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Motor City Underground: Leni Sinclair Photographs 1963-1978

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[…]dozens of first hand interviews with Leni and John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon, Genie Parker, James Semark, Charles Moore, Robin Eichley, Martine Algire, Howard Weingarden, Michael Davis, Wayne Kramer, Ed Sanders, Stephen Ligosky, Rebecca Derminer, Gary Grimshaw, Russ Gibb, Scott Richardson, Frank and Peggy Bach, Peter Werbe, Judith Janis and George Tysh. A biographical text in the book follows Leni from her youth in communist East Germany in the 1940s to the fall of Richard Nixon and the fight for legalized marijuana in the 70s. An in-depth interview of Leni Sinclair by Kristine McKenna caps off the book. Motor City Underground […]

James Semark Memorial with Robert Thibodeau

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James Semark (1940-2010) memorial held at Book Beat 5.04.11: James Semark Memorial Robert Thibodeau was a friend to James Semark and is the owner of the Mayflower […]

Work Box: A 50th Anniversary Collection (sold out)

Relevance: 11.087920823884% Posted on: 15.11.2014

[…]Book of Humors by James Semark is a collection of concrete poems, observations and reviews by Semark with illustrations by Larry Weiner. This was Semark’s first collection originally printed in 1965. This new edition is printed in an edition 200 copies. The Book of Ruins by Robin Eichele is the poet’s first collection from 1965. It is illustrated in runes drawn by the author and reprinted in an edition of 150 copies. Common Ground & Mother & Child; two poems by Bill Harris were first printed in a catalog for Gallery 7 in 1971, they are reprinted with a photo […]

Roots & Branches; DAW Exhibition at CCS

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[…]—a way of saving yourself. Members of the DAW also took on serious spiritual pursuits. James Semark, Howard Weingarden and others members were UFO watchers, practiced esoteric religions at the highest levels, played world music and traveled to India for enlightenment. Semark brought Michio Kuchi to Detroit and published the first book on Macrobiotics on the workshop press. Some members broke off into splinter groups emphasizing spirituality and the mind-body connection. Artist designer Gary Grimshaw best exemplifies the passion and commitment to the arts community as he became the voice and conscience of the DAW collective throughout its years of […]

The Detroit Artists Workshop: a 50th Anniversary

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[…]Fugs, edited by Ed Sanders), Revolutionary Letters by Diane DiPrima, The Book of Humors by James Semark, Sit Up Straight by George Tysh, Meditations by John Sinclair, and The Book of Runes by Robin Eichele. Flyers, posters, ephemera, music, Gary Grimshaw elements, two poems by Bill Harris, postcard portfolios by Leni Sinclair and Carl Schurer, an interview with Charles Moore and a DVD of the 40th anniversary event at the DIA will also be included in this 50th anniversary keepsake. A display of the Work Box including the originals will be featured in the Homestead display. Featured artists at the 50th […]

STRATA: A Detroit Movement Defined by John Sinclair

Relevance: 3.6959736079612% Posted on: 01.10.2014

[…]Movement Defined by John Sinclair In the fall of 1964 poets George Tish, Robin Eichele and Jim Semark, photographer Magdalene Arndt, musician Charles Moore, myself and several of our friends in the neighborhood around Wayne State University founded an artists’ collective called the Detroit Artists Workshop. The Artists Workshop served as an important meeting ground for musicians and other artists from the city—Charles Moore, Larry Nozero, John Dana, James Semark—with outstate natives like Lyman Woodard from the Flint area and Ron English and Danny Spencer from Lansing. Charles Moore formed a cooperative ensemble called the Detroit Contemporary 5 with Nozero, […]

The New DAW Website

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[…]artworks and publications from original sources of the DAW —its colleagues and influences. Semark had a manic energy and devotion: he wanted to realize a contemporary Workshop revival. We now hope to keep our progress modest; to help preserve the Workshop past before its gone, by organizing articles, books, lectures and displays. The work of Semark and others deserve recognition, and will be given an outlet and voice in this forum. This history of the Artists’ Workshop will show their continued evolution into the late ‘60s ‘70s, and occasionally feature new works from its former membership. The major point is […]

Night Vision Express : James Semark

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Night Vision Express : James Semark

[Night Vision Express was printed Jan. 1, 1966 AWS Press, edition of 500 copies. The following are sample pages, from one of the most creative, deep and Acid-laced AWS press books] INTRODUCTION I pain and suffering: result of ignorance of eternal values I have nothing new to say. Just the “same old song” rehashed over and over again: “If one looks absent-mindedly at a candle the flame appears immobile. We know, however, that nothing is immobile within its apparently defined contours, The flame is recreated every instant; and, during its continual ﬂux, the ﬂame feeds on thousands of millions of […]

DRUG: A Workshop Seminar

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[…]thinking and discouraged. One recorded Workshop seminar called DRUG was conducted by James Semark for inclusion in a future issue of Work. DRUG was a classic seminar in the sense of how it describes the psychedelic experience and of how open and sincere the members were during the interview/ seminar. DRUG was recorded and transcribed by James Semark. The entire piece ran over twenty typed pages and was intended for a special issue of WORK, but was cut at the last minute. Following are some excerpts from the original DRUG interview made during June of 1965. It shows the heightened […]

John Coltrane Rhythm Ballad for All by James Semark

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 22.05.2014

The John Coltrane Rhythm Ballad for All recorded Nov. 22, 1964 at the Artists Workshop: James Semark voice, John Dana: bass, Danny Spencer : percussion, Charles Moore: horn. James pioneered a type of early proto-rap form that he called the rhythm ballads. These late 50s and early 60s compositions were “investigative verse” works; tripped-out epic poems set to music that undertook the study and description of jazz legends John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and even a judgment day “jazz-poem in heaven” of Edmund Zwingy, an imaginary be-bop star. He began to put the ballads to syncopated sound beats around 1964, inspired […]