KIELBASY
ART + ARCH		234 Scott Street
Wilkes-Barre, PA
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ON THE WEB
http://kielbasy.nadalex.net
email: kielbasy [at] nadalex.net
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NOTES
this page is difficult to digest, by design  | straightforward information may be found HERE, following these notes, which are being slowly expanded | certain information may be found HERE | WHAT IS KIELBASY? | kielbasy, first and foremost, is a degraded form of the word "kielbasa", common in Pennsylvania, and pronounced "ke-bah-see" | kielbasy is made by my cousins, the sons of my grandfather's brother, who also made kielbasy | I eat it on holidays, and some other days, too |  kielbasy is an experiment in digestion | kielbasy is an artist residency program, which I describe BELOW | kielbasy is an art of smoke | kielbasy goes well with horseradish | kielbasy tells us something about America | WHAT IS AMERICA?| america is where the world comes together | america is a way of death, that calls itself a way of life | america is constantly settled and unsettled |  america must produce seeds of the earth, but first, america must be discovered | america must be situated upon Turtle Island |  pax americana is only worthwhile if it the sum of (demilitarization + honoring the Ancestors + apologies + Manifest Destiny): root the culture here, miniaturize the whole earth, and take earth to the stars | like space colonies? | not space colonies, not prisons in a vacuum, not SETTLEMENTS, not machines with men in them--rather the whole of earthly life, seeds of earth | "[Space colonies] are unimaginative. We've done it already. Why play with the idea anymore? It's a much greater challenge to learn, finally, how to apply our contemporary scientific inclination to refine our biological understandings...." | WHAT IS DIGESTION? |  "...to realize that our technologies and all our refinements are crude compared to what plants and photosynthesis are able to do, or compared to what takes place in the process of digestion in any body. We should learn to work with biology rather than to clumsily reconstruct it with nuts and bolts. In a nutshell, our future options are technocratic solutions or sophisticated biological solutions. The second, of course, is obviously right. Biology is preferable to gross technocratic approaches." --Gary Snyder |  WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH KIELBASY? | at kielbasy, we grow: grow compost, grow worms, grow soil, grow vegetables, grow fungi, grow forests | we decivilze, and acculturate | america must be detoxified  | "And nowhere now is there a market for minor produce: a bucket of cream, a hen, a few dozen eggs. One cannot sell milk from a few cows anymore; the law-required equipment is too expensive. Those markets were done away with in the name of sanitation--but, of course, to the enrichment of the large producers. We have always had to have 'a good reason' for doing away with small operators, and in modern times the good reason has often been sanitation, for which there is apparently no small or cheap technology. Future historians will no doubt remark upon the inevitable association, with us, between sanitation and filthy lucre. And it is one of the miracles of science and hygiene that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons" --Wendell Berry | unclean food becomes safe when eaten with horseradish |   WHAT IS HORSERADISH? | horseradish is a root, which means it grows underground, and which means that Mercury showed men how to gather it | the Oracle at Delphi told Apollo that horseradish is worth its weight in gold | the root has very little odor until you grate it | mustard gas | my cousins, the ones who make kielbasy, also make horseradish, by grating the roots and mixing it with grated beets and salt and vinegar | Tulelake is the "horseradish capital of the universe" | Tulelake also has Tooley's, or Tule Fog | Horseradish is very similar to wasabi | Tule Lake was also the home to the largest internment camp of Japanese-Americans, during the Second World War | In the same year that I was born, the Tule Lake Committee organized to seek redress for the crimes the War Relocation Authority | In 2008, the President of the United States and Emperor of Guantanamo Bay and Babylon, declared the campsite a "World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument" | "National Monuments" are a variety of pork | WHAT IS PORK? | more on pork to come | and also SMOKING | all these notes will be expanded upon, tending towards a perfect map, a 1:1 scale model of Kielbasy and its environs

STRAIGHTFORWARD INFORMATION ABOUT THE KIELBASY RESIDENCY PROGRAM

KIELBASY ART RESIDENCIES
Kielbasy Art Residencies last for 10 days, including two weekends. Currently, there is only room for two residents at a given time, but we hope to have room for additional residents by September. Residents all sleep in one room, dormitory style. Guest critics will visit during the second weekend Open Studio.
Kielbasy Art Residents will have free use of available tools and materials.
All meals will be provided. Art residents must pay a $100 fee for meals, as well as a $30 studio fee, for set-up of the studio beforehand. Work-exchange, in the form of two 6-hour days assisting on building renovations, can replace the fee.

KIELBASY  WORKSHOPS
Kielbasy Architecture Workshops will be 4-day design/build programs, intervening in the house at 234 Scott Street.
A workshop is currently being organized for the design and construction of an integrated rain-harvesting and greywater recycling system.
Fees for workshops are TBD, and depend upon fees required by visiting workshop leaders.

If you have any questions, please email kielbasy [at] nadalex.net

PHOTOS

REPORTS BACK FROM KIELBASY RESIDENTS  AND LETTERS TO KIELBASY WILL BE POSTED ON OUR BLOG.

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JULY 2010 CONCERT

Kielbasy is a 15-month project, running from June 2009 until September 2010 | The big-shabang to close the Kielbasy Residency will be held from July 29 until August 1, 2010 | A concert of Indian classical music and electronic music will accompany an exhibition of work by past Kielbasy residents | The concert and exhibition will honor Cynthia Dysleski Bhagat's 70th Birthday | (After that, I look forward to getting out of this country for a while.)