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Poegles at Salomon Arts

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 01:01:05 +0000

Yesterday at Salomon Arts in Tribeca Justin and Dave celebrated the closing of Ah Pook is Here: The Lost Art of William S. Burroughs and Malcolm McNeill with a reception and a presentation on found poetry in honor of Burroughs and his “cut-up method” of writing. As proponents of a new kind of ‘cut-up’ method of found poetry using internet search results, we were extremely excited to demonstrate our craft in the presence of work by the cut-up’s most famous proponent, William Burroughs. Participants were invited to view the exhibition and participate in a discussion about found poetry and the new art of using internet search results to create poems.

Click on pictures below for full images.

To read more about Malcolm McNeill’s project with William Burroughs, visit RealityStudio for an interview with McNeill.

Poegles would like to thank Rodrigo and Gigi Salomon for making this event possible- for welcoming us in off the street and allowing us to use their incredible space.

Names from the crowd

admin — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:08:13 +0000

Yesterday at Salomon Arts in Tribeca, we hosted a presentation about the history of poegles alongside the closing of an exhibition of graphic art installation. Two individuals in the crowd volunteered their names, and Dave ‘live-poegled’ a quick prose poem portrait by searching the phrase “the last time i saw….”. Here are the results.

The Last Time I Saw Rachel

“I can still remember the last time I saw Rachel. I was going through the last few weeks of basic training and had been going to chapel every day. It was a few days before Christmas. She was in an advert for one of those insurance companies. I was wearing a oversized faded bikini kill t-shirt and desperately in need of affordable health care. She looked so wonderful. I was swept off course by her sexual magnetism. She was enshrouded in the mist I now realised had also been encapsulating me at the time. I’m not sure when I’m going to see her again.

The Last Time I Saw Ryan

The last time I saw Ryan was during my cotillion days. He was screwing up lyrics on stage and taking frequent breaks to go backstage. I was two months pregnant. He was prancing around in a red velvet jacket doing some weird kind of Noel Coward impersonation. He told me how excited he was move back to Utah, close to family. We spent the day daydreaming about the other and not paying attention in class. It was the week before our high school graduation, in fact.

-Editor (search phrases “the last time i saw rachel” and “the last time i saw ryan”)

Join us for a live Poegles reading January 17th

admin — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:05:12 +0000

On Saturday, January 17th 2009, Salomon Arts and the founders of Poegles.com will celebrate the closing of Ah Pook is Here: The Lost Art of William S. Burroughs and Malcolm McNeill with a reception and a presentation on found poetry in honor of Burroughs and his “cut-up method” of writing.As proponents of a new kind of ‘cut-up’ method of found poetry using internet search results, we are extremely excited to demonstrate our craft in the presence of work by the cut-up’s most famous proponent, William Burroughs. Participants are invited to view the exhibition and participate in an interactive discussion about found poetry and the new art of using internet search results to create poems.

When and where is the event?

Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Wine reception 4 pm to 7 pm, Presentation at 5:30 pm
Salomon Arts- Tribeca
83 Leonard Street (between Broadway and Church), 4th Floor
New York, NY 10013

How do I RSVP?

Because of limited space anyone wishing to attend must RSVP to editor@poegles.com.

Ah Pook Is Here

admin — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:08:27 +0000

William Burroughs, a forefather of the poegle, teamed with artist Malcolm McNeill in 1970 on a seven year project to produce a word/image collaboration known as Ah Pook is Here.

The art and examples of the text from the book are now on display at the Salomon Arts Gallery in Tribeca.

Jan Herman writes on the Huffington Post: “Although their seven-year project was left unfinished because they couldn’t get it published — a text-only version eventually appeared — McNeill writes that the collaboration ‘changed my perception of many things, and now, many years later, continues to do so.’ He adds, ‘The one lesson above all that working with Bill Burroughs had taught me [is] that art is a magical process.’”

Burroughs read from Ah Pook is Here on his 1990 spoken word album, Dead City Radio. You can seee a video version of the track, Ah Pook the Destroyer/Brion Gysin’s All Purpose Bedtime Story, on Youtube here.

The show at Salomon Arts runs through December 14th.