He would sit in his apartment in the nights of heat and rain and weave, or fold paper, or sew; and as he carefully and drunkenly constructed these illusory selves, he thought of the person who he wanted to be, and who his father had wanted to be, and who he wanted to be, and he thought of a feminist class he had taken in college, and it was one thought rolling thru his head in time to the music and the wheels and the dawn that would come and pass once more: “Biology is no longer destiny.”
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“When I was a little kid, I would sit in the bath tub and play with all the shampoos and bubble baths that were sitting around the rim of the tub. I would mix them together in a little plastic cup, and think that if I mixed them just right, and drank it, I would be transformed into Bowser, and I could romp around the town, breathing fire and destroying stuff.”
Yesssssssssssssssssss I luuuuuuuuuv the Duuuuuuuurty Bmoooooooooooore
Performance at “Hacking Utopia(s)” at Current Space, show curated by Michael Benevento and was open from May 11th to June 5th
Neo-Arcadia the Fourth (Fyooozzzboxxxx 2007)
A Being in the Digital Realm
The Digital Being Enters the Toxic Material World
The Digital Being is Dying and Must Be Healed
The Digital Being is Revived and Mystically Reborn
The Holy One Speaks to Citizens of Neo-Arcadia…
…As We Serve the Digital God in the Temple of Transfiguration…
…And Johnny Ciscernos Gives Us the Celestial Music of the Spheres.
Neo-Arcadia the Third, “The Fourth Yuga” (where did the second go? good question.)
We are destruction.
(Ya no, this duznt even mayk any cents to me any mawwwwwwwwwwwwwwr.)
Neo-Arcadia the First was either a “gooooal” or a rawwwring failure.
The Completion.
When the portal opes its mawwwww wwwwwwide wwwwwunss mawwwwwwwwwwr
You know you wanted to see this.
Lanneau, ekskyooz me, I meant Karl Sapien, and I were either “just married” or transported into the twelfth dimension.
Last but not least, thank you all for your support!
Mike Wachs and Beatrice Thomas forevz!!!
Luv yooz guyzzzzz
