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Wednesday, April 14, 7pm
NEW PROSE SERIES
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Paul Druecke, photo by Michele Schaps
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Paul Druecke's projects employ a variety of formats: urban intervention, collaborations, photo series, and texts, which, in turn, cross-reference one another. His work has been presented throughout the United States and in Europe. Druecke's essays have been published by InterReview, SnapMilwaukee, and New Art Examiner. He has self-published a number of artist books though his independent arts organization, ASW. The Last Days of John Budgen Jr. will be published by Green Gallery Press in the spring of 2010.
The Last Days of John Budgen Jr. transcribes the blog of the recently deceased John Budgen Jr. The story, told in five installments, was conceived as a printed publication and distributed free of charge in the midwest and beyond. Dr. Carol Sklenicka writes in praise of Chapter One, "And who but Druecke would unearth the speculation that James Joyce would have thrived as an author of spam?" Geri Mateceli writes, "The trajectory of the Last Days swerves around obvious questions. It meanders through doubts and certainties with the fickleness of a shadow at twilight." The first reading of The Last Days took place in Berlin, Germany, in conjunction with the ManyMinithe briefest residency ever conceived.
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