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For immediate release: December 11th, 2012
2-UP Edition by Paul Legault + Jen Liu
Launch party: Tuesday, December 18th, 7-9PM.
On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard St, NY, NY 10002.
2-UP is pleased to announce the publication of our 11th poster edition, a collaboration between poet Paul Legault and artist
Jen Liu. Please join us for a launch party on Tuesday, December 18th, 7-9PM at On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, NY, NY.
The event will be accompanied by a reading and short screening with a live soundtrack.
Paul Legault and Jen Liu’s collaboration started with a consideration of the ass. Ass-backwards, leading from behind, junk in the
trunk. What’s the junk in our trunk? Yoko Ono and Walt Whitman.
In “This Compost,” Walt Whitman observes the cycle of life to death, and back into life, the packed corpses/shit in every inch of
soil. Paul Legault rewrites Whitman’s text as contemporary vernacular, vocabulary as well as sentiment. His text forms the hairs
of a horsetail butt plug. In "Bottoms," Yoko Ono presents the absurdity and abstraction of human asses, as they move but go
nowhere, the face’s opposite as portraiture. Jen Liu restages Ono’s video as slapstick salutation, portraits with paint and props. Here is a still. The two sides of the poster are in dialog: who comes first? The ass-face, who we stuff with words? Or the words,
that return us to the beleaguered author?
Paul Legault is a Brooklyn-based writer. He is the author of three books of poetry, including The Emily Dickinson Reader
(McSweeney’s 2012). He is co-founder of the translation press Telephone Books, and editor of its inaugural anthology The
Sonnets: Translating & Rewriting Shakespeare (Nightboat/Telephone, 2012).
Jen Liu is a Brooklyn-based artist. She has exhibited in galleries and institutions internationally, including MUSAC, Spain; Aspen
Art Museum, Colorado; Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland; and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, among others. In Spring 2013, she’ll
be living in a cabin in the woods, and will try not to get caught. Comprised of 14 artists, curators, and writers, for each edition 2-UP pairs two of its members together to produce a doublesided poster, packaged in twos. The content of each poster is entirely a product of the participants ‘up.’ The complete series of
2-UP editions is available for a modest subscription fee; individual editions are available for a suggested donation of $2. Production of each poster is funded by monthly contributions from each member, with all proceeds from the sale of posters re-invested
into the project. 2-UP aims to produce low-cost multiples in large editions, guided by the idea that the value of art can exist
independently of money and irrespective of rarity.
www.twoup.org serves as a record of the project that includes images of each month’s poster and documentation of the
collaborative process.