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UbuWeb is a completely independent resource dedicated to all strains of the avant-garde, ethnopoetics, and outsider arts.

All materials on UbuWeb are being made available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights belong to the author(s).

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Recent Additions:

Sarah Morris Capital (2005)

Michael Snow Sshtoorrty (2005)

Merce Cunningham Points in Space (1986)

Storm de Hirsch Peyote Queen (1965)

Peter Donebauer Entering (1974)

Donato Mancini & Jeremy Turner Avatara (2003)

Wallace Berman Aleph (1958-1976)

John Baldessari Some Stories (1990), directed by Peter Kirby

Danny Snelson & João Enxuto Flash Artifacts (2009)

Chris Burden A Video Portrait (1989), directed by Peter Kirby

Hanatarash Hanatarashi (1985) [MP3]

Borbetomagus Snuff Jazz (1990) [MP3]

Anthony Moore Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom (1971) [MP3]

Trevor Wishart Vox (1990) [MP3]

Bertrand Russell ABC of Relativity: Understanding Einstein [MP3]

Hermann Nitsch Klaviersonate Für Arnulf Rainer (2001/2001) [MP3]

Piero Heliczer Autumn Feast (1961)

Sue Tompkins Country Grammer (2004) [MP3]

Christof Migone Foutre en l'air / Perpendicular Types of Motion (1989); Identification (1990)

Maurice Lemaître Toujours A L'avant - Garde De L'avant - Garde Jusqu'Au Paradis Et Au-Dela aka Ever the Avant-Garde of the Avant-Garde till Heaven and After (1970)

Ivan Wyschnegradsky Quarter-Tone Music ((1934-1966) [MP3]

Ant Farm Media Burn; Cadillac Ranch

Four Horsemen Live in the West (1977); Two Nights in October [MP3]

Suzanne Lemaître TOUTES LES FEMMES SONT DES JEANNE D'ARC [All women are Joan of Arcs] (1984)

André Luiz Oliveira Doce Amargo aka Sweet Bitterness (1968); A Fonte aka The Fountain A Sculpture - A monument (1970)

Stan Douglas Win, Place or Show (1998)

Carolee Schneemann Snows (1967)

Paul Sharits Bad Burns (1982)

Paper Tiger TV Brian Winston Reads the TV News (1983)

Terayama Shuji Cloud Cuckooland (1978)

Ivko Šešić Krik (1978)

Arnold Dreyblatt Propellers in Love (1986)

Whitehouse Dedicated to Peter Kürten (1981)

Ellen Fullman The Long String Instrument (1985)

Jozef Van Wissem Ex Patris (2009)

Samuel Beckett "How It Is", page 114 [read by Patrick Magee] (1972)

Milan Knížák Broken Music (1983)

Ed van der Elsken Karel Appel, componist aka Karel Appel, composer (1961)

Slavko Vorkapich Moods of the Sea (1941)

Klaus vom Bruch Das Schleyer-Band (1977-1978)

Angus Maclise Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda (1968); Brain Damage in Oklahoma City (1968-1972) [MP3]

Eugene Deslaw Montparnasse (1929)

Peggy Ahwesh Beirut Outtakes (2007)

Sam Truitt Transverse (2009)

John Baldessari The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales (1973)

Sergei Parajanov Kievskiy Freskiy (Kiev Frescos) (1966); Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967); Arabeskebi Pirosmanis temaze (Arabesques on the Pirosmani Theme) (1985)

Barbara Golden At The Corner of Alive and Jesus (1988) [MP3]

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rirkrit Tiravanija Hurricane (2008) [PDF, 212k]

Clemens von Wedemeyer Otjesd/Leaving (2005); The Making of Otjesd (2005)

Wilhelm Sasnal Sisters (2004); The Band (2004)

Masonna Spectrum Ripper (no date) [MP3]

Fat Worm of Error NZZNZZZZNNZNZNNNN (2004) [MP3]

Bernard Parmegiani Chronos (1971) [MP3]

Toshimaru Nakamura Various Tracks from Improvised Music from Japan [MP3]

JODI My Desktop OS X 10.4.7 (2007)

Karel Appel Musique Barbare (1963) [MP3]

Rodney Graham Vexation Island (1997)

Dara Friedman Jodie (1998)

Doug Aitken Blow Debris (2000); Electric Earth (1999); Autumn (1998)

Thomas Demand Tunnel (1999)

Joachim Koester Pit Music (1996)

Agnès Varda Plaisir d'amour en Iran (1976)

Anri Sala Dammi I Colori (2003)

Åke Hodell and Per Wiklund Lågsniff (1965)

Frank E. Gilbreth Motion Studies (1910-1924)

Walter Smetak Smetak (1974) [MP3]

VerbiVocoVisual Concrete Poetry and Music (1956-1970) [MP3]

Mika Tajima / New Humans Holding Your Breath (Taking the Long Way) (2008); Dead by Third Act (2009)

Clemens Klopfenstein Geschichte der Nacht (1979)

Ed van der Elsken Handen (1960)

Claude Closky Sound Works (1989-2005) [MP3]

Claude LeLouch Iran (1971)

Hilary Harris Longhorns (1951); Highway (1958); Nine Variations (1966); Organism (1975)

Stewart Home Cyber-Sadism Live & Stewart Home Comes In Your Face [MP3] (1996)

