Catalog for the October 2008 Exhibition at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Works by Angelo Ricciardi, Antonio Picardi, Jamie Newton, Allan Revich, Lorraine Kwan, Gregory... More > Steel, Walter Cianciusi, Yoko Ono, Luc Fierens, Jim Leftwich, Ken Friedman, Jeff Hogue, Rebecca Cunningham, Don Boyd, Neil Horsky, Larry Miller, Fluxdada, Karl Heinz Jeron, Marco Geovenale, Patrick Anderson-McQuoid and Tomas Schmit, George Brecht, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Carol Starr, Cecil Touchon, Keith Buchholz, John M. Bennett, Reid Wood, Reed Altemus, Sheila Murphy,< Less
This is the first book of Massurrealist Poetry. The following poetry has been constructed rather than invented. This is a distinction similar to the difference between a drawing and a collage. A... More > drawing is completely fabricated by the artist while a collage is constructed from preexisting parts which have been carefully arranged or even haphazardly arranged! These arrangements are often disjointed, surprising and serendipitous.< Less
A chronological record of Cecil Touchon's artistic and poetic activity during the year 2010. Contains images of all collages, drawings, poetry and paintings.
Blame it on: George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Bill O’Reilly, Saddam Hussein, 9/11, Barack Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, The Democrats, The Liberal Media, Atheists, The Christian Right,... More > Family Values, Blacks, Mexicans, Pinko Faggots, Feminists, Global Warming, Corporate greed and the oil companies, Michael Moore and Tree Huggers, in short, everybody except Jesus and Ronald Reagan
The best book ever written about the Republican Party and its failed agenda – The Fall of the Republican Party examines the idiotology of the main players through their own words to reveal the chaotic mush called the Republican platform. If these are the people that have, in the past, been called the Silent Majority, let us hope that they return to the silence from which they came. Smiggley takes a look at some of the maniacs that have led the party down the rabbit hole. Is there hope for a rebirth of a new Republican vision? For the survival of America as we thought we knew it, lets hope not.< Less
Markov Suit Shake is a single epic post-minimalist poem to be read aloud. Inspired by a short poem by John M. Bennett, Touchon explores the randomizing effects of a Markov synthesizer in this Fluxus... More > classic.< Less
In this book of poetry Cecil Touchon extracts material from the very fabric of the massurreality; texts from spam email. In these poems Touchon gives us a contemplative glimpse into contemporary... More > artistic practice where the artist becomes, much more a connector of things than a creator. Every day trillions of bits of data are transmitted over the Internet. As artists peer into this world of information overload a vast body of incoherent data is brought into view. Much like the subconscious explored by the early Surrealists, Touchon uses this raw material to explore unlikely configurations through the use of found text, the abutment of random, unrelated words and phrases such as the classic example from Lautréamonts Chants de Maldoror: "the unexpected meeting, on a dissection table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella". This embrace of randomness is central to Touchon’s poetic output.< Less
The present volume is a chronological compilation of poetry submitted to an email listserv dedicated to collage poetry. Some additional notes by the authors are also included if they helped to... More > illustrate the intention, construction techniques or source material used in a particular poem’s creation. The email group was started as an online studio space where poets and artists explore the methods of collage construction as it applies to poetic texts. This group of collagists have become known as the Cut and Paste Poets because of their methods of poetic construction. A wide range of processes and techniques are represented in this volume illustrating the breadth of possibilities involved in the use of found materials. Each poet exhibits a definite and refined working style that encompasses a wide ranging set of search and gathering methods to compile the raw materials for the poems and a recognizable formal production of the works.< Less
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