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Stars Amid Rubble

Ukrainian Poetry in English: A Portfolio from Sibelan Forrester followed by her notes The Susan W. Lippincott Professor of Modern and Classical Languages and Russian at Swarthmore College, Sibelan Forrester specializes in twentieth-century Russian poetry and Russian women writers. An award-winning translator, Professor Forrester has published translations from Serbian, Croatian, Russian, and Ukrainian. She selects […]

from A Seam of Electricity

https://fenceportal.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/A-Seam-of-Electricity-w-Dauphine-Crust-for-FENCE-final.m4a           What is a house unelectrified, situated on a continent-wide grid of electrical possibilities? Failure in the interiors of modernity— keystone limber in the going logics of domestic illumination? Is it even legible by the tools we have of reading houses, grids— of reading settlement? Does it even exist in […]

Hook, Scalpel, Clamp, Hole

I am sitting at my kitchen island, my hands floating like two pale moths over two sheets of printing paper. Atop the sheets is a standard hospital logo printed in jeweled tones. On the first sheet falls clearly numbered post-surgical instructions, the phone number of a physician. On the second, there is a series of […]

THE FENCE/EXPERIMENTAL SOUND STUDIO ARTIST-IN-THE-ARCHIVE EXCHANGE PROJECT: ALYSSA PERRY from Fence 41

⇒   Watch the video of Alyssa’s and Spencer’s live performances at ESS.  ⇒   Read Alyssa’s ESS-Archive-inspired writing as published in Fence issue 41.  ⇒    Listen to and see the audio/image supplement to Alyssa’s writing and performance from Malachi Ritscher’s Notebooks and two recordings of live concert performances by Xiu Xiu.   ⇒   Read Spencer’s […]

A Tribute to Spencer Hutchinson

Photo of Spencer credit Alex Inglizian/Experimental Sound Studio. You can read Spencer’s obituary here.  Spencer and I, working together on editing his introduction to his ESS/Fence project, bonded most strongly over our love of electronic music. He burned CD’s for me, sent them by US mail, and was an extraordinarily vast trove of knowledge across […]