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:

Un colibrí llega a mi azotea chilanga y de repente todo me parece posible, aunque improbable: flores donde no hay colores sino cemento, metrópolis construida sobre metrópolis, metrópolis suspendida sobre lago, nervios tensos esperando tremores, craneos esperando volcanes, en fin todo, al final, todo finalmente. Entonces colíbrí, ¿así? ¿Pero cómo? Esta ciudad es cemento oxidado,[…] See more ⇒

the ink writes the poet. Headlines write the politics. Sentences write the prisoners. Textbooks write the memory, lessons ignore everyone. Grades make the student. Students learn the teacher. Jobs work the employee. Streets drive the car. TVs watch every household. Religions rely on the fanatic. Prices buy the customer. Drugs do the poor. Lines wait[…] See more ⇒

Here is a short piece of videoarte done by my homeboy Carlos Altamirano in México, DF. I collaborated and did the audio for the piece, something I love to do and was happy to have been asked. Carlos did the piece as part of UNAM’s ArteShock, which was a televised competition between artists in different[…] 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 ⇒

Urban Intimacies by Mexican video-dance artist Nuria Fragoso Armenta. She was recently in Prague to complete a series of projects, this being the first. She directed, danced, and edited it. I did the audio design, using samples from: Juan Pablo Villa, some Glenn Weyant drones, Language Removal Service glitches and street recordings from Cuba and[…] See more ⇒

Come see 40,000 bats fly out from under the Campbell Ave. bridge! PLUS the spectacle & poetry of FLAM CHEN and Logan Phillips! the Rillito River Project presents BAT NIGHT 2009 SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12th 5:30pm Rillito Riverbed, Campbell Ave. bridge Bat expert Tar Petryszyn, P.h.D. Poet Logan Phillips Tucson spectacle experts Flam Chen FREE! One[…] 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”

Winter video-poem meditation. FOTOVIDEO logan phillips MUSICA white rainbow FOR Cass & D… merry xmas! NEW MEXICO 2008

Aero avión, build nest. Nido airplane nave. Vuelo, cielo cielo. Caught the aeronave from the Juarez war zone back home to the onda arizona. (Amazing trip. Saludos a Leon. More soon.) The flight from PHX to TUS takes 20 minutes. The metal iguana doesn’t climb over 5,000 feet. The up. Then the down. Bottled water[…] See more ⇒