In 1989, William S. Burroughs recorded the track "No More Stalins, No More Hitlers", which opens this month’s show,
“We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy……The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident; ……"
Jack Kerouac recites to a saxophonist, Bukowski reads his nasty poem, time goes back to the 1950s when Frank O'Hara said, "In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love." Allen Ginsberg cannot stop howling in the “Footnote to Howl”, the howls are the tributes to the supreme souls, Burroughs says, to love our enemies; across the Pacific, a Chinese poet imagines how Ginsberg's mother writes to him, the mother ages in an insane asylum.
The world is a beautiful place, says Lawrence Ferlinghetti, if you don't mind the bombs and the unhappiness, the deaths and the touch of hell sometimes, you could kiss, walk, love, wear a hat and a pair of pants, dance and swim. A college student says, frustrated with life, "we are here trying to inhale the atmosphere that once nurtured people who dare to be different.” Another student from the 2015 student movement in India, "Everybody is looking for an alternative, it might be different, but there is a genuine need for change…… People are really really looking for people who they can look up to. That's the problem of our generation I feel, I didn’t have anybody to look up to, that’s why this leadership has gained its momentum. It’s actually the time. ”
The music covers Western artists such as Sonic Youth and Chinese rock bands including Omnipotent Youth Society, Hiperson, Lure, etc., half being love songs for the city, while half in grief. Voices that call for changes span time, places and forms, and nonetheless, coherently chase after a Future.
Cover credit：Jiaoyang Li
Reading Room：In Times of Crisis, Who Do We Love? w/ YUN QIN
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[Indie] [Punk] [Classic Jazz]Williams S. Burroughs - No More Stalins, No More Hitlers
Sonic Youth – Tunic (Song for Karen)
Jack Kareouc – Conclusion Of The Railroad Earth
Charles Bukowski – I Am a Reasonable Man
Steve Allen & Oliver Nelson – 125th Street & 7th Avenue
Frank O’Hara – To the Film Industry in Crisis
Eartheater – Infinity
Allen Ginsburg – Footnote To Howl
Williams S. Burroughs – Love Your Enemies
Prince Demeny – New York Grief (feat. Vini Vidi Vici)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti – The World Is a Beautiful Place
周云蓬 – Allen Ginsburg妈妈的一封信
Blondshell – Kiss City
Audio from The Source, Beat Generation Documentary
海朋森 Hiperson – 我们这些晶莹剔透的模型 Us, Translucent Models
诱导社Lure– 美好时代 Sweet Times
Audio from movie A Night of Knowing Nothing
万能青年旅店Omnipotent Youth Society – 秦皇岛 Qinhuangdao
Shows by Reading Room w/ YUN QIN & HAOXING(19)
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Reading Room: Sleep is Strange w/ YUN QIN
Iowa City 24.03.12
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Reading Room: A Peace Statement w/ YUN QIN
Iowa City 23.12.12
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Reading Room: What I Want w/ YUN QIN
Iowa City, U.S. 23.09.12
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Reading Room：In Times of Crisis, Who Do We Love? w/ YUN QIN
Beijing 22.12.11
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Reading Room：November – Beckett – Weak-Godology w/ 夺铎堕DUOHAN
Hangzhou 22.11.13
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Reading Room：SONG OF CHINA w/ HAOXING & YUN QIN
China 22.08.14
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