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Interview: Douglas Kearney & Hands On Methods of Appropriation and Authenticity In Music
Listen to an excerpted interview with Douglas Kearney on “Lomaxing”, methods of sanctioned and unsanctioned appropriation, and the delicate subject of authenticity in music. Click Here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkoW0Ytnx40&feature=youtu.be ________________________________________________________________________________ ***The following is a subsequent interview with Ryan Sweeney of the band Hands on the practice of remixing, loosely based on the above interview […]
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Interview: John Washington
Dear John, Thank you so much for agreeing to do this email interview. I’ve attached an edited copy of Felipe’s interview for your reference. I’ll start broadly. You’ve recently spent some time in Mexico working on some translations I believe. Can you tell me a little about your translation projects and how you […]
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Interview: Marcus Civin
Leg 1, 2013 A very early project of yours was to transcribe Tolstory’s epic “War & Peace” in painstaking hand written script, which could be perceived as a way of living the story, of embodying the text. Is the process of transcribing word-by-word a way of inserting yourself into the text? Absolutely. I wanted […]
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Interview: Felipe W.Martinez On Translating Joao Guimarães Rosa
•5 April 2013 Dear Felipe, I’ve been struggling to somehow position myself as a mediator around the subject of translation-translating all the translations. It feels imbalanced, uneasy-full of landmines. Further, I’ve been thinking a little about how I can conduct an interview without being the mediator, without forcing a path of conversation […]
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Founding documents #8: Comments that may not have existed hitherto
In the spring of 2011, while I was a student at CalArts, I enrolled in a course, led by Jen Hofer, called “Literary Citizenship: Tiny Press Practices.” The class’s culminating project was for each student to produce a handmade, semi-reproducible book object. The remainder of the course was a wide-ranging survey/seminar on the methods and […]
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Jacques Derrida Interviews Vanessa Place
Jacques Derrida interviews OON #0 (& OON #1) contributor Vanessa Place: Jacques Derrida: Like my texts, your work is often considered difficult, on the limits of readability. Why is it always the conceptual writer who is expected to be “easier” and not some scientist or other who […]
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Interview With Chris Sylvester
Walter Benjamin: What creative work is currently occupying you? Chris Sylvester: I have this poem where there is a verbal organization or formal scheme and then I fill its places or its slots with different names for boys and girls from a fund of names for boys and girls Fantasy is involved WB: In the […]
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Nicholas Grider in Conversation with Jean Baudrillard
In the latest of our interview series, Jean Baudrillard interviews OON #0 contributor Nicholas Grider: Jean Baudrillard: When you write, what is the most generous and most strict way you can frame the territory in which your writing operates? That is to say, in what sense is your work the […]
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Interview With Danielle Adair
In the latest of our interview series, Jacques Derrida interviews OON #0 contributor Danielle Adair: Jacques Derrida: I’d like to set aside the usual biographical brushworks, and start instead with your 2006 text and audio piece Reflections By Danielle Adair on Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia. What is […]
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Interview With Christine Wertheim
Søren Kierkegaard: Can you talk a bit about your piece in #0? I’m especially interested in the question of who is Pamela Aber. Christine Wertheim: Pamela Aber is a woman who was captured by Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, when she WAS 18. Like many of the adults and children […]
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Interview With Maureen Alsop
Walter Benjamin: What creative work is currently occupying you? Maureen Alsop: Let’s study the topography. Walter, when you questioned the bunting’s trill then mouthed back over the stream, I could not stop the alstroemeria’s impossibly small blossom. Snow lacerates the valley. Meaning there is no disrespect for your transition—flakes puncture the dry edge of […]
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Interview With Søren Kierkegaard
OON: We see a lot of cross-genre work here at [out of nothing]—texts that occupy a kind of interstitial space between fiction, philosophy and even the sciences sometimes. What’s your feeling on that, given that your writing at the time seemed to blend a lot of these elements, well before we had any discourse on […]