New audio treasures for your enjoyment up on the Insert Blanc/The People soundcloud page. Recordings from Poetic Research Bureau, CalArts, and various Insert Blanc events. Check them out!
Mathew Timmons, Andrew Choate, and Chelsea Rector at PRB
CalArts MFA Writing Program Readings
General Projects Fall Launch 2014
General Projects Presents Reading
Over the past 10 years Insert Blanc has done quite a lot and more, but we've only done one fundraising campaign before at our 5 year anniversary celebration. In the past decade we have grown well beyond a typical literary or arts press and branched out in a number of new and exciting directions. Now, we need your help to do it even better going forward.
At Insert Blanc Press General Projects we like to make videos and throw events and make videos of those events and also make sculpture gardens and fill those sculpture gardens with things and maybe throw an event and make a video.
General Projects first "Hit Vid" was Poetry is Dead, I Killed It. from a few years ago - and right at the top of this post. We still think it's pretty great.
And then ... we worked with Joseph Mosconi and a whole lot of other people, including a makeup artist, a set designer and costume designer, and a couple different filmmakers, and an awesome editor, and some great actors! to make Fright Catalog the movie - as seen below.
Since then we've made a habit of making videos of things like book launches, readings and events, like the video of the performances at the launch party for Ben White's artist monograph Ruin Upon Ruin ...
We've also had the good fortune to work with artists like Erica Ryan Stallones to make a book trailer for Todd Collins book For God ...
And we have so many more videos on our YouTube and Vimeo channels ... and we're looking to make more videos! more! more! more!!!
Oh, Hey! If you are a video artist interested in working with us on future projects or if you have a project you think we might be interested in, do be in touch.
Insert Blanc Press Seeking Editorial Assistants and Interns
Insert Blanc Press is currently seeking a editorial assistants and interns. We've got a couple brilliant editorial assistants, find out more about them on our About page, and maybe you can be a brilliant intern too. Please post and share this widely and be in touch insertpress@gmail.com
Insert Blanc Press offers you a glimpse into the secret insides of small press art and literary publishing from various different perspectives. As an Insert Blanc assistant you will be at the center of the day-to-day workings of a small press, assisting with editorial decisions, book design and production, copy-editing and proof-reading. You will gain the experience of ushering work from initial idea to fully realized, beautifully produced and finalized project. You will also have the opportunity to assist in event planning for readings, special events and press benefits. You will gain a holistic perspective of the arts and literary landscape in Los Angeles as well as nationally and further abroad while working on publicity & marketing to promote Insert Blanc Press' various books, art series and other media projects. You will assist in developing print projects through press releases, tracking and logging reviews and you will work with and help to develop the press' media assets to create web content, web updates and newsletters while building out various social networking platforms. You will gain a broad understanding of the publishing world while submitting books and publications for awards and working to increase book sales through developing partnerships with art and literary bookstores worldwide and locally while reaching out to larger institutions to encourage them to support the press and become subscribing members.
Please be in touch thru insertpress@gmail.com and in a few short paragraphs explain why you want to be an assistant for Insert Blanc Press. Interest in contemporary art and literature is a must and so are excellent writing and communication skills. Knowledge of InDesign, Illustrator andor Photoshop and some familiarity with audio/video editing is a big plus. Those with adept abilities in the social media sphere are also sought after.
This position requires the ability to meet face-to-face and so any Insert Blanc assistant must live in Los Angeles and be willing to meet in the Lincoln Heights area on a periodic basis.
