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"Cut up or shut up"
"When you cut into the present...
the future leaks out."
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  • MONTE CON O SIN SAFOS

    Jan 21, 2016

  • Jason C. Motsch

    Jan 23, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Tear-up by John M. Bennett & Baron

    Jan 23, 2016

  • Charlotte Geister

    I like to do collages with words and poems; a bit like the dada artists.

    Is german okay?

    because I have no english newspapers and journals.

    Charlotte

    Feb 16, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    There is nothing wrong with German, or with any language!

    Feb 16, 2016

  • Ficus strangulensis

    Of course, they're viruses from outer space.

    Feb 16, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Ficus strangulensis

    Thank you, Jabula! NOW I understand!

    Feb 25, 2016

  • Jason C. Motsch

    Feb 26, 2016

  • Jason C. Motsch

    Feb 26, 2016

  • De Villo Sloan

    (Trashpo cut-up)

    Feb 26, 2016

  • De Villo Sloan

    Feb 26, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Feb 26, 2016

  • Mick Boyle

    Cut up collage

    vintage paper, clear tape, watercolor

    Feb 27, 2016

  • Mick Boyle

    Cut up collage

    vintage paper, clear tape, watercolor

    Feb 27, 2016

  • Mick Boyle

    cut up poem

    randomly selected vintage paper

    Feb 29, 2016

  • Mick Boyle

    cut up poem

    randomly selected vintage paper

    Feb 29, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Having studied and edited some Burroughs texts, I can say pretty confidently that when he used somewhat random cutup and selection processes, he then edited the resulting texts with care and in some detail.

    Mar 6, 2016

  • ion

    "How random is random?" J.M.B. makes an interesting point here .When W.S.B. used "the cut-up technique" he
    exercised a great amount of control over the material.Sometimes a whole page cut up would lead to a single phrase."Old bull" would use cut-ups in much the same way as he used marijuana as "an escape from a creative Cul-de-sac."

    Mar 6, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    In a general sense, I tend to think there is no such thing as a truly random act.  Randomness is an ideal, or an attitude, or an attempt to get around the barricades of routine "control".

    Mar 6, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    W.S.B. on control ...
    "There are certain formulas,word-locks,which will lock up a whole civilisation for a thousand years " {The Job}

    Mar 6, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    www.ubu.com/historical/burroughs/electronic_revolution.pdf

    Mar 6, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    www.ubuweb.com/papers/burroughs_gysin.html

    Mar 6, 2016

  • MONTE CON O SIN SAFOS

    Mar 6, 2016

  • MISS NOMA

    BE A POET

    Mar 15, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Mar 15, 2016

  • MISS NOMA

    ET TU...BENNETT ?

    Mar 15, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    ET MOI ET MOI ET MOI ET MOI ETMOIETMOIETMOIETMOI

    Mar 15, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Crunch-up

    Mar 20, 2016

  • Richard Canard

    20.03.16 Dare Miss Noma,  ...Like millions & millions of other folk, I have waded up a sheet of paper a thousand times &  given it a non-thoughtful toss into the trash.  Is John M. Bennett the first artist to actually find poetry in "a ball of printed paper"  & proclaim it's potential??? ...well, he does seem to have been doing that sort of thing all along. Thanx for posting.Richard Canard

    Mar 20, 2016

  • carl baker

    well said richard, thats getting pretty old.

    Mar 20, 2016

  • Richard Canard

    20.03.16 Dare Miss Noma &  Mister Carl Baker, ...apparently I still yet have difficulty in expressing myself clearly.  What  I was attempting to say was the fact that I never saw the same aesthetic possibilities that JMB seemed to recognize.  John M. Bennett  has indeed been around a long time & his efforts have (in my opinion) enriched the arena of visual poetry.  Richard

    Mar 20, 2016

  • Richard Canard

    20.03.16 Dare Miss Noma, .... A proposal: Cut & remove the name "Tristan Tzara" from all articles or themes of "DADA" to be found in all newspapers, magazines, essays, Books, etc., etc.  ... Such an action would serve to both pay "Homage to T.T." & help free the rest of us should we ever dare to pick up a pair of scissors again . Sincelery, Richard Canard

    Mar 20, 2016

  • James Joslin

    Music and text assembledge - a page from my piece 'Cut-Ups'. Here's a link to my interpretation of this page: https://youtu.be/O6Vtkacc9-0

    Mar 20, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Not the first; Jim  Leftwich has been taping down crunched-up wads of paper for some years now  -

    Mar 20, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    so i'm just a late-comer!

    Mar 20, 2016

  • carl baker

    this is cut-up      https://soundcloud.com/dada-jazz/dada-jazz-revocation-information?u...

    Mar 28, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    "This page from Visual Mom reminds me of "Waste Maker" by Saint Fuck You {aka Bern Porter} ..."

    Mar 29, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Or Charles Henri Ford or John M. Bennett, or etc etc - it's a classic look and technique

    Mar 30, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    ie, JMB's FOUND OBJECTS, New Rivers Press, 1973 and Ford;s SILVER FLOWER COO, 1068

    Mar 30, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Mar 30, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    "The source material looks like advertising=junk=waste etcetera hence the echoes of Saint Fuck You ..."

    Mar 30, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    "Silver flower coo 1068 ...by gob that's got to be the first cut up novel ..."

    Mar 30, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    "John the earliest collage novel that I have read is "What a life" by Lucas & Morrow (1911) ...maybe between us we could dig up an earlier one ..."

    Mar 30, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    "John if we include the Burroughs technique of cross reading newspaper columns as a form of college=cut up then the earliest I have read thus far must be Caleb Whitefoord "A new method of reading newspapers" 1766 ! "

    Mar 30, 2016

  • Bob Jones

    Those you who are interested in seeing possibly the first collage novel are directed to: www.scruss.com/wal/

    Mar 30, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    ha!  excellent, as I've always said, the avant-garde is really another tradition, the term isn't accurate.  it's an alter-garde or other-garde!

    Mar 30, 2016

  • carl baker

    cut that out.........

    Apr 11, 2016

  • Mick Boyle

    Collaborations with Jason Motsch
    ink, watercolor, vintage paper, colored pencil

    Apr 25, 2016

  • John M. Bennett

    Apr 25, 2016