Nick in NYC

[imomus]

I'll Speak, You Sing is the name of the art show I'm holding from June 25th to July 15th in collaboration with Mai Ueda at Zach Feuer Gallery in Chelsea, New York. Here's something about the ideas behind the show, and here's one of the photos Stephane Sednaoui shot of Mai and me in Paris last month for the flyer:



Now, I dislike hotels, and what's more can't afford them, certainly not New York hotels, and certainly not for a month. So I arranged to stay with a friend on Orchard Street, directly opposite number 38, where I lived between 2000 and 2002. That would have been a deliciously nostalgic way to pass my New York month. Unfortunately my friend just had an altercation with her flatmate and has moved suddenly to Greenpoint, where she's sharing a room. So I have nowhere to stay in the fair city of New York. I expect to arrive on June 18th and leave on July 17th. If you know of a place in the city I could stay for a week, two weeks, or even the whole month, drop me a line. It could be a one-month sublet, or I could come and live in some neglected corner of your apartment, paying my way with actual dollars or merely brilliant European conversation.

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Thats a fabulous photograph :)

[ohnefuehlen.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

prying at the dollhouse floorboards

[cityramica.livejournal.com]

although i have never spoken to you here, i would gladly invite you to stay with me if not for the fact that the space i can claim as mine in new york city has dwindled down to a cat-bed-chair and a cardboard box in a southeastern corner of a tilt-a-whirl apartment in which i have no financial involvement.

should you find yourself digitized, i offer you this roofless rectangle.

[_________]

sincerely,
mischashoni
[wind-up robot girl, size small]

Re: prying at the dollhouse floorboards

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Digital me will happily snuggle up in that digibox, Mischa, thanks!

[sonjaaa.livejournal.com]

If you ever need a place to stay in Toronto, you are more than welcome at my place. :)

[shadowblue.livejournal.com]

You know, it's funny, I keep in touch with a lot of people around the world, and read blogs, and so forth, but I know no one in NYC. At all.

I should go there sometime and see what it is all about. Maybe July.

[featherframe.livejournal.com]

fab piccie! now, i'm actually going to be in NY for work-related purposes for about five days in early July, and i would gladly offer you a place to kip in the hotel. but meanwhile, hang in there, and let me see if anyone i know there with a proper gaff can room you for a month, okie?

(i'll be seeing you at the exhibition fer sure... i'm quite stoked that a less-than-thrilling work trip has now been made more appealing by the fact that i get to see the show at Zach Feuer.)

[leisuredynamics.livejournal.com]

did you know stephane will be featured alongside mark romanek (with anton corbijn and jonathan glazer) in the next 'director's label' series? it's due out in the fall. gets me all tingly inside.

[bifteck.livejournal.com]

Give Craigslist a try - there are always one-month sublets to be had.

[bardot.livejournal.com]

i live too far away for visitors to stay with me (queens! so difficult unless you're a secret agent!), but i will gladly ask around for you!

xoxowendy

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

I'll try an old friend (once of Jersey, now a theoretical physicist in Manhattan) if no-one's replied by this evening...

...otherwise you are welcome to use my imaginary palace (it goes wherever I like), which has got all you could ever wish for, apart from reality (a bit Mediaeval, this post)

[klasensjo.livejournal.com]

I wonder what it would be like to have Momus as a guest in your very own home. Do you sit down politely and chat or do you constantly need to go out hip-homing? Would you try to make a pass at my wife? What if my bookcollection does not include Foucault? (he can be quite difficult, you know). Would you wander around naked so the neighbors would complain? What if wi-fi is down in my house, will Momus get furious?

[magnakai.livejournal.com]

:-O
Furious Momus! O NOES!

[alienwater.livejournal.com]

you should check with Pharminatrix (http://www.livejournal.com/users/pharminatrix/) who lives in Brooklyn. She might be able to put you up or know someone who could.

[(Anonymous)]

Check out my friend martak. I'm not sure that he could host you for a month, but I'm sure he'd be interested in meeting you. He dabbles a bit in music and songwriting, and he and his partner own a house in Brooklyn.

nothing fancy

[crazyasafox.livejournal.com]

I have a home in park slope, brooklyn. It's nothing fancy, but if my roommate says okay and we ask our dog bruno, too, you could stay a week or so, or until you get your bearings. I imagine you will find your way okay, but you can atleast keep my name handy. ammander@gmail.com

[lord-whimsy.livejournal.com]

I'm over an hour's drive/train ride outside of the city, but you're welcome to visit; we'll put you to work in the garden and caring for the luna moths. A naturalist's tour of the Pine Barrens could be arranged. And there's always the highwheel and locally made wildflower honey to try.

[uberdionysus.livejournal.com]

I'm in Williamsburg, pretty central to everything. You have a couch there if you need it. However, I hear of stuff all the time, so I'll ask around and see if there's a room or an apt. up for the month. Unfortunately, my friend, whose gone for two months, just left.

Actually, I know of a place in Greenpoint that's open now. It's not as central as Williamsburg, but it's still close and it's a comfy place with your own access and two rooms (you'd share a kitchen). Interested?

[revenge-my-love.livejournal.com]

Anytime you're passing through Colorado Springs, I gotta nice, warm bed for ya! But that's not even close to NY.♥♥♥Greydon

[yourpony.livejournal.com]

If I had more room, you'd be welcome. but the couch is sagging and threatens to break.

[anti-peace-riot.livejournal.com]

A friend of the family has a wonderful apartment in a very quiet area of Manhatten that she never uses (she lives here in Toronto). I'll see what I can do.

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Across the lake from Seattle, you'd have a choice of the Underground Lair (ie nice basement room where the TV & stereo live, with large comfy sofa-bed) or the Hello Kitty Guest Room (pretty much what you'd expect, with amorous action figures and a small tortoiseshell cat who would probably say hello to you several times a night). A pug dog is also available to play with although it is advisable to keep him from annoying the cat, who was there first.

[queersolitude.livejournal.com]

i live in hollywood within five minute walking distance of two subway stops (hollywood & vine and hollywood & highland). if ever in the area, you are welcome to crash on my couch.

[din-din-dote.livejournal.com]

If you ever feel like staying forty minutes from the exciting (relative to your usual: very very bleak) part of Houston, there's a guestroom open. I wonder what my parents would say when a Momus showed up on our doorstep.

[(Anonymous)]

that photo is just wrong - like simon le bon in 80s vogue, ewwwch

[my-daddy.livejournal.com]

plans for any shows in the city while youre here?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

July 15th, but I'm keeping schtumm on the details until I'm in the US.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Thanks for all the offers, I would have answered them one by one but I was on two planes (at different times). But you are the people of my people and my people are your people.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Nick

I'm currently planning a short vacation in NYC ( with my wife); however we will leave NYC on the 26th June. Will Saturday the 25th ( first day of the show) be open to the public or will it be the private view ? I don't want to miss the art show but I guess I'll miss the gig on the 15th of July unless you head to the West Coast.

Richard

[in-dig-ent.livejournal.com]

fantastic photo. :)

[(Anonymous)]

I can be your patroness and pay for your stay in a hotel.

[(Anonymous)]

Fascist! Viva la freedom of information!

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Listen, I don't know what's eating you, but you're being very offensive. Sure, information wants to be free, but it doesn't necessarily want to go round kicking people in the nads.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn't me! It was just a startlingly interesting post that's all. And none of my business either. One sometimes forgets here on Livejournal. On the other hand, perhaps we should be allowed to question what is obviously a rather selective ego projection.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Well, I'd hope that could be conducted in slightly more intelligent terms than "You smell" or "Why don't you stay with your friend who you helped commit suicide". That's not "startlingly interesting", it's just mud-slinging, offensive and immature.

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm... I'm not overly sure why I'm entering into this, because it's not my concern. But surely helping someone to kill themselves, 'because you're such a bastard' is an intriguing matter. It is the thing that this person accuses you of that can be deemed offensive. I take it it is utterly unfounded?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

This person couldn't even spell the girl's name right. I'm not going to enter a discussion of the circumstances of the case, but I did everything in my power to save the girl concerned, including bringing her mother in from Japan.

[(Anonymous)]

In which case it would appear that you have a delusional fruitloop on your case. Or we have a maladjusted aesthete on ours.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Well, everyone has enemies, but so far I've managed to accumulate amazingly few. I'm very lucky, but some people might even hold that against me.

[(Anonymous)]

Got you. Playa haterz right?

[imomus.livejournal.com]

We're getting crushed into a corner here, so maybe you should introduce yourself?

[(Anonymous)]

I'm Ben. Loved your Utopia Povera thing.

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Ah, hello Ben! I sorta guessed. If you're the Ben I'm thinking of, you're the lucky one...

[(Anonymous)]

Do go on...

(I've got to go now, but I must admit that I'm looking forward to reading the explanation of this crypticism tomorrow)

Have you

[saaramyrene.livejournal.com]

found something? We know a couple of people in Brooklyn that I could talk to if you're still looking.

Re: Have you

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Tell me more...

momasu@gmail.com (mailto:momasu@gmail.com)

Re: Have you

[saaramyrene.livejournal.com]

Done and done.