Dear Friends, Foes, Lovers & Losers,

After many months of conspiring with BLATT Art Director Mario Dzurila, author/critic/Social Disease editor Heidi James, and a few select others, I’ve decided to launch Disorientations.com.

Disorientations.com will serve as a virtual extension of my forthcoming collection of art criticism, Disorientations: Writings on Art from Central Europe and Beyond, to be published by Social Disease this summer. This volume will make accessible to a wider audience a selection of essays and reviews that were originally published in small or obscure journals and magazines, such as Umelec (the Czech contemporary art magazine), Prague Pill, Prague Literary Review, and Think Again. In addition, there will be a smattering of some of my better-known pieces from such publications as ZOO, Flash Art, and New York Press. Overall, I hope the collection will generate interest in the fervent artistic activities of this oft-overlooked region over the last two decades.

I view Disorientations.com as a vehicle for prolonging my engagement with the art of this region in a public context.

I am opposed to "blog writing," and all other forms of lousy and lazy writing.

I am interested in exploring new avenues of expression, which I will continue to do in my books and through BLATT. Now add Disorientations.com, a one-man art magazine, to that list.

My first post is also the essay that will open the book. In the future, I plan on posting exclusive, unpublished work, but this piece – an early version of which was originally published in 2005 – is still the clearest outline of a poetics of art criticism I’ve managed to put forth. Let it thus serve as my DISORIENTATIONS MANIFESTO.

New material will be posted three to five times a week.

Visually, the site is still very much a work-in-progress. Mario Dzurila will be working his design magic in the weeks to come, so look out.

Bookmark me. Ride with me. Write me. Ride me.

Sincerely,