Self-Glossary 2010

After (what comes after?)

Against Indexical Art (art that simply points at what already exists and stops there)

Adrienne Kennedy (A Lesson in Dead Language) (black experimental playwright)

Anarchist-Whore: Griselides Real (Swiss revolutionary prostitute)

Antonin Artaud's spells

Ball-in-Cage carvings

Begin Civil Twilight

Charlotte Beradt (The Third Reich of Dreaming) (a collection of dreams collected by Beradt from Germans in the beginning of the Nazi occupation)

Colonial murals (not simply the lure of the untrained brushstrokes, but the process as sculptural… the itinerant artist at the hands of his benefactor wanders from home to home. The aerial relationship of each mural to another – to think of them as one piece strung together by the artists' trajectory.)

Crater Lake

Dark cloud constellations (Australian aborigines also create constellations from the spaces between stars)

DJ Screw (progenitor of rap slowed down to an extreme (AKA "Chopped and Screwed"))

Eartha Kitt, welcome. (Pay attention to her wild manipulation of projections of race and femininity)

Edna St. Vincent Millay's lost ivory dildo

Fernand Deligny (French researcher of autism) ("Language is sometimes more problem than tool")

Franz Fanon (psychiatrist, philosopher, and anti-colonist from Martinique) ('the … rifle is not a penis; it really is a 1916 model Lebel rifle.')

For Accidental viewer-ship (art work outside of galleries and museums that sideswipes those unsuspecting)

Funeral Mountains

Gilles Deleuze's essay "Desert Islands"

Hannah Wilke's ugly, unseemly gravestone in Long Island

Hobo University (deceased experimental school)

Jean Oury (experimental psychiatric wards) ("The Institution is Ill")

Jean-Luc Nancy (French theorist) ('There is no such thing as penetration; only touching')

Hesitation as spatial property

Joan Armitrading's "Me Myself I" video. It's a piece of work.

Light as medium (including twilight and dawn)

Lumber Camp Lady (carved wooden figure made for the use of lumberjacks)

Monique Wittig (Les Geurrilles/ The Guerillas) (lesbian utopia)

Ms. Sancha vs. Ms. Krazie (A rare example of contemporary Folk Music-locally-made for locals)

Narco-corridos (border smuggling songs) (More local music)

Natural pavement (formed in the Mojave desert)

Object as comrade vs. possession vs. alien (imagining new relationships to objects)

Parade Axes (The parade has just begun when they drag out the axes)

Peruvian paintings of angels with guns or swords

Pirate radio stations

Portapak aesthetics (First video cameras and the visuals produced by their technological primitivism)

Radical citizenship

Rembetika ( hundred year old Greek-Turkish underground music)

Rotting ship figureheads

Santeras of New Mexico

Slowness (as resistance, as medium)

Staple Singers (1970's black female band) sing "When Will We Be Paid;" do they suture together form (sonic structure), pleasure (perfomance and melody), and politic (social critique?)

Suture together pleasure, politic, and form in art

Threshold states

Violin carved in prison in 1810 and used to this day by a Rembetika musician.

Xeroxed letter from Cesar Chavez passed from hand to hand, community to community.