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| | | o sirhan, o sirhan (usa) #o sirhan 2 mag “o sirhan, o sirhan #2” magazine and digital versatile disc recordable boxed set - burning books - my enemy
- porest
- bruce mcclure
- rolyn hu - rene
- jessica rylan - the can’t songbook
- bradley eros - cinema incognita
- lsd: weaving the enchanted loom
dvd contents ::- o sirhan, o sirhan introduction (9:16)
- benjamin dowell — the approach of armaggeddon (14:17)
- sir richard bishop — experimentalia (13:03)
- porest / mark gergis — syria debka hama (3:09)
- sherlock terry — tv dinner (2:53)
- bradley eros — deliquescence (9:01)
- can’t / jessica rylan — casting a spell (9:33)
- bruce mcclure — eccentric circles (4:48)
- bruce mcclure — christmas tree stand pt. three (21:00)
- bruce mcclure — quarterdraw (20:15)
| second issue of this righteous art/film/music journal, lovingly curated by che chen & assembled as a digest of individual printed booklets, chapbooks, folios, and a dvd (see below for detail) ; much in the style of 60s art journals such as aspen, an anthology, etc ...
the whole package is dripping with an attention to detail not seen in some time ; anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary private-press / book-design / experimental film / lsd / field recordings (not to mention the music and films of of sir richard bishop & jessica rylan) etc ... will see this as the absolute treasure chest that it ultimately is ... |
| | o sirhan, o sirhan press release... |
| o sirhan, o sirhan #2 + dvd
sir richard bishop / jessica rylan (can’t) / mark gergis (sublime frequencies) / burning books / bruce mcclure / bradley eros / lsd / rolyn hu / benjamin dowell / sherlock terry / interviews, texts, scores, films & more…
inspired by george maciunas’ fluxus boxes, phyllis johnson’s late 60’s multimedia magazine, aspen and old issues of soundcollector, o sirhan, o sirhan#2 is a collection of interviews, texts, musical scores and audio-visual ephemera from varying threads of the underground and avant-garde compiled by visual artist and musician, che chen.
housed in a deluxe, rubber-stamped and belted gray chip board box, the contents of issue #2 are an assortment of hand assembled booklets, pamphlets and broadsides that include; lengthy, illustrated interviews with sublime frequencies mainstay, mark gergis and film projection artist, bruce mcclure, a book of synthesizer diagrams by iconoclastic performer/circuit designer, jessica rylan, and seminal texts on “expanded cinema” by bradley eros, as well as a dvd of previously unreleased film and video by sir richard bishop, mark gergis (sublime frequencies), jessica rylan (can’t), bradley eros and bruce mcclure among others.
edition of 300.
1) exterior view of the o sirhan, o sirhan #2 box.
2) santa fe-based publishing duo michael sumner and melody sumner carnahan — also known as burning books — are perhaps best known for their unique collaborative works which pair carnahan’s evocative, avant-garde prose with sumner’s seemingly inexhaustible image bank and impeccable sense of design. burning books have also collaborated with composers including robert ashley, joan labarbara, elodie lauten, and laetitia sonami, all of whom have chosen to interpret carnahan’s texts in their own unique ways. osos#2 includes burning book’s my enemy, an illustrated short story of sorts that is as full of unflinching observations of human emotions and insecurities as it is experimental in form. my enemy appears here in a 4 panel, 6 ” x 20” format originally designed for an exhibition of the same name at the now defunct donkey gallery in albuquerque, nm.
3) mark gergis — also known as porest — is a “frequent and prolific contributor to the sublime frequencies label, a member of neung phak and mono pause, a producer, phonologist, electronic musician and composer, radical documentarian, performance artist, agitator, and ardent student of human nature.” interviewed at length by composer jorge boehringer (aka core of the coalman; see osos#1), gergis pontificates on his unique approach to field recording, his collaboration with sun city girl alan bishop and, of course, the secret elitist cabal that controls the world. 42 page, 4 ” x 5 ” booklet with color covers. gergis also contributed the short video syria debka hama — filmed in the streets and nightclubs of hama, syria—to the osos#2 dvd.
4) heavily featured in osos#2 is film projection artist, bruce mcclure, whose multiple projector performances exist at the intersection of structural film, minimalism and psychedelia. three of mcclure’s works appear on the accompanying dvd, including his first film, eccentric circles, from 1978. also included is a lengthy interview with mcclure conducted by che chen in which mcclure discusses his working methods and reflects on everything from his first attempts at film to the nature of improvisation to his days playing chess with john cage. 8 pages, 11” x 8 ” with black and white photos and stills, and a mini-insert of color reproductions of mcclure’s “roto-optic” discs.
5) rene is a suite of three arcane, violent and timely poems by rolyn hu. some may know hu as the vocalist of the band trueprimes. 8 ” x 14” three panel pamphlet, black and white.
6) the can’t songbook is a collection of synthesizer diagrams and scores by performer, sound artist and synthesizer designer, jessica rylan (aka can’t). rylan published her first volume of the songbook in 2004 in a miniscule edition of 17 and now offers up this second volume as part of osos#2. 18 pages, 7” x 8 ”, spiral bound, black and white. a video for a searing live version of the can’t song“casting a spell”, comprised of concert footage shot by mike keegan at the knitting factory in 2005 and super 8 footage by osos is also included on the osos#2 dvd.
7) culled from the considerable personal archives of filmmaker, sound collagist and radical curator, bradley eros, cinema incognita brings together two of eros’ seminal texts on “ephemeral cinema”. written in 1992 and 1993, respectively, cinema incognita and eye, invent are poetic treatises on the possibility of a true expanded cinema. 12 pages, 11” x 8 ”, black and white. eros’ deliquescence, a watery superimposition of found film and aural collage, appears on the osos#2 dvd.
8) lsd: weaving the enchanted loom collects excerpts of interviews with lsd luminaries timothy leary, myron stolaroff, oscar janiger and laura huxley (aldous huxley’s 2nd wife) by documentary filmmaker, daria sommers. originally conducted in 1995 as a part of an as yet unrealized film project, these interviews offer fresh perspectives on the “golden age” of psychedelic research, nearly a half century after the fact. 8 ” x 7”, 8 pages, black and white.
9) the osos#2 dvd contents:
1) o sirhan, o sirhan introduction, 9’16” super 8 digest films, sound, 2003/2008 2) benjamin dowell—the approach of armaggeddon, 14’17” 16mm transferred to video, sound, 2005 3) sir richard bishop—experimentalia, 13’03” video, sound, 2007 4) porest/mark gergis—syria debka hama, 3’09” video, sound, 2006 filmed in syria 5) sherlock terry—tv dinner, 2’53” video, sound, 2002 6) bradley eros—deliquescence, 9’01” multiple film projector performance transferred to video, sound 2004 7) can’t/jessica rylan—casting a spell, 9’33” video and super 8, sound 2008. live performance video taped at the knitting factory in 2005 by mike keegan. super 8 footage by o sirhan, o sirhan. edited by fritz donnelly. 8) bruce mcclure—eccentric circles, 4’48” super 8, silent, 1978 9) bruce mcclure—christmas tree stand pt. three, 21’ multiple 16mm projector performance transferred to video, sound, 2007 10) bruce mcclure—quarterdraw, 20’15” multiple 16mm projector performance transferred to video, sound 2007 |
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