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"new languages"
Part staged and part improvised, this photographic and performative project, with stage artist Rose Wood, re-imagines 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s poetics of identity within the nighttime streets of New York City.
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'I is another'
Quote from Arthur Rimbaud, a 19th century poet,
"new languages"
Part staged and part improvised, this photographic and performative project, with stage artist Rose Wood, re-imagines 19th-century French poet Arthur Rimbaud’s poetics of identity within the nighttime streets of New York City.
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“...as ... ..eator .. ..ery feast, ..... .riumph, ...ry .....
...... to ...ent ... .lowers, ... planets, ... flesh, ... ....uages. I th..... I had ........ super....... ......”
(from Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell”)
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Rose Wood had prepared various stage props featuring Arthur Rimbaud’s poetry,
one of which was a long scroll, which Rose wrapped around her face,
thus joining the body to the verb.
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black A, white E, red I, blue O, green U,
(and Rose had created a large open-paged poetry book
with Rimbaud’s “Vowels” sonnet)
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On our first time out, at about 3 a.m. on Bond st, between Lafayette and the Bowery,
Rose was working on the 4th stenciling of the night...
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“Once if my memory serves me well, my life...”
(from Rimbaud’s “A Season in Hell”)
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...when a police car arrives, Rose and the police speak for a few minutes and to my surprise, as they drive away,
Rose returns to the stencil to finish it. I ask ‘What happened ?’, Rose tells me that she explained to the police that is was not graffiti but poetry,
to which the woman cop in the car replied ‘That is rather nice’
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"I is another"
West Chelsea, 11th Avenue at 21st street, 0;44 a.m.
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On a snowy but relatively warm night
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Stencilling
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"eye is another"
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“Our bones have put on
new flesh for love”
(from Rimbaud’s “Illuminations”)
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"I is another"
(from Rimbaud’s “Letter of a Visionary”)
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Rose with a purple notebook
“So what if a piece of wood discovers it’s a violin”
(from Rimbaud’s letter to his teacher, May 13th, 1871)
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“I is another”
On another night, Rose Wood carrying a lantern, had stenciled Arthur Rimbaud’s quote on her clothing and a wall,
adding to it 2 arrows pointing in opposite directions, one arrow towards her as a target and one from her, as a catapult,
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Hard Hat Area
(Rose stenciling an “I”)
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“I”
multiple
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Rose (19)
(with 2 silver necklaces)
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(.....e use walkway)
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Rose under the street lights
and a full moon
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“I is an other”
Rose Wood carrying a large sheet of particle board, at 10th avenue and 13th street,
NYC. 1: 25 a.m.
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