Good News! Insert Blanc Les Figues Wonder AWP
Insert Blanc Press
Les Figues Press
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AWP MPLS 2015
Saturday April 11th, 2015 from 5:30 - 8:30pm
The Acadia
acadiapub.com
329 Cedar Ave
Minneapolis, MN 55454
Harold Abramowitz
Amanda Ackerman
Teresa Carmody
Andrew Choate
Michelle Detorie
Ian Hatcher
Elaine Kahn
Hilary Kaplan
Chelsea Hodson
Alexandra Naughton
David Shook
Mathew Timmons
Colin Winnette
closing with special musical guests:
Ron and Nicole's Superfolkrawkexplosionsauce
The Acadia is in the cedar riverside neighborhood on the "west bank" right across the river from UofM and it's a very busy neighborhood lots of bars restaurants etc (the acadia has food btw and a full bar) parking may be difficult but it's only 2 miles from the awp convention center - if you have a car it's a 10 minute drive - a cab ride would be relatively easy (tho I’m not sure how easy it is to hail a cab) - andor there is a bus #22 or the green line to get there by transit - also Minneapolis has Lyft (and Uber - but use Lyft!)
Commonwealth & Council
3006 W 7th St #220 Los Angeles CA 90005
213 703 9077
Saturday, November 22, 2014 at 7:30pm
Insert Blanc Press would like to graciously invite you to our General Projects Launch for Fall 2014 to celebrate new books, print and film projects from Insert Blanc Press including:
Here Versus Elsewhere by Allison Carter
poetry, paperback, 80 pages
For God by Todd Collins
hardbound, prose, 90 pages
Dispersal Order (Dazzler) by Jason Kunke
22” x 14” Inkjet Print print edition of 30
Fright Catalog (the movie)
by Joseph Mosconi & Insert Blanc Press 10 minutes
Please join us to celebrate Insert Blanc Press General Projects Launch Fall 2014 with readings from Allison Carter and Todd Collins, an artwork by Jason Kunke and the World Premiere screening of Fright Catalog (the movie). Reception to begin at 8pm; readings, performances and screenings to begin at 9pm.
We will all be going to a reading at the Poetic Research Bureau beforehand, and you are highly encouraged to join us there in Chinatown at 6:30pm for readings by Jennifer Tamayo, Mark Johnson & Gregory Betts and then we can all caravan from Chinatown to Koreatown for Insert Blanc Press General Projects Launch Fall 2014!!!
“Allison Carter’s narratives are virtuostic in craft and scope. Her quiet, simple lines betray a pressure and seem to boil at times. There is universal truth: ‘And then the zeitgeist we/became strictly inseparable/or so I thought.’ There is also great humor and precision, ‘But babies come from many places/and they are easy to grab at/through the rattling branches.’ Her poetry is an all-around pleasure to read, and it stays with me, like a consoling friend.”—Noelle Kocot
"Todd Collins is a stone-original among wannabes, with a sacred-profane vision fractured like a stained-glass window or vandalized mirror. This is brilliant neo-noir fiction searching for a shadow that’s worthy of it."—Steve Erickson (author of These Dreams of You and Zeroville, Europa Editions)
Dispersal Order (Dazzler) by Jason Kunke is a photograph of a mimeograph stencil. The stencil is of an image taken from a riot control manual, and is photographed lit only with a quasi-legal, 100mW, 532nm, green laser. Lasers like these are used by law enforcement for non-lethal crowd control and order management, disorienting or temporarily blinding unruly mobs. Here, the laser is used as an artistic medium, illuminating and documenting an order to disperse.
"Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi is realism, and we’re fucked. ... The funny (and I mean Beckett “funny”) thing about Fright Catalog is that most of it is everyday circumstance in the key of the histrionic: “Wonder that on/my rotten cabin/ponders a baptism/in the warm piss/of slaughtered children.” Welcome to our state of permanent war. What’s actually scary about most metal is that it’s a bunch of pissed off white guys with bloodlust. And that, truly, should scare the shit out of anyone."—Kim Calder, The Volta
(the movie)
Joseph Mosconi
produced by Insert Blanc Press
Happy Halloween!
World premiere in Los Angeles at Commonwealth & Council on Saturday, November 22, 2014.
