Praxinscope PerformX No. 3 - Book Launch
Poetic Research Bureau on March 21, 2023 for our Book Launch!
Praxinoscope: Hours of the Day | PerformX Documents No. 3 | Book Launch | March 21, 2023 at 7:30 PM
Poetic Research Bureau | 2220 Arts + Archives | 2220 Beverly Blvd | Los Angeles, CA 90057
Please join IG: @PraxinoscopeX for an evening of words and sounds offered by artists celebrating the launch of Hours of the Day: PerformX Documents No. 3, the new 180-page print collection of poems, scripts, scraps, song lyrics, sketches, and photos from a single-day exhibition presented last Fall at Poetic Research Bureau.
Live performances in celebration of the PerformX No. 3 book lauch:
Sounds by Cato Gilmour, Nikki Ochoa, Dave Holguin, Nina Sarnelle, Mystic Elevator, and Darow.
Words by Sabrina O’Reilly, Jason Rodriguez, Karolina Lavergne, Jessica Dillon, and Kierunya Davis.
This latest largest bestest print collection documents the third edition of the four quarterly exhibitions mounted in 2022 — presenting live, interdisciplinary, group performances.
Each Praxinoscope PerformX has featured a selection of 12 + artists who each responded separately to a changing central theme. Curated by DA Denckla with assistance from Matthew Bussa.
Instagram : @PraxinscopeX @DerekDenckla @im.ready_to.be_a.dad @XHolguitano_el_real_latiniti @mystic_elevator @sabrinaoreilly @bodyspill @karo.________ @cato_gilmour @ninasarnelle @VOMITCHILD @freefloppydisk @cato_gilmour @darowsings
Praxinoscope PerformX No. 2
“Signs of the Zodiac” is available for sale online.
This book (published 10.12.2022) is an anthology of artworks and a compilation of performance documentation including poetry, lyrics, scripts, essays, fiction, and artist's commentary arising from a group exhibition: Praxinoscope: Signs of the Zodiac, performed June 12, 2022 at 1642 Bar in Los Angeles, California, United States.
113 Pages, Black & White.
Edited and designed by: Derek Denckla, Co-edited by: Matthew Bussa, By (author): Iris de Anda, By (author): Jeanetta Rich, By (author): Ellington Wells, By (author): Brenda Vaca, By (author): Diosa Xochiquetzalcóatl, By (author): Derek Denckla, By (author): Ana Paula Palombo, By (author): Moon Chola, By (author): Cato Gilmour, By (author): Shelley Golan, By (author): DaRow, By (author): Liu Kincheloe, By (author): Christian Perfas, By (author): Pilar Duralde, By (author): Julianne Reames, Illustrations and Layout by: Tattfoo Tan
Praxinoscope PerformX No. 1
“Months of the Year,” is available for sale online.
Praxinoscope is a quarterly performance platform in Los Angeles, California, US, curated by DA Denckla presenting an evening of works created by different artists responding to a central theme. Months of the Year includes performance documents from our first presentation on February 20, 2022 at 1642 Bar, Los Angeles, California, United States.
32 Pages. Black & White.
Edited and designed by: Derek Denckla, Co-Editor: Matthew Bussa. Works By (author): Blanca Bercial, By (author): Margot White, By (author): Emji Saint Spero, By (author): Jeremy Kennedy, By (author): Aaron Joseph, By (author): Emily Iris, By (author): Brenda Vaca, By (author): Alexandria Hall, By (author): Tyler Lenn Bradley, By (author): Jennifer Leiva, By (author): Sang Chi Liu, By (author): Alsea Diana, By (author): Derek Denckla
New Poem Forthcoming in Mudfish 23
I am pleased to report that my poem, “The Stork and The Storge” has been selected for publication in Mudfish 23 forthcoming in 2022. This poem was written in response to a prompt in the Poetry Project Workshop, “Forms of Love” led by poet Nikki Wallschlaeger earlier this year. Mudfish is a journal of poetry, art, and fiction. It takes its title from the storyteller’s stool in Nigerian art. In totally diverse ways, the poems each tell a story. Mudfish has featured work from the best established and emerging artists and poets – including John Ashbery, Charles Simic and Frank Stella – since it burst onto the poetry scene in 1984.
