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Jack Kerouac outside W.S.Burroughs' doorway by Villa Muniria garden wall.Jack stayed in roof-terrace room 2 flights upstairs from Bill, with vast view of the bay across toward Gibraltar, he'd preceded me & Peter Orlovsky on Yugoslav freighter from N.Y. by a month, helped type Bill’’s Interzone and Word Hoard mss. assembled same time as Naked Lunch mss. letters I brought with me. Jack left for Paris a week and half after our arrival, On the Road was published earlier [sic] that year, he'd already written a dozen book "Visions" "Dreams" & "Blues" up to "Desolation Angels" Part I. Late May Tangier, [sic] 1961. [This is actually April 1957, and On the Road was still to be published coming Fall. Photo & Caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries / Allen Ginsberg Estate]

Gregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, behind him two dead boys: Ian Somerville & Michael Portman, under wall of Bill’s garden, Villa Mouneria, Tangier 1961

[photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate]

Peter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac ... in late-afternoon sun..  Port & Custom-house in background where Peter & I docked on Yugoslav freighter from New York carrying four years’ accumulated Naked Lunch manuscript-letters. Jack speed-typed Burroughs’ Interzone word-hoard, his own On the Road (about to be) published, Peter readying to write his own “Frist Poem”. Jack left Tangier for Paris a week later, April 5, 1957.

[photo and caption: Allen Ginsberg, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate]

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Gestures are the language of the body, sometimes accompanying speech, sometimes filling in when speech fails. Gestures are universal and multicultural. Primal, pre-linguistic and sometimes theatrical, they are complex methods of communication and the expression of ideas.

  Many gestures make a community and build up to create a language. Through gathering bodily actions and interactions with the world the Lexicon of Artistic Gestures can become a social space - a research archive.

  LoAG is looking for something. We are gathering information about gestures, perhaps as accents, like mannerisms, or personal characteristics.  Shifting the focus from the art object to the artist’s movements changes the relationship between subject/object. Does it leave object representational to the movement? (Bringing about a strange relationship to Time and Motion studies.)

Gesture can be a part of ritual or embody practise in motion. Are artists involved in perpetual labour or perpetual play?

  LoAG is a video collection of gestures made by artists working in a wide variety of media. All artists produce gestures regardless of practice and we are interested in what they want to share, in relation to or outside the bounds of their regular practice. The work is a gathering of information and seeks to explore the language of artistic production by making public the intimate, often private, space of art making. Like dance, they have rhythm, and contain moments of intimacy or slapstick, performing and revealing tacit knowledge.

  Whether political, communicative, choreographed, or gestures of the grotesque, these gestures are at the heart of our practices.