G A M M M

think about your last 24 hours pile them on top of each other pick an image pick an event point at both with your left foot cause chrome to drip from your elbows eat a pastrami sandwich with a single large dill take out your paints wait * * * come scrivere una poesia / [...]

Like most everybody else don’t like to be broke, that means I like money. Reaching in my pocket and feeling paper gives me meaning. But if I was to gamble in London with two best friends, I’d bring along credit cards. I’d feel uncomfortable if I was to bank out of neighbourhood and was told [...]

Number of refrigerators I’ve lived with: 18. Number of rotten eggs I’ve thrown: 1. Number of finger rings I’ve owned: 3. Number of broken bones: 0. Number of Purple Hearts: 0. Number of times unfaithful to wife: 2. Number of holes in one, big golf: 0; miniature golf:3. Number of consecutive push-ups, maximum: 25. Number [...]

(Mark Titchner, Be Real, 2008, vinyl banner, cm 527 x 413, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.)  

999 rooms, 34-66: rooms of experience Room 34 In room 34, dogs are beheaded with cleavers and suspended over buckets to let the blood collect; the heads are thrown in a corner, where a rickety adolescent burns away the hair with a oxyhydrogen torch before piling them up. Room 35 In wide and bushy room [...]

Today, GAMMM celebrates its fifth birthday!! Here‘s our whole activity so far. [Image: T. Kelly Mason, I love the future, 2001, 1031PE Gallery, LA.]

Su GAMMM è uscito un nuovo one page e-book, con poesie inedite di John M. Bennett, ospitato in formato .pdf nella pagina opeb. Enjoy the new John M. Bennett’s poems opeb @  GAMMM‘s opeb page. [Image: Ceal Floyer, Helix, 2001.]

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29 | 06 | 2006 ― 29 | 06 | 2010  Thanks to all visitors, readers and contributors_ Four years index:

all works from: birch libralato gallery, los angeles.

  Oh Lovely TV Lulu, Show Me Thy Fully Busty TV Tutu, Thy Fully Fluffy TV Tush, Thy Slutty UK TV Eye Milli Vanilli, Tears For Fears, Oasis, The Feelies, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Fun Boy Three, Yes, TV on the Radio, Small Faces, They Might Be Giants, Ween, Tenacious D, Pere Ubu, Yo La Tengo, Alabama, [...]

THE OUTER BANKS You could say that characters in The Bible were obsessed  with hiding their nakedness I touch the leg of the table with the toe of my foot The child searches in a drawer for the damaged toy Feeling of love were impaired by excessive anxiety I put in my order for the [...]

        My first rule in art-making: the work must have being, presence. Second rule: it must be strong and beautiful. Third: it must be positive. Metaphors for the work: energy object. The real thing that brings real smiles. John McCracken [from: John McCracken, Almine Rech Éditions, Paris, 2000. Image: two McCracken works from Documenta XII, [...]

FOURTEEN POEMS Similarly, whereby the current polarization Holds out little hope for lasting revision * Meanwhile tragedy outgrows its religious Origins in an effort to encompass * A dip in air pressure, the sense that daylight Has slipped from its porch onto the grassy night * Need, ambition, unrest, and one-dimensional Thinking latticed on a [...]