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Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on December 13, 2011 at 11:01pm

KDJ, T.Y. for that--it's magnificent--and I needed it right now more than you'lll ever know. You are Queen for the Night.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 13, 2011 at 10:56pm

Sweet KDJ, you are terrible! You make me accept Xmas altogether, you darling witch ....

 

Oh yeah, I uploaded your ATC’s  to my new project before that project even existed, so you are really and truly a WICCA

 

 

AFTER ANN LET US REBEL REBEL

The deadline for The book of ANN (Friour project 12) is 31 December 2011.

The past year was great on a MAIL ART and KITTY level, so THANX to all who contributed and exchanged art and ideas.

I now present the successor for 2012 and already email my season greetings to YOU ALL.

FRIOUR project 13 is on rebellion, contestation, protest in all its meanings: artistic, political, social, cultural, historical and present ones.

I dedicate this 2012 project to all mail artists who have told me they like my art but PLEASE Guido stay away from politics! They are forgetting that all the great art movements of the modernist past (Dada, Surrealism, Cobra, Situationism) were involved in attempts to change society. So REBEL REBEL aka the essence of art expressions by artists living in society, rooted in all the social and cultural contradictions of the world. Because after all it is not only Wall street we need to occupy because the public domain is our space. Reclaim the streets indeed!!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE, TO THE ANIMALS, TO THE TREES AND TO THE ASTONISHING STONES OF OUR UNIVERSE (it is OUR universe: not belonging to banks, corporations, dictators, the state, the police or other self proclaimed authorities: we are the world, the world are we, so REBEL REBEL till you drop, don’t shop, burn all billboards down, spit on your local flag and embrace humanity as a whole, for XXX sake, REBEL REBEL till the end of time, REBEL against death and REBEL against the way we live or against those who impose us how to live.

Take responsibilty of your own life and destinity, this means also taking responsibility of our planet and existence in our own hands. Don’t depend of power, create your own power, or refute power altogether!

FREE SIZE AND MEDIUM

Deadline: 31 December 2012

All contributions will be published on the blog: http://rebelrebelmovementsofcontestation.blogspot.com

Those who want to BE PART OF this blog, please email me, so I can invite you to UPLOAD YOUR OWN CONTRIBUTIONS TO REBEL REBEL

signsstones@yahoo.com

For regular mail art contributions: REBEL Guido Vermeulen, Thomas Vincottestreet 81, B-1030 Brussels, BELGIUM

PS

Note that ongoing projects in 2012 to be continued will be

TREES (documented on IUOMA)

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/group/trees

KIEKJESDIEF (photos to document our own existenZ)

http://kiekjesdief.blogspot.com

LAMUSAR (art inspired by music and literature)

http://lamusar.blogspot.com

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 13, 2011 at 9:21pm

Photo of Jacques Izoard with handwritten poem, diffused after his death.

Some benches were erected to his memory in his hometown with poems on the benches. The death-mask I keep to myself.  I remember well that Basso and Stone commented on this, that I lived in a cultural country because they honored the poets. Well to put this into perspective: today in Liege (town of Izoard and the benches) a lunatic started firing on the main square and killed and injured X people. Good golly Miss Molly, we Belgians are becoming Americans (sic, suck, vomity oops)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 13, 2011 at 9:10pm

Thanks Theresa, on the level of death we live in a sick culture, we simply cannot deal with it while other cultures seem to play with this in a much lighter and open way. I have always asked myself this silly question: WHY ???

I have some answers but this could be really offensive to people who do not question the poverty of the «West» (what kind of monster is that anyway?)

I have to stop because otherwise the laundry will become VERY red (Lol)

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 8:31pm

Small painted envelope around a poetry fragment by Jacques IZOARD who was one of my close friends. He died in 2008. I have a plaster cast of his death-mask in my home. His best friend (Robert Varlez) did a mail art project in his memory.

