Dayton Ohio US Monthly Poetry News

Updated monthly. Poetry and Performance Art news from the Midwest. Links to Midwest Industrial Culture Poetry Sites. Jack's Coffee House containing video of live poetry readings. This is the seventh year on the Internet for the Poetry News page. Probably the longest running ( updated weekly - now monthly) poetry page on the net....Edited by Jack Bowman.....

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August 2009

PERFORMANCE ART "THE MUSICAL" A performance art piece that was made (similar) to a musical. It was performed in May of 2009 in Dayton Ohio. It is based on shape note music and Sacred Harp singing. There are many links associated with the performance page that allows you to fully understand how it was done. Five video links of the performance and method on YouTube.

http://www.performanceart2.com/sacred/directionslong.htm

DAYTON POETS yahoo message interactive site. Home of Dayton's longest running Internet Poetry Group (Our tenth year)

To join the Daytonpoets site go to this address http://groups.yahoo.com/group/daytonpoets/ There should be a "join this group" in the upper right corner of the page NOTE: This site is open to all. (all new members will be approved) Messages from new members will be moderated for some time.

Brief History of Industrial Culture Poetry 1965 to 1995 go to this site http://www.jacksartcircus.com/index.html "... creative ones saw that paradise was lost and tried to regain it by distributing, through their poetry, the flaws of industrialism."

A DIVERSE PERFORMANCE ART PIECE; Alice and the Red Queen in the Garden of Random Delights. This piece was created to explore the multiple possibilities of one Performance Art Concept. It includes a stage performance, with audience interaction, a board game that Internet users can play, an environmental theater piece and a math mystery from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. http://www.randomdelights.com/index.html The stage performance was done in May of 2008.

NEW FEBRUARY 2008 SMALL WORKS FOR SALE: Over the years I have collected a vast amount of personal art. Even though I did sell art through Galleries there is a lot of time involved in doing so. Therefore, I quit selling it about ten years ago so I could dedicate more time to my performance art. Due to shipping difficulties the Internet is only friendly to small works. Therefore I have put up a number of my small works. The ETSY gallery is located here http://www.jackbowman.etsy.com My own Gallery is located here http://www.performanceart2.com/smallworks/ I will also frequently list them on Ebay. All the works are less than half the price they were in 1995. Considering inflation they are very inexpensive. - Jack Bowman

New (December 2007) essay that compares pre-Nazi Berlin performance to Contemporary Dayton Ohio Performance. Contains still pictures and video links. http://www.retropunkx.com/daytonberlin.htm

Dayton Ohio Participated in the 24 Hour Comic Day on Oct 19, 20 of 2007. Here is my contribution THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUPER-ORGANISM

Dayton Ohio's Major Performance art event of the year was a success. September 14, 15, 2007. The second "SIDESHOW" with visual art, performance art and music. At the Cannery Arts & Design Center, 520 E. Third St. More than 50 artists and musicians. http://www.daytoncircus.org The event was free and open to the public. Here are video's of two of the performances Siren of the Odyssey and Dr. Jack and Captain3 and the AEther Orchestra

SHAPE OF TIME site has been posted. This is a site that explains time as a shape instead of an abstraction. Included is a link to creation notes. http://www.retropunkx.com/timeshape.htm This in included as part of the RETRO PUNK X - Chapter 7.

EVOLUTION BIBLE: Philosophical Environmental Theater site that needs participants. Based on Evolution. UPDATED JULY 2007 CLICK on icon at left. Participants would spread the word of Evolution. It is written with no reference to contemporary religions. It is not satanic nor pagan. It is based on the consideration of man as an evolved species that is shorted in his life by contemporary civilization. It offers another way of life for the species. http://www.evolutionbible.com/ This is currently (as of July 2007) being developed into a public performance. If you want to participate join the Yahoo group on the page. Or write Jack Bowman at mailto:dapoets@bright.net

Out Out Brief Candle; The most complex and theatrical of my (Jack Bowman) performances. Contained simultaneous performances. Involved six performers. Requires two Rats. Involves suicide/democracy/Jim Jones/Hitler. Good script/excellent video. Actually performed in a theater (Cleveland Public Theater). Performed April 9, 1994. Still mentioned in reviews two years later. From the Cleveland Free Times, August 7, 1996, page 19. "and that wild and crazy tension monger Jack Bowman and Rituals (remember the chicken decapitating? the rats?) will certainly rev up the evening"

A complete video of this performance is posted at http://www.creativityfacts.com/outout/index.html This site is in progress as of July 2007. This performance was the most complex of my performances until the http://www.retropunkx.com/index.html that was created twelve years later. Even though this performance was "Performance Art" I saw that it was too theatrical and wanted to explore other possibilities.

