Happy New Years fellow fluxlist workers
wanted to say hello again as not on the web for close to two years
as a broadside i found on street half obscured by new fallen snow told me:
HE LIVES!
looking forward to participating in all the upcoming events and projects
conversations
THE DEAD SEE
NAME: david baptiste chirot
OCCUPATION: anarkeyology
POSTAL ADDRESS: 2713 w. richardson place #311 milwaukee, wi 53208 usa
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name of the arwork: the ten fragmeants
ten sheets laid out on floor/taped to wall
A4 size paper
one each one, forms made by spray painting
dear kinghaircut@superfantastique
--(is this perhaps a hair salon?
--there is one in our neighborhood called curl up dye!
anyways
yes!
i would like to particpate in the card project game!
--ever pokerfaced,
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OBJECT: parking lot
LOCATION: between w. richardson kilbourn, milwaukee, wi
parking lot as an object:
a sounding space
just record it for a bit
amazing space
action!
noise!
trouble!
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mes amis:
sorry, i was cut off--
bush and company have their own don't ask, just tell
policy--
they will get their money by hook or by crook not to mention
lobbies, and legislation--
they won't invoke oil--they'll invoke God and Security
for the Homeland
Dear JMB:
Thanks so much--i can't wait to see the LAFT!
I have another bundle of works i am copying today to send you--mostly rubbings from hither and yon about Milwaukee--also, to borrow your title: "A HEAP OF HAIKU"!
yes--a heap of the little buggers!
i lookl sop fwd to being in touch
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Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 11:12:33 -0800
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Dear David:
I have yet to receive my card--
please send to:
david baptiste chirot
2713 w. richardson place #311
milwaukee, wi 53208
USA
thank you! onwo/ards! david baptiste
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I would like to contribute
like alan, i am wondering--what are you looking for
and, most importantly--where does one send "it"--
(for example, i have a yoko ono anti-gun violence postcard re john lennon--is that of any interest?--etc--)
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i also would like to contribute
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Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:47:18 +0100
i know that there are people here who can contribute things
anne,
what sort of
this is probably brought up at the sites listed-
but if not--
a good way to make transfers from color xerox is to use finger nail polish remover
(not to mention the astonishing aroma of the liquid substance!)
(is using glues, industrial markers, spray paints, lighter fluid, finger nail polish
David:
many many thanks! i am much looking fwd to recieing the card
and having fun with it--
onwo/ards!
david baptiste
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Subject: FLUXLIST: Collaborative card game (A.)
Date: Wed, 5 Feb
i saw the human league perform live in boston at about this time--
the sound on vinyl bears little resemblance to them live, at least back then--
they were truly awful!
the crowd to say the least was very --well, shall we say--angry!
and being the punk days--heaped abuse among other more lethal
Dear Amy and --M's ieur Gnome:
--if m'sieur Gnome is not too large--i wd be glad to have his company (i apologize but due to budget constraints--can't afford to pay for too large a gnome!)
is he a metrognome--
(will be if he visits here in Milwaukee!)
certainly a gnomade!!
and into gnomecology i
alan--
what is mp3?
maybe i can help you find this--
but--i wd have to know first!
all best--david baptiste
onwo/ards!
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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 00:34:22
Crispin:
ditto for me
(ie. the infamous "the chekov is in the mail")!
david baptiste
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Crispin, mailed my contribution prototype
In Paris in 1969 i saw a street fight in which a Morrocan sliced off the ear of a Frenchman who was known to be a police informer--i.e. a "listening post".
A friend here recently introduced me to the term "ear hustler"--a person who pretends to be lost in thought or dozing off, all the while
I will be in the Big Chi
Friday the Thirteenth of June
for a poetry reading
can send you the name and address of the place if you like--
i wd only be there for the pre-reading and the reading and after--
as going with people from here in Milwaukee--
david baptiste
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trying to rediscover
someone had asked for 100 word short stories?
i have the story ready
but can't find now where to send--
might some one know and please send on the information?
much appreciated--
david baptiste
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count me also for participation
david baptiste
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 09:32:14 -0400
Count me in! Maybe Crispin Webb, too. -Don Boyd
Fluxus West,
DEAR FRIENDS FELLOW WORKERS
very interesting and thought provoking to find this discussion--as have been
reading books by hendricks and knowles of late at a bookstore
the similarity one finds--is that both work with the everyday materials,
incidents--
two books by hendricks i have been
a jack in the box
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Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 17:28:40 -0400
A small rubber cow
--
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eRICA:
THANK YOU FOR THE QUOTE FROM cHRISTIANE f.
