September 2007 Update: Lots o' Excitement!

My first book is coming out, a new issue of Plazm is coming out, "The End of War" is here, and busy-ness is keeping me away from both the TBA festival and Awareness is Free. Hectic but gratifying: it must be autumn. So here's a rundown on all the stuff…

A COMPENDIUM OF MINIATURES: Publication + Installation
The biggest news first: my first book will be published this month in a limited edition. Book artist Clare Carpenter and I are also exhibiting an installation about the collaborative process involved in creating this work, as part of the group show "Construct/Re-construct" opening September 29 at Cathedral Park Place in St. Johns. See details below.

A Compendium of Miniatures
by Tiffany Lee Brown
(Portland: 2GQ/Tiger Food Press, 2007)
Miniature narratives and rhythmic metaphors redefine the words that tell life's big stories. Limited edition of 50 signed, numbered books hand-bound in silk. Hand-set in Deepdene and letterpress printed in two colors on recyled paper using soy-based inks by Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press. Case-bound.

If you'd like to reserve a copy, a limited edition of 50, there are two ways to go about it: …..(1) Credit card purchase at Plazm Books ($55 plus S&H) ….. (2) Check or money order to 2GQ ($50 plus S&H). Contact us for shipping rates to your location & to reserve your copy on the waiting list. Email 2007 (at) 2GQ.org with "miniatures" in the subject line.

PLAZM #29 ~ COLLECTIVE MEMORY: Publication + Release Party
I'm now a co-editor of PLAZM magazine, with longtime editor Jon Raymond and art director Joshua Berger. Our new issue features Yoko Ono, Todd Haynes, JD Samson (Le Tigre), Storm Tharp, Domenick Ammirati, Lidia Yuknavitch, Marvin Bell, and a pull-out poster of Portland music from The Wipers to Nequaquam Vacuum. Oh, and The End of War. And Marilyn Monroe, and Elvis, and Bill Walton, and psychedelic posters, and all kinds of stuff.

PARTY: Sept 26, Ace Hotel on SW Stark & 10th in downtown Portland, bands and DJ's (Glass Candy, Hooliganship, Evolutionary Jass Band, more), cheap, all ages, plus art benefiting Veterans for Peace. Please do come. More deets on Plazm #29 here.

"THE END OF WAR": Publication + Exhibit/Benefit Sale
The phrase "the end of war" came to me as a challenge: what does it really mean to imagine the end of war? How would other artists interpret the phrase? We decided to publish a full section devoted to this in Plazm magazine #29, featuring writers and artists including Yoko Ono, Art Chantry, Marvin Bell, Sue Coe, Alex Lilly, Kristen Tsiatsios, Lidia Yuknavitch, David Tarkatover, Devora Neumark, Jamie McMurry, Magdalen Powers, and Rebeca Méndez and Adam Eeuwens.

Benefiting the organization Veterans for Peace, we'll have an "End of War" exhibit and sale at the Plazm #29 release party on September 26. We expect to display works on paper by David Eckard, Art Chantry, Storm Tharp, Kristan Kennedy, Philip Iosca, Horatio Law, and more.


INSTALLATION: Construct/Re-construct
Clare and I are delighted to be part of this show with such Portland artists as Horatio Law, Scott Wayne Indiana, Linda Wysong, Seth Nehil, and John Brodie. Rhoda London is curating this group show of "work that visually and/or conceptually expresses the building blocks that bring an idea to fruition and shows the artist in dialogue with his/her materials."

At Cathedral Park Place in St. Johns, Portland, Oregon, in the former Modern Zoo/Columbia Sportswear location. I believe the opening is Saturday, September 29 but will confirm that with a post to magdalen.com when I have the details.

2 GYRLZ QUARTERLY / 2GQ
The 2GQ website is looking for new writers & bloggers, so if you're into independent publishing, the intersections of performance and/or writing and/or new media and/or literature and/or poetry and/or fiction and/or experimental madness, please get in touch. Send email to 2007 (at) 2GQ.org with inquiries. Other 2GQ projects this year have included the Public Works series at the Someday Lounge and co-publication of "A Compendium of Miniatures" by Tiffany Lee Brown with book artist Clare Carpenter of Tiger Food Press.

GAY DECEIVERS @ TBA/THE WORKS, SEPT 12
Now, this was fun! I got to sit in on a womyn's drum circle sorta jam during the Gay Deceivers set at Wonder Ballroom last night. We all sat onstage throughout their set, so we got to see up-close just how freakin' great they and their videos were. I played two of my favourite instruments: Broken Toy Melodica (formerly owned by a Nat Hema) and Trippy Tibetan Bell (source unknown).

THE WALK
In August, I led a workshop called "The Walk" at the newly-opened West Coast residency for Goddard College's MFA-IA (Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts). Though my walking practice and the actions/interventions/stuff I do on these walks have a public aspect -- they are sometimes briefly visible on sidewalks, streets, & in cemeteries, parks, etc. -- I had been reluctant to explain the work, to make it official, to share it in any contextualized way. The Goddard residency was the perfect place to share the practice with like minds. I continue to work on the main body of these pieces, which are collectively entitled "I Will Follow You to the End of the Earth (and when we get there i won't let you fall)" and experiment with ways to manifest them beyond the ephemeral moments in which they are created.

MORE COMPENDIUM OF MINIATURES STUFF
Clare and I brought our "Compendium" project to the MFA in Creative Writing program at Pacific University, with a combined installation/performance and discussion. We're slated to appear at PNCA and at Clackamas Community College this fall as well.

THIS IS ABOUT ALL I CAN STAND,
So I'm going to stop writing now.