Henri Plaat I Am an Old Smoking, Moving Indian Movie Star (1968)

James Sibley Watson Lot in Sodom (1933)

Hermann Nitsch Maria - Conception - Action - Hermann Nitsch (1969)

Bruce Nauman Manipulating the T-Bar (1966)

Jeremy Blake Guccinam (2000); Liquid Villa (2000)

Patti Smith Poetry Reading, NYC 1971, St. Mark's Church, New York City

Martha Rosler Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (1982)

Valie Export Unsichtbare Gegner AKA Invisible Adversaries (1976)

Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna Ritratto di Città (1954)

Konrad Bayer / Gerhard Rühm gemeinschaftsarbeiten 1957-1962

Hermann Nitsch Klaviersonate Für Arnulf Rainer (2001) and Orgelkonzert (1986)

William S. Burroughs Call Me Burroughs (1965)

James Broughton Seeing the Light, Selected Writings (City Lights Books, 1977)

Henri d'Ursel La Perle (1929)

Pipilotti Rist Entslastlungen AKA Pipilolottis Fehler (1988)

Ernst Moerman Monsieur Fantômas (1937)

Malcolm Le Grice Berlin Horse (1970)

People Like Us + Ergo Phizmiz Rhapsody in Glue (2008) [MP3]

Kalup Linzy If It Don't Fit (MP3, 2009)

James Joyce Soundtrack to Ulysses (MP3, 1967)

Stan Douglas Deux devises & Onomatopoeia (1983); Suspiria (2003)

Gregory Markopoulos Christmas USA (1949)

Cornelius Cardew Piano Music of the 1970s

Allen Ginsberg Allen Ginsberg Sings William Blake (1969)

Willard Maas The Geography of the Body (1943)

Willard Maas & Ben Moore The Mechanics of Love (1955)

Marie Menken Go! Go! Go! (1962-1964)

André Breton First Manifesto of Surrealism (1924) [PDF, 1.3mb]

Jason Nelson Eleven Digital Poems (2009)

Derek Jarman Shadow of the Sun (1980)

Jean Mitry Pacific 231 (1949)

Marie Menken Visual Variations on Noguchi (1945) ; score by Lucia Dlugoszewski

Arnaud des Pallières Is Dead (Portrait Incomplet de Gertrud Stein) (2000)

Gillian Wearing 2 Into 1 (1997)

Woody & Steina Vasulka Steina Vasukla Switch! Monitor! Drift! (1976); Woody Vasukla C Trend (1974); Steina & Woody Vasukla Calligrams (1970)

Jacques Doyen & Jacques Lasry � French poetry accompanied by Lasry-Baschet electronic sound structures (1966) [MP3]

Kenneth Kirschner Solo works and collaborations with Taylor Deupree (1997-2009) [MP3]

Ali Akbar Sadeghi Malek Khorshid (1975)

Albert Lamorisse Baadeh Sabah / The Lovers' Wind / Vent Des Amoureux (1970/1978)

Forough Farrokhzad The House is Black / Khaneh Siyah Ast (1962)

Dariush Dolat-Shahi Electronic music, Tar and Setar (1985) and Otashgah (1986) [MP3]

Forough Farrokhzad Radio Tehran Sessions (1962-1964) [MP3]

Ali Reza Mashayekhi Electronic Music (1970-2001) [MP3]

Halim El-Dabh Leiyla Visitations (1959) [MP3]

Ilhan Mimaroglu Electronic Music (1964-1983) [MP3]

Bijan Mofid Shahreh Ghesseh (1967)

Vladimir Ussachevsky Film Music (1962-1967) [MP3]

Gwilly Edmondez Sounds & Films

Nurse With Wound Shipwreck Radio (2004) [MP3]

Colin Anderson Whistles the First 19 Articles (1949) [MP3]

Tony Oursler Synesthesia: Alan Vega (1997-2001)

Dennis Oppenheim Dennis Oppenheim in Conversation, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2001 [MP3]

Chris Mann maybe if you hit it hard (2008)

John Cage Lecture on Nothing (Performed by Kaegan Sparks), 2006 [MP3]

L'Atelier National du Manitoba The Tragedy of the Winnipeg Jets (2006)

Shana Moulton Whispering Pines 6,7,8 (2006); The Mountain Where Everything is Upside Down (2008)

Craig Baldwin Sonic Outlaws (1995)

Chris Burden Big Wrench (1980); A Twenty-Year Survey, Newport Harbor Art Museum (1988)

Patrick Bokanowski L'Ange (The Angel) (1982)

Cory Arcangel Clouds (2002); Video Ravingz (2002); Naptime (2002); f2 (2005); Mario Movie (2005)

Peter Greenaway A Walk Through H: The Reincarnation of an Ornithologist (1978)

Derek Jarman Wittgenstein (1993)

Hallgrímur Vilhjálmsson Serenade for six German Sirens, op.43 (2008) [MP3]

Ward Teitz Concrete Poetry Sculptures (1989-2008)

Dara Birnbaum Damnation of Faust Trilogy (1983)

Anthony McCall & Andrew Tyndall Argument (1978)

Kathy Acker Redoing Childhood (2000) [MP3]

Marina Rosenfeld Emotional Orchestra (2005) [MP3]

Lawrence Weiner & Peter Gordon Deutsche Angst (1982) [MP3]

Robert Nelson Oh Dem Watermelons (1965); The Awful Backlash (1967)

Eduardo Kac Digital and Holopoems (1985-1996)

Andy Warhol The Cars: Hello Again [Music Video, 1984]

Adbusters The Production of Meaning (2006)

UbuWeb | Fall 2010

If We Had To Ask For Permission, We Wouldn't Exist: An Open Letter After the hacking of UbuWeb, a heated discussion broke out on the most prominent experimental film listserv, Frameworks, discussing the tactics of Ubu. There was clearly a lot of misunderstanding regarding what UbuWeb is about. Ubu's founder, Kenneth Goldsmith, was compelled has penned a response here, which can also be seen as an update to our FAQ.

