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Fluxus reader
A free pdf has been made available of essays edited by Ken Friedman:
Fluxus began in the 1950s as a loose, international community of artists, architects, composers and designers. By the 1960s, Fluxus has become a laboratory of ideas and an arena for artistic exprmentation in Europe, Asia and the United States. Described as ‘the most radical and experimental art movement of the 1960s’, Fluxus challenged conventional thinking on art and culture for over four decades. It had a central role in the birth of such key contemporary art forms as concept art, installation, performance art, intermedia and video. Despite this influence, the scope and scale of this unique phenomenon have made it difficult to explain Fluxus in normative historical and critical terms. The Fluxus Reader offers the first comprehensive overview on this challenging and controversial group. The Fluxus Reader is written by leading scholars and experts from Europe and the United States.
Crater Spring Event
Monday, May 16 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Location The Old Red Lion Pub, Kennington
This is the latest Crater seasonal event – Ken Edwards, Gareth Farmer, Gregorio Fontaine, Rob Holloway and Joseph Luna will showcase their wares in a free and easy poetry enviro. Turn right outside Kennington tube, it’s 100yds on your left. No charge, no dress code.
Salford MA funding
A funding opportunity is available for the Creative Writing MA at Salford University, UK, run by Dr. Scott Thurston. Check here for more information. Deadline for applications is Friday 20th May.
Polyply 10 > Voicings
Christian Bök
Frances Kruk
Dan Scott
Emmanuelle Waekerle
Lydia White
Wednesday 4th May, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
http://www.polyply.wordpress.com
the modernist magazine
From the manchester modernist society:
the modernist magazine is a quarterly magazine published for the North West of England by the manchester modernist society, a not for profit organisation dedicated to championing architecture of the twentieth century.
The writing of our launch issue is well under way and will be hitting the news stands in June. Get your copy delivered straight onto your door mat by subscribing on-line. With free postage and a chance to win some lovely books, why wouldn’t you? If you subscribe before the end of April, you have a chance of winning the fabulous Facismo Abbandonato or the gorgeous CCCP. Check out the modernist website and keep your eyes peeled for our launch event at CUBE Gallery as part of Architecture Festival NW.
Annual subscription £15 (inc postage)
Individual issue £3.75 (plus postage)
James Davies and David Gaffney book launches
An invitation to celebrate the launches of
David Gaffney’s The Half-Life of Songs published by Salt (www.saltpublishing.com/books/smf/1844712923.htm)
and
James Davies’ Plants published by Reality Street (www.realitystreet.co.uk)
May 10th, 6.30pm
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge Street, Manchester
This is a FREE event
David Gaffney lives in Manchester and Durham. He is the author of Sawn Off Tales (2006), Aromabingo (2007), Never Never (2008), Buildings Crying Out, a story using lost cat posters (Lancaster litfest 2009), 23 Stops To Hull a set of stories about every junction on the M62 (Humber Mouth festival 2009) Sawn off opera a set of operas with composer Ailis Ni Riain (Radio Three, RNCM, Liverpool philharmonic and tete a tete festival London 2010 ) Destroy PowerPoint, stories in PowerPoint format for Edinburgh festival 2009, the Poole Confessions stories told in a mobile confessional box (Poole Literature festival 2010) and he has written articles for the Guardian, Sunday Times, Financial Times and Prospect magazine. His new collection of short stories, The Half-Life of Songs, is out now, and look out for his current project, Station Stories, in which six writer linked to the audience with wireless headphones, perform short stories in Manchester Piccadilly railway station. See www.davidgaffney.org for more.
James Davies is the author of Plants (Reality Street), The Manual Handling Process (Beard of Bees) and Acronyms (onedit); with Simon Taylor, as Joy as Tiresome Vandalism, aRb (if p then q) and Absolute Elsewhere (Knives Forks and Spoons). He edits if p then q (www.ifpthenq.co.uk) and is one of the organisers of The Other Room poetry night and website (www.theotherroom.org)
Knives Forks and Spoons Opening of Office Party
Saturday, April 23 · 12:00pm – 6:00pm
Location 122 Birley Street, Newton-le-Willows, Merseyside,WA12 9UN
Readings by over 20 Knives Forks and Spoons poets
All Welcome
Thus & live stream details for performance at The Other Room, 6th April
Derek Henderson will be live streaming from Utah to the Other Room on 6th April at 7.30 UK time and 12.30 Utah time. For other places in the world check conversion times from the UK time. This reading will feature a number of his sonnets from Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s the Sonnets published by if p then q
This is the link for anyone who can’t make it but would like to watch.
