The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum would like to acknowledge the importance and charm of Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown. The EC:BA held their annual conference there over labor day weekend, 2008. A champagne toast was conducted in the lower garden after the convocation and reading of ancient babylonian texts.
Those of you who knew the legend, personally or mythically, Herbie (mister perfect, big special, big perfect, mister mister, dinner kitty, nona or neu neu) passed away today after a short illness at age 15 and 10 months. He lived a long and very exciting life full of adventure and intrigue.
An orphan at birth, Herbie was a Warwick barn kitty magically lifted from obscrity by a young boy looking for a cat that resembled the Clinton’s cat, Socks. Herbie was forever associated with the hope and energy of the early Clinton ascendancy as well as the brimming optimism of the early 1990’s. Herbie has claimed the role of elder statesman and King of Fauna in the Hull family, the title now passing to Amelia and Bedelia, respectively.
Herbie spent his days outdoors, roaming the apple orchard, catching mice, chipmunks and rabbits, climbing trees and spending lazy afternoons in the sun. He loved staying out at night in summer, playing with string and being spooked. He had an adventurous spirit and a deep, full purr. He was a Grade-A gastronome, loving all food. He also had a classic bad attitude, loved by all. He was a large and largely perfect cat, a key member of the Applewood Orchards menagerie. He will be greatly missed. He is now restored in Kitty Valhalla!
Behold!
The Blind Man who Spoke to the Telephone and It Answered Back.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/magazine/30joybubbles-t.html?ref=magazine
The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum would like to expound for a brief moment on the recent exhibition of Devon Costello at Taxter & Spengemann Gallery in Chelsea. This exhibit is important to the EC:BA because its whole ‘mies en scene’ correlates with the charter and core belief structure espoused by the Council.
In his solo exhibition, Costello creates a particular environment that at once appears like a latter-day cabinet of curiosities as well as the end result of a humanist scavenger hunt. Composed of various disparate materials, historical appropriations, surreal juxtapositions and haut-modernist compositions, Costello’s environment is one of collecting the detritus of civilization. This collection amounts to a small room of discrete objects all working together in a humanist gesamtkunstwerk, an all-encompassing, core work of art which could easily pass for one complete installation.
Some of the more compelling works in the show are rocks mounted to raw canvas using a clear poly-resin. The natural aspects of these “paintings” along with the historical imagery of classical works of art create this humanist tableau. And Humanism is a key work in understanding Costello’s work. The idea of a well-rounded and omni-media approach to ideas and life through art is a central theme of this exhibition. Making connections between images, materials, situations and senses is a task Costello challenges us towards. Challenge is an important notion to remember as well because this exhibit, although easy on the eye, is not so facile on the mind. Costello demands attention, repose and reverie while equally commanding a discerning eye. These demands, often found lacking in most contemporary art, are the reasons why the EC:BA is so enchanted by Costello’s work and finds a kindred spirit in its raison d’etre. It most certainly has a reason to exist.
Devon Costello, installation view at T&S.
In keeping with the Edenville Council’s annual new year readings and ‘burning in effigy’ event, the Council decided that this year’s theme will be Cicero’s Oration Against Catiline.
The evening will begin with general readings of classical texts and modernist masterpieces followed by the spectacular burning of an effigy of Catiline while reading aloud in Latin, Cicero’s oration against Lucius Sergius Catilina.
The evening will commence at 7:30pm at Edenville Council’s Applewood Orchards Annex
(to woofie)
i had a dream and frank o’hara was in it.
and he told me
to send you that poem
because
that poem
well, it was really an avatar
of an olive leaf
deeply green and
falling from a tree
and of living my life
under free association
and living as variously as possible
leaving little left
but leaves and
leaves and leaves of grass
but you plus what with all
my quitting smoking
my impossible exhibition
finding gainful employment
and
god-knows-what-else maybe
a life in the town
a life in the country
where there are leaves and they fall
brightly mute and colorful
and they fall
so i fell
like a leaf
slow and twirling
spinning with
my axis on a tilt
and i tried to take you with me
but you are like some monolith from a bygone era.
still and unwilling to succumb.
if only i could take you with me
in my vestpocket
wherever
we may go.
The Edenville Council: Brooklyn Addendum is pleased to announce the screening of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film, Teorema. The EC:BA screens various Pasolini films throughout the year at their Brooklyn or Warwick, NY locations. Pasolini’s cinematic and poetic works are central to the canon prescribed by the EC:BA.
Teorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Terence Stamp plays a mysterious figure who appears in the lives of a typical bourgeois Italian family. He engages in sexual affairs with all members of the household: the devoutly religious maid, the sensitive son, the sexually repressed mother, the timid daughter and, finally, the tormented father. The stranger gives unstintingly of himself, asking nothing in return. Then one day he leaves, as suddenly and mysteriously as he came. Unable to endure the void in their lives, the mother becomes a nymphomaniac, the son an artist, the daughter a catatonic and the father a sexual prowler. The servant, on the other hand, appears in the last scene casually performing a miracle.
Located at 178 Ainslie street in the leafy Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, The Edenville Council’s Brooklyn Addendum (EC:BA) serves under the same charter as its parent organization.
The essential aim of the organization is to promote the Humanities and Arts in a manner distinctively affiliated to the Occidental Development Foundation International (ODFI) Whose noble and vaunted charter was established by Timothy Hull and Jeffrey Doolittle in March 2001 in Venice, Italy.
Current award-winning activities of the EC:BA include the ever-popular monthly Parklife! britpop party, the venerable Proust Society of Brooklyn and the newly formed Edenville Council Translation Quorum.
The EC:BA also mounts exhibitions, holds panel discussions, conferences, slide lectures, theatrical performances, political rallies, public readings, archery clubs, boat trips, museum visits, bird watching, Emo and Hardcore Concert Outings, translation marathons and general scholastic projects.
Contact Timothy Hull for more information at: tim (at) fridaynotes.com