UbuWeb Hacked UbuWeb's media servers were hacked in mid-October. Most of the damage has been repaired. However you might find a few links that are down. We're working on correcting it all. Ubu will be moving our media files to a new server over the next few months so hopefully the sporadic outages that we've been experiencing lately will be remedied. Thank you for all your supportive wishes during this difficult period.

John Berger - Ways of Seeing (1972) Ways of Seeing was a BBC television series consisting of visual essays that raise questions about hidden ideologies in visual images. The serie gave rise to a later book of the same name written by John Berger. It would be easy to say that Ways of Seeing is hopelessly dated -- made in 1972, the films come across as a puritan-groovy mix of Monty Python, the Open University and the Look Around You spoofs. And yet what's so remarkable about this series is that it seems more apposite, subversive and thought-provoking than ever. The Britain we glimpse in the films, already alienated by spooky BBC Radiophonic Workshop music by Delia Derbyshire, is alienated even more by the passing of time. Alienated usefully, in the Brechtian sense; we look at a capitalist society which is like, and unlike, our own. In four parts: Episode 1: Psychological Aspects, Episode 2: Women in Art, Episode 3: Collectors and Collecting and Episode 4: Commercial Art. With an essay by Nick Curie (aka Momus).

The Poetics - Soundworks (1977-1993) Historical recordings of Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw, Tony Oursler and a cast of thousands from their Cal Arts days. Concurrent with the LAFMS and punk scenes in LA, this material is, in the words of artist Jutta Koether, "garbage versions of electronic music (linked to Kelley's involvement with DAM), noise, prototrance, instrumentals, both aggressive and sad stints with a singer-songwriter style, music as a dysfunctional standup routine (half lounge, half rock). In other words, punk rock deconstructed. The result is hours and hours of a monster being created and released." Featured here are the collections Remixes of Recordings (1977-1983) and The Poetics reunion album from 1997, Critical Inquiry In Green. This release marks the beginning of a new partnership with CENTRO in Mexico City, who will begin to host the entire UbuWeb archive from this time on.

UbuWeb Podcast: The Sounds of Silence Craig Dworkin's paper Unheard Music [PDF] is a list of conceptual music that highlights a bunch of music that plays with the idea of silence: How is silent music made? Is silence really silent? How many varieties of silence are there? In this podcast, we actualize Dworkin's theories and discover that silence is anything but silent and neutral; rather, it's varietious and rich. Artists featured on this podcast include John Cage, Matmos, Steve Reich, Mieko Shiomi and many others. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.

The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology (1984) Edited by Gregory Battcock and Robert Nickas, an essential long out-of-print collection of essays centered around the historical conditions that led to the rise of performance art in the 1970s and 80s. The book is divided into three parts: 1. Historical Introduction, 2. Theory and Criticism, and 3. The Artists and includes essays by Roselee Goldberg, Ken Freidman, Michael Kirby, David Shapiro, David Bourdon, Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Les Levine and Laurie Anderson and many others. This /ubu Edition was edited by Lucia della Paolera.

The Videos of Aki Sasamoto Aki Sasamoto is a New York-based, Japanese artist, who works in performance, sculpture, dance, and whatever more medium that takes to get her ideas across. Her works have been shown both in performing art and visual art venues in New York and abroad. Besides her own works, she has collaborated with artists in visual arts, music, and dance, in which she plays multiple roles of dancer, sculptor, or director. Presented here are four videos: Everything Chidambaran (2005), remembering/modifying/developing (2007), Practicing to Leave - Conduct - Judge Mentals (2007), Secrets of My Mother's Child (2009) and Strange Attractors (2010). This feature is proudly presented with UbuWeb's newest partner, The Kitchen.

Lincoln Center Film Playlist If you missed the incredible Lincoln Center show Ubu did with WFMU and bands Growing and Blues Control, here's all the films that were shown: Fred Astaire Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time, Fatboy Slim Weapon of Choice, Yvonne Rainer Hand Movie, The Lumière Brothers Danse Serpentine, William Forsythe Solo, People Like Us Skew Gardens, Ladislaw Starewicz The Insect's Christmas, Stan VanDerBeek Achooo Mr. Kerrooschev, Kota Ezawa The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Paul Sharits Dots 1 & 2, Lillian Schwartz Pixillation, Wim Delvoye Sybille II, Richard Kern My Nightmare, Cheryl Donegan Refuses, Kurt Kren 7/64: Leda und der Schwan, Skip Arnold Punch, Paul McCarthy WGG Test, Hamlet Hovsepian Yawning, JODI My Desktop OS X 10.4.7, Alejandra Salinas & Aeron Bergman Let 100 Flowers Bloom, Eduardo Kac Letter and Cory Arcangel Clouds.

