task 03 / 7

Start date:  October 1, 2024.
This cycle will have 3 seasonal tasks: October, January and March.

List of participants:
Alexis Almeida (US), Amir Akram (Baghdad, Iraq), Roberto Balò (Prato, Italy), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (NYC), Elisa Biagini (Italy), Laura Boggia (Italy), Marie Buck (NYC), Courtney Bush (US), Felipe Cussen (Santiago, Chile), Claire DeVoogd (US), Robert Fitterman (NYC), Ethan Fortuna (NYC), Sophia Le Fraga (LA), Kristen Gallagher (NYC), Sanja Grozdanic (NYC), Aurelia Guo (London, UK), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin, Germany), Elijah Jackson (NYC), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad, Iraq), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Klaus Killisch (Berlin, Germany), Tyler Little (NYC), Matt Longabucco (NYC), Kristin Lucas (Austin, Texas), Monica McClure (NYC), Holly Melgard (NYC), Hella Mewis (Baghdad, Iraq), Yedda Morrison (SF), Joseph Mosconi (LA), Michael Prado (Lima, Peru), Kim Rosenfield (NYC), Zaid Saad (Baghdad, Iraq), Jeff Shapiro (Siena, Italy), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh),  Mónica de la Torre (NYC), Sam Winston (London, UK), Joey Yearous-Algozin (NYC)


The experience of saying
Tyler Little


RESPONSES


Roberto Balò


Stephanie Barber


Erica Baum


Elisa Biagini


Robert Fitterman
Klaus Killisch

I, too, am sad and lonely
Klaus Killisch & ambientfunk: music, visuals
Robert Fitterman: words, voice

I, too, am sad and lonely
you told me that you are too
my ticket reads: sad and lonely
what do you expect us to do?

I, too, am giving up
you say you gave up long ago
giving up on every day
it’s a feeling I know you know

I, too, am looking down on
this world we left behind
got a suitcase full of sad—
got a world that’s so unkind

CHORUS:

You ought to know that your sadness just might be mine.
You’ve already said what I wanted to say every time
The world that’s forgotten about me
has forgotten about you too.
I, too, am sad and lonely.
and I know that you are sad and lonely too.

I, too, am sad and lonely
you told me that you wrote that too
too many of us feel too empty
too many days feeling blue

I, too, am sad and lonely
I’m sad when you go away
and if you’ll allow me this honesty
I’m sad when you’re here to stay.

I got a ticket to sad and lonely
the seat next to me is free
you thought the same thought I just thought—
we’re not who we thought we’d be

REPEAT CHORUS


Sophia Le Fraga

“I Believe;” acrylic and ink on found library card, 3”x5”, 2025

Ethan Fortuna


Kristen Gallagher

Endicott, Ronald P., “Inner speech,” Frontiers in Psychology, Sec. Theoretical and Philosophical, Psychology, Volume 15, 20 March 2024

https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1360699


Sanja Grozdanic

In honor of Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday today, I’ve been reading her prison letters to Sophie Liebknecht. Frequently she draws attention to the sound of birds (or to birds, and living creatures generally—in one particularly moving letter, to buffaloes from Romania –“Poor wretch, I am as powerless, as dumb, as yourself; I am at one with you in my pain, my weakness, and my longing.”). Examples below.

May 2nd, 1917: “… Do you remember how, in April last year, I called you up on the telephone at ten in the morning to come at once to the Botanical Gardens and listen to the nightingale which was giving a regular concert there? We hid ourselves in a thick shrubbery, and sat on the stones beside a trickling streamlet. When the nightingale had ceased singing, there suddenly came a plaintive, monotonous cry that sounded something like “Gligligligligliglick!” I said I thought it must be some kind of marsh bird, and Karl agreed; but we never learned exactly what bird it was.”

May 23, 1917: “Will you believe me, Sonyusha, when I tell you that a little snatch of bird song can be so full of meaning, can move me so profoundly. My mother, who considered that Schiller and the Bible were the supreme sources of wisdom, was firmly convinced that King Solomon understood the language of birds. In the pride of my fourteen years and my training in natural science I used to smile at my mother’s simplicity. But now I have myself grown to be like King Solomon; I too can understand the language of birds and beasts. Not, of course, as if they were using articulate speech, but I understand the most varied shades of meaning and of feeling conveyed by their tones. Only to the rude ear of one who is quite indifferent, does the song of a bird seem always the same. Those who love birds and beasts, those who have a sympathetic understanding, can perceive great diversity of expression, and can recognise a complete language.”