Le linge est un peu rouge

puisque les cris d’oiseaux

meurent dans les vitres

The laundry is a little red

because the cries of birds

are dying in the windows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Izoard

 

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 12, 2011 at 8:30pm

Small painted envelope around a poetry fragment by Achille CHAVEE (1906-1969), Belgian French surrealist.

NOTRE DESTIN DE TRANSPARENCE

LA FIN MEPRISANT LES MOYENS

L’AME JOUANT LE QUITTE OU DOUBLE

L’ETERNITE QUI NOUS ADOUBE

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille_Chav%C3%A9e

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 7, 2011 at 7:05pm

Simon Vinkenoog (July 18, 1928 – July 12, 2009) was a Dutch poet and writer. He was the editor of the anthology Atonaal (Atonal), which launched the Dutch "Fifties Movement". A real rebellion against the literary establishment of the time.

In 2004 he was chosen as Dichter des Vaderlands, or "Poet Laureate", for the Netherlands. On July 11, 2009 Vinkenoog was admitted to an Amsterdam hospital after suffering a seizure. He died the following day.^[1][2]

Vinkenoog was a Dutch beatnik and performance poet who has defended all his life the use of soft drugs and paddos (Mushrooms): so a kind of Kerouac meets Ginsburg meets Timothy Leary meets Huxley meets Henri Michaux kind of guy.

His complete poetry is more than 1200 pages of reading material. Some of his poems have been translated into English by Cornelis Vleeskens (a Dutch poet and visual poetry artist who emigrated to Australia and is also part of the mail art network)

Bibliography

• 1950 - Wondkoorts - poems
• 1951 - Atonaal - anthology (editor) ^[3]
• 1954 - Zo lang te water, een alibi - novel
• 1962 - Hoogseizoen - novel
• 1965 - Liefde - novel
• 1968 - How to Enjoy Reality - pamphlet, included in International Times. With Jean-Paul Vroom
• 1976 - Mij best - novel
• 1978 - Het huiswerk van de dichter - poems
• 1979 - (1972-1978) Bestaan en begaan
• 1980 - Jack Kerouac in Amsterdam
• 1980 - Moeder Gras
• 1981 - Poolshoogte/Approximations
• 1982 - Voeten in de aarde en bergen verzetten - poems
• 1986 - Stadsnatuur, dagboeknotities
• 1986 - Coito ergo Sum: samenspraak der eenwording
• 1986 - O boze droom
• 1987 - Leven en dood van Marcel Polak - biography
• 1987 - Heren zeventien, proeve van waarneming
• 1988 - Op het eerste gehoor - poems
• 1993 - Louter genieten - poems
• 1996 - Het hoogste woord: De stem van Simon Vinkenoog
• 1998 - Vreugdevuur - poems
• 1998 - Herem 'n tijd - collected articles
• 2000 - De ware Adam - poems
• 2001 - Me and my peepee (translation of poems by Allen Ginsberg)

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 3, 2011 at 9:33pm

New large painting around a poetry fragment by Simon Vinkenoog:

FROM WATERLAND

Nature tries her best ...

In the garden of eternity

nobody provokes you,

nobody attacks,

nobody flees,

nobody leaves,

nobody procreates nobody.

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 2, 2011 at 11:56pm

Elaine is an American but she made the choice to live in Canada. I can understand this completely but if all interesting Americians emigrate to Canada we would only have the nutters left of the Tbaggers, so >>>

Here is her address because not on IUOMA. She is an excellent correspondent!

Met her twice>

Elaine Rounds, 2237 Louise Ave, Brandon Manitoba, R7B 0L7 Canada

Comment by Guido Vermeulen on December 2, 2011 at 4:07pm

Received some splendid works from Elaine Rounds, Canada

Published one on the book of Ann and 3 on lamusar blog.

Here is one linked with the final sentence of Anne Michael’s splendid novel FUGITIVE PIECES:

I SEE THAT I MUST GIVE WHAT I MOST NEED

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