Dalia Neis and emet ezell are artists living in Berlin. This summer, they sat down to speak about Neis’ book The Swarm, recently published by The Elephants. The Swarm hums to a music all its own. Set between the gurgling baths of Budapest and the Western Carpathian Mountains, Dalia Neis bends narrative into fog and […]

The vending machine cast a fluorescent triangle into the darkness of the hotel lobby, a glow that seemed not to illuminate the floor but rather to float millimeters above it. We stood in the empty doorway. No other lights were on, inside or out, and the night sky behind us was a wash of black […]

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/01-Angel-of-Death.mp3   FENCE is happy to be collaborating with The Blight Record Project in sharing “Angel of Death” by Brian Evenson. The Blight Record Project produces audio adaptations of contemporary classic short stories printed to vinyl. Each edition is printed in a limited run for rare collectors and audio storytelling fans alike. The debut full […]

With translated selections from RIGID FOAM LAMINATES (Marcia H. Gutcho, pub. Noyes Data Corp 1972) 1. CHEMICAL PROCESS REVIEWS, $35 per issue. (Poetry Translation) [ACROSTIC] TRI ME LLove me? IT doesn’t have to be hard. It Can be easy, it should be. Another New HYDRa I Desire to be for you. Elephantine proportions, endless cantilever, […]

i Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will ii Henri Bergson, Matter and Memory iii Rosalind Krauss, “Richard Serra” iv Rosalind Krauss at the hearing over Tilted Arc in New York in 1985. Perhaps the artist is misinterpreting Krauss; perhaps the artist doubts “vision’s intentionality”; perhaps the artist ought to take a walk. v The mother […]

that disagreements over matters of perception and perceptions of matter might be reconciled if one quits the business of ornamenting language about them, the press release read for a new hot-shot abstractionist picked up by her gallery. She put down her white wine to take a swig from her aluminum water bottle before swilling the […]