Talk: Dada 1916-2016
Marc Dachy, Director of the DADA Archive in Paris will talk about Kurt Schwitters and DADA. Though it only lasted a decade from 1915, the outpourings of Dada – art, collages, plays – remain the stuff of the avant-garde, from Schwitters’s sound poems to Duchamp’s urinal. Marc Dachy will re-trace the events that lead to Schwitters departure from the movement and then focus on what might distinguish between a DADA and MERZ attitude in art. Followed by a panel discussion
FREE
8th April, International Burgess Centre (as part of Merzman ongoing exhibitions and events)
LINK
Preview of The Other Room 3rd Birthday reader, April 6th, Derek Henderson
Preview of The Other Room 3rd birthday, April 6th reader Derek Henderson. Derek Henderson will be reading from Salt Lake City via live stream. Next week of course is The Other Room.
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Conversify: Call for Papers
CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Edinburgh supported by The Roberts Fund
and in collaboration with the Scottish Poetry Library
ConVersify: Poetry, Politics and Form 10-11th September 2011
[conversifyconference.blogspot.com]
This two day postgraduate led conference will bring together poets and
researchers to engage in a conversation about experimental, innovative
and alternative approaches to poetic form. While many poets
self-report that political objectives underlie their practice, in the
realm of, but not limited to, ideology critique, the assertion or
negation of identity and/or a confrontation with mainstream
publishing, charges of elitism, passivity and inaccessibility can be
levelled. Taking this point of tension as our catalyst, and adopting a
trans-historical perspective, we wish to consider what “experimental”
poetry is, and what it is for.
We are calling for twenty minute papers which: discuss poetry of any
period or genre which challenges or aims to challenge convention
through formal innovation and/or interaction with political, social
and cultural realities; explore the labels we use to denote
“experimental”, “avant-garde” or particular stylistic modes of verse;
question whether political objectives and/or antagonisms can be
articulated or furthered through radical approaches to composition and
language; consider how readers engage with experimental poetry.
Inseparable from these themes is the issue of what we perceive as ‘the
political’, what counts as a political act and whether the writer has
a responsibility to assert political agency; we are particularly
interested in papers in which these questions are at the forefront of
discussion.
Please send 250-300 word abstracts for 20 minute papers as a word
attachment to conversifyconference@gmail.com by 16th May 2011.
The conference will take place at 19 George Square, University of
Edinburgh. We will also be organising evening poetry readings in town
– please mention when you submit your abstract if you would be
interested in reading.
Organised by Lila Matsumoto, Greg Thomas and Samantha Walton.
Via Joseph Walton
Alba Londres Launch Event
You are invited to the… / Estáis invitados al…
Release of Alba London Magazine Issue nº1
On the 17th of February at 6.30pm at the Instituto Cervantes’ Auditorium.
Come along!
Tim Atkins, Gregorio Fonten, Alfonso Grez and Harry Gilonis will be reading their poems.
We will provide some wine!
For more information visit our website: www.albalondres.com
Cervantes Institute
102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN, Reino Unido
+44 20 7235 0353
londres.cervantes.es
Looking forward to see you! Thanks for your support.
Lanzamiento revista Alba Londres
El día 17 de febrero a las 18:30h en el Auditorium del Instituto Cervantes.
¡Estáis invitados!
Tim Atkins, Gregorio Fontén, Alfonso Grez y Harry Gilonis nos leerán sus poemas y traducciones.
¡Habrá vino!
Para más información visitad nuestra web: www.albalondres.com
Cervantes Institute
102 Eaton Square, London SW1W 9AN, Reino Unido
+44 20 7235 0353
londres.cervantes.es
Os esperamos! Gracias por todo el apoyo.
Counting Backwards tonight
7.30, Fuel Bar, Withington, 445 Wilmslow Road, Manchester
- James Davies
- Phil Davenport
- Helen Shanahan
- Juxtavoices
