[New-Poetry] from UbU KinG WeB to the Buffalo

[Anny Ballardini]

Street Poets & Visionaries: Selections from the UbuWeb Collection
September 7 - October 14, 2006

Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery
621 West 27th Street
New York, New York 10001

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Public Events:

--> Saturday, September 23, 2:00 p.m.
Irwin Chusid, "Songs in the Key of Z"
Lecture on Outsider Music

Irwin Chusid will recount the strange life stories of outsider musicians, both prominent
and obscure, including such figures as The Shaggs, Syd Barrett, Tiny Tim, Joe Meek,
Jandek, Captain Beefheart, The Cherry Sisters, Wesley Willis, Daniel Johnston, the
Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Wild Man Fischer, and Harry Partch. Featuring rarely seen
videos and obscure recordings.

--> Saturday, September 30, 2:00 p.m.
"The Sounds of Madness: Poets and Performers Interpret Outsider Writings"
Performers include Eileen Myles, Edwin Torres, Vijay Seshadri, Kenneth Goldsmith, and
Shelley Hirsch

--> Saturday, October 7, 2:00 p.m.
"Outside In" Panel
Panelists: Wayne Koestenbaum, Alissa Quart, David Grubbs

A panel exploring the transmigration of outsider aesthetics and practices influencing and
entering into the mainstream.

All events are free and open to the public.

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Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery is pleased to announce STREET POETS & VISIONARIES: SELECTIONS
FROM THE UBUWEB COLLECTION, an exhibition of posters and ephemeral writings from the
streets of New York City.

In the tradition of Jim Shaw's "Thrift Shop Paintings," this collection of street
posters, mad scribblings, political screeds, religious rants, and paranoid raves expands
our notion of the Outsider arts to include the written word.

Formally striking, emotionally charged, and bizarre beyond belief, these graphical works
dovetail with the historic traditions of concrete poetry and art brut. Seamlessly melding
text and image, their obsessive quality evokes Adolf Wölfli and Henry Darger's visionary
works.

Featured in the exhibition will be the work of David Daniels, a 73 year-old Bay Area
artist, who has been creating insanely complex visual poems using only Microsoft Word.
Works from two of his epic series, "The Gates of Paradise" and "Years" will be featured.

Coinciding with the exhibition will be three public events. On Saturday, September 23rd
at 2 p.m., author Irwin Chusid will deliver a lecture on Outsider Music called, "Songs in
the Key of Z." On Saturday, September 30th, renowned poets and performers Eileen Myles,
Edwin Torres, Vijay Seshadri, Kenneth Goldsmith and Shelley Hirsch will stage a reading
of Outsider writings. On Saturday, October 7th, a panel, "Outside In" will explore the
transmigration of Outsider aesthetics and practices influencing and entering into the
mainstream. Panelists include Wayne Koestenbaum, Alissa Quart and David Grubbs. All
events are free and open to the public.

UbuWeb (ubu.com) is the Internet's largest resource dedicated to all strains of the
avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts, featuring thousands of MP3s, films, books,
scholarly papers, and poems.

Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery is located at 621 West 27th Street, on the ground floor. Gallery
hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11-6.

For further information or images, please contact the gallery at 212-255-0979 or visit
our website at www.oliverkamm.com.



UbuWeb
http://ubu.com



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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star! 
Friedrich Nietzsche 
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