Humans
- Lancelot Runge (author)
- John Kropa (author)
- Kevin William Reed (artist)
Page count
43Keywords
Poetry, Correspondence, Communication, Collaboration, Collaborative, Collab, Archive, Technology, Social Media, Chapbook, WoodblockPublication date
2013Language(s)
EnglishPublication media type
Print DocumentChapbook
Publication series
Unlimited EditionsTalk About Man Proof
This manuscript was excavated from a two-year long correspondence between the authors, archived in various, fluid networks of conversation. The letter is a tool for constructing matter out of intangible, manic thoughts as well as a process for accepting that one may lose consciousness at any moment while writing or living. All actions, thoughts and exchanges seem necessary and inevitable. Voicemail is the blackout archive. Every sound, image and line improvised through living. Social Media is the performance of being interrupted, disrupted, alone, disturbed and flat.
Every moment, color, sensation and interaction has limitless value. Symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis, symbiosis symbiosis symbiosis. One will enjoy talking about his or her loss of consciousness at a later date. Not “look: our lives are poetry,” but rather, “we made poetry from our lives.” — Lancelot Runge and John Kropa
About the Contributor(s)
Lancelot Runge lives in Brooklyn. He is a Printmaker, a Writer, a Bookmaker, and a Scorpio. You can read a recent interview on his current work online at Lungfull Magazine. His publications include Apartment Histories (2009); Yourself, Son (2010); and What a Relief! (2011).
John Kropa and Lancelot’s Runge’s collaborative chapbook, TALK ABOUT MAN PROOF, is now available in limited edition as part of the Spring 2013 PRINT! DOCUMENT. SERIES, a joint effort of Exit Strata and The Trouble With Bartleby.
Kevin William Reed lives and works in Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY. He makes drawings and paintings that reflect the resilience of the natural world as it basks in the radioactive neon waves of urban intensity. A queer forest standing in the face of a fascist regime — the keepers of every technology known to man. A space to grow, release + return. Kevin William Reed is a wild horse in outer space.