The Great Ardor of Dada Ubu's been showing films based on the work of Kurt Schwitters every weekend as part of the 27 Senses Show at Chisenhale Gallery in London. Obviously, most of you can't be there. But here's a list of all the films that are being shown so you can watch 'em at home: Marcel Broodthaers Un Voyage en Mer du Nord (A Voyage on the North Sea), William S. Burroughs and Antony Balch The Cut-Ups, Robert Fitterman Sprawl, Hollis Frampton Zorns Lemma, Helmut Herbst Deutschland Dada, Allen Ginsberg Face to Face with Jeremy Isaacs: An Interview with Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman Abbie Hoffman Makes Gefilte Fish, Karl Holmqvist I'm With You In Rockland, Kay Rosen Sisyphus, Henri Chopin at The Garage, 02/03/95, Besancon, France, Bob Cobbing Performing Concrete Poetry, Richard Serra Boomerang, Zubi Zuva X Suite Europe Live, Man Ray Emak Bakia, Eduardo Kac Letter, Peter Rose Siren and Sara Sackner Concrete.

UbuWeb Partners with The Sound of Eye UbuWeb is pleased to partner with The Sound of Eye, a great film blog. They've been posting tons of experimental film and video, much of which has been -- and will continue to be -- mirrored on Ubu. In particular, SOE's commentary on the films is extraordinary. We're thrilled!

Music of the Spanish Avant-Garde UbuWeb is pleased to present this compreshensive overview of the Spanish musical avant-garde, which has scarcely been documented until now. This feature focuses on twelve composers and performers active from the 1950s to the present: Esplendor Geométrico, Llorenç Barber, Francisco López, José Manuel Berenguer, Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny, Eduardo Polonio, José Iges, Vagina Dentata Organ, Victor Nubla, Pelayo Fernández Arrizabalaga, Juan Hidalgo and Carles Santos. Each segment is split into two parts: musical selections and interviews. The series is produced and edited by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros for Radio Web MACBA and is presented in collaboration with MACBA.

Nine Films by Leslie Thornton. Leslie Thornton's short films combine original and archival footage, video and still images, and digital media in their investigation of the collision (and collusion) of these modes. The play that she exercises between abstract and referential imagery allows her to address moral and ethical issues as they pertain to events and as they relate to the role of art and media. By editing together controversial or transgressive material, she creates discursive cinematic spaces in which to consider humanity's inexplicable behaviors, as do fellow avant-garde filmmakers Chris Marker and Chantal Akerman. The result is a unique and strangely beautiful syntax, one that poses its critique at the same time that it mesmerizes, confounds and provokes. Thornton writes, "I see myself as writing with media, and I position the viewer as an active reader, not a consumer. The goal is not a product, but shared thought." Presented in collaboration with EAI.

The Many Sides of Gertrude Stein While UbuWeb hosts a trove of Gertrude Stein reading her own works, we also host a number of interpretations of her works. This podcast guides you through these treasures, buried deep in the bowels of Ubu's vaults. Included here are: "The Making of Americans" read (and sung) in its entirety by Gregory Laynor; Marian Seldes reading "The Making of Americans" and "Lectures in America" (1963); Judson Church's production of Al Carmines' 'In Circles' (1967); and eight interpretations of Stein's seminal texts from Geography and Plays by various sound & radio artists. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.

UbuWeb at 27 Senses in London. Street Poets & Visionaries, UbuWeb's vast collection of found and outsider poems, will be on display 18 July - 22 August 2010 at Chisenhale Gallery, organized by Ubu's partner, Electra. The exhibition focuses on the period Kurt Schwitters spent in Norway during his wartime exile. Artists include: Kenneth Goldsmith / UbuWeb, Carl Michael von Hausswolff / Selmer Nilsen, Karl Holmqvist, Jutta Koether and Eline McGeorge. More info here.

Brion Gysin - An Audio Retrospective (1958-81) UbuWeb is pleased to present the full-spectrum of Brion Gysin's sound poetry and audio works [MP3]. Included here are his seminal permutation poems from the early 60s such as I've Come To Free The Words and I Am That I Am as well as lectures on various subjects such as Thoughts On Modern Art. The historic Poem of Poems (1958), recorded in 1958 at the Beat Hotel in Paris and considered one of Gysin's important experiments in cut-up and recording technique, is available for download, as is his more ambient works such as The Pool K III (late 50s, early 60s) and Bruits du Beaubourg (1977). Finally, a posthumous 1993 recording -- Self-Portrait Jumping -- of Gysin's songs, poems and stories, are set to music by Ramuntcho Matta and performed by Brion Gysin and Ramuntcho Matta with Don Cherry, Elli Medieros, Steve Lacy, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. You can read interviews with Gysin here and here, as well as read William S. Burroughs' The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin. View a demonstration of Gysin Permutation Software here.

The Ubuweb Experimental Video Project Bored to tears by the internet video mainstream, essayist, filmmaker and broadcaster Colin Marshall launched The Ubuweb Experimental Video Project, wherein he reviews every single one of the works of film and video archived on UbuWeb. No matter how short or long, how funny or serious, how prosaic or bizarre, none shall escape its duty as the subject of one of his essays. The Project is based on the assumption that all these pieces, approached with a large heart and an open mind, are interesting — or at least, they're the material for a potentially interesting review. Included here is the first installment of 34 reviews.