Actors (in order of appearance)
Michael Anthony Ibarra
Jay Erker
Ouida Angelica Biddle
Joseph Mosconi
Kim Calder
Produced by Insert Blanc Press
Directed by Mathew Timmons
Script: Fright Catalog by Joseph Mosconi
Camera: Ben Rodkin and Kimo Proudfoot
Editor: Diego J. Garza
Set Design: Janne Larsen in collaboration with Mathew Timmons
Make-Up: Gisella Pons
Production Assistant: Chris Niemi
Technical Assistant: Geoff Gosset
Parrot 23 Complex Textual Legitimacy Proclamation
by Mathew Timmons
Saddle-Stitched chapbook
2 Color cover, Black & White interior
Matte finish, Opaque cream, 70# text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125" x 9.375" x 0.125", 20 Pages
ISSN: 2169-3811-23
Normal photographs are made by using the ordinary light reflected from objects to burn patterns into photosensitive chemicals on a piece of film, and then enlarging and reversing that negative image, burning it into a piece of photosensitive paper, and chemically ‘fixing’ it. It is an explicit, or explicate representation; with differing degrees of accuracy, you can match up one square inch of the picture with a corresponding area of the object depicted, in a one-to-one isomorphism.
Large sensational photographs made their first appearance, with the topics of sex, violence, accidents and scandal as their major themes.
More beautiful than fabulous pictures.
You shall not make any images of me.
by Jason Kunke
22” x 14”
One print in an edition of thirty
Dispersal Order (Dazzler) is a step back through a chain of disseminations. It is an image of a well-used mimeograph stencil, back-lit by a quasi-legal, 100mW, 532nm, green laser. Lasers like these are used by law enforcement for non-lethal crowd control and order management, disorienting or temporarily blinding unruly mobs. Here, the laser is used as an artistic medium, illuminating and documenting an order to disperse.
During the Columbia University protests of 1968, the dissemination of information amongst the striking students was crucial. One student recalled that "there was a big sign on the wall ... five students and a mimeograph machine can do more harm to a university than an army."
Over forty years later this may seem idealistic, but the call and response relationship between authority and dissent has continued, and the methods of information dispersal have co-evolved in a synthetic dialogue along with that relationship. Social media on the internet has replaced the mimeograph, but how has the relationship changed?
In 2009 Jason Kunke began a series of handmade mimeograph prints, each recreating part of a photograph from Riot Control: Material and Techniques (Rex Applegate, 1981). The original image was of two officers holding a sign—the sign read, "THIS IS AN UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLY DISPERSE AT ONCE"—demonstrating a legal dispersal order. The police must give dispersal orders to a crowd before the police are allowed to use force. Dispersal orders represent a bifurcation point, the deciding moment before the clash of authority and resistance. The mimeograph prints Kunke made were life-size, 80” by 27”, presented as artifacts on a variety of substrates, inserting some authority into an art framework, and hopefully problematizing the political efficacy of art.
Those initial prints went through a number of transformations as they were dispersed into the art milieu. One print found its way into a non-profit’s fundraising auction, but the size of the print made it difficult for them to document. The image they created in their attempt to document the piece was incredible as a collage in itself, and Kunke reclaimed the documentation image as a series of unique color photocopy transfers on paper. One of these transfers was evocative enough that Kunke photocopied it as an unlimited edition. Some of these copies were then crumpled, re-photocopied, and printed as enlarged (48” by 33”) photographic black and white prints. These prints were additionally crumpled and used in various sculptures.
After all of these iterations, Dispersal Order (Dazzler) brings Kunke back to the initial mimeograph stencil, a re-assertion of authority by appropriating the tools of authority for aesthetic means.
PARROT 22 Erotic in Czech Republic
by Ara Shirinyan
Saddle-Stitched chapbook
2 Color cover, Black & White interior
Matte finish, Opaque cream, 70# text (104 gsm)
Dimensions: 6.125" x 9.375" x 0.125", 16 Pages
ISSN: 2169-3811-22
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