SUPERSKYWOMAN

COCO GO

COCO GORDON

Lyons Earthday Peace Umbrella

Is Venice garbage too beautiful for its own good?

Friend and consulting with Thomas Berry, Riverdale, NY 1985-late 90’s

I published Use is a Short Self-Lit Fuse, see my connections to his work: THOMAS BERRY jurisprudence.webarchive

Friend and worked with Quileute elders 1988- 1991

Accomplishments:

Turnings, director, poetry/art group 70's

Artist in residence in schools: papermaking, printmaking 1970s-late 80s

Taught: Papermaking at St Michael’s printshop Newfoundland 1978

Chair of poetry LIPC and editor of art & poetry, 70’s

Created my own Alternative Presses, Water Mark, W SPACE "Intimate" editions, and

TIKYSK artist book editions

Sponsored two Water Mark poetry book competitions: 1980, 1985, published 15 books for poets.

Water Mark sponsored Special exhibitions, concerts, readings

Gruppo TIKYSK created 1994

Hundreds of poetry readings

Ontological Exhibition: "il Sogno del Tempo", 36 ecozoic earth/ salt installations,

Messina Italy 1990, manifests Thomas Berry's Earth Philosophy thinking + Catalog

Published Articles:

Harmony's Aqua Terra, P Berg’s The Pulse; Ear Magazine, 2 issue Image scores critical writing, First online art magazine Art Com, Eternal Network, Lightworks Magazine, High Performance, New Observation, Lotta Poetica, Heresies,  + 38more

COCO’s Artists Books are sold at PRINTED MATTER, 535 W 22 St, NY 10011.

Coco Books published:

60 Coco original books in editions of 25-140, titles and prices are on request...

+150 one of kind handmade paper + Exhibition Catalog, Italy

+13 Interactiv books for: David Abrams, David Korten(3), Paul Hawken (2), John Grande, Stephanie Mills, Chellis Glendinning, Simone Forti, Sunryu Suzuki, Thomas Berry, Harvey Jackins

Three Artist Books published for Permaculture, 1992, 1997, & 2003:

Visioning Life Systems That Create Healthy Resources and Transform Waste: Artists Work From Their Permacultural Source, Water Mark Press, 2003

TIKYSK: Permaculture Getting to Know You, Foot Sq Space, TIKYSK Press, 1997

Artists Perform From Their Ecological Source: Working to Re-open Major life Systems of the Planet, W-Space Press 2002

presented along with organizing a Med Art conference, Sheraton Hotel NYC, 3-day program, talking circle, Coco Dreaming with Pauline Oliveros, art-health-talks, and large-scale eco-healing actions by artists

Groups:

My group: Gruppo TIKYSK, introduced 1994 in Genova Italy at gallery v-idea

Franklin Furnace Alum,

FFFO Fluxus Group,

Congelo Collaboration (Coco & Angelo Ricciardi) 10 years, many editions

Khotopa Mir (Vito Pace’s the Peace office)

Cornucopia with Luc Fierenz, Belgium

Klemenz Golf, “My Home” projections on buildings in Dusseldorf, Germany

Oreste 1,2,3  three years including expositions at Venice Biennales

Markers group, exposition of banners and books at Venice Biennale

Art Biennales:

5 Venice Biennales, featured SuperSkyWoman in Italian Pavilian

Mexico Biennale of experimental Poetry

Brazil Biennale

Copliandia curated by Kirby Gookin, in Spain on a boat.

London Biennales

Istanbul Biennale

Festivals:

Fun of Fun: River Sile, Italy

Artway of Thinking: Art guide, poet for 100 people, Treviso, Italy

Pari Dispari many festivals in 80’s

Il fascino della Carta 1984

Films Featured in:

Ray Johnson movie, "How to Draw A Bunny"

"Connections RJ-Online", Lars Movin

Linda Hatterndorf, winning dozens of film festival awards for The Cats of Mirikitani

videoed my artist Mom and myself in Chappaqua.