Five Animations by Ali Akbar Sadeghi Before there was an Iranian New Wave, there was Kanoon, which became an incubator for some of the country's most celebrated artists--including Ebrahim Forouzesh, Noureddin Zarrinkelk, and many of the protagonists of Iranian cinema, Sohrab Shahid-Sales, Abbas Kiarostami, and Amir Naderi among them. Ali Akbar Sadeghi, who is best known for pioneering a style that mixed traditional Persian coffeehouse painting with the surreal was a Kanoon leader. Featured here are five incredible and rare animations, four historical and one contemporary: Seven Cities (1971), The Rook (1974), Malek Khorshid (1975), Zal and Simorgh (1977) and Coalition (2004). Presented in partnership with Bidoun.

UbuWeb Podcast: The Sounds of Fluxus A wealth of innovative sounds from this movement, which began in the early 50s and continues through today. From the broken record compositions of Milan Knížák to Yoko Ono's recording of a toilet flushing, Fluxus strove to break down the barrier between art and life, fusing Spike Jones, vaudeville, gag, children's games and Duchamp. Feautred here are Ben Vautier, John Cage, Emmett Williams, La Monte Young, Joe Jones, Dick Higgins, Larry Miller, John M. Bennett and Alison Knowles. You can find several Fluxus audio anthologies on UbuWeb as well: Fluxus 30th Anniversary Box, Fluxus Anthology, Fluxus Anthology 2006, Flux Tellus and Fluxsweet. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.

Four Films by Jordan Wolfson Mixing and combining opposites, playing with analogies and ambiguity Jordan Wolfson creates a distorted mix of reality, imagination and cultural critique. He investigates the relationships of technology and media merged with his own personal experience, poetically balanced somewhere between pop and conceptual art. Included here are four works, with an exclusive showing of Wolfson's newest work, Con Leche (2009).

Archiving Ubu UbuWeb's archivist, Margaret Smith, has been pondering exactly if/how UbuWeb could/should be archived for the ages. She's parsed the site into pressing issues such as Structure and Classification, Legal and Financial, Digital Preservation. Can Smith tame Ubu (which is built on spit, tissue paper and whim) and preserve a fleeting, ephemeral gesture for eternity? Good luck! More here.

Bern Porter: A selection of Founds including Do's, Don'ts, and Gee Whizzles Presented in conjunction with the MoMA's exhibition LOST AND FOUND: The Work of Bern Porter from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art Library (April 7-July 5), UbuWeb is pleased to present 124 rarely seen collages. Featured here are Founds, Do's, Don'ts, and Gee Whizzles. You can hear hours Bern Porter's audio here and as well as view all of his visual works here.

Four Films by Kota Ezawa Kota Ezawa meticulously recreates, frame-by-frame, animated sequences from television, cinema, and art history using basic digital drawing and animation software. His aesthetic is a highly stylized mixture of Pop Art, Alex Katz, and paint-by-numbers pictures, to name but a few of his stylistic antecedents. Included here are three works: The Simpson Verdict (2002); Lennon Sontag Bueys (2004); The Unbearable Lightness of Being (2005); and Beatles Über California (2010).

New Podcast: UbuWeb's Interviews A focus on Ubu's vast trove of audio interviews with artists. Includes excerpts of conversations with Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Salvador Dalí, Jacques Derrida, Harry Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Pauline Oliveros, DJ Spooky, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Prince & Robert Gober, Lionel Casson and John Cage. Download the MP3 podcast directly here. You can subscribe to our podcast here. UbuWeb's podcasts are produced by The Poetry Foundation.

Bidoun Magazine - Music & Culture from the Middle East UbuWeb is pleased to partner with Bidoun Magazine to present the finest in Middle Eastern avant-garde historical and contemporary film & sound works. Sound artists include: Dariush Dolat-Shahi, Halim El-Dabh, Forough Farrokhzad, Ali Reza Mashayekhi, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Bijan Mofid, Vladimir Ussachevsky. Filmmakers include: Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu, Peggy Ahwesh, Mustafa Abu Ali, Forough Farrokhzad, Hamlet Hovsepian, Larry Jordan, Parviz Khatibi, Albert Lamorisse Claude LeLouch, Mohamed Ulad-Mohand, Ali Akbar Sadeghi, Sergei Parajanov, Artavazd Peleshian and Agnès Varda.

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Beth B - Three Films from 1991 Working in a variety of art forms and media, including video, feature film, and installation, Beth B creates provocative narratives that mine the violence below the surface of contemporary life. A forerunner of the explosive New York New Wave/punk scene of the late 1970s, B first garnered critical acclaim with her short films and features produced with Scott B. Presented here are three films from 1991: Thanatopsis, American Nightmare and Stigmata.

Ryan Trecartin - P.opular S.ky (section ish) (2009) Ryan Trecartin's latest in the series of three interrelated videos K-Corea INC. K (Section A), Sibling Topics (Section A) and P.opular S.ky (section ish), which also exist with an umbrella title, Trill-ogy Comp, serve as one complete side of his larger project and exhibition Any Ever.

