THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for May, 2009
Mackerelling – James Harvey
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Other Room VIII – the readers
The next Other Room is on Wednesday 3rd June. Here is some information about the three great writers who will be performing. Hope to see you there.
THE OTHER ROOM VIII
MATT DALBY started to explore the possibilities of sound poetry just over a year ago. He is part way through a project to release a CD-R of sound poetry a month throughout 2009. His work has featured on Wordsalad broadcasts. He is currently engaged in a variety of sound collaborations and has two full length records due out on limited edition imprints in Canada later in the summer.
ALEX DAVIES is 25, lives with his girlfriend Gemma in Wigan and is currently working a series of excruciatingly dull jobs while he seeks worthwhile employment. Hunter S Thompson and Kenneth Goldsmith are his best his friends on Facebook and Myspace. He is working on his magnet opium, a beastly collection called LONDONSTONE. His work is featured in ‘veer off’ (Veer Books, 2008) past simple 6 and City State: New London Poetry (Penned In The Margins, 2009).
ALLEN FISHER has been writing since 1962. He has published over 140 publications of art documentation, conceptual work and poetry. He employs interdisciplinary techniques in performance and installation works, drawing mainly from poetry and visual art. Part of his processual work is in the Tate Collection and his painted work is owned by museums in Hereford and Iceland, the King’s College Archive and private collections in America, Australia and Britain. His last one-artist show was at the Kings’ Archive in 2003. His most recent publication is PLACE (Reality Street, 2005). He currently lives in Hereford and Crewe and ‘in transit’
University of Bolton – End of Year Showcase
“The Octagon Theatre continues its run of events in partnership with its Principal Sponsor, the University of Bolton, as the university presents an end of year showcase of poetry, prose and drama by students on the Creative Writing course.”
Wednesday 20 May – Thursday 21 May 2009
Caroline Bergvall: Cash for Questions
Although unfortunately no cash can be involved, Caroline Bergvall will answer your questions in issue 4 of if p then q due out in September 2009. If you have anything to ask her please email me at ifpthenq@fsmail.net . Mundane and pop questions are encouraged. The format is taken from a regular Q magazine feature of which there are many examples on the web.
Thanks, James
Stimulus Respond
“We are currently soliciting contributions for the English edition of the next issue of Stimulus Respond, which will be titled and organised around the theme of Numbers. Contributions might be literally or abstractly related to Numbers, and we encourage, as always, creative and experimental approaches to the theme. In congruence with Stimulus Respond’s undisciplined approach, we welcome submissions from new and established contributors from within, between, and beyond such fields as cultural studies, anthropology, literary criticism, fashion, creative writing, politics, visual cultures, architecture, theatre, film and screen studies, sociology, media and communications and philosophy. Fashion editorials and photography should be sent as low resolution jpegs including credits where necessary. The deadline for expressions of interest is 29 May, with the final deadline being 26 June. Potential contributors to the Literature section are to send an abstract of 200-300 words and an indication of the anticipated word length of the final article (within the parameters of 1000-4000 words) by 29 May. Authors of successful abstract submissions will be required to submit the final piece by 19 June and to be available to make any minor corrections by Friday 26 June.”
Via British and Irish Poets list
Next Openned
The next Openned night takes place at 7.15pm on Wednesday 27th May.
Confirmed readers:
Rebecca Cremin
Johanna Linsley
Ryan Ormonde
Michelle Naka Pierce
Chris Pusateri
Catherine Wagner
Openned nights are held at The Foundry in London, UK. Admission is always free.
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Early Doors at Islington Mill
Friday 22nd May
11am – 7pm
With the exception of our annual yuletide knees-up ‘Xmas at the Mill’, chances to have a look around and see what everyone gets up to at Islington Mill are few and far between.
So at long last we have decided to prop open the grey door to the public and give you of curious mind the chance to come along and see who does what and where.
It’s an amazing opportunity to meet people involved in all areas of the cultural spectrum from film-making to fine art, theatre to ceramics, music to multimedia and print making to graphic design. You can get a taster of the people based here by visiting the Directory page on our website.
