I Am Abandoned Night Train

I Am Abandoned Night TrainBarbara T. Smith I Am Abandoned documents a little known, but visionary performance by Barbara T. Smith. Taking place in 1976, it featured a conversation in real time between two psychoanalytic computer programs (known today as two of the earliest chatbots) alongside a staging of Francisco Goyas The Naked Maja (17951800) and The Clothed Maja (18001807), in which the artist projected an image of the famous painting on top of a female model. The

First published in 1999 in an edition of 300 perfectbound copies and 26 spiralbound copies lettered A-Z and signed by someone or other

Inspired initially by Jerome Rothenberg’s translation Flower World Variations

Setarah Noorani & Tabea Nixdorff

a leaping triple flip popularized during the last years of the Cold War

swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices

and activism intertwine

All of the work collected here circles around two central relationships: between politics and knowledge

De fascinatie van Hester Knibbe voor oude culturen is ook in haar nieuwe bundel Binnen in de aarde is een berg onmiskenbaar

She creates neologisms and uses elements of Pretuguês (Black Portuguese)

" to three years of detention in a small seaside village in Calabria

Met de bloemlezing Voor alle dagen gaan Joost

het hout laat stulpen