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for Babe Rainbow
& the vaudeville hoofer

‘Collage is a mystics medium’
- Charles Simic

      ‘I read too much
to have any idea of what I know’
                              - Iain Sinclair

Sources:

Burning Man, Brad Weiners [ed.]
U2: Wide Awake in America, Carter Alan
United States, Laurie Anderson
A Poetics, Charles Bernstein
Beyond tire Burning Lands, John Christopher
The Vision of the Foul, Cecil Collins
Continent, Jim Crace
Flow, My Tears, the Policeman Said, Philip K. Dick
Andy warhol: A Retrospective, Kynaston McShine [ed.]
DJ Culture, Ulf Poschardt
Lud Heat & Suicide Bridge, Iain Sinclair
Wiilliam, Burroughs at the Front,
              Jennie Skerl and Robin Lydenberg [eds.]
Rapture, David Sosnowski

Burning Man 1 : faking the stars

endless repeats / eyebrows cocked
dark satellites / data banks
room floats midair / long-cherished favourite
pine trees & palm trees I unlit sidewalks
Stampeding away / empty glass
so few lights I forged i.d.
above the timberline / minimal volume
molten steel / newborn snakes
deep snow / rural hick
stick in the mind / custom-made unique
smoke diplomats / labour camp
equidistant blobs / short stack of hots
giant battlefields / outlined static
long time no see I unusual tension
new residents / same ritual
lost requiem / extreme north
multicellular species / domestic models
tiger strike I rubber knicknacks
familiar occurrence / testimonial proof
raw materials / soundless images
break everything / flashlight smile
human nature / red hair dazzle
blue lagoon / the blue fox room
drilling holes / overstuffed chairs

Burning Man 2: communal bonfire

fire fellows / burning ships
clerical vampires / songs & ballads
coffee tent / a hundred spaceships
scuba nudists / thin air
guerilla statues / intertwining
blood wound / divided dynamics
scarab van / newly-forming tongues
lipstick stigmata / different genes
firedance / hypnotic absorption
green handshake / into language
desert divers / televisual gays
bicycle god / nailed possibilities
funfur fetish / social power
pierced dawn / kinetic criticism
glitter babe / psychic dynamics
percussion sun / transparent absorption
alien kite / fixed genes
tribal neon / popular games
loincloth camp / resonant bass
foil dance / signs & sounds
cardboard knights / cult loyalties
burnt mud / hot invasion
leather coercion / industrial design
no spectators / acoustic underbelly

Burning Man 3: a city for ravers

ritual, magic and life / silhouetted hills
mechanical reproduction / cantankerous & meddlesome
emotional anaesthesia / in paradise valley
an instant chronicle / loyal companion in research
disturbingly poker-faced / sweet and domestic and kindly
newspaper format / eaten by parchment lice
invisible state visit / supply & demand
obliteration & void / like a meteorite
avant-garde matrons / shadows over blinking faces
revisionist thrust / domesticated as shining mangoes
working procedure / a donkey and some ropes
disseminated rumour / the girl with short hair
industrialists and advertising tycoons / new edition
visual pollution / the home of ants
hopelessly square / persist with the skull
the cunning curious / she grows tender
empty supermarket shelves / meaning through form
camouflaged sadness / the sinking sun
erotic magic / he cannot work miracles
cartoon proto-pop / flames of candles and lamps
nearly-experienced death / a wetter climate
disembodied decorations / combustible animals
readymade iconography / a white cotton dress
salvaged motivation / now everyone is cool

Burning Man 4 : low-budget video

chubby cherub / breaks the chain
delayed response / polythene flag
the backward choir / ethmoid bone
kiddie squirt gun / the grave of light
portable oxygen units / discard definition
hairlike filoplumes / a weeks notice
naked to the waist / precisions & mechanics
expensive brandy / joyful commendation
long hospitalization / fat gut horror films
army jackets & ponchos / seizure of nostalgia
free medical treatment / unplaced tribesmen
drumrool & rimshot / the red obelisk
exhibitionist / the muddiest route
through the jagged hole / reach the godhead
antireligion capsules / pyramid plinths
personal agenda / abattoir skills
complete fulfillment / coded into the machine
a terrible connection / types of perception
bad karma / syntactic crudities
menu of options / the crow, the crow
plenty of snitches / open-mouthed immortality
appointment book / poor food & weak tea
rumpled dresses / the divine light
chasing seagulls / two serpentine circles

