Magazine Launch: Erizo 2, A Journal of the Arts
Friday, February 15, 2019, 7:00pm
Magazine Launch: octopus notes no. 9
About the event
Please join us for the launch of the ninth issue of octopus notes, a biannual journal that publishes critical essays, academic writings, interviews, and artists' projects. octopus notes is directed by Alice Dusapin, Martin Laborde, Alice Pialoux, and Baptiste Pinteaux.
In this issue, Pati Hill, Greer Lankton, Lil Picard, and Bern Porter support their convictions and their specialities: baroque performances, collages, a lot of collages, dolls, a photocopier, etc. In different ways, they all include writing in their work whether it be poetry, novels, or criticism. From these encounters have emerged new connections, what we could call fraternal twins or new cousins. They have the same taste for metamorphoses, for a certain idea of the grotesque, and for reproduction. They share the idea that by pushing systems to their limits, things, even when they seem unable to be anything other than themselves, interfere with each other, create error, and open up hidden zones of potential, like a false-bottom suitcase. This issue also speaks of what we owe to others. Love stories and friendships have created, just as much as if not more than any reading, a happy vampirism. With contributions by Ana Baliza, Tenzing Barshee, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, Alice Dusapin, Alexandre Estrela, Wade Guyton, Pati Hill, Merlin James, Justin Jaeckle, JGL, Greer Lankton, Douna Lim, Mark Melnicove, Paul Monroe, Adrian Morris, Théo Pesso, Lil Picard, Carlo Pittore, Bern Porter, Seth Price, Théo Robine-Langlois, Zoe Stillpass, Anne Turyn, Camille Vivier, Erika Vogt, Kelley Walker and Martin Wong.
…. and especially reunited for the event
Anne Turyn, NY-based artist and editor of Top Stories, (1978-1991, a prose periodical chapbook series including Pati Hill, Constance DeJong, Cookie Mueller, Kathy Acker, Lynne Tillman, Laurie Anderson, and Mary Kelly) will present rare magazine issues and ephemera.
+ Silvianna Goldsmith’s filmed interview with Lil Picard (Lil Picard, 198, 16 mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 27’50’’) will be screened.
+ Poems by Pati Hill, Bern Porter, Marion Scemama, and Martin Wong.
About the magazine
octopus notes is a biannual journal that publishes critical essays, academic writings, interviews and artists' projects. Issue n°8 marks a new start for our publication, which was previously formatted in three parts: a graduate thesis (opus), a conversation with an artist, or an artists' writing (propos), and a limited artists' edition (notes).