What follows is a concentrated and incomplete collection of photographs documenting activities at Sector 2337 from Jan-May 2016. All of the events below were free to the public and produced by The Green Lantern Press. Unless otherwise noted, they were taken by Caroline Picard.
Look at all those lovely metaphors. Mark Booth installation, The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Sector 2337, 2016.
The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Mark Booth solo exhibition opening, Sector 2337, 2016.
EN3MY chapbook, co-edited by Amelia Ishmael and Jason Soliday, indexes seven years of underground music history on Milwaukee Ave, Holon Press, 2016.
“The sound of air within a body is represented by the den of a brown bear” Mark Booth, Saturday performance, The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Sector 2337, 2016.
“A moon is represented by a keyhole” Mark Booth, Saturday performance, The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Sector 2337, 2016.
Found cleaning the office: postcard from anonymous friend documenting weather, Sector 2337, 2016.
The Fortieth Day perform in relation to Bleeding Black Noise, an exhibition in the project space curated by Amelia Ishmael, Sector 2337, 2016.
The Fortieth Day perform in relation to Bleeding Black Noise, an exhibition in the project space curated by Amelia Ishmael, Sector 2337, 2016.
Aldo Tambellini reads poetry in conjunction with Bleeding Black Noise, an exhibition in the project space curated by Amelia Ishmael, Sector 2337, 2016.
The mother’s death wish / disguised as longing / for heaven the limp plastic hat / she kept folded / in her purse in case of rain” —MRB Chelko, Afterlife Be
“Someone I sidestep to avoid / banging shoulders with on the street /could have held their lips / against the same wineglass as mine: / a kind of kiss, minus the time /that fills what we call windows.” — Sarah Stickney, “Vibrating”
“Brake light out; kid lying awake. / Full tank of gas, toddler strapped in. / Whoever gives good advice sees the future.” — Anthony Madrid, “The Driving Instructions“
“Hustle and flow/it’s hard up here for a finch/it’s hard up here for a finch/nature never repeats itself” — Chuck Stebelton
“They say everything that’s ever written is part of the community journal / How elastic is the community” — Paul Drueke
“…ezhi-zhoomiingweyaangoba / and all the ways we’ve smiled / mooshkine moodayaabikoong / into jars filled to the brim / ji-baakaakonid pii bakadeyaang. / to be opened when we are thin.” — Margaret Noodin, “Umpaowastewin“
“An absence of shadows is represented by the sky, which is shared by all” Mark Booth, The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Sector 2337, 2016.
“An unmistakable itch is represented by a hall of crystals” Mark Booth, Final Saturday performance, The Sea is Represented by an Irregular Shape, Sector 2337, 2016.
Marissa Perel performs for Magalie Guérin’s exhibition opening, Copy Drawings, Sector 2337, 2016.
Carol Barreto describes her mission to challenge history in fashion. “The VOZES collection evokes a debate about post-colonialism and questions: What does it mean to be the product of a country that was colonized? How do colonized peoples find ways to resist? The clothes show those forms of resistance through the mix of diverse materials, which bring features from the European colonizers adapted and remodeled by our African legacy in a unique multicultural result.” — Carol Barreto
Damon Locks debuts new sound piece alongside Carol Barreto, Sector 2337, 2016.
Release of two new Green Lantern Press titles, NOTES ON (Magalie Guérin) and culebra, (Roberto Harrison), 2016.
“To speak as a bomb is outside in the cold / as narrow is to arrive,” Roberto Harrison, culebra, Sector 2016.
“By ideology I mean just how the dog gets walked around the block” Paul Martinez-Pompa, celebrating the release of culebra (Roberto Harrison) and Zenith (Patrick Durgin), Sector 2337, 2016.
Live music performance by Carol Genetti and Albert Wildeman celebrates the release of culebra (Roberto Harrison) and Zenith (Patrick Durgin), Sector 2337, 2016.
“Celine and Julie come of age in an emerging neoliberal horrorscape, but they don’t have anything to compare it to—other places and other ways of living are a fantasy for them.” — Joni Murphy in an interview with Chris Kraus about her debut book, Double Teenage, (Bookthug, 2016).
“And then later, or now, I believe that in the last position, we don’t want to be categorized according to something we feel no association with and it’s only if that name appears as the island in the midst of currents you cannot trust, that it will do. An unknown. It’s waiting. Every name has a history, doesn’t it? And when I think of a name, I think of a cave. Every name is I.” — Pophana Brandes, In an I (Sidebrow, 2015).
“Handbook for Photographic Investigation is a lecture about historical and paranormal mysteries and their photographic representations. The visuals for the lectures are created live, on-site with a copy machine, and are presented to the audience via projection.” — Jenny Vogel, “Handbook for Photographic Investigation,” Sector 2337, 2016.
Jenny Vogel, “Handbook for Photographic Investigation,” Sector 2337, 2016.
Peter O’Leary reads from The Sampo with Robert M. Hutmacher, ofm on harp. “How does a poem flash as an entire holographic thing in an instant? It came from some deep source, of course. What’s the source? Fantasy.” — Peter O’Leary
Reading with Sara Deniz Akant, Margaret Ross, and Callie Garnett, Sector 2337, 2016. Photo by Amelia Charter.
“construct this reality / ask me a question / a thought experiment / memory is a story / i can tell myself” — Bernadette Mayer and Jen Karmin. Appearing at Sector 2337 with Philip Good to release their new book, Sexual Organs of the IRS (Convulsive Editions, 2016). Photo by Amelia Charter.
Jen Karmin and Bernadette Mayer, Sector 2337, 2016. Photo by Amelia Charter.
Philip Good reads alongside Jen Karmin and Bernadette Mayer, celebrating the launch of Sexual Organs of the IRS. Sector 2337, 2016. Photo by Amelia Charter.
“Like a stone I throw into the water / to settle the disembarked people of my dreams…” Edgar Garcia
“Shadows pressed against the rock / as with wet hands pressed against clay” Jose-Luis Moctezuma, “Plumed Serpent On Southwest Airlines”, celebrating his new chapbook Spring Tlaloc Seance (Projective Industries, 2016).
Amie Soudien presents with Jac Kuntz, Ana Sekler, and Hannah Larson during the School of the Art Institute’s Graduate Symposium for New Arts Journalism, Sector 2337, 2016.
