Shoppers, take this time to please your companions.
Right, left, right—obviously they take your attention
via clockwork sales talk. A drop of discoloration
is being processed when you talk to them—
lover, robber, gender, industrially colour blind—
magical are their actions to repeat the blooms
of <magnolia on marginalia>, high-price of intentions
under duress. If all good shoppers are careful enough
to be attracted to the whiteness of the lights, or to something
strange like Mambrino’s Golden Helmet, I would like
to think that life in a crowded place is clueless
about the appeal of mass nouns to the art
of small things like undeclared birthdays
and acupuncture points. Inside the fitting room,
there’s a hunk of love, all spruced-up with a groovy
sense of purpose; this I’m referring to all types
of clothing as professionals, feeling the way
we feel right now, are available on site to serve you,
always. But what is fake measurement if everything
at this moment can only be claimed with payment,
starting from the alteration fee, tape receipt, invoice,
the repaired item with accompanying stub—
to your free time to talk to strangers, that is building
a relationship brick by brick? Bonuses, oh you see
dripping their milk nutrients to the floor
the inert clerk would love to suck clean
with his mouth-knitted shoes. All for customer
service and store convenience, for Professor Paper
Machine’s shiny happy people honouring the dance Sufism
of sutra lights, a teetotaling fallacy of tropes
for crab paste to not junk the scent of earth,
shoplifters of hearts hardwired into the machinery
of healing, of entrances and exits space-altered
by their ethnicity as the spell of philosophical
flowers embraces a technē that’s automatic for
the people under the shade of the Plasticine trees.
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones