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The work of New York writer and performer Laurie Weeks explores a world of girls snared in a matrix of male sociopathology and their own internalized self-loathing. Her work places particular emphasis on imagery and deadpan humor; it has a surreal overcast and combines gothic elements with science fiction. She is currently working on a book of short stories and a novel, Zipper Mouth, a comic yet crushingly depressing episodic recreation of the life of an anxious girl who feels psychically gagged. This sad heroine's unexpressed perceptions circulate in her body like radioactive material, producing all sorts of mutations. The book is constructed around the issues of love, movie stars, heroin, and an inability to get off the bed. Portions of the novel will be published in INDEX magazine in Winter 2001.
The work of New York writer and performer Laurie Weeks explores a world of girls snared in a matrix of male sociopathology and their own internalized self-loathing. Her work places particular emphasis on imagery and deadpan humor; it has a surreal overcast and combines gothic elements with science fiction. She is currently working on a book of short stories and a novel, Zipper Mouth, a comic yet crushingly depressing episodic recreation of the life of an anxious girl who feels psychically gagged. This sad heroine's unexpressed perceptions circulate in her body like radioactive material, producing all sorts of mutations. The book is constructed around the issues of love, movie stars, heroin, and an inability to get off the bed. Portions of the novel will be published in INDEX magazine in Winter 2001.
Weeks has also published catalogue essays on the work of painter Nicole Eisenman and the videos of Cecilia Dougherty. She performs regularly in New York City at venues such as PS 122, The Performing Garage, Dixon Place, and Threadwaxing Space. She toured the country in 1999 with the girl-punk poetry group Sister Spit.
Her play Young Skulls II, based on the true story of teenage lesbian thrill-killers in Indiana, was produced at the WOW Cafe in NYC and in San Francisco at The Lab. Since 1993, Weeks has produced, written, directed, and performed in the collaborative one-act play series,Summer of Bad Plays. She has taught poetry at The New School, and was the recipient of a 1996 New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction Fellowship. Recently awarded a 7-month residency at The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Weeks has been a panelist and presenter at various conferences on marginalized writing and the body at Columbia, Brown, Brandeis, and Kent State Universities, as well as the University of Oregon. She has a Masters degree in Performance Studies from NYU.
Weeks also collaborates with guitarist Karyn Kuhl. Known as "The Nervous Girl," Kuhl and Weeks performed most recently at the "Women and Pop Culture" conference in October at the State University of New York in New Paltz.
Weeks was the subject of one of Cecilia Dougherty's series of video portraits of writers in a video entitled "Laurie." In addition, she has appeared in the videos of Charles Atlas.

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CHAPTER NINE FROM ZIPPER MOUTH
by Laurie Weeks
WHAT JANE WORE TO JAMAICA

Sister Spit site has snippet of Laurie's writing:
www.klever.org/spit/99ladies.html

Primal Publishing is doing an ebook with Laurie:
www.primalpub.com

Amy Sillman is a painter who lives and works in Brooklyn. She is represented in NYC by Brent Sikkema Gallery in Chelsea where she had a solo show in March/April 2000, and another show is on there currently! Last spring she had a show in Paris at Ghislaine Hussenot, in the fall she was in Bologna and exhibited her paintings at Gallery Marabini.
She also just got a mention in the New Yorker - January 21, 2002 issue, page 12, and I quote:

"sillman, a downtown favorite, shows "A Long Drawing" - sixteen panoramic gouaches that parade figurative, abstract, and decorative elements in the artist's improvisatory vein of outsiderish goofiness and Tantric delicacy. Is Sillman ever not inspired? This work's extended riff is catchy in the way of Ella Fitzgerald singing scat."

Even though Sillman is a painter, she's also a ham who wants to be in the movies. Her great-uncle Leonard Sillman had a famous talent show on the burlesque circuit called Leonard Sillman's New Faces. He discovered Eartha Kitt and Tyrone Power. He also wrote an autobiography called "Here Lies Leonard Sillman: Straightened Out At Last." So being in the movies gratifies a deep part of her that has gone ungratified while painting in solitude and introspection in her studio. To prepare for her role as Pat Loud, she went deep into her psyche and tried to channel a wierd combination of her own mom, every other mom in the suburbs of Chicago in the 70's and whatever her uncle Leonard would have told her. She will happily volunteer for further acting jobs with Cecilia Dougherty, whom she adores and admires.

detail from " Foundation" - 1999	detail from "Freudian Slip " - 2000
detail from "Great Adventure " - 1999	detail from "Miniature Illinois " - 1998

MIKE IVESON has appeared in the work of many artists including DANCENOISE, Charles Atlas, Yvonne Meier, Mike Taylor, Chashama, and Sarah Michelson. He appears monthly as Nurse Vendetta "Asparagus" K Starr at PS 122's "The Lucy Show," where "Fuck Me Raw" first premiered. He has made music for a number of theater and dance productions in New York and is working on a CD: "I'm Special The Heat Is On Vol. I."

See Lucy Show clips and info online at:
http://community.webtv.net/lucyshow

What can I say? Mike is gorgeous, glamourous, genius, ga-ga, and a good person!

Jennifer Monson has been collaborating with composer Zeena Parkins on 3 works: "Atlas of Holes: Pitfall," "Dug/Out," and "Crater," performed at Galapagos, 70 N. 6th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn in January 2002. Way to go, Jennifer. You are beautiful.

Johanna Fateman is keyboardist for Le Tigre (for complete information on Le Tigre visit www.mrlady.com) and is a zine artist and sound artist. She also plays guitar excellently and has an absolute passion for sampling, mixing and creating statements and essays and poetry in sound. In between touring, Johanna works in her studio at home creating messages for the ear in a mode that bypasses the arty and the overly melodic, always eschewing the sentimental in favor of the brainy, the undiscovered, and the new.
Johanna has constructed a great set of sounds for GONE, working in her old 3rd sub-basement studio which she shared with a rather equipment heavy retro-seeming band whose name escapes me at the moment. Johanna's soundtrack goes from the painfully restrained and poetically full "Sad Song," which begins and end the tape, to some mono-dimensional cartoony outdoor sounds for the Central Park scene.

Listen to the sounds of Johanna with QuickTime

***SORRY! AUDIO CLIPS NOT YET LOADED. PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER THIS WEEK TO HEAR EXCELLENT BLENDS FROM JOHANNA. THANKS!***

1. The title of this piece is "??" - Play now!
2. The title of this piece is "Castles Burning" -Play now!

Each is about 4 minutes long.

Le Tigre Le Tigre is a great band composed of Johanna Fateman, Sadie Benning - on the first couple of CDs, and now it's the great JD who's workin' the guitar, and Kathleen Hanna on vocals. Their first CD, simply titled 'Le Tigre' establishes that politics, questioning authority, knowing where the beat comes from, and keeping an open attitude are a girl's best friend, and the wave of the future. A cut called 'My My Metrocard' from the inaugural CD provides the soundtrack for the third scene in GONE, an homage to the People of the City of New York. Check out their new EP, 'From the Desk of Mr. Lady,' which has some new brilliant songs about living in the 21rst Century.
Best site with complete Le Tigre information, FAQs and fav links.