You can see Syria from here,
fish in a dead landscape,
starry nights and astronauts,
the soft edges of time.
What year is it?
Don’t you think it’s time for love?
Everything else has failed.
Fuck it, I’m high.
Let’s walk to the middle of the ocean.
White roses sing and sing.
Howie Good, 2016
Remixed works:
Titles of artworks by Alma Thomas, Hema Upadyay, and Kung Me
1
Do you see the donut?
Do you just see the hole?
But if you see the hole,
then where is Mary?
2
Stop crying.
It’s simple,
like strikethroughs
on a typewriter.
3
I’m killing you –
in my dreams.
So?
Nobody ever
dies of it.
Howie Good, 2016
Remixed works:
Assembled in part from Mercy Hospital,
a series of drawings by Ida Applebroog
Texas Fontanella, 2016
Mutated and sculpted work:
A Room of One’s Own, by Virginia Woolf
Texas Fontanella, 2016
Electrified work:
A remix of poetry by Catherine B. Krause
Start small,
cushioned in bubble wrap.
Find your metaphors
in quiet failure;
how you feel
is something you
cannot take too seriously
seven and a half feet
above the earth.
Underneath the noise,
become a producer of meaning.
Shloka Shankar, 2016
Remixed work:
How to be a Writer, by Rebecca Solnit
1
Boys playing at an abandoned building.
This used to be Mexico.
I’m afraid of human beings.
2
Then at one point
I did not need
to translate the notes.
We run things
in the forest
while the wolf
is not around.
Wolf, are you there?
To hell with it all,
let’s pray
that it lasts.
Howie Good, 2016
Remixed works:
Titles of artworks by Francesca Woodman, Ryan Brown, Summer Wheat, Mie Olise, and Manuela Viera-Gallo
Garima Behal, 2016
Sculpted work:
Hindustan Times, 26 August 2016
1
Arboretum presents white dogwood,
3 jars with roots and a heart,
monument to the people
we’ve conveniently forgotten.
2
I hate you
armored heart,
caged heart.
I peeped your demons
becoming robots,
meeting with remarkable men,
being the light.
3
Behold an aquarium of flowers
where the cricket sings
how to properly touch a girl
so you don’t creep her out.
4
Then again, no.
Why I am so worried.
Fucked-up flowers
ruin everything,
pretty much every word. . .
Howie Good, 2016
Remixed Works:
Titles of artworks by Alma Thomas, Nam June Paik, Heman Chong,
Geoffrey Rigden, Matthew McCaslin, Andrew Hem, Seth Alter,
Douglas Gordon, Zeyno Pekünlü, Bill Scott,
Erika Ranee and Paola Pivi
Piece together, with gold soldering words, silver sentence stitches
the shards of shattered histories of women through centuries.
Celebrate their lives of perfect imperfections, with lessons in re-
construction. Create influence from the clays of criticism others
throw, with silver rejoinders of tales, learnt at a mother’s knee
as from the mouth of nature. Fix her with golden lacquer scars
and splintered recollections, fractured bodies, fables, re-
claiming diverse identities. Fragmented tales mapping lives un-
veiled, unshackled, of porcelain strength, surface qualities
revealing the light within. Go roll a Sumerian seal over wet clay
memory, incisions detailing female deity veneration, and, re-
emboldened, slip its narrative in relief and touch its tracery tales
of femininity, folklores crossing continents. Educate with oral
riches from kiln-hot legends, playing the potter to fashion the shape
of woman transformed. Overturn ignorance, religious iconoclasms re-
claiming, with gold soldering, a whole woman from the lees and debris.
* Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold or silver lacquer.
Karen Barton, 2016
Remixed works:
Eliot, Auden, Lowell. Aspects of the Baudelairean Inheritance, by L. MacKinnon
Museum of Lost Objects: Looted Sumerian Seal, BBC’s Kanishk Tharoor, Maryam Maruf with Lamia al-Gailani, Mazin Safar, John Curtis
Disordered Bodies, Fractured Minds, by Falke Pissano
Karen Barton, 2016
Remixed works:
Titles of Paintings by Gustav Klimt