Drunken Boat Launch Party

Thursday, February 19th, 2004, 7:30 pm

Pete's Candy Store, 709 Lorimer Street (between Frost and Richardson Sts.) Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 11211 (718) 302-3770
Subway: L train to Lorimer St; G train to Metropolitan Ave.



Drunken Boat
, online journal for the arts, kicks off Issue#6 with a multimedia extravaganza, featuring poets Andrea Baker, Benjamin Gantcher, Brian Kim Stefans, and sound artists Latasha Natasha Diggs and Cary Peppermint.

Contact Ravi Shankar editor@drunkenboat.com or (860) 832-2766 for more details.

PERFORMERS:

Andrea Baker's work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Denver Quarterly, Fence, La Petite Zine, Lit, Vert, and Volt. She is Poetry Editor at 3rd Bed and lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and son.

Benjamin Gantcher's poems have appeared in several journals and magazines, including Archipelago, Slate and Tin House, and are forthcoming in Grand Street.

Brian Kim Stefans has published several books and chapbooks of poetry, most recently Jai-lai for Autocrats (poems, Portable Press) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos Books), a miscellany of interviews, poems and poetics. His essay on the political blog he created and co-edited called CircularsCirculars
is forthcoming in a book by MIT Press later this year. He runs arras.net, devoted to new media poetry and poetics.

Born and raised in Harlem, writer and vocalist, Latasha N. Diggs rigorously explores sound through macaronic verse, language and electronic vocal processing. Her literary works have been featured in many publications including Ego Trip, The Source, Urb, Vibe, Drum Voices Review, Black Music Review (Japan), Authentic Hair, Long Shot, and Bum Rush the Page, Everything But the Burden, and Black Belt. She is the author of two chap-books, Ichi-Ban: from the files of negríta muñeca linda and Ni-ban: Villa Misería and has just released an conceptual audio project simply called "Televisíon". She has been featured on recordings by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Burnt Sugar, Towa Tei, The Yohimbe Brothers, Billy Bass, Domenico Ferrari, Guillermo E. Brown, Mike Ladd w/ Viajy Iyer, and the compilation Eargasms: Crucial Poetics, Volume 1.

Cary Peppermint is a performance artist involved with immersive environments of convergent media. His work flows through organic and new media technologies, incorporating live performance, interactive installations, experimental music, and the internet. At the most basic level, Peppermint's works are concerned with mediation and the reduction of space and time. Peppermint's works comprise some of the first real-time, interactive performance art realized via the internet including "The Mashed Potato Supper" conceived in 1995 as part of Edinburgh's Fringe Film and Video Festival OE96 and "Conductor Number One" included in "PORT: Navigating Digital Culture" at MIT List Visual Arts Center in 1996. Peppermint lives in New York where he releases work through his performative online database of convergent media at http://www.restlessculture.net