May 12, 1918: “For my part, however, my interest in organic nature is almost morbid in its intensity. A pair of crested larks here have one young bird – no doubt the other three have come to a bad end. This little one can already run. You may have noticed the quaint way in which crested larks run. They trip along with short, hasty steps, not like the sparrow which hops on both feet. This young lark can fly quite well by now, but is not yet able to find its own food (insects, grubs, etc.) at any rate while the weather is still so cold. Every evening in the court beneath my window, it utters its sharp, plaintive pipe. The old birds promptly put in an appearance, answering with a soft and anxious “hweet, hweet”, and they bustle about to hunt up some food in the chill evening twilight. As soon as they find anything, it is stuffed down the throat of the clamorous youngster.”

Rosa Luxemburg’s last written words are available to read here. ““Order prevails in Warsaw!” “Order prevails in Paris!” “Order prevails in Berlin!” Every half-century that is what the bulletins from the guardians of “order” proclaim from one center of the world-historic struggle to the next. And the jubilant “victors” fail to notice that any “order” that needs to be regularly maintained through bloody slaughter heads inexorably toward its historic destiny; its own demise.”


Aurelia Guo


Atef Al Jaffa


Monica McClure


Kim Rosenfield


Jeff Shapiro


Ed Steck


Sam Winston

task 02 / 7

Start date:  October 1, 2024.
This cycle will have 3 seasonal tasks: October, January and March.

List of participants:
Alexis Almeida (US), Amir Akram (Baghdad, Iraq), Roberto Balò (Prato, Italy), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (NYC), Elisa Biagini (Italy), Laura Boggia (Italy), Marie Buck (NYC), Courtney Bush (US), Felipe Cussen (Santiago, Chile), Claire DeVoogd (US), Robert Fitterman (NYC), Ethan Fortuna (NYC), Sophia Le Fraga (LA), Kristen Gallagher (NYC), Sanja Grozdanic (NYC), Aurelia Guo (London, UK), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin, Germany), Elijah Jackson (NYC), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad, Iraq), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Klaus Killisch (Berlin, Germany), Tyler Little (NYC), Matt Longabucco (NYC), Kristin Lucas (Austin, Texas), Monica McClure (NYC), Holly Melgard (NYC), Hella Mewis (Baghdad, Iraq), Yedda Morrison (SF), Joseph Mosconi (LA), Michael Prado (Lima, Peru), Kim Rosenfield (NYC), Zaid Saad (Baghdad, Iraq), Jeff Shapiro (Siena, Italy), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh),  Mónica de la Torre (NYC), Sam Winston (London, UK), Joey Yearous-Algozin (NYC)


I is the bane of my existence
Stephanie Barber


RESPONSES


Roberto Balò


Stephanie Barber

cycle 7 task 02, Stephanie Barber

Erica Baum

cycle 7 task 02, Erica Baum, Sale!!!

Laura Boggia


Felipe Cussen


Robert Fitterman


Ethan Fortuna


Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 7 task 02, Sophia Le Fraga, Chugga Chugga Chugga

Kristen Gallagher


Tyler Little


Monica McClure


Hella Mewis

cycle 7 task 02, Hella Mewis, design by Atef Al Jaffal.

Yedda Morrison


Kim Rosenfield

“it is better to be a sinner in a world ruled by God than to live in a world ruled by the Devil” —W. D. Fairbairn

Zaid Saad


Jeff Shapiro


Eighteen Life Lines on the Eighteenth of the Month

I is the bane of my existence
I thought early on
when fear of the dark
and my parents’ someday death 
and my chronic unsuitedness 
made me dream of dying ahead of time.

I is the boon of my existence
I believed and didn’t believe
when living happened anyway
and I couched myself in
comfortable certainties 
that later fell apart.

I is the bone of my existence
suffices today
like the elbow I banged last spring
that still hurts but works 
enough to rely on 
for years to come.

Sam Winston

I is the bane of my existence & still singing it’s eternal song

task 01 / 7

Start date:  October 1, 2024.
This cycle will have 3 seasonal tasks: October, January and March.

