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Les Lieux d'une fugue by Georges Perec is based on a story written in 1965 recounting the author's escape from home at the age of 11. He had forgotten about this event, and it came back to him only twenty years later #GeorgesPerec #Oulipo: ubu.com/film/perec_fug…

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12 dancepoems from the cosmic typewriter, 1969 by Dom Sylvester Houédard [PDF]: ubu.com/media/text/vp/…

Typewriter Poems, 1972 Peter Finch, ed. [PDF] ubu.com/media/text/vp/… via @uubuweb

Chris Marker - Junkopia. Surreal objects that are juxtaposed with our present World. Cars, Motorways, noise of our modern society; A giant city in the distance. Filmed at the Emeryville Mudflats near San Francisco: ubu.com/film/marker.ht…

Emily Jacir is a Palestinian artist and filmmaker. Born in Bethlehem in Palestine in 1972, Jacir spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia.She attended Memphis College of Art and graduated with an art degree. She divides her time between Ramallah and New York: ubu.com/film/jacir.html

Eric Baudelaire, born in Salt Lake City in 1973, lives and works in Paris. Working in film as well as printmaking, photography and installation, Baudelaire is interested in the relationship between images and events, documents and narratives : ubu.com/film/baudelair…

Gray was the downtown "industrial sound" band started by Andy Warhol acolyte and avant-garde Hip-Hop legend, Jean-Michel Basquiat. 'Early Works' is an astonishing collection of their first creations: ubu.com/sound/basquiat…

“[…]The film is shot in a room over a period of a day and records the changes in light through the single window. […]” Leading Light by John Smith (1975) ubu.com/film/smith-joh… via @uubuweb

Films on Brian Eno ubu.com/film/eno.html

For one year, from 11 April 1980 through 11 April 1981, Tehching Hsieh punched a time clock every hour on the hour. Each time he punched the clock, he took a single picture of himself, which together yield a 6-minute movie, here: ubu.com/film/hsieh_clo…

The Girl Chewing Gum is a film made by British artist John Smith, when he was a student at the Royal College of Art. Shot in Dalston, the film is a portrait of street life in East London and a wryly critique of the myth of documentary neutrality: ubu.com/film/smith-joh…

John Zorn is a prolific artist; he has hundreds of album credits as composer or producer. He has had experience with a variety of genres including jazz, rock, hardcore punk,classical, extreme metal, klezmer, film, cartoon, popular, and improvised music: ubu.com/film/zorn.html

James Joyce reads from Ulysses (1924) and Finnegans Wake (1929) ➡️ ubu.com/sound/joyce.ht…

Album primo-avrilesque is a monograph by French writer Alphonse Allais. Allais exhibited the earliest examples of conceptual art: Apoplectic Cardinals Harvesting Tomatoes on the Shore of the Red Sea (Study of the Aurora Borealis) (1884): ubu.com/historical/all… [PDF]

Tellus The Audio Cassette Magazine, #8, USA / Germany, with Carlo McCormick, Konk, Rat At Rat R, Christian Marclay, Casette Tape, 1985: ubu.com/sound/tellus_8… [MP3]

Max Ernst’s LA FEMME 100 TETES (1929): ubu.com/vp/Ernst.html ... A disturbing, surrealist pseudo-narrative assembled entirely from antique etchings, via @derekbeaulieu

Until 1993, Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine utilized the audio cassette medium to distribute no wave downtown music and audio art. Tellus #10 All Guitars! includes Steve Albini (Big Black): ubu.com/sound/tellus_1… [MP3]

Guillaume Apollinaire's masterwork "Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (1913-1916)"; this volume remains a key text in contemporary poetics, breathtaking in vision: ubu.com/historical/app… via @derekbeaulieu

Pierre Henry - The Art of Sounds (1996) : bit.ly/2C2ihaD Veteran and co-inventor of Musique Concrète, Pierre Henry invites us for a short walk through his long career. French with English subtitles.