Harrell Fletcher - Videos (2000-2006) Harrell Fletcher has worked collaboratively and individually on a variety of socially engaged, interdisciplinary projects for over fifteen years. Artist Allan McCollum says: "Harrell Fletcher... has taken it upon himself to turn the spotlight onto others. With a dedicated, empathic intelligence, he treats us to the joy and poignancy of appreciating our fellow humans by walking a difficult line between artistic skill, organizational savvy and anonymity." Featured here are 8 videos: The Forbidden Zone (2000), Blot Out The Sun (2002), The Sound We Make Together (2003), The Problem of Possible Redemption (2003), Hello Friend (PDX) (2004), If I Wasn't Me I Would Be You (2004), Babies (NYC) (2004), Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (2006).

Tape-beatles - The Complete Albums (1988-2002) - The Tape-beatles were a collaboration of varying membership that make music and audio art recordings,"expanded cinema" performances, videos, printed publications, and work in other media. They worked under the aegis of Public Works Productions. The Tape-beatles began creating works for audio tape in 1987 and espoused the use of plagiarism as a positive artistic technique. Their work drew more or less exclusively from the previously "finished" works of others, assembling fragments of these works into entirely new constructions that did not exist before the Tape-beatles made them. Also included here are the legendary homemade series PhonoStatic cassettes produced by Public Works, beginning in 1984 and ending in 1989.

Zoe Beloff - The Dream Films (2009) In 2009 the Coney Island Museum invited Zoe Beloff to create an exhibition to celebrate the centennial of Sigmund Freud's visit to Coney Island. She titled the show "Dreamland: The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and its Circle 1926-1972. The Society might be considered something of an urban myth. They were mostly working people from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Beloff describes them as "visionaries, who, undeterred by lack of finances or professional training, decided to explore their inner life, to share their dreams with each other and in doing so attempted to free the psyche from the constraints of class and of cultural and sexual mores of their time. Featured on Ubu are the ten films from this series.

Hamlet Hovsepian - Five Films (1975-76) Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers. Rarely seen, these are gems of Armenian avant-garde art and are gestures of deviance; political commentaries that positively reverse the image of isolation current among cultural pessimists, as a seizure of space in a world of standardization, of the mass society. Hamlet Hovsepian's film is not only the result of a small revolt against the deadly passivity of this society. The reduction it carries out, its silence, gives a universal turn to the meaning of emptiness, to the abstract space, and the frequently extended time. Presented in collaboration with Bidoun.

Peter Kirby - Four Documentaries Since 1985 Peter Kirby has produced and directed over 90 works, including a series of works on contemporary artists and architects. Here UbuWeb features four of his great California-based artist documentaries: Chris Burden: A Video Portrait (1989), John Baldessari: Some Stories (1990), The Secret of Life and Death: Allen Ruppersberg (1986) and Alexis Smith: Life In America (1991).

Publishing The Unpublishable, 1-50 We're halfway through this series, which asks "What constitutes an unpublishable work?" It could be many things: too long, too experimental, too dull; too exciting; it could be a work of juvenilia or a style you've long since discarded; it could be a work that falls far outside the range of what you're best known for; it could be a guilty pleasure or it could simply be that the world judges it to be awful, but you think is quite good. We've all got a folder full of things that would otherwise never see the light of day. Invited authors were invited to ponder to that question. Works by Joachim Georg Schmitt, Franck Leibovici, Christian Bjoljahn & Martin Johs. Møller, Anna Gray & Ryan Wilson Paulsen, Ryan Trecartin, Erik Belgum, Hans Ulrich Obrist & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Dana Teen Lomax, Vanessa Place, Vincent Katz, Stephen McLauglin, Vladimir Zykov, Gregory Laynor, James Carpenter, Dannielle Tegeder, Mark Peters, Mairéad Byrne, Barry Schwabsky, Eleanor Brown, Derek Beaulieu, Elisabeth S. Clark, Alan Licht, Kenneth Goldsmith, Raphael Rubinstein, Michael Coffey, Charles Bernstein, Eiríkur Örn Nordahl, Stephen Ratcliffe, Ara Shirinyan, Tom Johnson, Christian Bök, Jon Cotner & Andy Fitch, Jeremy Sigler, Mónica de la Torre, Tan Lin, Michael Scharf, Mary Jo Bang, Brian J. Davis, Brian Kim Stefans, Tim Davis, George Kuchar, Jamba Dunn, Peter Manson, Craig Dworkin, Simon Morris, Kimberly J. Rosenfield, Stephen Dirle, Claude Closky, Doug Nufer, Robert Fitterman and Bruce Andrews. The series will conclude when the 100th manuscript is published.

Women of the Avant Garde, Part 2 Produced by The Poetry Foundation. We continue our feature with the second podcast featuring the fabulous works done by women on UbuWeb. This time around we hear from the great sounds of Alison Knowles, Louise Lawler, Shelley Hirsch, Lauren Lesko, Forough Farrokhzad, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Kristin Oppenheim, Jane Philbrick, Marina Rosenfeld, Gertrude Stein, Karen Finley and People Like Us. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Intermission: Films from a Heroic Future at Montreal's Canadian Center for Architecture, November 25 to February 28, 2010. The CCA galleries are transformed into cinematic screening rooms to present a range of artistic, scientific, and experimental films on speed and space. Selected by curators from the archives of NASA, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM), the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), and UbuWeb, the films explore the impact of velocity and technology on our past, present and future.

