#terri kapsalis

[artdocumentation]

 Sarah Thornton

Terri Kapsalis

Mark Booth

Okay to think and write all over the place

[cdlistening]

Corbett/Gustafsson/Kapsalis/Longberg-Holm, 'Battuto' (Random Acoustics)

Thursday, January 27, 2022, 7:57pm (full listen)

This album was a highly pleasant shock: I am a huge fan of John Corbett's writing, and his work as a reissue record label head has changed my life multiple times; I know that Terri Kapsalis is also a noted writer and (I think) JC's partner - so I know two renowned writers were involved here with two heavyweight improvisors with whom i am very familiar, but I really did not know what to expect, musically, from the former half of this equation. Well, I have to say, both JC and TK are both excellent players and improvisors, and if I'd not known any better (which I think would have been better ultimately), I would also have assumed that they are full-time dedicated musicians (especially TK, whose violin prowess is highly admirable) and not folks whose Google search results mentions nothing of their obvious musicality. Overall, this is a really solid album of European-style free improvising, with Mats Gustafsson sounding typically amazing (a blend of highly technical abstractions of Evan Parker, the emotional fury of Peter Brotzmann, and the turn-on-a-dime dynamic sense of a Han Bennink/Derek Bailey duet) and the oft-understated Fred Lonberg-Holm sliding into the crevices as ably as ever.

[herstoricalpsycollection]

Witches

1) Fanciful representation of the Salem witch trials, lithograph from 1892, Baker, Joseph E. 2) “Look Into This Glass” illustration of Tituba by John W Ehninger published in Poetical Works of Longfellow circa 1902 3) Transcript of examination of Tituba 1692

In late February of 1692, Reverend Samuel Parris’s children were diagnosed as victims of witchcraft, setting off an outbreak of panic and hysteria, which would sweep throughout Salem Village and its neighboring towns that year. Historians have long pointed the collective finger of blame at Parris’ slave, Tituba, one of the first woman accused of witchcraft. Tituba’s racial heritage appears in historical texts variously as “Negro,” “colored,” or “half-Indian, half-Negro.” Tituba’s examination during the trials is bizarre, however, rather than trying to find a logical explanation for it, the judges branded her a witch and executed her. Since there was little to no awareness of mental health in the 17th century colonial Massachusetts, finding supernatural explanations was easy for the townspeople especially because the accused was a black slave. Black women were already thought of being inferior and sometimes inherently evil.

The Salem witch trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, almost all of them women. Men suffered from mental health issues too, but men were practically never persecuted for odd behaviors. Calling women witches started before the Salem trials in Europe and different parts of colonial America and continues till today.

Many historians argue that witch epidemic started because male doctors were intimidated by the increasing number of women healers and midwives and accused those women of being witches.

Whenever women dared to come out of their socially prescribed roles and threatened the patriarchy, branding them as witches gave people the power to control rebellious women.

Terri Kapsalis. “Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History.” Literary Hub, 12 May 2017, lithub.com/hysteria-witches-and-the-wandering-uterus-a-brief-history/.

Craker, Wendel D. "Spectral Evidence, Non-Spectral Acts of Witchcraft, and Confession at Salem in 1692". The Historical Journal. 1997. p 40: 332.

Virginia.edu Salem witch trials (archives), etext.virginia.edu; accessed December 3, 2018.

[mycatisanalien]

MY CAT IS AN ALIEN contribute to the first book entirely focused on THURSTON MOORE:

“Thurston Moore - We Sing A New Language” by NICK SOULSBY Omnibus Press (UK/ USA) OUT MARCH 13, 2017

From author Nick Soulsby: For “We Sing A New Language: The Oral Discography Of Thurston Moore”, I wanted to use the experiences and perspectives of the people who have played on the numerous records he’s featured on outside of Sonic Youth, to paint a picture of his development and his interests in music across the years. It’s notable how much of his energies, very early on, were on gaining this wider experience while – since the mid-Nineties – there’s a veritable explosion of effort devoted to other scenes which then feeds back into Sonic Youth in the form of the SYR records, releases with Mats Gustafsson, the presence of Borbetomagus on the Murray Street album, their choices of support acts when touring. There’s even a specific character to Moore’s efforts during Sonic Youth’s peak of commercial success in the early-to-mid-Nineties with Moore evangelising and paying tribute to the underground bands who he felt was important – so much of that era is spend on covers and tributes. It’s that kind of pattern that speaking to the people involved was able to tease out.

The book includes a comprehensive Contributors section in which each of the 170 people involved summarises their personal creative urges and expressions – the hope being that it gives the reader a sense of who they’re speaking to and a starting point for further exploration. Frankly, if you enjoy the work of Thurston Moore then there are a lot of people in here worth finding!