I shot video in Pelestrina, Italy for future movie, "Orans," Ann Waldman,

Buddhist poet that established Poetry Project & Naropa U

Honors:

1984 Lanzafatte, Italian thesis “Body Books” on Coco's work, reprinted

in catalog for Il Sogno del Tempo for large ontological show of same name in Messina Italy 1990.

1987 Women Studio Workshop grant for Dreaming 33 hour event

1988 Received Susan B Anthony award from NYC living in the Windo© Peace

at Sohozat.

1989, Met Ala Marinetti in Rome

1993 Studio Pass Grant for recording studio project for Austria

1996, Robert Winner Award for full manuscript, runner up, Poetry Society of America

Residencies:

The Banff Center 1990

Steirischer Herbst Avant-Garde Festival

1993, Harvestworks NYC, music, 1993

Djerassi 1996

Oreste at Zerynthia italy 1999

Santa Fe Art Institute 2002

Emily Harvey Foundation 2008 Venice Art residency, 3 months:

41 interviews of Waters & Their Friends 2008

published three chapbooks with edizioninedte

Exhibition of 75 new works

Featured presentation/performance in San Marco’s famed gallery space

Performed Water interviews interactively with Estes Teatime readers poetry group,

Estes Park Public Library, 2008

I love my carnevale wig

Large land art culture projects:

Austria, Belgium, Spain, Brazil, BC Canada, Ontario, Pender Island, Saturna Island, Saskatoon, Montreal Mt Tremblant

International Collaborations:

Marc Dachy, critic

Alison Knowles, Betsy Damon, many other artists

John Grande, Angelo Ricciardi, Vito Pace, Katerina Davinio,

Agricola de Cologne, Klemens Golf, Luc Fierens, Martin Krusche, Tamara Lai, Artway of thinking, Sassu, Roy Staab, Helmut Becker, Barbara Roux, La La Press, 

Sandra Semchuk, Canada- Pender Isle- lake Huron ice waves, self photos, Emma Lake with loons, Newfoundland, Chaco Canyon with 4 mud covered women

Books ready to edit and publish:

Linda Montano correspondences and dreaming sessions from 1983

Ray calls, 15 years of Ray Johnson telephone notes

Dick Higgins Zebra letters

Skin: memoirs and a 12 person flax paper art project

Ed Pennant- poems on handmade paper

Solo Shows since 1963 internationally: 

Curated by Lucio Barbera, Sandro Ricaldone, Rosanna Chiessi, Leonardi V-idea, Venice Biennale, Oreste, Corallo Theater Napoli; Fiera Camponaria, Galleria Hobelix, Libreria Hobelix, Galleria Il Gabbiano, Foro Boario, Italy; KunstKanzlei-Interart, Christine Jones, Stadtgalerie, Kulturverein Schreams,  Gallerie Klinger, Vienna-Austria; A taste of Art, The Deep Listening Space Gallery, Window Peace, Sohozat, Galleria Dell'Occhio, Central Hall Gallery, Emily Harvey Gallery, Art-In General Elevator Sound art, Gallery ONETWENTYEIGHT, Art Initiatives, Attitude Art Window, Small Press Center, Bodley Gallery, Sandra Gering NYC;  Heckscher Museum, Wall Street Gallery, Womens Studio Workshop, Peopleart Buffalo, Foot Sq Space, Sea Cliff Gallery;  Real Art Ways, CT, Fairleigh Dickinson University;

70’s handmade paper inventions to enter, wear, sound, inhabit: liquid pools, clothes, hammocks invented Sounding instruments (drums, rainsticks, pillows, shakers, strummers, famous John cage inspired hairy pianos. 1978 began using paper instruments interactively.

