JOHN KELSEY [NOMINATED BY RITA ACKERMANN]

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These readymade lines were taken from spam emails. Randomly pasted into the bodies of messages advertising cheap drugs for erectile dysfunction and depression, they could be the junk DNA of a possible post-literature. Reassembled in a new form here, they begin to resemble poetry.

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John Kelsey is a founding member of Bernadette Corporation and co-Director of Reena Spaulings Fine Art.

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