CREATIVE WHORING at the back room

Earlier this year, Plazm editors and art director Jon Raymond, Josh Berger, and I were guests at Portland's lovely art discussion/food/music ritual, the back room, presently curated by Stephanie Snyder of the Cooley Gallery at Reed College. Each of us wrote an essay for the evening's chapbook, The Wife, the Mistress, and the Prostitute, designed by Plazm and published by the back room. My piece is about whoring one's creativity out.

So I suggested to Josh that we three wear t-shirts reading "WHORE" whilst being interviewed. He suggested that we have "WHORE" badges/buttons made instead -- which was fabulous, since this way the audience got to identify themselves as whores along with us.

It was quite the occasion... and now you too can experience the Whore love. Buy your book and "whore" button at Plazm.com.

To hear the conversation (and do keep in mind it's a small group of wine-swilling, feasting artpeople, rather than a Fresh Air sort of thing) check out the "documents" section of the back room website. Our evening featured Synder as interviewer, the mouthwateringly delightful Tastebud as providers of provender, and Tara Jane O'Neil as guest musician.

EASTER ISLAND PROJECT: CONTRIBUTE A SEED.

Announcing the inception of

The Easter Island Project

a creation of Tiffany Lee Brown and you,
a community of friends, artists, & supporters.

I would be honoured if you would contribute a seed to this collective creation.

The Easter Island Project explores the ideas of creation and renewal. Why do we make art? Why do we make babies? How do we experience the urge for new beginnings in our lives? The project arises from the grief, ambivalence, and joys of a childless and childfree woman living in a family-focused, pro-natalist culture, and expands into the realm of creativity in general.


EASTER ISLAND RITUAL

After the seeds gestate, I will perform
a ritual on Easter Island in the South Pacific, in August, 2009, followed by a performance in Portland with music collaborator
Eric Hausmann. Gatherings, performances, rituals, and online
participatory works will occur during the
gestation period. Please join us.


TO PARTICIPATE:

If you'd like to create a small, original contribution---whether or not you are an artist---it will seed a community creation in the form of writing, art, music, performance, and ritual. Please email for details about how you can participate.

CONTACT:

zzEasterIslandProject@gmail.com
(remove the zz's) or at
www.magdalen.com

WHAT DO THESE "SEEDS"
LOOK LIKE?

Each seed is a meditation on creation and new beginnings.

The first seed was sown March 30 in
New York City, and took the form of a bird
representing new beginnings and travel,
painted by tattoo artist PJ Blanchard
and then tattooed on my skin.

Another seed consisted of three small pink beads
and a slip of paper from a fortune cookie.

Someone at the last ritual contributed
a found sculpture made from the eggshell of
a recently-hatched bald eagle, together with
a feather.

Your seed might be a snippet of original
music, a clip of video, a slip of paper containing a few short words, a miniature bit of artwork, a tiny object of significance to you, or an action
documented however you like.

Email for details about what size the seed
can take, and how to get it to the artist, a.k.a.
me.

xoxo

tiffany