Iowa Review Poetry Prize Winner 2021
My poems, “La Almohada”, “dotofrom” and “Propped Up Things” were selected by poet Tracie Morris to be awarded the Iowa Review 2021 Poetry Prize. Morris commented as follow: “La Almohada is a richly textured, strongly sonic poem that interweaves past and present, multiple cultures and how we are connected to—and indebted to—each other linguistically. It is satisfying work, worth spending time with.” Publication forthcoming in Iowa Review 50/4 in Spring 2022. These will be my first published poems since I was in college. I am so grateful to have been selected to be printed in the Iowa Review, such an esteemed source for American letters.
Inspiration Practice Podcast Launched
In May 2021, I launched my new “beta” version of my podcast, Inspiration Practice, which will explore how artists & writers connect to inspiration & maintain a creative practice through ritual. I have published two hour-long, in-depth interviews, one with conceptual artist, Tattfoo Tan, and the other with poet, Stuart Dischell, more recently. I also posted six short “essays” in which I read a poem or the text of a daily meditation reader followed by my analysis of what the writing means to me. Listen on any of these streaming platforms:
Anchor: anchor.fm/inspiration-practice
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/inspiration-practice/id1569927418
Breaker: https://www.breaker.audio/inspiration-practice
PocketCasts: https://pca.st/dhysp3lw
RadioPublic: https://radiopublic.com/inspirationpractice-8QgJzr
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4TKh2aytsO1mQ9oE7t3dC6
Read-Through of Corona Crazy on Zoom
Zoom Gallery of Actors from our March 17, 2021 Read-Thru of Corona Crazy
On March 21, 2021, Benjamin Hey! and I gathered together some actors and amateurs to read through the first draft of our script for the musical, Corona Crazy, which is under development. The actors (and producers with whom we had shared the draft script) gave us great, detailed notes. As a result, we went back to our laptops and began to create more detailed storylines, additional characters, and three new songs. It was a lot of fun and a great success for us. We are so grateful to these friends and colleagues for taking the time to share an evening with us in order to help us make this musical really sing!!! We are now still in the rewriting process which we hope will be done by the end of June 2021. Stay tuned!
Tropical Gothic wins Berlinale
Tropical Gothic, a screenplay by Isabel Sandoval, who will also direct this feature, currently in development for production in Fall 2021, and on which I was a story consultant, wins award at The Berlinale Co-Production Market. On January 15, 2021, the “Talent Project Market” – Projects and Producer Talents was awarded to Tropical Gothic (Director: Isabel Sandoval), 7107 Entertainment (Producer: Carlo Velayo), USA.
Corona Crazy Seeks Collaborators
It all begins with an idea.
The Creators of Corona Crazy: The ZOOMusical are seeking the collaboration of a Producer (or Production Company) and Performers to begin rehearsing this 12-song original musical intended to be presented online on ZOOM to benefit The Actor’s Fund.
Benjamin Hey! Performs Early Cuts of Corona Crazy on Insta
Back when the pandemic was raging in the Spring 2020, my collaborator, Benjamin Hey! wrote a cycle of 12 songs for which I wrote characters and a book that became Corona Crazy: The ZOOMusical. As Ben wrote each song, he posted a kooky heartfelt video of himself on Instagram performing each song in a different persona and home-made costuming. These videos made me laugh (and sometimes cry) at his antics and his pathos — and inspired me to suggest that we turn them (and others!) into a musical with 10 characters — all of whom would be loosely based on the personality contained in the heart of each song. I hope you enjoy them as much as I (and Ben) did!!! Stay tuned for the actual musical to be performed online on Zoom with actors in 9 squares on the screen!