Monday, April 30, 2018

Checklist by Fork Burke


Checklist

1 It is not future
2 Your body is a boat
3 1/2 hour in Rome
4 Exclusion is not possible
5 Never underestimate the power of glitter
6 Audience does not serve the magical application
7 Audience is a way to forget
8 What renders a vital component impotent
9 The audience is the enemy of the work
10 It assimilates the potential of the piece
11 This is so we cannot be healthy enough to endure the process of liberation
12 Corrupt African leaders
13 Article headings reflect your desire
14 You tell me the areas you overlooked by the words you use
15 Gimme Shelter
16 If you got no rhythm
17 Art confronts the separation
18 Yes but world domination is something else
19 romantic military
20 conditioned farmed trained
21 Because it`s from Asia
22 Best ideas come in bed
23 This is what people dedicate their lives to
24 To speak to you is to be silenced traveling dead roads
25 The morning mind
26 Waits is my inner soundtrack
27 The way my body moves here lessens my ability to learn from it
28 Serbia ok
29 What pussy knows
30 Until the body has nothing left to do kind of technology
31 It`s not about breastfeeding it`s about securing the meaning shift of natural across the board
32 Sell need as freedom
33 degrees

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Checklist by Fork Burke

Checklist

1 Paris as reference point
2 Unshockable
3 What became of the sameness
4 retail thearpy
5 No object will ever fully grasp another object
6 You really dodged a bullet with that one
7 What we gonna do with this failure
8 Less and less magical universe instruction
9 Mark E. Smith So there
10 Can you get a picture of me with it
11 Interior and Exterior are 50/50
12 Manners
13 What you believe at the moment of the experience
14 Surveillance was key to the shift
15 They got rid of everything they couldn`t pronounce
16 There is a limit to experimental writing if you want people to read it
17 But you continue to refer to yourself as white – so there`s that
18 Every example of where we are going is at the base African lead
19 The weapons are in the museum
20 This is not where it`s at
21 Shame is playback exposure to disapproval
22 Certain magical acts learn to be silent
23 The ultimate object
24 Distracted by inclusion in the vision of the enemy
25 To achieve complete freedom from past conditioning is to be in space
26 Blockchain hangover
27 The Poet should write poems
28 There never was
29 I`m sorry to tell you honey – We already met
30 I stand open before new worlds
31 Fb is an abandoned carnival
32 For there is only this
33 Degrees

Checklist

1 Ferries and Full Moons
2 Bright as Butter
3 Wild Baby`s Breath
4 The Seen and Unseen of us
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6 Elastic Imagination
7
8 We were prayed for
9  I made the whole thing up
10 you  dreaming me
11 inner voice travel
12 Through the old television
13 
14 
15 
16 The reason you disagree is what you believe in
17 yellow ways to think about it
18 idiot yes please
19 system  = outsider
20 Get some rest
21 Push harder  they`re pretending
22 Stop explaining after the second question
23 He never showed up
24 Because everything is plural
25 Genetic disk
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29 Where does the stamp go
30
31 By the time the image had taken hold
32 Reward
33 degrees

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Checklist

1 Being with you taught me how to be alone
2 You can`t say "It`s not that bad" and "I didn`t know"
3 Evil is focused
4 All is temporary with loss
5 The dog bites
6 The greater messengers died before you
7 The Arab slave trade
8 Can`t see what never hide
9 The circle of reason
10 Tears of butter
11 Sunlight steeped in hell awhile
12 Geographical limitations
13 Rate this translation
14 Artist has become a lifestyle limitation
15 Le beurre Bordier
16 I want 150 people to taste it
17 What canned sardines
18 The sun is an ingredient
19 Laurie Ann
20 Libre Service 1938
21 You inhabit two worlds
22 Dead dirt
23 We use to call it a long film
24 The devil ain`t got no music
25 Human Power is targeted
26 We don`t properly understand Let It Come Down
27 Why are you satisfied with your level of understanding that lead you to that conclusion
28 Media lead urgency
29 Confusion
30 Our vision for us
31 They tore the phone off the wall
32 Cut to the chase
33 degrees

Friday, November 3, 2017

6 November

https://kosmos.ch/programm/veranstaltungen/kosmopolitics-reclaim-anger-wut-als-feministische-kraft/103614