In first name alphabetical order:

Aaron Dilloway, Adam Golebiewski, Adam Kriney, Alan Bloor, Alan Licht, Alan Read (Krayon Recordings), Alex Ward, Amanda Kramer, Ambrose Bye (Fast Speaking Music), Andrew Clare, Andrew Kesin, Andrew MacGregor, Andrya Ambro, Andy Moor, Anne Waldman, Anne-James Chaton

Balazs Pandi, Benoit Bel (Mikrokosm Studios), Benoît Bourreau (Film Maker), Bill Nace, Brett Robinson, Brian Kinsman (Deathbomb Arc), Britt Brown, Bryn Harris, Byron Coley, Byron Westbrook

Campbell Kneale, Carlos Giffoni, Carlos van Hijfte (Tour Manager), Chris Corsano, Chris Gollon (artist), Chris Pottinger, Christian Marclay, Colin Langenus, Cory Rayborn (Three Lobed Recordings), Cris Deison, Cristiano Nunes (ZDB Venue)

Dagobert Sondervan, Daniel Sandor (Producer), Dave Keay, David Markey, David Newgarden (Manager to Yoko Ono), David S. Blanco (Blank Editions), Deb Goodge, DJ Spooky, Don Dietrich, Don Fleming. Dylan Nyoukis

Evan Parker, Frank Rosaly, Frans de Waard, Gene Moore, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Glenn Branca, Greg Vegas, Hal Rammel, Hanin Elias, Heath Moerland (Fag Tapes)

J.D. King, Jim Thirlwell, Jack Rabid, James Nares (Artist), James Sedward, James Toth, Jane Scarpantoni, Jean-Marc Montera, Jef Whitehead, Jeff Hartford (Bonescraper Recordings), Jeremy Miller, Jim Dunbar, Jim Sauter, Jim Sclavunos, Joe McPhee, Joe Tunis (Carbon Recordings), Johannes Buff (Mikrokosm), John Clement, John Corbett, John Howard, John Moloney, John Olson, John Russell, John Tye (Lo Recordings), John Wiese, Jon Forss (Lo Recordings), Josh Baer (White Columns), Justin Pizzoferrato (Sonelab)

Karl Hofstetter (Joyful Noise), Keith Wood, Kevin Crump (Wintage), Kim Rancourt, Kommissar Hjuler

Lasse Marhaug, Lea Cummings, Lee Ranaldo, Leslie Keffer, Lin Culbertson, Loren Connors, Lydia Lunch

Mani Mazinani, Manuel Mota, Marc Urselli, Marco Cazzella (My Dance The King), Marco Fusinato, Margarida Garcia, Martin Bisi (Producer), Massimo Pupillo, Mat Rademan (Breathmint), Mats Gustafsson, Matthew Saint-Germain (Freedom From), Maurizio Opalio (My Cat is an Alien), Michael Chapman, Michael Gira, Mike Gangloff, Mykel Board

Nathaniel Howdeshell (Fast Weapons), Neill Jameson, Nels Cline, Nolan Green, Pascal Hector, Patrick Best, Paul Flaherty, Paul Smith (Blast First), Pete Nolan, Phil Blankenship (Troniks), Phil X. Milstein

Rafael Toral, Rat Bastard, Rhys Chatham, Richard Hell, Richard Kern (Film Maker), Rob Hayler, Robert Meijer (En/Of), Robert Poss, Roberto Opalio (My Cat is an Alien), Ron Lessard (RRRecords)

Samara Lubelski, Sanford Parker, Sarah Register, Sérgio Hydalgo (ZDB), Shayna Dulberger, Sonny Vincent, Stavros Giannopoulos, Steve Lowenthal (Vin Du Select Qualitite), Stuart Braithwaite, Susan Stenger

T. Mortigan (Destructive Industries), Terri Kapsalis, The New Blockaders, Thurston Moore, Tim Foljahn, Tom Moore, Tom Smith, Tom Surgal, Toshi Makihara, Trumans Water

Venec Miller, Vice Cooler, Virginia Genta, Wally Shoup, Walter Prati, Warren Defever, Wharton Tiers, William Hooker, William Winant, Yoko Ono

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NICK SOULSBY: https://nirvana-legacy.com/

OMNIBUS PRESS: http://www.omnibuspress.com/Product.aspx?ProductId=1127389

[bharnetty]

Article Published in SoundEffects Journal

I wrote an article for SoundEffects: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Sound and Sound Experience on the Sun Ra/El Saturn Collection, and the Experimental Sound Studio commissions to reinterpret the archival recordings. Many thanks to ESS, Lou Mallozzi, Cauleen Smith, Todd Carter, Damon Locks, and Terri Kapsalis. For fans of: Sun Ra, archival performances, archival homophones, ways of listening, archival authorship, and embodied archives.

Also: here’s a great quote from Amiri Baraka on Sun Ra’s wordplay: “Ra taught that a word is not only an idea, but a sound. It has force and power...and its many meanings manifest at once." Find the article here.

