chicago to belize, jungle particle monologues

these lovely particle monologues were sent from chicago to belize via the fabulous lindsay madden, artist, of chicago, il.

PM continues

Is it in the essence of atomic energy? An element of ephemera?
Particle monologues continues like the laundry we hang to dry in the spring breeze, arriving like a special delivery package to those who find them. On June 13th, in an exhibition entitled "Walls of Hope", Particle Monologues will begin a journey from the MOCA in Oakland to Stockholm, then Buenos Aires to San Salvador, then returning to Oakland sometime next year. This exhibition invites artists and agitators exploring the practice of art as intervention and community change fodder, specifically recognizing that communities that have been torn apart during war can be reunified through the process of art-making and that all people have the right to make art.
http://www.mocha.org/exhibits/index.html

chattanooga particle monologues

these particle monologues were created in chicago and then delivered to chattanooga, tn while i was there for a conference. i walked around one afternoon and ended up posting these on market street -- a main thoroughfare downtown. two men took an interest in the idea and started to wonder about the people for whom they were monologuing to/for in their own minds. thanks to beth & justin for creating these in my kitchen one night in chicago, giving them to me, and allowing me send them off into the universe via chattanooga, tn.

PARTICLE MONOLOGUES @ THE MCA

last friday, april 25, 2008 perez elementary school teachers created their own particle monologues and installed them on tree limbs and park benches in the park across the street from the mca, where the workshop was held and sponsored. thanks to visual artist dominique enriquez for sharing photo transfer techniques, and thanks to marissa reyes for helping to organizing the workshop!

park slope particles arrive in chicago

last night i received a beautiful packet of particles from artist/psychotherapist robert mauksch, all the way from park slope, brooklyn. they are some of the most poetic particles floating in the universe...!

more of brooklyn floats in chicago

...late night walk in humboldt park, probably around midnight...tied more of maya's particles to bare trees in the big park...after a warm (er) day with sunshine, the night was cold and windy. i also saw families of duck and geese, quacking, spying, living pretty in the pond. rats and rabbits hopped around in the darkness as well.

particles disappear into ethos

late tonight i am walking back to the apartment from my car parked around the corner on rockwell, in ukrainian village. i stop to notice that maya's particle monologues are still floating on tree limbs. i smile. i step closer to read the text -- and realize that the text has already faded away into the universe. the two other tags tied two trees down -- same thing. her particles are truly faded into the air, and we all breathe in her universal "you."

towards a participatory poetics

"My interest personally is always in the "rub" between "self" and "other," outside/inside, male/female, and how words can play with those dualities, creating sparks in the very clash and mesh of the phones and phonemes. And how, too, the mouthing of the words, the vocalization, can generate energy that stirs people out of mesmerization. I'm interested in a participatory poetics, a transformative poetics."

Poet Anne Waldman -- Whole Earth Review, 1988

elementary particles

If an elementary particle truly has no substructure, then it is one of the basic building blocks of the universe from which all other particles are made.

Particle physics is a branch of physics that studies the elementary constituents of matter and radiation, and the interactions between them. It is also called high energy physics, because many elementary particles do not occur under normal circumstances in nature, but can be created and detected during energetic collisions of other particles, as is done in particle accelerators. Research in this area has produced a long list of particles.

Strictly speaking, the term particle is a misnomer because the dynamics of particle physics are governed by quantum mechanics. As such, they exhibit wave-particle duality, displaying particle-like behavior under certain experimental conditions and wave-like behavior in others.

brooklyn particles floating on iowa street, ukrainian village, chicago

maya's brooklyn particles arrive in chicago!

preparing particles for belize