Hollyamber Kennedy

Umass Amherst & Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland / BA Philosophy BA Architecture History

book lady at MoMA

NYAREA (New York Alternative Residencies for Emerging Artists), ArtLab Collective, Radical Sex Brigade

my brilliant lovely JPG and our little black kitten Poppy Noir, liberation politics, burlesque, curbside accordian players, dancing with JPG for the 14th street accordian player, libraries (public, private, my own), architectural contingencies (joists, ribs, shafts, etc.), the cobblestones of Paris, majestic california desert of my memories, risktakers, gamblers, femme fatales, charlatans, the ephemeral shadow of my ancestors, the legacy of Orestes and the House of Atreus

Babel, Baldwin, Balzac, Benjamin, Boll, Borges-blind Argentinian Librarians, Russian Spiritualists, New England Transcendentalists, French Materialists, German Nihilists, North African Marxists, Nearly every writer present during at least some part of the 19th century, Gramsci, Kemal, Le Duc, Marcuse, Mishima, Murdoch, Ruskin, Salinger, Schulz, Sebald, Singer, Sontag...

Battle of Algiers, Land and Freedom, Ma Vivre Sa Vie, Cleo from 5 to 7, Burnt by the Sun, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, Murmur of the Heart, La double Vie de Veronique, Trust, Dreams, Blue (by Keislowski), Blue (by Jarmush), Je tu Il Elle, Antonia's Line, Annie Hall again and again

Kikki and Herb! Sonny Sharrock, Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Eddi Blackwell, Don Cherry, Francoise Hardy, Richard Hell, Gang of Four, Jonathan Richmond, Lou Reed, Merideth Monk, The Slits, Wire, Harry Pussy, Dirty Three, Stereolab, Augustus Pablo, King Tubby, Ethiopian Pop...and, of course, the greatest unknown rocker James Patrick Gilmartin.

full of senseless things. burning up, en tout point. j'ai la passion de la liberation de la proletariat. ridiculously excited by JPG, and foxes, fireflies, fireworks. have tendencies to: drop off the face of the earth occassionally, look up at pedimental ornamentaion while crossing very busy new york boulevards. once (pathalogically) memorized passages of Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, thinking it might prove relevant some time. irrationally attached to: revolutionary literature, theoretical developments of the 20th century, insouciance, mechanical drawings, my friends, red lipstick, good whiskey, high heels, reductio ad absurdums. grossed out by: intolerant liberals, causal overdetermination.

1. a secret garden, free of metaphysical anxiety, spiritual envy and cosmic resentment, a place with creatures half lady half peacock, et les passereaux, among other things.
2. treasures, like a contemporary Francoise Hardy or Serge Gainsbourg.
3. Yukio Mishima's soul.
4. the deep moral anarchy everyone's so afraid of.
5. sometimes, a dream machine which dispenses, in the words of Alice B. Toklas, "ecstatic reveries and extensions of one's personality on several simultaneous planes." a little like the orgasmatron in Sleeper.