[instapicsil1]

WEDNESDAY—An Unfurling: People in This Town! . Explore the vital role our city plays in American creativity and the ways artists participate in the struggle for civil rights — with special guest speakers and artists Ayana Contreras, John Corbett, Terri Kapsalis, Tracy Drake, Zakkiyyah Najeebah, Nicole Marroquin and John Murphy. Free! . Join us 6:00–8:00 on the 3rd Floor of Harold Washington Library (400 South State Street). . Presented with #OneBookOneChicago, @chicagopubliclibrary, and @wbezchicago 91.5. https://ift.tt/2vDpFYB

[instatrack]

WEDNESDAY—An Unfurling: People in This Town! . Explore the vital role our city plays in American creativity and the ways artists participate in the struggle for civil rights — with special guest speakers and artists Ayana Contreras, John Corbett, Terri Kapsalis, Tracy Drake, Zakkiyyah Najeebah, Nicole Marroquin and John Murphy. Free! . Join us 6:00–8:00 on the 3rd Floor of Harold Washington Library (400 South State Street). . Presented with #OneBookOneChicago, @chicagopubliclibrary, and @wbezchicago 91.5. https://ift.tt/2vDpFYB

[deepartnature]

Pathways to Unknown Worlds : Sun Ra, El Saturn & Chicago’s Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-1968

Installation view, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago

"Curated by John Corbett, Anthony Elms, and Terri Kapsalis, and opening at the Hyde Park Art Center in October 2006 (5020 S. Cornell Avenue Chicago), this unique exhibition showcases a diverse, brilliant, provocative and by-and-large never seen range of materials related to pianist, bandleader, mystic, philosopher and Afro-Futurist Sun Ra. Most of these materials come from Ra’s tenure in Chicago (and the period directly thereafter, where from New York he maintained close contact with his Chicago colleagues), especially during mid-50s when he and his business partner and fellow mystic Alton Abraham – together with a small secret fraternal organization that has remained heretofore but a shadowy part of Ra’s early years – built a network of cryptic associations, amassed a huge library of books on the occult, magic, Egyptology, race studies, Theosophy, philosophy and religion, and began constructing the mythology and public persona that was presented to a crossover audience later in the ’60s in the form of Sun Ra’s Myth-Science Arkestra. ..."

Corbett vs. Dempsey (Video)

[PDF] Performing the Past to Claim the Future: Sun Ra and the Afro-Future Underground, 1954-1968

NY Times: Beamed From Tomorrow By HOLLAND COTTER

Patrick Sisson

Sun Ra: Myth, Science, and Science Fiction.

Sun Ra, at the piano, with his Arkestra in 1960.

[dsw2]

HYSTERIA, WITCHES, AND THE WANDERING UTERUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OR, WHY I TEACH "THE YELLOW WALLPAPER"

HYSTERIA, WITCHES, AND THE WANDERING UTERUS: A BRIEF HISTORY OR, WHY I TEACH “THE YELLOW WALLPAPER”

  by Terri Kapsalis

I teach “The Yellow Wallpaper” because I believe it can save people. That is one reason. There are more. I have taught Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1891 story for nearly two decades and this past fall was no different. Then again, this past fall was entirely different.

In our undergraduate seminar at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, we discussed “The Yellow…

[sswslitinmotion]

(via Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History)

Fascinating long-form piece “Hysteria, Witches, and The Wandering Uterus: A Brief History Or, Why I Teach ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’” by Terri Kapsalis over at Lit Hub.  I haven’t read Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s story, “The Yellow Wallpaper” in years, but Kapsalis’ piece reminded me of how women were under duress just for being women - and how the human condition cannot be defined by men for men.  Kapsalis’ piece is worth reading. – ssw15

[visualandcritical]

[halfletterpress]

Traveling the Spaceways: Sun-Ra - The Astro Black and Other Solar Myths

The third volume in WhiteWalls' series devoted to the endlessly rich life and ideas of Sun-Ra (all three books are available from Half Letter Press). In addition to another batch of reproductions of great archival discoveries, this book has an all star cast of contributing artists and thinkers.

From the back cover:

This compilation of writings on and around Sun Ra's myths, incluences and methods is assembled primarily from presentations made during "Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, The Afro-Black and Other Solar Myths, a two-day symposium at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, in November, 2006.

Essays and texts by Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Robert L. Campbell, Phil T. Cohran, John Corbett, Anthony Elms, Karl Erickson, Calvin Forbes, Malik Gaines, Terri Kapsalis, Glenn Ligon, Graham Lock, Victor Margolin, Kerry James Marshall, and Kevin Whitehead are accompanied by images of Sun Ra and El Saturn related materials and ephemera, as well as work by Tim Kerr, Dave Muller, and travis.

More on this and the other two Sun-Ra books from WhiteWalls here.

[visualandcritical]

[visualandcritical]

Artist and scholar Terri Kapsalis is part-time faculty and current chair of the Visual & Critical Studies department.