Mid 70’s - early 80’s taught many artists to create their own papermaking studios and equipment, master-working their large paper installations and Projects

Selected Collections:

MOMA Library NYC, Whitney Museum Library, Fogg Museum MA, Museum of Women in the Arts Wash DC, Smithsonian Museum, Ruth & Marvin Sackner Archive, Provincia of Messina, Univ of Alberta Edmonton, Spec Collections UC Santa Cruz, Brown University Library, The Banff Centre Library Alberta, KunstMuseum Lenningen Germany, Getty Center, Vasari Futurist Collection Sicily, Heckscher Museum, American Craft Museum + many more

Major websites to find Coco's art, works:

Transition Profile page lists many Coco websites + hundreds of art photos, leads to discussions, blog, Transition cross-pollinating groups.

http://transitioncolorado.ning.com/profile/CocoGordon all websites listed on Transition profile.

Transition Town Lyons page with events, discussions, and Transition history of my town going back in time.

http://transitioncolorado.ning.com/group/transitiontownlyonsco

Tamara Lai’s French site features Coco’s “Bye Buy”s.

http://tell-a-mouse.be/sacrifice/terre/Terra.htm

http://www.tell-a-mouse.be/sacrifice/menu.htm

Martin Krusche's Austrian Kultur site published SuperSkyWoman's action website, also featured as Jane Doe, Kultur published Coco's poetry "Interactive" and artist books

http://www.galerie.kultur.at/coco/base/core.htm

You Are Poetry, global poetry Day to heal Ground Zero in NYC with action.

http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/kareninazoom/coco.htm

Selected for Violence festival, featured artist selected for Self-Representation feature newmediafest.org site:

http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/exhibitionhall/2002/edition05/cocoself.htm

http://www.le-musee-divisioniste.org/start2.htm featured artist.

http://www.van.at/howl/track/jane/show03.htm

http://www.van.at/howl/track/jane/show05.htm

http://www.van.at/howl/track/jane/show06.htm

http://www.galerie.kultur.at/set02/space03.htm

http://www.galerie.kultur.at/coco/index.htm

http://twylyfe.kultur.at/set02/ma12.htm grasses

http://harvestworks.org/creativec/index3.html    

http://www.nmartproject.net/cur/mirror/index.html

Powerpoint presentations to present:

from learning at the FP summit, including The Farm and other closed loop models, Katherine Austin Fitts Solari Tapeworm Economy warnings and positive suggestions, Ethan Rolands Nuevas Raices- Our Seeds project, Ken Lassman's niche-in-time mandalas, Polyculture, Value-Added products, and SuperSKyWoman FP- Permaculture wisdoms, The New Wealth.

FROM A PROJECT-LEARNING PERSPECIVE:

1988 worked with Quileutes, La Push WA, proving their culture was still viable to not lose reservation status, by learning from elders and helping re-teach their culture, crafts, make my adze, weave, spline baskets, belts, headbands, find the gauze inside cattail leaves, fish the birthing stone back out of the ocean.

Was a friend of Thomas Berry in Riverdale NY, since 1985, exchanging our books, he wrote a poem for my 1992 book: Artists Perform From Their Ecological Source, created for my 3 day program of eco-artists to showcase at a Med Art Conference in NYC Hotel + a talking circle with indigenous and eco-illuminati to show creative forms of healing.

Became Fluxus artist. Worked in Austria and Italy on large culture projects I devised to give back old ways lost, performing art, dreaming, installation, books, soundworks shared with the local people. I taught advanced papermaking since 1975 to artists, reviving making equipment of almost lost old knowledge, eastern and western. Grew flax in Canada.

One of my heart-lightening twirls

Made eco-art at Mt Tremblant. Playing similar roles in Lyons CO, raising the bar for community building, year-round sheetmulch food growing, doing walktalks with nature, invented writing of Interactiv books for sage writers. Waters, trees talk to me.

FUTURE CV:

Start a course via my own WATER MARK OF LYONS PPP: LLC business: Practice letting go of the Industrial Megamachine with others, using design methods in venues, studying Conversations That Matter: NVC, RC, Theory U, Open Space, Conversation Café’s, Check-ins, All Species Representation, Joana Macy Work that reconnects, Dreaming, Back-casting, Transition games.