Kosmopolitics – Reclaim Anger. Wut als feministische Kraft

Mit dem Feministischen Salon

«Ich habe gelernt, meinen Ärger zu nutzen, ehe er meine Visionen verzehrt», schrieb die Schwarze Feministin Audre Lorde. Für sie war Wut visionär, Wut war politisch. Es ist an der Zeit, Wut wieder als eine feministische Kraft zu entdecken. Eine Kraft, die sich der Domestizierung von negativen Gefühlen widersetzt, die sich gegen die Betäubung des Denkens durch die Doktrin der guten Laune auflehnt, die den Sinn für Ungerechtigkeit und Verweigerung schärft. Eine Kraft, die das «Spiel» von Macht und Unterdrückung verdirbt. «Killjoy» ist ein Ausdruck für feministische Wut. Wir können nicht länger zulassen, dass unser Zorn vom Produktionsapparat abgeschöpft wird, im Nichts verpufft oder sich gegen uns selbst wendet. Wir dürfen uns nicht einlullen lassen von Karriereversprechen, Ich-Versautheit oder dem übernächsten angesagten Unsinn. Lasst uns Feminismus wieder mit Wut aufladen. Das allein ist noch nicht die Lösung, aber ein Anfang.» (Text vom feministischen Salon)

Der Abend ist eine Hommage an den Zorn – mit Lesungen, Poetry Slam und Musik von Filmemacherin/Musikerin Jamika Ajalon (Paris) und Sebastian Rotzler (Double Bass), den Spoken Word-Künstler*innen Fork Burke (Biel) und Meloe Gennai (Genf) und der feministischen Bloggerin/Aktivistin Franziska Schutzbach (Basel).

«Reclaim Anger» wurde erstmals 2016 in anderer Besetzung im Theater Neumarkt Zürich aufgeführt.

Türöffnung: 19.30 Uhr
Beginn: 20.00 Uhr
Eintritt frei, Kollekte

WEITERES DATUM MIT DEM FEMINISTISCHEN SALON
Montag, 11. Dezember 2017

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ÜBER DEN FEMINISTISCHEN SALON
Der feministische Salon veranstaltet intellektuelle, provokative, politische, lustige, radikale, affektive und nachdenkliche Abende zu queer_feministischen Themen. Im feministischen Salon gibt es Glitzer und Dreck, Weichheit und Härte, Negation und Affirmation, Wut und Care, Politik und Anti-Politik, Fiktion und Utopie, Solidarität und Kritik, Trash und schlechten Geschmack, Rausch und Depression, Analyse und Poesie. Und Prosecco und Bier. Hinter dem feministischen Salon stehen Franziska Schutzbach, Anelis Kaiser und Yvonne Apiyo Brändle-Amolo.
Mo. 06.11., 20.00 Uhr Forum

http://parislitup.com/event/fork-burke-poet-extraordinaire-accompanied-by-sebastian-rotzler-on-bass/

Thursday, October 5, 2017

A Word for a Play

Being pulled out of my language now speaking – witness translate I write – Our
Hands have never lied
Images hide a world – Images announce a world – describe what you see and go
Open up images – Do you see it – end of new eyes
What color is the black bird
Her name begins with the letter O or L and mine begins with me
not a sound – we haven`t created anything and lucky for leaks
That there is force between you and the crushing world is plenty
I want to remember what dreams are for – I don`t want to know what dreams mean
We will never be trained well enough like this
There will be no arrival – I am only speaking into you – Perhaps
the storyteller and the listener are the same – I write because I don`t know you at all
because outside agreements are a consideration I know I swore I`d never do it again
words create a simultaneous entry
The door is closed
The door is open
It began with a water drop – a drop of water
Textual kinship is good home training – It began with a text – translating yourselves to yourself
We are all in here
Can we choreograph my text – I don’t speak to say what I mean
I speak to our with that I may discover what I mean
What really needs to be said – we mustn`t quote each other anymore
Quotes are memory going deeper into where language shifts you
Write what happened to your body – where you went – not what was said
You were already there for so long – what opens us knows only the power of our organs
and collaboration and ears – I write to tell you I am here
that I will cut your fragments open your empty mouth ready


photo by Christelle Geiser

Thursday, September 28, 2017

8 October at 17h
Berekeley Books of Paris - 8 Rue Casimir Delavigne, 75006 Paris, France
With The Poets
Malik Ameer Crumpler
Jamika Ajalon
Bruce Edward Sherfield
and joining Fork Burke - Sebastian Rotzler


Sebastian Rotzler is a double-bass player, improviser and sound-creator. His work emphasizes experimental, improvised music with a strong attachment to composed aspects. His playing is inspired by associations, by developing sound patterns, but it can also outburst into sudden but still specific sound interventions.
Next to his own playing he initiated divers art- and music projects and plays together with different exponents of the improvised music-scene.
www.sebastianrotzler.ch