List of participants:
Alexis Almeida (US), Amir Akram (Baghdad, Iraq), Roberto Balò (Prato, Italy), Stephanie Barber (Philadelphia), Erica Baum (NYC), Elisa Biagini (Italy), Laura Boggia (Italy), Marie Buck (NYC), Courtney Bush (US), Felipe Cussen (Santiago, Chile), Claire DeVoogd (US), Robert Fitterman (NYC), Ethan Fortuna (NYC), Sophia Le Fraga (LA), Kristen Gallagher (NYC), Sanja Grozdanic (NYC), Aurelia Guo (London, UK), Sabine Herrmann (Berlin, Germany), Elijah Jackson (NYC), Atef Al Jaffal (Baghdad, Iraq), Josef Kaplan (Philadelphia), Klaus Killisch (Berlin, Germany), Tyler Little (NYC), Matt Longabucco (NYC), Kristin Lucas (Austin, Texas), Monica McClure (NYC), Holly Melgard (NYC), Hella Mewis (Baghdad, Iraq), Yedda Morrison (SF), Joseph Mosconi (LA), Michael Prado (Lima, Peru), Kim Rosenfield (NYC), Zaid Saad (Baghdad, Iraq), Jeff Shapiro (Siena, Italy), Ed Steck (Pittsburgh),  Mónica de la Torre (NYC), Sam Winston (London, UK), Joey Yearous-Algozin (NYC)


Too much freedom limits
Roberto Balò


RESPONSES


Stephanie Barber

pdf


Erica Baum

Hands Off

Roberto Balò


Felipe Cussen

Too much freedom limits
Too much sun will burn
Too much water will overflow
Too much love will kill you

Too much freedom will burn
Too much sun will overflow
Too much water will kill you
Too much love limits

Too much freedom will overflow
Too much sun will kill you
Too much water limits
Too much love will burn

Too much freedom will kill you
Too much sun limits
Too much water will burn
Too much love will overflow

Too much freedom limits
Too much sun will burn
Too much water will overflow
Too much love will kill you

How much is too much?


Robert Fitterman

Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left To Lose.

Ethan Fortuna


Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 7 task 01, Sophia Le Fraga, “control” (liquid chalk on paper) 12″x12″

Kristen Gallagher

Chocolate Bars (from a checkout counter at JFK Airport, Sept 30 2024)

Aurelia Guo

cycle 7 task 01, Aurelia Guo

Atef Al Jaffal

cycle 7 task 01, Atef Al Jaffal

Tyler Little

cycle 7 task 01, Tyler Little

Mella Mewis

cycle 7 task 01, Hella Mewis

Yedda Morrison


Joseph Mosconi

cycle 7 task 01, Joseph Mosconi

Kim Rosenfield

cycle 7 task 01, Kim Rosenfield

Zaid Saad

cycle 7 task 01, Zaid Saad

Jeff Shapiro

pdf


Sam Winston

cycle 7 task 01, Sam Winston

task 06 / 6

Flights
Aurelia Guo


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 6 task 06, Erica Baum, Dersh Feather and Trading Corp. 4th Floor
cycle 6 task 06, Erica Baum, Flight Simulation

Robert Fitterman

Flight! The Modernist

Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 6 task 06, Sophia Le Fraga

Aurelia Guo

cycle 6 task 06, Aurelia Guo

Eddie Hopely

Special Purple Leaf

Count on a further duration of joy.
In gravel underwritten by sand
your vehicle’s cruising wheel
distorts like an uninterrupted kiss’ mobility.
Count on a future of happiness.
Listening into the air
which arrives for you alone, you hear:
Special Purple Leaf.
A public train issues its joyful scream;
pseudo-mushrooms wriggle from falling water.
Haven’t you taken the day
and studied a prepossessing art?
The stranger crumbles their little paper
into your lap as they pass: <3 [mobile #]
Stones lain by the dead cup your route.
Without volition, your troublemaker heart
leads you to iced coffee spritzer.
Seeing dolphins way out there is fine.
Pinkish fire doesn’t choose what to touch;
having a sense is anti-design.
Seeing dolphins way out there is fine.
Little can’t be known
upon a well-selected complement’s reflection:
Special Purple Leaf.

Thirst for twisty water surprises you
like the weight of a hollow, sunflower brownish-yellow chain’s link.
Standing to watch your lunch-date return to work
your being overcome goes on
beneath their final, laughing glance.
If you accumulate tens of thousands of evolutions
and the passage of an immense machine concretises
your sublime dream can newly render wet:
Special Purple Leaf.
Listening for structure and count,
can your very dense idea encircle my habits?
Listening for structure and count,
my love for a silly look is up in the wind
with whatever you like to see:
Special Purple Leaf.


Klaus Killisch

cycle 6 task 06, Klaus Killisch, A Flight through Berlin

Joseph Mosconi

sporting the most
overweening of Leviathans—while at the
same time climbing out the skunk of the atmos¬
phere a most extinct stegosaur in our
microcost of life. We are treated to the
travesty of urban life on a small ranch in
West Texas, perfun¬
ded by huge trucks loaded with pastoral
wafer dust, bristling with cones and carted
anaphorically indeed—biomechanically
aggrieved, indefinably breached, muttering
“die motherfucker”
“die motherfucker”
“Don’t you get Joshua Tree?”
“Yes, completely.”