Related sites; "Jim Jones memorabilia" http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/jimjones.htm "defines the swastika an "icon of evil http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/evilicon.htm

MILLENNIUM'S END RITUAL This is short, about five minutes. Contains no words. Involves two performers. One female must be nude. Performed July 27, 1993, October 8, 1993 and April 8, 1994. This site is posted as of June 2007. It contains the video from April 8, 1994 performance and the still photo's and text from the original July 27, 1993 performance. It also contains the Performance Manifesto as well as a link to Chapter 8 of the Retro Punk X performance. http://www.retropunkx.com/ritual.htm This site will give you a thorough understanding of this piece as well as a better understanding of all my performances. I decided to post this performance because it is relevant to the Retro Punk X piece that is currently in progress. There is a link from it to Chapter 8 of the Retro Punk X performance.

Meta Creative Magazine is a 46 page Internet Magazine with art, stories, and essays. THE ARTISTS PLIGHT IN A CIVILIZED WORLD is about Creativity and Performance art (on page 33), a quote, "Performance Art becomes the high art of our time. This is because it contains so many elements from the environment. These are things such as taste, smell, sound, real space, time, humans, history, religions, and governments." It is located here; http://www.mystikka.com/may_june_2007.pdf

Retro Punk X This is a defining performance art piece for Environmental Theater. For a definition of Environmental Theater and (three formats - including YouTube) links of the Marxists Rally for Kucinich that was performed in the Oregon District in downtown Dayton Ohio May 19th, 2007. Go to this site http://www.retropunkx.com/environmental.htm

The Performance art site that explains the performance/environmental theater is located here http://www.retropunkx.com/ It is an elaborate piece about the struggle between the Artist and the Super Organism. Many parts are (as of the end of May) completed including the BlooMeUp Moe girl and her bubble gum collection. The Enticer girls are also complete. Both of these contain short video clips in different formats. They can be accessed in these different formats which include YouTube. The performance is divided into Chapters with many pages of text and links to other text and videos.

CREATIVITY FACTS http://www.creativityfacts.com/ is a site that will appeal to painters, conceptual artists, and High School and College students. Some of it was taken from a cluttered with adv. free site but they are all cleaned up and now easy to read. There is also much new information.

The Red Queen This is the Perfect Performance Art Piece because it involves combined multiple performances. It includes "Fred", the invisible performer. He is the Internet site that contains all the information, including video and still photographs. Any of the performances can stand alone or be combined in any manner to make a complete performance. This works because it is based on Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" Alice in the Garden of Live Flowers. This gives them all a common root. Index for the performances, video, still photos, "Fred's" stand alone part, creative records and alternate performance www.RedQueenPrinciple.com Performed 28 October 2006 in Dayton Ohio. Follow the links to get the full effect. If all the pages of this performance are printed out it will be more than 30 pages. The video is about 5 minutes long.

Performance Art and Film List from 1992 to 2006 http://www.performanceart2.com/ Contains links to various performance art and film sites.

In 2002 and 2003 I made a DATV (Dayton Access Television) show called Polly's Performance Art Show. Only one episode was completed. However, there was more video. Here are two of Polly's interviews. One with Mark The Marxist and one with Ellie the Alien. ...........Jack Bowman

POLLY'S INTERVIEWS

Mr. Hitlers Neighborhood performed at the Oregon Express on April 24th. To see video go here VIDEO

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Performance Art Organizers in Dayton Ohio area

Here are the internet addresses for the most active ongoing promoters.

KiddteeHello "Say Hello To Art" GROUP SITE http://groups.myspace.com/Hellotoart

KiddteeHello's personal site http://www.myspace.com/kidteehello

Mary Kathryn "Sarasvati Productions" http://www.myspace.com/sarasvatiproductions

Bill Cunningham Bill Cunningham Promotions

For a current list of shows that involve Performance Art or Performance Poetry go to the Industrial Culture Performance Artists group site http://groups.myspace.com/industrialperformance

Dayton's major Performance Art Festival is scheduled for October 2006. Go to their web page for details. http://www.liveartnetwork.com/

CULT OF ALBINOS

Carrie Osborne has done several performances with me. She has illustrations for the story "Cult of Albinos in Miamisburg Ohio" at Cult of Albinos
"I (Carrie) imagined that if there was this so-called cult of albinos that lived in Miamisburg, the members were probably mistreated so badly that the only time they could freely move around the town would be the wee hours of the morning and also the light wouldn't be as harsh so as not to hurt their sensitive eyes."
.....................jack

THE HOLY GRAIL OF PERFORMANCE ART

This site is the Holy Grail of Performance Art. It was performed at the "Pearl" in Dayton Ohio on March 12, 2006. It has all the positive attributes of Performance Art. It has mind manipulation, entertainment, deceit, poetry, unplanned audience interaction, audience participation. It is dance. It is time Art (time is a very important intentional aspect of the performance). It is a future predictor. A Prophet.

NOTE: The site is in progress and will contain much more. Currently it contains a real media video of the performance. The resolution is poor because it was transferred to real media format (requires a free real player) so it will not take up so much net space. It is the "Hell's Bullet" performance art piece.