Present Permaculture as Healing, Plant communication, Perming the head action, teaching the Bioregional Jump, experiencing with all >53 senses.

Make a good business case (FP Value) for Permaculture Food Sheds, No GMO organic food farm sheds.

TOOLS:

Raise level of government visioning slowly by repeating the values of conservation strategy vs purely taxation base for budgeting.

Picture riparian corridors evolving into value-making and value-adding local business and services that stave off big box development targeted by annexations promotion.

Use the Implementation of the Comprehensive Plan to form a strategy to support and honor those who do exemplary Sustainability work.

Use integrative ecosocial design training to expand understandable language and technical presentation skills.

Find appropriate mentors.

Team up with effective researchers, like Hunter Lovins who gathers data that educates developers, corporations, towns and community leaders. Manifest pro bono.

Design closed loop circular FP maps to keep resources in the community.

Teach village building techniques to town governing bodies.

Form a Permaculture integrated-town design Charrette. Use grad students to assess optimum green practices and design strategies. Make a team from those who know how to.

Use success to Set up Skillshare, New currency to keep local systems wealthy.

Build on successes.

Earth wealth-making attracts newly rich visionary people to grantmaking.

Groom elder residents who mapped a storefront Community Clearinghouse to support their plan as an earth wealth program that enhances their quality of living.

ACTION LEARNING- USE OF FUTURE DEVELOPED TOOLS:

Brand SuperSkyWoman to promote community, plant communication and permaculture; Continue conversing with Nature beings, carry out their cryptic visions (Start a Water currency); Make habit changing movies from completed video clips; Get SuperSkyWoman on Lecture Circuit; Stay ecological, new technology informed; Observe People, Nature-beings voice their paradigm needs; Bioregional engagement, help their forming of certification curriculum; Design interconnecting Bioregionalism, Transition, Financial PC mandalas. LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN!

Form a land trust for artists, inventors and permaculturists to design aesthetic, functional living earth systems; Develop Low Cost winter gardens; Remediate with inoculum I grow; Continue Planetary EcoArt using hand built natural materials; Fabricate large landwork sculptures from old and new maquettes and drawings. OBSERVE OBSERVE OBSERVE!

My posthumous Ray Johnson Blue Eyes Club meeting at Pollock-Krassner House E Hampton

Stacked recycled sawn off edges of doors from chalkboards I made for the sculpture trail

and have FUN FUN FUN WALKNG BACKWARDS

cocogord@mindspring.com

Keep writing critical intuitive interactive books for sage authors; Artist-books with sense of play; Self-photographing magic earth-to-SuperSkyWoman set-ups begun 60s; Writing experimental poems; Add new characters to my experimental novel, Where Dead and Warm Meet; Edit my unpublished 1980’s Book of Skin as Strong Women memoir; Continue translating Italian poets; Publish planned and unplanned projects; Continue 60 book series published by my W Space, Water Mark and TIKYSK Presses.

CREATE CREATE CREATE!

Continue clothes cuttings/restylings; Daily piano improvisation and sight reading; Continue timeless evolutionary travel, feeling my cells as sun’s first allurement energy; Observing reactive emotions express their moment then release like fluid sectors.

Practice my healing arts. HEAL HEAL HEAL!

Develop a Model Permaculture Greenhome renovation 2011-12 with space for: an elder-designed community active clearinghouse, all my archives, handmade papers, poetry, eco, litmags, fluxus art; Establish an empty room ready for anything everything heart-think tanks to build the new public policy; find brilliant collaborators. DESIGN DESIGN DESIGN!

USE  OF SWOT, OBREDIM, SADI, & DBOM TO GUAGE EFFECTIVENESS

(strengths Weaknesses, opportunities and threats)

(Observation, Boundaries, Evaluation, design, Implementation, Maintenance)

(Survey, Analysis, Design, Implementation)

(Design,  Build, Operate, Maintain) EVALUATE EVALUATE EVALUATE!

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