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Lip Service - a chapbook by Me!

Hey! I have a new chapbook out, Lip Service from Slack Buddha Press. Come celebrate this momentous literary occasion in the LOUNGE at REDCAT on Sunday, March 22 at 2pm with readings from myself, Will Alexander and Teresa Carmody and you can pick up your very own copy of Lip Service at the event. You can also order a copy online from Slack Buddha if you are so inclined.
best
Mathew Timmons

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LIP SERVICE

By

Mathew Timmons
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To celebrate this momentous literary and cultural occasion, there will be a reading/release party!

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons


in the LOUNGE At REDCAT
on Sunday March 22nd at 2:00 pm
Free
***

Thus,
Lip Service
A Reading/Chapbook release party

with readings
by
Will Alexander
Teresa Carmody
&
Mathew Timmons

in the LOUNGE at REDCAT
Sunday, March 22 at 2pm
Free

***

And as an added bonus incentive for joining us, you can pick up your own copy of Lip Service at REDCAT.

Or, to let you off the hook, but continue your celebratory obligation, you can order a copy online here,

***

LIP SERVICE
By
Mathew Timmons

***

Will Alexander is a poet and visual artist. Working from Los Angeles, he has updated the surrealist vision to write his own cosmic parables, in his own electric incandescent language. Alexander's writing represents a complex distillation of images from many fields, including botany, astronomy, psychology, physiology, mysticism, and history. His books include Above the Human Nerve Domain, Exobiology as Goddess, Asia & Haiti, Towards the Primeval Lightning Field (essays), The Stratospheric Canticles and Sunrise and Armageddon. He has two works forthcoming: Alien Weaving (Green Integer) and Sri Lankan Loxodrome (Canopic Publishing). The International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England named Will Outstanding Scholar of the 20th Century, and he was also recognized by the Whiting Foundation for exceptional literary achievement in New York. In 2002 Will received a fellowship for poetry from the California Arts Council.

Teresa Carmody is the author of Requiem, (Les Figues, 2005) and the recent chap/micro books Eye Hole Adore (PS Books, 2008) and Your Spiritual Suit of Armor by Katherine Anne by Teresa Carmody (Woodland Editions, 2009). Other work has appeared in the emohippus greeting cards series, Slope, Fold Appropriate Text, American Book Review, Bombay Gin, and 4th Street. She was an organizer of the original Ladyfest (Olympia) and co-organizer of Feminaissance, a colloquium on women and writing at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives in Los Angeles where she is Co-Director of Les Figues Press.

Mathew Timmons is a writer, curator and critic in Los Angeles. He curates the installation series, The Ups & Downs, at workspace and runs General Projects at Outpost for Contemporary Art. He also co-edits/curates Insert Press (w/ Stan Apps), LA-Lit (w/ Stephanie Rioux) and Late Night Snack (w/ Harold Abramowitz). A chapbook, Lip Service is recently out from Slack Buddha Press. His first full length book, The New Poetics (Les Figues Press), his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary (P S Books), and a chapbook, Lip Music (By the Skin of Me Teeth), are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals, including: P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, NōD, PRECIPICe, Or, Moonlit, aslongasittakes, eohippus labs, Area Sneaks, Artweek and The Encyclopedia Project.

Outpost, ASAP & You & Me!

Hi All - I'm curating many and various events, exhibitions etc at Outpost over the next few months - and the first of these events is this coming Saturday at 1pm.
Hope to see you there...

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Outpost for Contemporary Art


Boards and Nails: On Non-Profit Boards
Saturday, March 14
1:00-3:00 pm

A free conversation organized by The After School Arts Program (ASAP)
Presentation will be followed by Q&A

Guest Speakers:

Carol Stakenas
Executive Director of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)

Walter Askins
Artist, Former Board member of the Pasadena Arts Museum (1963-1968) and Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA)

Letitia Ivins
Former member of the Outpost for Contemporary Art Advisory Board and current member of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission

Maria Grant
Board Overseer for the Huntington Art Museum and Board Chair of the Thomas Aquinas College

There will be refreshments, so please come early and stay after to chat!

This event is the first in a series of events curated by Mathew Timmons for Outpost for Contemporary Art that will occur over the next several months at our Highland Park location. Stay tuned for a full calendar of events.

Outpost's Board of Directors are Julie Deamer (Founding Director), Jordan Biren (President), Amy Pederson (Vice-President), Maureen Branley (Treasurer), Rachel Allen, David Bloom, Gary Cannone, and Jeremy Rosenberg.

Outpost for Contemporary Art
6375 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90042

Please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at (323) 982-9461 or (323) 899-3533 or email at julie@outpost-art.org for more information.

Time Lapse Documentation of The Ups & Downs 5

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…

The Ups & Downs: Danielle Adair - Mar 6 & 7

The Ups & Downs: Coverlands
at workspace
Coverlands by Danielle Adair
as part of The Ups & Downs, an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons

Opening reception March 6th, 7:00pm
Closing reception March 7th, 7:00pm

Coverlands is a sculptural installation inspired by the artist’s recent journalistic embed with U.S. forces in Jalalabad. During the months of November and December 2008, Danielle followed women intelligence officers on two bases in eastern Afghanistan. The objects reference classified maps and woven blankets sold at the bazaar on base, and highlight the army’s effort to preserve U.S. national identities in a foreign environment. Danielle uses wax paper and thread to invoke dual qualities of delicacy and durability.

For more information on related work please visit:
www.first-assignment.com
www.danielleadair.com

The Ups & Downs is an installation series curated by Mathew Timmons. The show goes up, the show goes down. Opening party on Friday night and closing party the next night, on Saturday. No time for exhibitions. Low impact, ephemeral and immersive art. People with lots of People. The market. It’s a party. Time for the underground. It’s a ball. It’s for The People. This has been made for you. Do I know you? The show must go on. Installed and De-installed. Up. Down. Now what? Now then…