekspleet smack in da verbotzeignuncte Eregnis im beyondkuhes grasses aberMaddy Creambartock and her girlswoons notched up da creep a weebit so out pupped da dogleash in pantifusion TM. Blu ray may HD but pantifusion rules da digiwave. Courtwrights and playbanks beatnik da crap uut 't gruuthuuze semenal schribsel on da crackyard, nikswize. Een op een is drie bijeen. Maagselwitten twee magin dachterwaarts insgelucks. TWEERElt was a fatsy blooperassky donateske, drei zwengels und a tungat im munde. And bladdergushed ilkward da hundreaded codekwenzels from da californicated spindiks. Wadda blurredwell hellmash unflipped from butterbraille, wadda way da spliff sputtered da faeceased mundogen IO und OI till OO und YETZ!

New constraint fur Nuzzled Sentence

Angela sayz:

"Sss! See the snake wurrums
everyside!... ur durlbin is
sworming in sneaks. They came to our island from triangular
Toucheaterre beyond the wet prairie rared up in the midst of the
cargon of prohibitive pomefructs but along landed Paddy
Wippingham and the his garbagecans cotched the creeps of them
pricker than our whosethere outofman could quick up her
whatsthats. Somedivide and sumthelot but the tally turns round the
same balifuson. Racketeers and bottloggers.
Axe on thwacks on thracks, axenwise. One by one place one
be three dittoh and one before. Two nursus one make a
plausible free and idim behind. Starting off with a big boaboa and
threelegged calvers and ivargraine jadesses with a message in their
mouths. And a hundreadfilled unleavenweight of liberorumqueue
to con an we can till allhorrors eve. What a meanderthalltale to
unfurl and with what an end in view of squattor and anntisquattor
and postproneauntisquattor!

Again, here's how it works: Take this text (or the motif), and using that constraint, create new works. You can also take other contributors works and "riff" on those, in the spirit of artistic collaboration. To see how the constraint-based premise of this project works, take a look at Zswound Mania.

If you have any questions, suggestions or anything, please let me know!

Happy Sss!-charming!


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Nuzzled Sentence: http://nuzzledsentence.blogspot.com

Angela Genusa op PK-LP: http://www.vilt.net/kessello/?cat=23

da oem uv da angelic fraulein: http://packageinsertofsorrows.blogspot.com/

patti hayworth

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On reading Blake (again)

Some (i'm tempted to say 'all') of the feeling of 'something's not right' when you look at these passionate works disappears when you flip the designs horizontally. A friend of mine admitted to a similar feeling recently, it got me thinking.

Apparently it is quite well possible that Blake's printing process required the drawings to be mirrored in the end-result. You can't really imagine Blake designing them explicetly in mirror view, coding letters like Leonardo, ok that may well be, but the pictorial elements?

Most of the 'awkardness' , i presume, has to do with a disturbance in the temporal order, which for most of us westeners, has a built up from left to right, hence we think accordingly, that is to say our visual movements all develop from left to right, hence we design from left to right.

Once you grow accustomed to the inversion, ofcourse, all the effect of it dissipates, Blake himself wouldn't have noticed anymore what was 'wrong' with the designs, and all of his commentators too distracted by their splendor and originality to notice or mention the obvious.

le gance blue rouge

tructures se ct & tsoweitr

Ojos de Brujo

saturning

POME
MULTI SUPER KITCHA CUTTA
viseo neerlandais inglezi
öder
lying in the colors of Marie

ca tourne ca change
sa turning de dance

take me in your routing
touring doering doe toe


my rings will catch your strngth
strgngst strrstrsrgth ssttrrngth
ssttrr
sstt
st
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doe de ring toe
van de shoebox

ja dors
yes
ours

(now do the chuckkles da

zaÖHMbaWay)

beurtman blundert

1. beurtman on a random sheet
2. the sheet is not a sheet
3. the random is not a random
4. a beurt is not a bird

silly logism
lights out

Gaps top the things

on top of things there are gaps
on top of gaps are things

don't worry

things are on top of gaps