![]() We chatted idly as we swabbed our noses for the predeparture COVID test and loaded our suitcases into the van, making introductions and sussing out who was new (myself, along with two others) and who was a veteran (three of my fellow van-ers). I’d just arrived at Spokane International Airport and met the contingent of people I’d be driving north with-all of us bound for Mountain Trek, a wilderness retreat in Ainsworth, British Columbia. ![]() It was early on a Saturday in late September. For this brief moment, they've come together between the covers of this book tomorrow they'll be a Facebook meme.I wasn’t nervous until the van started moving. Skim, dip, drop-in, tune out, click away. Language is fluid and can be poured into many forms. By setting up a textual ecology-recycling and repurposing language-Lin makes us aware of both the material and ephemeral nature of words. ![]() You get the sense that these words aren't meant to last forever. Words, so prevalent today, are merely elements that constitute fleeting engagements, one amongst many that make up the shape of our rich technological landscape. ![]() "Tan Lin proposes a radical idea for reading: not reading. ~Warren Liu, assistant professor of English, Scripps College An utterly, compellingly boring film-I've already forgotten it in the best way unimaginable." "The recipes contained herein are quite computational and result in the blankest of architectural forms, in which I would like to go shopping. ""A remix of modernist poet Gertrude Stein's automatic writing conceptual artist Douglas Huebler's self-reflexive appropriation of text and image, and cultural theorist Marshall Macluhan's analysis of media, Lin's work s are as readable as they are relevant."" (T)his new volume owes much to gallery art its high-concept fun and its serious provocations should get much attention from the proponents of conceptualism and the wider audience for pranks, provocations, and challenges of any artful sort."" ""Lin writes provocative prose poems, fragments of arguments designed to persuade readers (or designed not to persuade them) that art should be relaxingly meaningless. Lin let's the subject morph without losing the plot."" ""These pieces.are written in clear prose about mystifying subjects, as if a features section has been commandeered by some late 20th-century French philosopher, and still managed to get the early edition out. Lin makes art out of statements and gestures that we may think he cannot possibly believe."" ""Seven Controlled Vocabularies is a manifesto for present-day quasi-semi-avant-garde verbal art that is playful or sarcastic. (T)his new volume owes much to gallery art its high-concept fun and its serious provocations should get much attention from the proponents of conceptualism and the wider audience for pranks, provocations, and challenges of any artful sort." "Lin writes provocative prose poems, fragments of arguments designed to persuade readers (or designed not to persuade them) that art should be relaxingly meaningless. Seven Controlled Vocabularies will be available in a variety of print and electronic book delivery systems and formats. Each of the book's seven sections is devoted to a particular art form-film, photography, painting, the novel, architecture, music, and theory-and includes both text and found photographs as it explores the idea of what it means to be a book in an era when reading is disappearing into a diverse array of cultural products, media formats, and aesthetic practices. ![]() How do we read a book as an object in a network, in a post-book, post-reading, meta-data environment? Seven Controlled Vocabularies models a generic book, a kind of field guide to the arts, wherein distinctions between various aesthetic disciplines are relaxed or dissolved and where avant-garde notions of difficulty are replaced with more relaxing and ambient formats such as yoga, disco, and meditation. Winner of the Association for Asian American Studies Book Award in Poetry (2012) A modular, easy-to-read relaxation device ![]()
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