The Malady of Writing: Modernism You Can Dance To (MP3) In collaboration with MACBA in Barcelona, UbuWeb is pleased to present a podcast accompanying their new exhibition entitled The Malady of Writing, a project imagines a pleasurable, humorous and fun version of modernism. This podcast is based on Mark Klienberg's proposition: "Could there be someone capable of writing a science-fiction thriller based on the intention of presenting an alternative interpretation of modernist art that is readable and appreciated by the wider public?", which has actually been answered affirmatively in a certain undercurrent of artist's audio production over the past century; let's call it an unofficial unofficial history of modernism (doubly unofficial since artist's audio production has been viewed as secondary to the their plastic / marketable production). Artists featured include: Alfred Jarry and Charles Pourny, Erik Satie, George Antheil, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dal�, Allen Ginsberg, Karl Holmqvist, Jack Smith, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Beatles, The Mothers of Invention, The Beach Boys, Sue Tompkins, Flanagan & Allen, Gilbert & George, Kipper Kids, Laurie Anderson, Karen Finley, Chris Burden, Joseph Beuys, Martin Kippenberger, Miranda July, Seth Price, and Sean Landers.

Paper Rad - Five Videos (2004-2006) PAPER RAD is a Pittsburgh, PA/Northampton, MA collective that has bubbled under the elastic waistline of the world's slacks for over a decade, tickling its privates and filling its diapers. This collective first started churning out cortex hemorrhaging lysergia comics and moved on to bands, videos, snack foods and installations. Past videos for the band for bands have included LIGHTNING BOLT (on LIGHTNING BOLT's POWER OF SALAD LOAD 041) and the PICK A WINNER video compilation (LOAD 050). Think of this group showing up to the 80's dance party with tazers and ketamine, and you waking up at the bottom of the ball tank at CHUCK E. CHEESE. Featured here are five videos: Smells Like Burnt Speaker (2004), P-Unit Mixtape 2005 (2005), Mario Movie (2005) (with Cory Arcangel), Trash Talking (2006) and Dr. Doo in Fucland (2006).

Salvador Dalí - Je Suis Fou De Dalí! (1975) From our partner Continuo comes this very rare LP. Continuo says: "A year after the release of his Cathar audiovisual opera-poem Etre Dieu, with music composed by Igor Wakhevitch, Salvador Dalí released Je Suis Fou de Dalí, a collection of well-chosen excerpts from an interview with three French journalists: François Deguelt, Jean-Pierre Mottier and Simon Wajntrob. If truth be told, most of it is pure joke and self-promotion, and the difference is tenuous at times between surrealism and senility. But if we set aside the many scatological jokes, some excerpts are simply mindblowing, genuine audio equivalents of a Dalí Surrealist painting." Of related interest is Dalí's wonderful drug-induced "trip" to a faraway and distant land, Impressions de la Haute Mongolie (1976), as well as a book-length series of insane and eye-opening chats, Conversations with Dalí by Alain Bosquet, from 1969.

New UbuWeb Podcast: Women of the Avant Garde, Part 1

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Produced by The Poetry Foundation. Let's face it: our previous podcasts have under-represented the fabulous work being done by the women of UbuWeb. Here we hope to correct that impression and showcase several of the dozens of talented and innvovative women on our site. This, the first of two podcasts, features Kathy Acker, Beth Anderson, Laurie Anderson, Caroline Bergvall, Meredith Monk, Lydia Lunch, Patti Smith, Helen Adam, Denise Levertov, Eileen Myles and Judy Dunaway. You can subscribe to our podcast here.

Ryan Trecartin - 10 Videos (2001-2009) We're pleased to present a small retrospective of full-length works of Ryan Trecartin, about whose work Wayne Koestenbaum waxes, "Ryan Trecartin's videos depict a vertiginous world I'm barely stable enough to describe. Watching them, I face the identity-flux of Internet existence: surfing-as-dwelling. Images evaporate, bleed, spill, metamorphose, and explode. Through frenetic pacing, rapid cuts, and destabilizing overlaps between representational planes (3-D turns into 2-D and then into 5-D), Trecartin violently repositions our chakras. Digitally virtuoso, his work excites me but also causes stomach cramps. I'm somatizing. But I'm also trying to concentrate." (Artfortum Summer 2009). We couldn't agree more. Featured here are two brand new films, K-Corea INC.K (Section A) (2009) and Sibling Topics (Section A) (2009). Also includes: I-Be AREA (2007), (Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me) (2006), A Family Finds Entertainment (2004), What's The Love of Making Babies For (2003), Wayne's World (2003), Yo A Romantic Comedy (2002), Valentine's Day Girl (2001) and Kitchen Girl (2001). Thanks to Ryan and his gallery Elizabeth Dee in NYC for making them available to UbuWeb.

UbuWeb Partners With Continuo UbuWeb is thrilled to partner with the greatest experimental music MP3 blog on the web, Continuo. The folks at Continuo have agreed to share their trove of avant-goodies with us here at Ubu and we'll begin posting several of them shortly. For now, our first collaboration is a fantastic rare self-released 1988 cassette of the Bay Area new music composer Barbara Golden's At The Corner of Alive and Jesus (36:29), which includes an all-star cast including Robert Ashley, Maggi Payne, William Winant and many others.

