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| Stills from Messagio Galore: Take XII performance. (jwcurry, performing his score) |
Sitting
in the second row, twice I felt a droplet of spittle extend its utterance to my
belated chin.
No
written text can communicate the ferment which occurred on the evening of
Sunday October 21, 2012 at Common Ground Gallery. This was a
highly under-attended, singular performance.
The quartet QUATUOR GUALUOR (jwcurry, Alastair Larwill, Georgia
Mathewson, Brian Pirie) traveled to
Windsor from Ottawa and said, sang, yelped, mimicked, acted, danced twenty-nine
poems/compositions/renditions, ranging from Kurt Schwitters to Frank Zappa tojwcurry himself.
There
aren’t enough entries in Thesaurus for “sound” to communicate the swell of
vibratory flux, flexing and shape-shifting upon the cochlea. How incommunicable I feel, with Thesaurus
dangling from the keyboard keys. Language cracked and putrefied and I am still
picking up the eggshells. My own poetic
trials are dwarfed in comparison, should I resolve to desist?
[Film documentation unavailable at this time.]
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| The Messagio Galore: take XII program (cover). |
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| The Messagio Galore: take XII program |
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| The Messagio Galore: take XII program |
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| The Messagio Galore: take XII program |
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| QUATUOR GUALUOR, performing their scores. (L2R: Georgia Mathewson, jwcurry, Alastair Larwill, Brian Pirie) |
Among the audience were jwcurry’s UNWANTEDS and their
handwritten dilapidated tales. Usually
existing as nomadic graffiti personalities on other people’s places, this is
the first time these “prints” have ever been shown in a gallery setting holding
their own ground, together with their biographies. Their derelict contortions appease, amuse,
and astonish, and their painted life span will be murdered with paint kill on
Halloween (of course), the erasure being not unlike the cycles of graffiti markings
in the outer world.
These
characters have set up a set of circumstances, following linguistic rules with
handwritten familiarity, witty additives, and a glaze of syntax we all know and love. The sound poetry performance, in this
context, shifted and shuffled everything in its site, like a ventilating collage in
phona-scapes (at least for those who were there)…
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| Installation in progress. jwcurry preparing his stencils. |
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| UNWANTED's stencils (only 1 stencil per image!). Installation in progress. |
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| jwcurry, printing the UNWANTED's onto Common Ground walls. |
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| Meet Chris Heidie, UNWANTED |
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| Meet Jan Treblinka, UNWANTED. |
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