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine
Complete archive of this key magazine, edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein and running between February 1978 and October 1981. All thirteen issues are now available online and are well worth your attention.
Beuys’ acorns
In 2007, Ackroyd & Harvey gathered and germinated hundreds of acorns from renowned artist Joseph Beuys’s seminal artwork 7000 Oaks in Germany, and in doing so began a new long term research project. This will be the first exhibition of Beuys’s Acorns, which explores the agency of ideas associated with the provenance of the trees and provokes questions as to the artists relationship with nature, the changing climate and collapsing economic order. Beuys had a mission. To change the social order. Mostly the money system. Ackroyd & Harvey will ask what the legacy of Beuys’s mission is given the climate of ecological and economic degradation at the beginning of the 21st century.
MESHWORKS
Meshworks is a site dedicated to documenting and preserving video and sound recordings of writing in performance. The site’s title is taken from an essay by cris cheek in Additional Apparitions: Poetry, Performance, and Site-Specificity: “Each poetry reading is a meshwork, a gathering, of differentially inflected components.”
Writers featured include previous Other Room readers Tim Atkins and Alan Halsey and upcoming readers Sean Bonney and Frances Kruk.
Steve McCaffery
Steve McCaffery reading from Carnival, Panel 2, @ Instal 09, Glasgow. 21.03.09. Via Charles Bernstein.
P. Inman and Tina Darragh interviews
On July 1st P. Inman and Tina Darragh will perform The Other Room. To commemorate this fantastic reading we will be making a two films – one for Tina and one for Pete -where they’ll be interviewed. We would like to pose questions set by you. If your question is featured you will be credited at the end of the film. The resulting movies will be hosted here on the site. Please email us: otherroomeditors@googlemail.com
LiveBritishpoetry
A new online group giving information about live poetry events. Why not sign up?
City State: New London Poetry
“City State showcases the work of twenty-seven London writers between the ages of 16 and 36. From hyperlinked walks of Battersea bombsites and guerilla gardening projects to jagged urban lyrics and dark hymns to the East End, City State presents a confident, entertaining and truly diverse snapshot of the best new poetry from London.”
Poets featured include upcoming Other Room readers Alex Davies and Steve Willey. Published 20th May 2009, 192 pages, £9.99. Pre-order from Amazon or visit Openned or Penned In the Margins to find out more. Edited by Tom Chivers
Ron Silliman at Birkbeck
Films of Ron Silliman’s 5th May 2009 reading and talk at Birkbeck Poetics Centre, London are available on the Openned site courtesy of Steve Willey.
The Poetry that they Don’t Teach You at School
“Poetry readings are good value, for a few quid you get to see three or four poets, often interesting, sometimes excellent. The “sting” of course, is that there’s usually a table of books somewhere near. Whereas a reading by a “name” will see a man from Blackwells or Waterstones hovering with a pile of Fabers or similar – pleasant enough, but nothing you can’t buy from your local branch or the internet – a more obscure group of poets will come with a book table to die for.”
From Adrian Slatcher.
Futuresonic 2009
Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit will take place 13-16 May 2009, featuring world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. The festival has four strands – Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS – and occupies the orbits of art, performance, music, design and digital culture.
BlazeVox
The Spring 2009 issue of BlazeVox is online now, featuring work from mez breeze, Rachael Stanford, Brooks Johnson, Patrick Chapman, Aaron Anstett, Abby Stringer, Scott Abels, Adam Siegel, adam strauss, Alec Newman, Andy Frazee, A.D.Hitchin, Ashley VanDoorn, Dennis Barone, Alex Stolis, Brian Hardie, Christie Ann Reynolds, Constance Stadler, Curt Hopkins, Darren Caffrey, David Tolkacz, David Wolach, Dion Farquhar, Donald Illich, Ed Baker, Felino Soriano, Glenn R. Frantz, John C. Goodman, James Brown, Jan Imgrund, Jay Snodgrass, Jennifer H. Fortin, Joe Hall, John Pursley III, John Moore Williams, Karen Sandhu and Tom Jenks.
