Welcome to xafec — this site is taking over from cetaitlucien.blogspot.com. All new stuff will appear here, but during the (slow) migration you’ll find the older stuff there.
Art projects and performances will migrate here, while general nonsense will migrate to cetaitlucien.xafec.com.
Spare Room reading series event
Sunday, November 28, 2010
at Open Space cafe, PDX
Waiting for Stretchers is/was (L to R): Anna Daedalus, David Abel, Leo Daedalus, Mark Owens and John Berendzen.
Continue readingPerformance piece with transcriptionist
Leo Daedalus, 2010
Mark Owens, Leo Daedalus and David Abel perform Replay (part 2)
Replay (2010) is a performance piece in two parts for one or more performers and a transcriptionist.
Continue readingPerformance
Leo Daedalus, 2010
first performed as part of Rearrangutan — Found/Sorted at PNCA, October 13, 2010
Leo Daedalus performing Trouverrou (part 1) (photo: Matthew Miller)
Trouverrou (2010) is a performance piece in four parts following a thread of lost and found themes beginning with the Trouvère and Minnesinger poetry of Chrétien de Troyes' (c. 1135 – c. 1185) Perceval ou le Conte du Graal and Wolfram von Eschenbach's (c. 1170 – c. 1220) Parzival. The thread winds through Wagner's Parsifal to Anselm Kiefer's "Parsifal" cycle paintings and to the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe referred to in those paintings.
Continue readingRearrangutan - Found/Sorted:
readings and performances at Philip Feldman Gallery
organized by Mark Owens
Pacific Northwest College of Art, October 13, 2010
Rearrangutan seen from outside (photo: Matthew Miller)
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Blum Blum Shub Sound Poetry Coincidence
being David Abel, Leo Daedalus & Mark Owens
perform a sound poetry interpretation of
"The Metaphysics of Notation" graphic score by Mark Applebaum
February 12, 2010 at Portland Center Stage
In February, 2010 the Armory Café at Portland Center Stage teamed up with Third Angle new music ensemble to present four different interpretations of Mark Applebaum’s beautiful graphic score “The Metaphysics of Notation” — one every Friday of the month at noon.
Continue readingmusic for cathedral or analogous space
duration: 3 hours 56 minutes
Leo Daedalus, 2009
Low Mass in its complete form is 3 hours 56 minutes long. It is intended to be played very loud in a cathedral or other large space into and out of which people may come and go as they please.
video/performance, 9'08"
by David Abel & Leo Daedalus (2008)
David Abel: writing, performance
Leo Daedalus: video editing, writing, performance
Andrei Tarkovsky: source film — Solaris (1972)
Venedikt Erofeev: source text — Moscow-Petushki (1970)
Konrad Steiner: event organization, performance video production
part of The New Talkies: Portland–San Francisco Neo-Benshi Cabaret
organized by Konrad Steiner of kino21 (SF), Rodney Koeneke, and Spare Room (PDX)
Sunday, May 3, 2008
Portland, Oregon
