We Responsible Others Commissioned to develop a sculpture, the artist instead found herself attempting to define the space around it. What use is a sculpture without a room, a world? she’d asked her gallerist, who reminded her that the municipal client had come with a certain budget. Your job is to make things, the gallerist […]
What Feats Fence Accomplished in 2022
In 2022, we were able to accomplish the following: »» Published Fence issue #39 and paid all contributors $50 each. Prepared Fence issue is #40, ready to be transmitted to the printer the first week of January. »» Began a new dedicated translation section of Fence and invited submissions. »» Created the Visiting Editor position, […]
Warmer and Farther from the Windows
In the house I grew up in, I am in the living room with the high ceiling and the low carpet. My wife is in the kitchen turning either side of the kitchen-sink faucet to make sure one of them comes out hot. The house is ours, if we want it. Uproot and all? she […]
Exclusion
Defi’s left knee was torn out from a ski accident. Sitting in her own apartment, she waited for her friend, Han Solo, to come and help her move. When he arrived, standing in front of her front door, he looked up and down at the boxes of clothes, her laundry basket, her table and chair, […]
Ten Poems by Tone Škrjanec, translated from the Slovene by Matthew Rohrer with Ana Pepelnik
I suggest listening to Tone Škrjanec read his poems in the Slovene while you read these English translations, for a delicious confluence of languages in your ears and mind. – Emily Wallis Hughes https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/A-View-of-Scenery-That-Evades-All-Laws-1.mp3 A View of Scenery That Evades All Laws I had lacy underpants lowered […]
Plastic adventure
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, […]
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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 […]
It is said
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 […]
“You promised my baby would come out alive,”
the child’s mother wails. “But he’s here, right in front of you,” the therapist insists, pointing at a plastic comb, a pile of muddy clothes, some underwear, eyeglasses. “But this isn’t the same, those glasses aren’t even his.” The child opens the office door, squishing his way across the high-pile carpet as if atop a […]
“I said, do you feel external?” “Yes.”
The child asks his mother from where they are coming and she says, “Please, just look ahead.” →
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