Collaboration between physical theater groups Nemcatacoa (Bogotá), Carpetbag Brigade (San Francisco, CA) with music and words by Verbo•bala (Tucson, AZ) and Hojarasca (Carmen de Viboral, Colombia). Debut in Carmen de Viboral and later performed in Bogotá at the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro. Videos from the creation process in El Carmen de Viboral, Colombia:

Solo performance art piece exploring the somatic experience of writing a poem. 13 sealed envelopes were given to the audience, each reading “open on 1/1/11.” Second in the NoVOGRAFÍAS series. NoVOGRAFÍAS: poembirth excerpt from a performance by logan phillips production assistance: maya asher heather wodrich camera: heather wodrich 2010 tucson, arizona dirtyverbs.com Preparations:

Spoken performance art piece transmitted live via internet from Mexico City to Heredia, Costa Rica as part of Sotavento Theater Group‘s “PERFORGRAFÍAS” event. While audience members waited to enter further into the performance space, they watched the live-transmitted piece on the monitor while musician Mario Corrales generated a sonic landscape. Un performance de Gustavo Monge.[…] See more ⇒

Performance art intervention in front of the Contemporary Art Museum of Oaxaca, together with five other artists from all over the US and Mexico. While mostly blocking one of the primary tourist corridors of Oaxaca’s centro, performers yelled, whispered and purred questions and statements to passerbys on the sidewalk. While the bilingual text itself was[…] See more ⇒

Individual exposition of new stencil graffiti work and digital prints, first in the NoVOGRAFÍAS (“new writing system”) series. This set of five designs focused on five words: blackbook, horizon, arizona horizona, méxico cíclico and dirtyverbs. The inauguration included a performance of related poems.   NoVOGRAFíAS verbo, video y graffiti por LOGAN PHILLIPS dirtyverbs.com inauguración SÁBADO[…] See more ⇒

A collaboration with the group Vessel and their piece “Transfix,” directed and conceived by Rachel Bowditch. I joined the troupe for a shoot in Imperial Dunes, California, and later created a spoken remix of TS Eliot’s “The Wasteland” which was performed at the Transfix retrospective at the monOrchid Gallery in Phoenix, April 2010. Transfix Retrospective[…] See more ⇒

Video from last September’s Bat Night 2009 in Tucson, Arizona. The event, sponsored by the Rillito River Project, seeks to bring attention to the disappearing rivers of the southwestern United States. I was asked by spectacle experts Flam Chen to participate in their commission for the event, and I wrote a custom poem for the[…] See more ⇒

Some video from a late-night performance at Mapa Teatro in central Bogotá, as part of the 7th Hemispheric Encuentro of Performance & Política. ¡Noches surrealistas!   “This Poem Writes the Ink” “La Posibilidad de Esto” “Vancouzy, High As Fuck”

Este miércoles es la premiere del documental “Los Peces del Viento” del videoasta Wilfred Massamba. La obra se enfoca en dos poetas bilingües, el mexicano Mardonio Carballo (español-náhuatl) y el estadounidense Logan Phillips (español-inglés), en este estreno contaremos con la presencia de los dos y el grupo Bungalo Dub. Miércoles 11 de junio a las[…] See more ⇒