DICTEEDICT: To See Past The End of Our Nose, Part 1, December 4, 8 PM, Green Kill Sessions

Green Kill Sessions presents Dicteedict: To See Past The End of Our Nose, Part 1 (“Did they do it?”), featuring T&T art/ works (Sam Truitt & Kimber Truitt), on Wednesday, December 4, 8 PM.

Concurrent with the Nov./Dec. Green Kill exhibition (TRUITT & TRUITT), T&T art/ works (Sam Truitt & Kimber Truitt) will perform live part 1 of Dicteedict: To See Past The End of Our Nose, an intermedia work based on Dicte: A Triptych. T&T will perform the second part of this work on Friday, December 27, 8 PM.

About Dicteedict

Dicteedict: To See Past The End of Our Nose (Part 1) is the telling of Dicte: A Triptych back into its origin, the book Dick: A Vertical Elegy. Sam Truitt and Kimber Truitt (T&T Art/ works) will speak huddled together its words as the sounds and sights of its incarnation (Dicte) whelm them—as though it were one echo, and at its edge find we rhyme.

Dicte: A Triptych transposes word-sets made from a year-long, daily interaction with 144-word blocks of a sequential, thematically loose-jointed text (Dick, as below)—sentences, stage directions and Morse Code (cipher)—into sounds, music, speech, recordings, symbols, images, photos, films, movies and whatever seemed to magnetize to what that day the words said (with some themes seeming to carry for some days as experience dictated), downloaded from the internet. Edited, recombined, spliced, diced (at times to the fabled 0.08 of a second) and overlaid with text, each day from 23. Nov. 2012 to 23.Nov.13, a block (144 words) was returned onto the internet (youtube). (To note, the measure of 144 words was derived from the division of a text of 52,560 words by 365 days. The original transmissions totalled 6 hours and 22-minutes in length. The last transmission (365/365) was blocked and removed by youtube censors.)

So while Dicte is a work of environmental art—made of sound/music, words/speech and moving/still images within an equidistant triangle of screen/sonic fields (and what unknown recombination may occur between them)—it is also a work of process art, which is the way Truitt would hope you may know this. The DICTE text is from Truitt's Dick: A Vertical Elegy (2013, Lunar Chandelier), a prose poem about JFK’s assassination, including the name of one of its plotters. That information, cloaked through a number of layers of cipher, is transmitted through the Morse Code passages, the seemingly undifferentiated plane of which is broken up with stage directions from Shakespeare’s tragedies.

Dicte has been screened in the La Sala Cantina performance space in Williamsburg, NY (Nov. 2013); and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (Dec. 2014).

About Sam Truitt

Born in Washington, DC, and raised there and in Tokyo, Japan, Sam Truitt is the president of the non-profit Institute for Publishing Arts and the director of Station Hill Press. An award-winning poet in print, performance and digital arts, he is also a teacher, curator, festival-organizer, radio-show host and volunteer ambulance driver. He lives in Woodstock. For more visit: https://samtsong.com/about

About Kimber Truitt

Kimber Truitt was born in Dallas, Texas, and raised in Tampa and Atlanta. She graduated with an MFA from Hunter College in 2003 and currently lives in Woodstock, New York, where she teaches yoga and is on the steering committee of the Woodstock Community Festival of Awakening.