About The 70 Project : John M. Bennett, poet and head of Luna Bisonte Prods, turned 70 in October 2012. John likes skulls and October is the month for All Saints’ Day/Day of the Dead/Halloween. John performed his poetry with other sound artists & we displayed this mailart on his birthday in a gallery. 70 PROJECT mailart is all documented here. THANKS to all the artists listed in labels at the right for contributing mailart to/for John's 70th birthday bash!
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Ryan Agnew painted this during last night's event on JMB's 70th Birthday
This is the press release on http://www.thelastvispo.com/ for
LAST NIGHT'S EVENT:Columbus, Ohio Gallery Event October 12:
LAST NIGHT'S EVENT:Columbus, Ohio Gallery Event October 12:
A release
party for both THE LAST VISPO ANTHOLOGY, 1998-2008
AND for an audio CD - PICO MOJADO, Luna Bisonte Prods, 2012
AND for
THE 70 PROJECT.
ON EXHIBIT: Mailart from the70project.blogspot.com and selections from The Last Vispo
Anthology, 1998-2008. Eds. Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill. Seattle, WA:
Fantagraphics, 2012.
DATE:
Friday,
October 12, 7pm-9pm
LOCATION:
It
Looks Like It’s Open gallery,
13 East Tulane Rd., Columbus, OH 43202
PERFORMANCE:
Oct.12
is the 70th birthday of poet & visual poet, John M Bennett. He
will perform his poetry in collaboration with sound artists & musicians:
Jeff Chenault, Larry Morratto, Ryan Jewell, Mike Shiflet (Dan Rockwell substituted for Mike), and *Byron Smith.
DESCRIPTION:
Poet John M. Bennett
and his spouse, artist C. Mehrl Bennett, both have images selected for
inclusion in The Last Vispo Anthology. C. is also one of four contributing
editors. She did research at The OSU Avant Writing Collection, for which John
is curator, to research visual poetry to recommend to Nico & Crag and to help
develop her essay in the book. (Profits from book sales will be for the gallery/studio
collective’s benefit.)
*Also for release that
evening: PICO
MOJADO by Byron Smith & John M
Bennett, an audio CD published by John under the imprint of Luna Bisonte Prods.
Byron had saved 1990’s recordings (not previously released) of himself
performing on synthesizer and trumpet with John performing his poetry. Byron is
the sound engineer for this CD, as he was for their classic recordings AX
TONGUE and THE BLUR.
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