Hell's Bullet Performance

NOTE: The video located above seems very slow to load. A faster loading one (that probably doesn't require a real player) is located here Rock Me Armageddon

WORLD WIDE PERFORMANCE ART OPPORTUNITY

Draw giant triangles across the earth

THE GREAT TRIANGLE PROJECT

WORLD WIDE PERFORMANCE ART OPPORTUNITY

SEARCH FOR TIME TRAVELERS.

Performers are invited to participate in Chicken Little raids in a search for time travelers. Local (Dayton Ohio Area) conducted three raids. Places raided were the Therapy Cafe, Dayton, Oregon Express, Dayton and Leaf and Vine, Troy. For information and documentation go to http://www.timerebel.com or http://www.24sevenmovie.com/time/summary.htm This is now an open performance and Individuals are encouraged to conduct their own raids and they will then be posted on the net.

NEW AUDIO POEMS are located at http://www.myspace.com/rockmearmageddon

Write scripts for your own Internet movies, puppet shows, performance art pieces or just documentaries? This new site shows you how. Included are examples of a Cliffhanger Movie, A Puppet Show and a Performance Art piece documentary. http://capjacks.com/netwrite/index.html Also includes method of producing them and getting them on the Internet.

Puppet Shows are the current rage. To see an Internet Puppet Show (complete on the Internet - done in Real Player format) go here http://www.capjacks.com/index.html This is a marionette show and not the simple sock or hand puppets.

Avant-garde poem "GOD FAILED" (March 2004) http://www.jacksartcircus.com/matrix/matrixpg1.htm

NEW FOR 2004 Poetry and Education http://www.24sevenmovie.com/pchick/education/poetedu.htm

POETRY TO SCARE LITTLE CHILDREN is located on the Poetry Chick site http://www.24sevenmovie.com/pchick/scareindex.htm In mp3 format as well as text. NEW Avant-garde poetry definition http://www.capjacks.com/avant/index.htm

Poetry from "The Communist Cafe" an environmental theater, performance art piece. New performance September 2005 located here: http://www.jacksartcircus.com/cafe/perf205.htm IN PROGRESS (looking for performers) (LOOKING FOR POETS) http://www.jacksartcircus.com/cafe/index.html

Brief History of Industrial Culture Performance Art 1980 to 2007. This site also contains the Manifesto of the Industrial Culture Performance Artists and a link to join the MySpace group. http://www.24sevenmovie.com/industrial/index.htm

NEW IN PROGRESS PERFORMANCE SITE http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/DATV/ This site contains the script and other information concerning a Dayton Access TV series that is in progress. It also contains script etc. of an indie purist internet film that is in progress. The film is a four part Cliffhanger titled "Quantum Girl vs The Son of Mad Blaster and his sidekick "Santa's Little Helper".

THE QUANTUM GIRL CLIFFHANGER HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND IS AVAILABLE HERE.,

A short Performance Art piece "Dance with Hitler" is located at
http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/bash/dwhitler.htm
The opening line; "July 4th 2002 Terrorists have hit America's Heartland. While the populace celebrated their righteousness and wealth as part of their Independence Day celebration, a nuclear bomb eliminated the city of Dayton Ohio in an attack on Wright Patterson Air Force Base. " Contains text, still photos, film, and animation. Link back to the index page for more performance art and performance poetry at their best.

DAYTON OHIO AND AREA PEACE SITE http://www.warkills.com

NEW Internet Comic (in comic book form) written by Jack Bowman and illustrated by JeanPaul Manzanares. The first episode of Quantum Girl in Quantum Girl Meets The Bush Man, G. W. Bush that is. http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/quantum/origin.htm

DAYTON POETRY SCENE (2005)

Poetry events come and go and are usually at coffee houses and bars. A consistent schedule is not available.

Time Rebel poetry group formed

For pic's of a reading and index to manifesto go to http://www.performanceart2.com/bowman/neo/

POETRY SITE 'KILL THE RICH' with poets Eddie Harless, Lincoln Schreiber, Jessica Broughton, JeanPaul Manzanares, Jack Bowman, Beth Colvin, Matt Stumbo, Rob Avery..... http://www.killtherich.org

THE SECOND ANNUAL REGIONAL ERROR WORSHIP CONFERENCE Still Photos of Racheal Cook, Leigh Waltz, Izan Knarf, Holly Price, Mark Gunderson from the Second Annual Regional Error Worship Conference of 14 June 2002, in Cincinnati Ohio at the SSNova. PHOTOS

"A Midsummer Night's Dream" as presented at the ErrorWorship Conference with Dancing Hitler doll, Script and other links. http://www.bright.net/~dapoets/midsummer/index.htm

For an example of non post modern poetry go to QUANTUM POETRY

DEFINITION OF INDUSTRIAL CULTURE POETRY AND CALL FOR ENTRIES