THE BOOK AND MOVIE --FOR SOME TIME HAUNTED ME--
the Berlin of that time--
juxtapostions of extreme energies, events, edges--and scenes of
mullification--
--david baptiste
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To:
CONCRETE BLOCKS
WHEN MY BROTHER JED AND I WERE CHILDREN
WE MADE CONCRETE POEMS
WITH THEM
HAD SEEN A BOOK MY FATHER HAD
CONCRETE POETRY ANTHOLOGY
BEFORE THAT
(PRE-CONCRETE=PRE-LITERATE)
WE USED
MUD
GIANT TOTEMIC BEINGS
BUILT FROM MUD AND STRAW
one can be flexible fluxable
fling mud balls
with
TRUE STORIES
no spaces when there is no time
to tell
immensity in an instant
SPEEDFreaktaxidriver15yearssignsnameshiddenplotlanguagetellFBIgivephonebookall
the namesarehere.
armydrafttesthearsoundpushbuttonheflunkedtoldhewasdeafcouldbarelyread
pushedwrongbutton
I think i may have gotten it mixed up
--changed 100 word stories
into
100 letters /spaces stories
sometimes
the pupil
revises the teacher
other times,
--the cornea
david baptiste chirot
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Does this qualify as a one hundred word story--
(it does have movement, a direction--)
more in line of True Stories
praying in public
preying in public
invoking God
invoking goods
sunday street
preacher, dopeman
on facing corners
'you Right?
you straight?
ahead
a cross street
--more corners
more
Dear Roger--
think of it as gnarlration--
to gnaw the gnarlrations!
spinning a yarn--
gnarled--
did Ariadne's thread--get gnarled at times, spaces--
what a tangled web we weave--
a story can be in any form
spaces--
the rythms in between
would a palindromatic story be a narrative?
the same old
banane
ananas
bain
anonyme
en fin
de main au main
les mettres au coin
pas besoin
de s'exprime
--david baptiste
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Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:00:25 +0200
tant va la banane au bain qu'à
two spellings out so to speak
of Ph.D
i have heard:
Piled high Deep
Pretty heavy Dude (this on an old jazz lp--)
i like the juxtaposition/intersection
of these!
--david baptiste
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Thank you Allen!
For Fourth of July i am going to a park by Lake michigan here in
Milwaukee
and read Walt Whitman to the trees and grass
and also bring big drop sheet and work on spray paint paintings that i add
collaged materials to
and hope i don't get in trouble with the police!
No-Text Time KNOT NEXT TIME
Sweat god waterSweet good water
field silence fills sielnce
cave mask dribbles cave asks riddles--
deaf frame
raft her raft here/raft hear
raft her raft here
er laphear laps
mast merge mast's surge
er slam hear slams
Dear Carol
thank you for sending the news of this piece--
it is sad but also joyous--
also--news of AM FINE--
used to know him back in early eighties in Boston--long before i knew about
mail art he used to talk about it
always with his cup of coffee!
would hang out in Harvard Square among all
Dear Ann:
Yes, your message received and will be sending you a flock of scores--
best lunch i have been to here in Milwaukee (i am not a big lunch eater so
my area of knoweldge is pretty limited)
is the free meal at St John Evangelist's on Saturdays, all the cooking done
by Food Not Bombs
it
hello dear friends fellow fluxworkers--
i lost track of several messages from a while back--
i can'
t recall who it was that had been asking about making a recording of a song
and then writing a commentary if it was a remake, a remix, --oh my gosh--why
not a sequel?!--
etc--
(theoretical
hello dear friends fellow fluxworkers--
i lost track of several messages from a while back--
i can'
t recall who it was that had been asking about making a recording of a song
and then writing a commentary if it was a remake, a remix, --oh my gosh--why
not a sequel?!--
etc--
(theoretical
Dear Friend Fellow Worker Melissa
--what a wonderful project!--
i recall reading that at one point the young Rauschenberg, without money for
suppies, made paintings with dirt--
and just reading great book THE WORK OFJEAN DUBUFFET by Peter Selz, with
texts by the arrtist--
(Nerw York: Museum of
Dear Anne--
I am sending my pieces
it took me longer as made many outdoors in an alley
they are visual scores, color etc spray painted and with rubbings--
and then in small print also the event--
i got into making them with shoes found in alleys and dumpsters--
so there are some steps so to
--
Thanks for your involvement with this!
AK
On 9/3/03 1:14 PM, David Chirot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Anne--
I am sending my pieces
it took me longer as made many outdoors in an alley
they are visual scores, color etc spray painted and with rubbings--
and then in small print also the event
Dear Anne--
Events--they seem to breed like rabbits!
It seems that even without the proverbial hat, all i have to do is reach
into my head, and pull them out!
I am sure if i look my sleeves have aces up them!
composing oneself
exchaning pleasantries
on the wueit side
out of his mind
dropping a
Dear Melissa, Friends Fellow Workers--
have been collecting baggies, finding the change in seasons an interesting
time to observe the changes in dirt--as now in many areas i come across, the
dirt is mixed also with leaf molds, rotting composts of old weeds that are
in the process of
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