The Society’s Subliminal History of New York State: Route of Progress is featured in the latest issue of the Ninth Letter, an arts and literary journal published by the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Extensive excerpts from our book are this issue’s “Arts Feature” in the journal including a number of songs from our subliminal history tour of the Erie Canal. Listen to these songs on our Route of Progress Songmap.

Subliminal State Archivist, Carrie Dashow premiered the Archive of Lost Thought featuring the Lost Rooms collection at the NADA street fair in NYC this July.

Submission call is past. Publication of this issue is pending.

The next issue of Subliminal Statements will feature articles on land: its life alone and with ours. This issue will explore how the land lives, interacts with us and how we interact with it. Your articles can be literal, scientific or beyond.

Read a complete call. Send your submission by June 30, 2010 to submit@subliminalstate.org.

Documentation from the Under Island project will be on view at the E.P.A. (Environmental Performance Actions) Exhibition open March 15-May 16 at Exit Underground, Exit Art’s new archive, performance and exhibition space.

Opening, March 15, 7-9 pm.
Read more about the show »

Society Member Matt Bua’s rendition of the society headquarters as will be in his b-home project, proposals welcome. For more information visit the b-home web site.

We are very excited to announce the Society for a Subliminal State’s first annual members party, on no other day than March 4^th. Including: pot-luck, trip to the Subliminal State, shape note singing, and two Society member bands.

You must be a member to attend: join now! Read more about the party »

The Society has published a hardcover tunebook featuring all 53 shape note songs written during our summer tour of the Erie Canal with the Subliminal History of New York State.

Each song is accompanied by texts written by Carrie contextualizing the words and music, as well as occasional illustrations of how the poems were performed as participatory readings during the tour.

Order copies through our new store »

Listen to recordings of the many songs we wrote for our summer tour of the Erie Canal with the Subliminal History of New York State on a Google Maps interface.

The Song Map features nearly 40 recordings of our songs and poems, many recorded while on tour.

Visit the Song Map »

For our third issue, Subliminal Statements asks you to help us grapple with phenomena in the solar system. We want your writings about all manner of celestial objects and subjects. Tell us your story about a planet, moon, comet, or body here on earth. Describe it, uncover it, recount its implications. Tell us how it effects us.

Submissions due December 31. E-mail info@subliminalstate.org with questions.

Read a complete call for submissions »

Come to Eyebeam Sept. 27, 6 PM for the opening of Interference. Eyebeam is located at 540 West 21st Street, NYC.

The show includes Subliminal History of New York State: Route of Progress (2007) an installation of community-shot video, original shape note songs and ephemera from this summer’s Route of Progress tour.

Jesse and Carrie will lead a shape note singing workshop (1-4 PM) and performance (5-6 PM) at Eyebeam on October 13

The exhibition will run through Nov. 10.