UbuWeb Has A New Radio Stream! WFMU is now serving a 24-hour non-stop UbuWeb radio stream. If you don't like what's playing on the Center for Literary Computing Stream, click on WFMU's. Better yet, play 'em at the same time! Thanks to WFMU for their continuing support of UbuWeb.

Peter Gidal - 5 Films (1967-1997) Peter Gidal is both the chief theorist of the 1970s film avant-garde, and its most austere image-maker. He also is the foremost exponent of British structural cinema. Gidal's films invite audiences to consider various aspects of the mediation between the real and the reel. In his most famous work, Room Film 1973, for example, the artist's camera restlessly investigates a room in minute detail. Clouds, which depicts just sky and an occasional plane, keeps the viewer guessing as to what if anything is moving? Gidal wrote: 'The anti-illusionistic project engaged by Clouds is that of dialectic materialism. There is virtually nothing ON screen, in the sense of IN screen. Obsessive repetition as materialist practice, not psychoanalytic indulgence.' Also included here is Assumption (1997), Epilogue (1978) and the 76-minute Upside Down Feature (1967-1972). Presented in collaboration with Lux.

Dance with Camera Spanning seventy years, Dance with Camera features art works in film, video, and photography that exemplify the ways dance has compelled artists to record bodies moving in space. For Ubuweb, exhibition curator Jenelle Porter selects a range of solos danced for the camera lens. The exhibition is on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, September 2009-March 2010. Films include Flora Wiegmann - Adaptive Lines (2007); Oliver Herring - Nathan (2007); Fatboy Slim - Weapon of Choice (2001); William Forsythe - Solo (1997); Babette Mangolte - Watermotor (1978); Hilary Harris - Nine Variations on a Dance Theme (1966); Yvonne Rainer - Hand Movie (1966); Maya Deren - A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945); Fred Astaire - Bojangles of Harlem (1936); The Lumière Brothers - Danse Serpentine (1896).

Nam June Paik - Good Morning Mr. Orwell (1984) Good Morning Mr.Orwell is an edited version of Paik's first international satellite "installation," which was held on New Year's Day 1984. Paik's transcultural satellite extravaganzas link different countries, spaces, and times in often chaotic but entertaining collages of art and pop culture, the avant-garde and television. Good Morning Mr.Orwell, which Paik saw as a rebuttal to Orwell's dystopian vision of 1984, linked France, Germany and the U.S. The event featured vibrant performances by Laurie Anderson, Merce Cunningham, Peter Gabriel and Allen Ginsberg, among many others. Paik coordinated the event and designed the TV graphics that connected the various live and pre-recorded segments. This project can be seen as a development of Paik's thinking on the potential of satellite communication, as proposed in A Conversation, and realized with his typical pastiche of art, entertainment, and crosscultural juxtapositions.

All Avant-Garde All The Time - UbuWeb Podcast #10: Continental Drift - Focus on the French Avant-garde

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Produced by The Poetry Foundation, UbuWeb is pleased to announce the latest in its podcast series, focusing on a dozen of Ubu's hidden treasures, highlighting audio works that you really should know about about but most likely don't. With this podcast, we continue our series focusing on the sounds of different regions. Here the focus is on the avant-garde language-based audio coming out of France. Beginning with Arthur Rimbuad and Guillaume Apollinaire, we make our way through Surrealism, Existentialism, Sound Poetry, and Musique Concrete, Fluxus, and French Plunderphonics. Included here are Jacques Doyen & Jacques Lasry's interpretation of Rimbaud's Roman, Guillaume Apollinaire reading his Le Pont Mirabeau (1913), Marcel Duchamp reading his Some texts from 'A l'infinitif' (1912-20), Roger Blin's interpretation of Samuel Beckett's Ping (1966), Henri Chopin's La Digestion, Ilse Garnier's TEM-TEM (1962), Jean Dubuffet's Gai savoir, Yves Klein's Monotone Symphony (1949), Ben Vautier's Some Ideas for Fluxus (1989), Georges Aphergis' A, Lionel Marchetti's Les fleurs tombent and Xaiver Gautier's Rachel (2000), which is all the words Rachel says in chronological order from the French version of Bladerunner (1982). You can subscribe to our podcast here.

All rights for materials presented on UbuWeb belong to the artists. All materials are for non-commercial and / or educational use only.

New Additions:

Brion Gysin Dreammachine Plans (1958) [MP3]

Tom Phillips - Irma Obscure No. 9 (1978) [MP3]

Pierre Garnier Poésie Phonétique sur Spatialisme (1963-66) [MP3]

Seiichi Niikuni Poésie Phonétique sur Spatialisme (1966-70) [MP3]

Ilse Garnier Poésie Phonétique sur Spatialisme (1962-64) [MP3]

Glenn Branca/John Giorno 'Who You Staring At?' (1982) [MP3]

Christina Kubisch Sechs Spiegel (1973) [MP3]

John Gibson Visitations (1973) [MP3]

David Moss Terrain (1980) [MP3]

Philip Corner Word-Voices (1962-88) [MP3]

Ivor Cutler Looking for Truth with a Pin (documentary, 2005)