Kristen Gallagher

cycle 6 task 06, Kristen Gallagher

pdf


Kim Rosenfield

cycle 6 task 06, Kim Rosenfield

Sam Winston

cycle 6 task 06, Sam Winston, inaccurate / fled

task 05 / 6

ancestry
Kim Rosenfield


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 6 task 05, Erica Baum, Wig

Riccardo Boglione

cycle 6 task 05, Riccardo Boglione

Felipe Cussen

cycle 6 task 05, Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

cycle 6 task 05, Robert Fitterman

Sophia Le Fraga

TONIGHT IS THE DAY

You’re a man on a boat
But before that you’re a child
On your way home from school.
Want to smoke a joint?
You imagine yourself smoking it
Walking to your house
Where you were sent to live.
You register the sky
The way it smells.
Suddenly there’s no time to get home
And then, there’s only time.
Living on a boat sounds wonderful
For a couple of weeks.
Until your brother drowns.
On a Tuesday you reach 
The west coast.
Now every day there’s sun
And every Saturday
You eat bánh xèo.


Kristen Gallagher

cycle 6 task 05, Kristen Gallagher, page from Vanguard Mail Operations

pdf


Monica McClure

cycle 6 task 05, Monica McClure, Indigenous

Kim Rosenfield

cycle 6 task 05, Kim Rosenfield

Ed Steck

cycle 6 task 05, Ed Steck

Sam Winston

cycle 6 task 06, Sam Winston, the stories we leave behind

task 04 / 6

Topic: Flattening
Prompt: Record a 5-15 second long audio piece.
Supplemental: Include a piece of text or visual or other. 
Purpose: Sound will be edited together in collective transmissions or dispersed haphazardly in single transmissions to continue a collective thread through a one-night only Collective Task radio show hosted by Ed Steck. The radio show will include music I listen to, as well. 
Ed Steck


RESPONSES


Robert Fitterman
Klaus Killisch

Robert Fitterman: text & voice, Klaus Killisch: video, ambientfunk: music

Klaus Killisch

cycle 6 task 04, Klaus Killisch, 29,5 x 21cm / 11.6 x 8.3”

Kristin Lucas

cycle 6 task 04, Kristin Lucas

Aug 31, 2021, The New York Times, Bucking the Pandemic, Austin Is ‘the Hottest Market in the Country’
Oct 13, 2021, The New York Times, Tesla to Move Headquarters to Texas from California
Nov 16, 2021, Dallas Morning News, Austin is rated as the best place in the world to relocate.
Nov 29, 2021, The New York Times, How Austin Became One of the Least Affordable Cities in America
cycle 6 task 04, Kristin Lucas
cycle 6 task 04, Kristin Lucas

Sam Winston

cycle 6 task 04, Sam Winston, Be Happy!

task 03 / 6

The Mystic
Suzanne Treister


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 6 task 03, Erica Baum

Felipe Cussen

cycle 6 task 03, Felipe Cussen

Rob Fitterman

cycle 6 task 03, Robert Fitterman

pdf


Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 6 task 03, Sophia Le Fraga
cycle 6 task 03, Sophia Le Fraga, Sunset

Eddie Hopely

[audioalbum title=”Bound To Form” detail=”Webhather” date=”2022″]

[audiotrack title=”Earth Consumes Reaper” m4a=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/01-Earth-Consumes-Reaper.m4a”]

[audiotrack title=”Suzanne’s Visit I” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/02-Suzannes-Visit-I.mp3″]

[audiotrack title=”Transfusing Shells Cascade” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/03-Transfusing-Shells-Cascade.mp3″]

[audiotrack title=”Speedboat Truck” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/04-Speedboat-Truck.mp3″]

[audiotrack title=”Suzanne’s Visit II” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/05-Suzannes-Visit-II.mp3″]

[audiotrack title=”Kushy Lapser” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/06-Kushy-Lapser.mp3″]

[audiotrack title=”Dense Yellow Fleece Jeans” mp3=”http://collectivetask.magnetberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/07-Dense-Yellow-Fleece-Jeans.mp3″]

glutted with bridge my silly web, me
sly felt hat, primarily, and plain
rags, bridge beams smoothened with brown oil
smelted coin edges press bows in pouch
stud-heads scuff my cuffed felt, instead
the axle of wooden wheel one branch
splintering bridge, my rake and moss hoe
green worm with knubs for grasper, ribbon
from hilt, red liquid in sealed vase bursts
breaking fruit stick plus geodic flame
lippy rumored spider under bridge
slink into nectar of flower cup
time object onto the rumored rock
rottweilers waft the wet wooden bridge


