Manor house tweets: an interview in 140 characters or fewer.

Here are my answers to some kind of adorable Twitter thing that is going along with the Manor of Art at Milepost 5. Over 100 artists, including moi-meme, were given a room in a dilapidated nursing home in which to do some art-stuff. Great idea and good fun! There are bands on Friday and Saturday, too. Come on down. I'm in Room #310.

Q1: Would you like to make a general statement about your art?
Not really. But maybe I could recite the alphabet backward, or do a handstand, or tell you about my tooth surgery?

Q2: What about art most enflames your passion?[sic]
Giving voice to that which is silent or silenced, timid or crushed underfoot, or too boisterously Real Life-ish to be called “art” by some.

Q3: What are your thoughts about The Manor of Art and your Manor of Art room?
It’s Modern Zoo with a walker! Yay! My rm is hidden away, hard to find. I wanted to be less explicity site-responsive than I usually am.

Q4: What question would you ask other Manor artists?
How much did you respond to your room in particular, and how much did you just bring in some art? Is this normal or strange for you?

+Q5: from Richard Schemmerer. What would you create if you wouldn't create Art? Like what else could you do with this potential of creative energy?
I’d do what I do: cook, write, make music, babble. Might be an entrepreneur, inventor, healer, or theoretical physicist. Might have a baby.

MANOR OF ART + ART IS SPECTRUM

Greetings from one hell of a hectic August. Good news: the new Burning Tarot deck is complete! With the help of photographer Steven Fritz, and friends like Lena Munday and Donald Spitzer, I have installed the Burning Tarot live/installation at the Manor of Art at Milepost 5 in Portland, Oregon, on exhibition Aug 14-23.  

I inhabit and wear part of the installation (frankly, it's just not so fun when I ain't inside it) at various times, and I give Tarot readings there, free or for an optional donation to New Oregon Arts and Letters. I'll definitely be around the following times: Wed Aug 19, 4-7 pm; Thurs 1:30-??; Fri 5-7 pm (probably longer); and Sat 3-5 pm (possibly longer). Come check it out. 

To see the Burning Tarot project at Burning Man 2009, look on the Center Camp Cafe fence art installation, or come find us on the Playa. A bit of participatory, interactive work from The Easter Island Project will also be on display on the fence. We have a little yellow Tarot hut and a small sign that reads, you guessed it, "Burning Tarot." We'll be somewhere on the roadside perimeter of the Rocketship builders crew camp around 6:30 and B. The people of Burning Tarot are proud to be Oregon rocketeers in solidarity with the Oakland builders! Woo! I'm also helping the Flamethrower Shooting Gallery builders and workers, and simply insist that you go out there and shoot some flames if you're going to the festival this year.

Also, MikeT has assembled an interesting stream of quotes into a story about working with digital technology in art. I'm among the artists interviewed. Read it at artisspectrum.com.