Burning Man 5 : deep parallel

cult loyalties / molten steel
fixed genes / multicellular species
signs & sounds / stampeding away
televisual gays / room floats midair
kinetic criticism / tiger strike
newly-forming tongues / long time no see
hot invasion / stick in the mind
resonant bass / endless repeats
divided dynamics / raw materials
into language / deep snow
popular games / drilling holes
transparent absorption / lost requiem
burning ships / so few lights
social power / smoke diplomats
industrial design / dark satellites
Intertwining / new residents
songs & ballads / giant battlefield
thin air / human nature
a hundred spaceships / above the timberline
psychic dynamics / equidistant blobs
hypnotic absorption / familiar occurence
acoustic underbelly / blue lagoon
different genes / break everything
nailed possibilities / pine trees & palm trees

Burning Man 6 : full of atoms

rural hick / appointment book
outlined static / exhibitionist
unlit sidewalks / personal agenda
data banks / long hospitalization
flashlight smile / kiddie squirt gun
minimal volume / menu of options
same ritual / drumroll & rimshot
domestic models / complete fulfillment
newborn snakes / naked to the waist
unusual tension / rumpled dresses
rubber knicknacks / portable oxygen units
labour camp / plenty of snitches
overstuffed chairs / bad karma
empty glass / hairlike filoplumes
soundless images / delayed response
extreme north / expensive brandy
custom-made unique / a terrible connection
forged i.d. / chubby cherub
red hair dazzle / chasing seagulls
eyebrow cocked / free medical treatment
the blue fox room / the backward choir
long-cherished favourite / army jackets & ponchos
short stack of hots / antireligion capsules
testimonial proof / through the jagged hole

Burning Man 7 : desert-parched hides

a week’s notice / the first homeboys
open-mouthed immortality / a common denominator
the divine light / excessive drug consumption
the red obelisk / the actual creator
unplaced tribesmen / restrict or obstruct
the grave of light / digital-analogue convertor
the muddiest route / melancholic plausibility
poor food & weak tea / skeletons of rhythm
breaks the chain / conceptual erosion
polythene flag / lay bare the bones
seizure of nostalgia / blip culture
diseased definition / succession of spirits
abattoir skills / original fidelity
ethmoid bone / primitive devices
pyramid plinths / uninterrupted flow
joyful commendation / electronic culture
syntactic crudities / ragged loops
the crow, the crow / sensational doubt
types of perception / hands in the air
fat gut horror films / outside of music
reach the godhead / a furtive view of the infinite
precisions & mechanics / post-war invention
coded into the machine / typical behaviour
two serpentine circles / good transitions

Burning Man 8 : what really matters

uninterrupted flow / working procedure
excessive drug consumption / erotic magic
outside of music / industrialists & advertising tycoons
ragged loops / invisible state visit
skeletons of rhythm / cartoon proto-pop
lay bare the bones / disembodied decoration
the first homeboys / hopelessly square
post war invention / disturbingly poker-faced
electronic culture / visual pollution
restrict or obstruct / nearly-experienced death
conceptual erosion / mechanical reproduction
melancholic plausibility / camouflaged sadness
hands in the air / salvaged motivation
typical behaviour / avant-garde matrons
blip culture / the cunning curious
succession of spirits / newspaper format
good transitions / obliteration & void
primitive devices / empty supermarket shelves
a common denominator / emotional anesthesia
a furtive view of the infinite / revisionist thrust
sensational debut / an instant chronicle
digital-analogue convertor / disseminated rumour
original fidelity / readymade iconography
the actual creator / ritual, magic and life

