UBUWEB
started out in 1996 as a website devoted to concrete poetry, but it has grown
to incorporate the functions of a virtual publishing house, record company and,
film distributor. Poet, university professor and amateur archivist, Kenneth
Goldsmith is the founder and main editor of Ubuweb. An underground project that
has no institutional backing or budget of any kind, Ubuweb is an influential
repository of avant garde material
Here you can find conceptual writing, dance, electronic music resources,
ethnopoetics, film and video art, visual poetry and many special features. Examples include all ten albums from Obscure Records , Brian Eno’s record label from 1975
to 1978 and Six Films by and about Pina Bausch(1975 - 2006) in UbuWeb's
new Dance section (Christopher Walken dancing to Fatboy Slim anyone?) There we can review works from the career
of Pina Bausch (1940-2009) including the beautiful Orpheus und Eurydike (1975) and
a documentary by Anne Linsel, Pina
Bausch (2006). Other delights include: Maya Deren's complete oeuvre, a
montage of Banksy doctoring Paris
Hilton CDs for last year's guerrilla art
stunt, interviews with Allen Ginsberg, poetry readings by Bukowski and a selection of
rare art films and performance videos by artists from Carolee Schneeman and Tracey Emin
to Samuel Beckett and ChrisBurden, video of BillieWhitelaw doing Beckett and excerpts from Peter Greenaway's series of
documentaries on modern UScomposers A full list of resources is here
http://www.ubu.com/resources/index.html
