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A PART, A P A R T presents:

TALENTED 

What: the first event for A PART, A PA R T How: Talent show competition (it was a ruthless showdown to the bitter end) of just discovered and hidden abilities, marvels, hobbies, oddities, feats, illusions, randomness When: Tuesday, March 25th 2008 Where: my home (and Luke's, Seth's and Kelly's) in NE Portland. Who: around 25 people smooshed into the living room and an amazing 14 performances.Prizes: Apple Pies!! home-made with love

1. Gabriel Mindel Salomon juggling extraordinaire
2. Seth Nehil assorted jaw harp performance
3. Rebecca solo rendition of Saved by the Bell dramatic scene
4. Luke Wyland acrobatics; front door exit walking on hands
5. Jack Bouba magic show
6. Stacey Mairs hula-hooping
7. Diana Lang original song "HATS" and live dance
8. Rachel Silberstein tap dancing
9. Leif Sundstrom timed Guinness chug
10. Matt Carlson stand-up comedy
11. Delane blind hair cutting
12. Brenna Murphy and Barbara improv miming
    with piano accompaniment
13. Bethany Ides (Wright) musical storytelling and telepathy
14. Shane limb levitation, ventriloquism and assorted bizarre actions

  August 10th

Talented Two:The Duo 

This theme can be the literal duo performing an act together or it can be metamorphized, plagiarized, memorized, metaphorized, etc.
to your hearts content

I believe a prize will occur as well-- and this time voting will be much less arduous. 

There will also be color coding, disembodiment and treats!!!!!!

A PART, APART cannot be made or distributed without subscribers who are essential collaborators 

Issues will be sent monthly

Each issue will include a flattened, plain cardboard box and a set of instructions 

The instructions will change every issue and it is the subscribers' role to interpret them and affect the inside surfaces of the box. The instructions will vary resulting in but not limited to: repetitive gesture, folk crafts, story telling, documentation, destruction, truth or dare, archery, kickboxing, scrap-booking, weather patterns, mapping, tightlipped concentration, exuberant babbling, etc. 

Each successive box is slightly larger and holds the previous box

The culmination of a subscription will be a box of boxes concealing each issue's treatment

The resulting sculpture is then sent to the publisher for documentation and exhibition at the end of a the one year subscription

 

2x2x2: Letter from the "Editor"

This first issue of A PART, A P A R T is a very important one. Together we are all newlyweds, testing the waters. This box will contain both the introduction and conclusion. This issue will introduce a series of communication, a manner of making and the start to our final sculpture. All twenty six issues nesting inside of each other will form a sculpture of individual experience cloaked in anonymity. The final box that one can open is the first one created. Despite this consistent rationality nothing will persist except this repetition of form. Moods, seasons, instructions, materials, languages, genres, time constraints, scale; all will flux. As well, if an issue isn't completed before the next one arrives, the universe will not fissure. Everyone goes on vacation, on tour, gets busy and needs a break. Ideally, this project will be a welcome interlude from the daily routine.

In creating this year long publication/process/communal sculpture I accept its protracted unpredictability and welcome the ambiguity of ownership. I wish that throughout this subscription everyone will inform me of they're difficulties, delights, inquiries and suggestions (and very importantly, change of address or inability to complete the subscription). Okay, enjoy.

- DL

October 31, 2007

2x2x2

The first issue, a 2 inch square box is consequently the core of the entire subscription. It is the subatomic particle to our organism. Taking in mind that it is quite obviously capable of containing and that we will not have that luxury with any of the other boxes, it seems imperative to completely fill it or leave it completely empty. The in between of it holding your favorite seashell or photograph will be saved for the scrapbook or window sill.

This issue, 2x2x2, will be either hallow or dense.

And remember, intentions and emotions and context can have transformative effects on everyday materials and objects.

Decide on a hollow core or a dense core. Do this by:

1- flipping a coin (see enclosed penny)

2- play rock scissors paper (remember the box can look like a rock, is made of paper and can also cut you)

3- pull on both eye's lashes. The box is hollow if the number of lashes you pluck is even and filled if it is odd.

Or all of the above if you need to kill some time.

If you are a hollow core please read Section A, if you are a filled core skip to Section B

A

First, don't fret just because you are hollow, this might be a blessing in disguise.

1. To make your box hollow you must initially understand you're subject matter

Create a hollow sound

Make a hollow movement

Write hollow words

Draw a hollow picture

2. Then understand the antonym

Sound density

Move densely

Write dense words

Draw a dense picture

3. Now that we fully understand the complexity of our subject matter we can move to the box.

Based on your observations of hollowness,

Please use whatever means necessary to make the core of your box of boxes as hollow, empty and vacant as possible.

See the end of Section B, for constructing your box.

B

1. To make your box dense you must initially understand you're subject matter

Create a dense sound

Make a dense movement

Write dense words

Draw a dense picture

2. Then understand the antonym

Sound hollowness

Move hollowlly

Write hollow words

Draw a hollow picture

3. Now that we fully understand the complexity of our task we can move to the box.

Based on your observations of density,

Please use whatever means necessary to make the core of your box of boxes as dense, full, and heavy as possible.

Congratulations!!!! You have made it through the first round of detailed yet vague directions. There will be many more to come. This box will fit in the next issue snugly. The box has been left unglued so you can affect the entire box in as many ways possible. To assemble, use a glue (plain ol' white glue is fine, also paper glue, avoid paste and rubber cements). Use just enough to coat a thin layer on the tab and inside of box where the tab will join. Press firmly in place and hold for a minute, just make sure to let dry without it the joint separating to ensure strength. Then fold tabs as you see fit. And voila, a very small cardboard box. !!!!!

Issue 2:

2 ½ x 2 ½ x 2 ½ 

 

remembering the homeland :

I have never been very capable of memorizing foreign languages, movie lines, facts, figures, dates and names. I relish concepts and experiential learning. I was in the math and art club. I failed Latin twice. Rote memorizing always baffled me. Don't ask me who my favorite artist is, I'll probably say Dali ( who I kind of liked in high school). I hear friends sing parts of songs like a juke box and I am astounded, how can they pull up these verses they have heard when they were thirteen in perfect clarity and even remember where the solos go. For this issue, I want to practice remembering words. My grandmother's generation was forced to remember parts of the bible in catechism, fortunately we will use something more individual. In addition to sanctifying the meaningful we will reduce it to random meaninglessness (for the sake of balance and tension of course).

Part 1: 

1. Pick your favorite literary text. To narrow this down, it must be in a book form with at least 100 pages. It must be fiction, poetry or a collection of short stories. You must own the book. You must be willing to write in the book. We will call this book your homeland. 

2. Once you have your book, write down your birthday on the inside cover (and subsequent equations). Add all of the numbers together to get a number from 1-99.  

For example: