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

[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)