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A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman
A person is on the left of the frame, appears to be looking out on a beach with people from someplace above the ground Series: Getting OutGuest Editor
Moheb Soliman

Art,

Bye bye. Hello real life. Goodbye translation; hello interpretation. Hello experience and thought unrendered; hello satisfaction or distress on the first order. Hello people, the people, by millions. Hello wilderness- fecundity, without people and art. Hello lucid utility or recreation versus incessant re-creation; hello fantasy. Goodbye delusion. Goodbye waste and sacrifice and conceit. Vacuum, fringe, excess. Hello spontaneity, free expression, whim. Goodbye gift; hello present. Never-ending potential; unending desire*.

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*to just live. Art is being quit every day. Left behind for higher purpose. Abandoned, or banished from. Sometimes the artists just go outside and never come back. Or at worst, return with something priceless, irrelevant, to wring into art. Some people were always out, lucky; stick a hand in at leisure. Happy strangers. Sometimes the world looks perfect, nothing to rearrange. The point is getting out, being out, however one can, even if on your ass, ass kicked, showing your ass. This series of letters samples varied people on the outs, and ins thereof, of art.

 

 

Moheb Soliman is an interdisciplinary poet from Egypt and the Midwest whose work is often oriented by themes of nature, modernity, identity, and belonging, often through writing, performance, and installation projects. In recent years he’s focused on the Great Lakes bioregion/borderland, presenting work in diverse US and Canadian art and public spaces and publishing a future related poetry collection with Coffee House Press. Moheb has degrees from The New School for Social Research and the University of Toronto. Before attending the Tulsa Artist Fellowship he worked as Program Director for the Arab American contemporary lit/art organization Mizna. www.mohebsoliman.info

1Photo: Moheb Soliman.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
8-16-2019

Getting Out Letter 1: Gurumaan, hello

Moheb Soliman
1Photo: Eric Avery.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
8-29-2019

Getting Out Letter 2: Dear Cruel (art) World,

Eric Avery
1Photo: Molly Van Avery.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
9-13-2019

Getting Out Letter 3: Dear darling Harper just now two years old,

Molly Van Avery
Kate Arford image 1
1
Design Literature Moving Image Performing Arts Visual Art
9-27-2019

Getting Out Letter 4: TO: Where It May Concern, 514 2nd St SE Minneapolis, MN 55414

Kate Arford
Eric Avery letter 2
1Photo courtesy of Eric Avery.
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
10-4-2019

Getting Out Letter 5: To my collaborators, colleagues, and friends; past, present, and future; near, far, and all over:

Eric Avery
DearMoheb
1
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
10-14-2019

Getting Out Letter 6: Dear Moheb,

Charles Campbell
RuthPszwaro
1
Literature Visual Art
10-28-2019

Getting Out Letter 7: Dear Big Lake,

Ruth Pszwaro
Eric Avery 3
1
Literature Performing Arts Visual Art
11-22-2019

Getting Out Letter 8: Greetings from the Future, sweet eric, or the Past, by Now.

Eric Avery
Molly Fuller Getting Out
1
Literature
11-26-2019

Getting Out Letter 9: To my forever work wife [you know who you are],

Molly Fuller
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