THE OTHER ROOM

Experimental poetry in Manchester

Extension to this work i don’t know what is

this work im doin I don’t kno what it is

Philip Davenport’s visual poetry project at Henry Moore Institute library will be exhibited until July. Poems have been written into spreadsheets, presenting moral dilemmas as accountancy – war crimes, celebrity, or the simple act of shopping become a tangle of questions. The spreadsheets are accompanied by 3D objects. So, dozens of broken eggshells become symbols for smashed skulls; a poem inscribed within the fragments. From these broken pieces of information, Davenport rebuilds delicate, intuited meanings…

Images and more details at LINK

(Please note that the exhibition run has been extended for longer than originally advertised.)

Henry Moore Institute
The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AH, UK

Open Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5.30pm, and Wednesday from 10am to 9pm

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