Burning Man 9 : sleep deprivation

dreams tend to vanish / any other dwarf body
tears and sharp sorrow / a smaller black sphere within
united in concrete reality / a forced oath
preserve the senses / a confusion of people
worn for the duration / talking nonsense
continual rubbing together / a mind fascinated by itself
compassionate irony / warm-coloured cushions
the movement of life itself / narrow folds of fat
privacy and holiness / the hiss of naphtha lamps
perfume & musicality / toys and trinkets
energy and experience / volcanic dust in the air
awakening wonder / artificial islands
creative illusion / adult servitude
the only civilisation / no flames permitted
rightly suspicious / squares and circles and crescents
a new kind of complacency / scratching and cursing
no context / months of confinement
his own secret mythology / any crowd circling
spiritual fertility / realistic eagles soaring
back to your original question / touched by mortals
the suburb of the universe / what the snake said was true
arcade ecstasy / gestures of contrition
factual knowledge / the strongest voice
ultimate harmony / itinerant merchants

Burning Man 10 : collapsing silence

kaleidoscopic shifts / desert divers
logical contradiction / burnt mud
no ideological content / funfur fetish
hallucinating nights / firedance
nourished on honey / percussion sun
the deadeningly habitual / lipstick stigmata
destroy all preceeding phrases / pierced dawn
shot in the street / glitter babe
continuous visual processing / blood wound
the vaudeville hoofer / tribal neon
the page does what the text says / loincloth camp
mass-produced wallpaper / guerilla statues
old mousetraps and dirigibles / cardboard knights
no lovemaking / green handshake
poised and alert / scuba nudists
all messages read the same / clerical vampires
the split second it takes to die / scarab van
surreptitious copies / no spectators
critical invective / fire fellows
subversive potential / alien kite
psychic & social consequences / leather coercion
the young man with hieroglyphs / bicycle god
reformed addicts / foil dance
points of intersection / coffee tent

Burning Man 11 : absolute luminescence

itinerant merchants / critical invective
what the snake said was true / continuous visual processing
a mind fascinated by itself / logical contradiction
scratching and cursing / nourished on honey
months of confinement / old mousetraps and dirigibles
artificial islands / no lovemaking
any other dwarf body / kaleidoscopic shifts
gestures of contrition / reformed addicts
the hiss of naphtha lamps / the vaudeville hoofer
warm-coloured cushions / all messages read the same
toys & trinkets / psychic & social consequences
any crowd circling / the page does what the text says
narrow folds of fat / hallucinating lights
a smaller black sphere within / no ideological content
a forced oath / shot in the street
realistic eagles soaring / destroy all preceeding phrases
no flames permitted / mass-produced wallpaper
talking nonsense / surreptitious copies
the strongest voice / poised and alert
touched by mortals / the young man with hieroglyphs
a confusion of people / the deadeningly habitual
volcanic dust in the air / points of intersection
adult servitude / subversive potential
squares and circles and crescents / the split seconds it takes to die

Burning Man 12 : silver lamé march

she grows tender / united in concrete reality
combustible animals / arcade ecstasy
a wetter climate / awakening wonder
supply & demand / ultimate harmony
a donkey and some ropes / back to your original question
cantankerous & meddlesome / creative illusion
shadows over blinking faces / rightly suspicious
now everyone is cool / perfume & musicality
the girl with short hair / the only civilisation
domesticated as shining mangoes / privacy and holiness
flames of candles and lamps / spiritual fertility
the home of ants / the movement of life itself
the sinking sun / a dream tends to vanish
loyal companion in research / worn for the duration
silhouetted hills / his own secret mythology
new edition / the suburb of the universe
he cannot work miracles I energy and experience
in paradise valley / factual knowledge
meaning through form / tears and sharp sorrow
like a meteorite / compassionate irony
sweet and domestic and kindly / a new kind of complacency
eaten by parchment lice / continual rubbing together
a white cotton dress / no context
persist with the skull / preserve the senses