SOFT TARGETS v.2.1 + v.2.2 Release Event: 5.30.07

Dear Friends + Enemies,

This notification is to announce the release event for SOFT TARGETS v.2.1., a handheld journal of poetry, artwork, theory, and fiction, as well as v.2.2, a 5" LP. Please join the Front Office for readings and performances by Kalup Linzy, Gary Lutz, Ariana Reines, and Mick Barr

as Octis.

The Kitchen, NYC
512 West 19th Street
Wednesday, May 30th
7pm, FREE

SOFT TARGETS v.2.1 features contributions from Alain Badiou, John Waters, Zoe Leonard, Yto Barrada, Jean-Jacques Schuhl, James Tate, Alexander Kluge, Christian Marclay, Tatiana Trouvé, Paris-based political collective TIQQUN, Chris Marker, Ben Lerner, Arno Schmidt, Roberto Bolaño, Lisa Jarnot, and RAQS Media Collective, among others.

256pp, w/ color illustrations throughout; dusty pink cover.

SOFT TARGETS v.2.2 is a 5" LP recording of the NYC avant-metal band Orthrelm. Side A: "03-7" [0:48]; Side B: "03-8" [0:57]; 33 revolutions per minute.

Visit www.softtargetsjournal.com for an exclusive interview: "Divine Violence and Liberated Territories: SOFT TARGETS talks with Slavoj Zizek."

v.2.1 available for pre-order to bookstores, museums, and other venues through Distributed Arts Publishers (www.artbook.com); v.2.1 + v.2.2 available at www.softtargetsjournal.com beginning May 30th.

Yours,
the Front Office
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Kalup Linzy is an American video and performance artist currently living and working in Brooklyn. Born in Stuckey, Florida, Linzy graduated from the MFA program at the University of South Florida in 2003. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture video art workshop, and in 2005 received a grant from the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation. Recently, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow for 2007-2008. Linzy's best known work is a series of video art pieces satirizing the tone and narrative approach of television soap opera. Linzy performs most of the characters himself, many of them in drag. Linzy also performs on stage using many of the same characters. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America, and Artforum.

Gary Lutz is the author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive. He has been awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He will be reading from "Years of Age," a work in progress.

Ariana Reines was born in Salem, Massachusetts. She is the author of The Cow (Alberta Prize, Fence Books 2006) and the forthcoming Thank You, new life, and The Hand of Thomas. She writes on art for tema celeste and has contributed exhibition essays on Jonas Mekas, Marc Chagall, Ken Jacobs, and Taka Imura for Maya Stendhal Gallery. Ariana graduated from Barnard College in 2003, winning fourteen prizes and scholarships for literature and translation. She has collaborated on sound/vj projects with Ilan Katin for Belgium's MappingFestival and at Brooklyn's Monkeytown. Poems and stories can be found in Skanky Possum, The Open Face Sandwich, WebConjunctions, and Action Yes.

Mick Barr is from New Haven County, CT. He spent most of his early music years playing in metal and hardcore bands. In 1996 he moved to Washington D.C. and started his first drums and guitar duo Crom Tech. In 2000 he started his second drums and guitar duo, Orthrelm, as well as his guitar and drum machine project Octis. Since then he has moved between D.C., San Francisco, and New York City, playing in numerous projects including Quix*o*tic and the Flying Luttenbachers. In 2005 he started his new guitar only project Ocrilim.

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Founded in 2005 and curated by several Offices including the Front Office and the Office of Special Plans, SOFT TARGETS is the tightest of rings; a narrowing, and not widening, gyre; neither a stately pleasure dome, nor the expansive hunger of a corporation. SOFT TARGETS is a colony.

FRONT OFFICE
Daniel Feinberg
Dan Hoy

OFFICE OF SPECIAL PLANS
Rachel Kushner
Jason Smith

OFFICE OF CONCRETE
+ PLASTIC STUDIES
Anthony Allen

OFFICE OF ASSEMBLY
Jane Lewis

OFFICE OF AFFAIRS
Brian Kalkbrenner


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