Poetry Mixtape Volume III

I could have met Tooth through a million different friends in numerous cities at any point over the last 13 years. In fact, it's a little bit of a mystery how we managed to avoid each other until 2012. Tooth's supernatural ubiquity within the Bay Area's radical/marginal arts communities is both astonishing and inspiring. If you have ever gone to a show, reading, film screening, protest, or Halloween party, there is a one in five chance that you have been in the same room as Tooth. There is a one in nine chance that the room you and Tooth were in together was the Church, aka Tooth's house. I was super excited to ask him to curate a mixtape for this series, as I was certain it would lead me to a few new favorites; I was not wrong.

Tooth is an artist that works in a variety of material elements and processes in order to navigate a variety of non-material elements and states. He is also a dyslexic who maintains a tenuous relationship with written language (at best). He lives somewhere in California.

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1. Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Mot Caché
The lettering in the center of the rubber stamp reads mot caché (hidden word). It is ringed by nine other French words: signe (sign), évoque (evoke), énonce (express), dévoile (unveil), marque (mark), tache inscrite (inscribed mark), trace (trace); empreinte (imprint), and révéle (reveal)

2. ruth weiss, centered

3. Terry Fox, lines from an interview about the performance Levitation

4. Nancy Holt, The World Through a Circle

5. Adrian Piper, Everything Will Be Taken Away

6. Anna Akhmatova, lines from To Poetry

7. Monique Wittig, lines from Les Guérillères

8. Ana Mendieta, Find the Shape of a Body in the a Tree Trunk

9. Hélène Cixous, lines from Regarding The Apple of the Text