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Dear friends,
It's that time of year again... time for raising money.
This spring, my campaign is on behalf of Eigenvalues, my text-sound project with Cameron McPhee.
We have just received a small grant from the Puffin Foundation to launch a new project. We have a few other proposals pending - but even if we get one of those, we're going to need a little more dough to get this done. Some additional details and links to give online, etc. are available here:
http://improvarts.alkem.org/cclub08spring.html
For general info about Eigenvalues, see:
http://www.myspace.com/eigenvalues
I hope you don't mind this intrusion / solicitation, and I hope you are doing well. I'd be delighted to chat with you. Give me a call and I can tell you more about the project, or we can just shoot the breeze ;-)
(I'll be traveling and offline starting Monday... through May 3rd - but I'll be in the car all day on Sunday - call anytime!)
301-785-0884
-Jon
P.S. I'll be on tour playing guitar with Joe Lally in May. We'll be in the midwest, and then the northeast US - for those of you not in DC, this might be a good chance to actually visit in person! Our tour dates are posted here:
http://joelally.com/
P.P.S. I'll paste our Eigenvalues "project description" below, so if you're interested you can get the whole spiel about the new project.
It's that time of year again... time for raising money.
This spring, my campaign is on behalf of Eigenvalues, my text-sound project with Cameron McPhee.
We have just received a small grant from the Puffin Foundation to launch a new project. We have a few other proposals pending - but even if we get one of those, we're going to need a little more dough to get this done. Some additional details and links to give online, etc. are available here:
http://improvarts.alkem.org/cclub08spring.html
For general info about Eigenvalues, see:
http://www.myspace.com/eigenvalues
I hope you don't mind this intrusion / solicitation, and I hope you are doing well. I'd be delighted to chat with you. Give me a call and I can tell you more about the project, or we can just shoot the breeze ;-)
(I'll be traveling and offline starting Monday... through May 3rd - but I'll be in the car all day on Sunday - call anytime!)
301-785-0884
-Jon
P.S. I'll be on tour playing guitar with Joe Lally in May. We'll be in the midwest, and then the northeast US - for those of you not in DC, this might be a good chance to actually visit in person! Our tour dates are posted here:
http://joelally.com/
P.P.S. I'll paste our Eigenvalues "project description" below, so if you're interested you can get the whole spiel about the new project.
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Deaf Justice: Dissenting Opinions from the Supreme Court's Most Tragic Moments
History has shown that ideals such as truth and justice are difficult to practice in the realm of government. The history of the United States is ripe with examples of our judicial system acting to protect wealth and property interests over individual rights guaranteed by the constitution. In practice, the judiciary is unable to escape the political arena, and is heavily influenced by many aspects of the surrounding culture.
Our goal is to create a text-based performance piece that examines pivotal moments in history when egregious injustices were upheld by the Supreme Court. In each of these cases, the justices were divided, and the minority opinions contain wisdom and guidance that, unfortunately, went unheeded at the time. By examining these dissenting opinions, we hope to create a piece of art that can shed some light on what could have been, as well as what we can aspire to in the future.
These historic voices of dissent provide a vast body of work which we will investigate on many levels as we write and compose this new piece. We are not legal scholars, and do not pretend to be. We are artists deeply interested in language. We are especially concerned with the intersection of language and culture. Probing this rich material we hope to find exceptional and powerful language in the midst of highly charged cultural dilemmas.
We have experience creating performance pieces using found texts, and this project will be informed by that experience. However, this project poses new challenges, considering the highly specialized language and culture of the legal system. Finding poetics in dense legal language will likely be difficult, but the charged context of this material will surely lend itself to a powerful new work.
The pivotal and problematic decisions we intend to investigate include:
Bush v. Gore (2000, “equal protection” used to justify not counting votes)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896, upholding racial segregation by the doctrine of “separate but equal”)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856, Denied constitutional rights to African-Americans, and denied congress the ability to prohibit slavery in federal territories)
Korematsu v. United States (1944, Internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986, upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1902, granted congressional power over Indian affairs, virtually exempt from judicial oversight, reversing earlier precedent that emphasized tribal sovereignty)
Coppage v. Kansas (1915) and/or Adair v. United States (1908, allowed employers to use contracts that forbid employees from joining unions)
The piece that will be produced will exist in several forms. Phase one of the project will result in a spoken-word / text based performance piece, as well as an audio recording. After this has been completed, we hope to move on to phase two: a collaboration with film / video artists to produce a short film version of the piece.
Deaf Justice: Dissenting Opinions from the Supreme Court's Most Tragic Moments
History has shown that ideals such as truth and justice are difficult to practice in the realm of government. The history of the United States is ripe with examples of our judicial system acting to protect wealth and property interests over individual rights guaranteed by the constitution. In practice, the judiciary is unable to escape the political arena, and is heavily influenced by many aspects of the surrounding culture.
Our goal is to create a text-based performance piece that examines pivotal moments in history when egregious injustices were upheld by the Supreme Court. In each of these cases, the justices were divided, and the minority opinions contain wisdom and guidance that, unfortunately, went unheeded at the time. By examining these dissenting opinions, we hope to create a piece of art that can shed some light on what could have been, as well as what we can aspire to in the future.
These historic voices of dissent provide a vast body of work which we will investigate on many levels as we write and compose this new piece. We are not legal scholars, and do not pretend to be. We are artists deeply interested in language. We are especially concerned with the intersection of language and culture. Probing this rich material we hope to find exceptional and powerful language in the midst of highly charged cultural dilemmas.
We have experience creating performance pieces using found texts, and this project will be informed by that experience. However, this project poses new challenges, considering the highly specialized language and culture of the legal system. Finding poetics in dense legal language will likely be difficult, but the charged context of this material will surely lend itself to a powerful new work.
The pivotal and problematic decisions we intend to investigate include:
Bush v. Gore (2000, “equal protection” used to justify not counting votes)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896, upholding racial segregation by the doctrine of “separate but equal”)
Dred Scott v. Sandford (1856, Denied constitutional rights to African-Americans, and denied congress the ability to prohibit slavery in federal territories)
Korematsu v. United States (1944, Internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional)
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986, upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults)
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1902, granted congressional power over Indian affairs, virtually exempt from judicial oversight, reversing earlier precedent that emphasized tribal sovereignty)
Coppage v. Kansas (1915) and/or Adair v. United States (1908, allowed employers to use contracts that forbid employees from joining unions)
The piece that will be produced will exist in several forms. Phase one of the project will result in a spoken-word / text based performance piece, as well as an audio recording. After this has been completed, we hope to move on to phase two: a collaboration with film / video artists to produce a short film version of the piece.
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