Klaus Killisch

cycle 6 task 03, Klaus Killisch, The Mystic, ink on paper, 30x21cm / 12x8inch

Monica McClure

cycle 6 task 03, Monica McClure

Kim Rosenfield


Sam Winston

cycle 6 task 03, Sam Winston, Colour filed Thangka

Matvei Yankelevich

cycle 6 task 03, Matvei Yankelevich

task 02 / 6

WEB 3
Monica McClure


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 6 task 02, Erica Baum

Riccardo Boglione

cycle 6 task 02, Riccardo Boglione, web3 and other webs

pdf


Felipe Cussen

cycle 6 task 02, Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

cycle 6 task 02, Robert Fitterman

Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 6 task 02, Sophia Le Fraga

Aurelia Guo

cycle 6 task 02, Aurelia Guo

Eddie Hopely

cycle 6 task 02, Eddie Hopely, cover

pdf


Klaus Killisch

cycle 6 task 02, Klaus Killisch, collage, ink on paper, 70x50cm, 28x20inch

 

Kristin Lucas 

cycle 6 task 02, Kristin Lucas

A proposal to sing in rather than sign in this year:
singin.humming.cloud
Click anywhere on the web page to start the sound!


Monica McClure

cycle 6 task 02, Monica McClure

Kim Rosenfield

cycle 6 task 02, Kim Rosenfield

Ed Steck

a deer skinning knife was left on the hood of my car

            I plant to destroy all webs, pods, tabs, caps, lids

choking the zone out reveals game-level hemorrhaging 

            bubble gum I’m chewing is more like antifreeze

I made my own hunting knife this summer from a block

            of steel and a wood-chunk / fucked with cactus

riding a bike in a circle / I’ll snort up all the spicy kind

            make my huge debut on live network televesion


Suzanne Treister

cycle 6 task 02, Suzanne Treister

task 01 / 6

Returns
Robert Fitterman


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 6 task 01, Erica Baum

Riccardo Boglione

cycle 6 task 01, Riccardo Boglione

Felipe Cussen

cycle 6 task 01, Felipe Cussen

Robert Fitterman

CAN I RETURN THIS?

Sophia Le Fraga

cycle 6 task 01, Sophia Le Fraga

Aurelia Guo

cycle 6 task 01, Aurelia Guo

Sabine Herrmann

cycle 6 task 01, Sabine Herrmann, re-turns, 2021, pigments, acrylic on paper, 24x32cm

Eddie Hopely

facility w water
in the wheel
spin
go windmill
circle
kept fresh
eaters thought
it was a meal
for real
way worse
off glassy hypnosis
talker than
time’s humor enigmatic
prey cartwheels
the mean cup
plum away
in ribbons
listening cross
2 then the sequencer’s
plush shapes —
bridges cross
a rainbow
more
thoroughly point
citrus
and teal burns
at absolute
zero now i feel
working thru
gray sliver water
hovering over
the cell, clear
blod cushy stylus
pro the metal 1
circle u really
air helps smooth
life as greens
spiral 2 kill
teach mean
blue marker
beyond flakes
groups’ neon
grid prop yellow
teardrop 2 orange
dime, slid into hat:
green-spike tape’s
pseudo-menthol
sorry for u r


Klaus Killisch

Klaus Killisch, the return of vinyls, collage, ink on paper, 70x50cm / 28x20inch

Astrid Lorange

cycle 6 task 01, Astrid Lorange

Monica McClure

pdf


Yedda Morrison

cycle 6 task 01, Yedda Morrison

Michael Prado

cycle 6 task 01, Michael Prado

Kim Rosenfield

cycle 6 task 01, Kim Rosenfield

Ed Steck

pdf


Suzanne Treister

cycle 6 task 01, Suzanne Treister, RETURN TO EARTH AFTER 15 MILLION YEARS, Ink on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm

Aaron Winslow

cycle 6 task 01, Aaron Winslow, Please find the attached invoice in return for my artistic services. Payment due upon receipt.

Matvei Yankelevich

task 12 / 5

Do Over
Josef Kaplan


RESPONSES


Erica Baum

cycle 5 task 12, Erica Baum

Brandon Brown

pdf


Felipe Cussen

cycle 5 task 12, Felipe Cussen

Josef Kaplan

pdf


Trisha Low

omfg


Monica McClure

cycle 5 task 12, Monica McClure

Ed Steck

cycle 5 task 12, Ed Steck

Carlos Soto Román

cycle 5 task 12, Carlos Soto Román

Aaron Winslow

looks accurate to me