THE OTHER ROOM
Experimental poetry in ManchesterArchive for James Davies
Craig Dworkin’s Motes reviewed by Vanessa Place at The Constant Critic
‘Motes is a perfect little book of poetry. “Little” book, not by way of diminution, but as large praise, for Dworkin’s work here is of a piece, and each small piece is prism-pure in its exactitude. ‘
Handmade at Futuresonic
As part of the annual Manchester smorgasbord arts and technology festival that is Future Everything innovative poetry publishers if p then q and zimZalla will have stalls at the event Handmade which includes a fanzine and small press fair.
Handmade is FutureEverything’s interactive craft fair exploring the intersection between craft and digital technology – a forum for crafters, hackers and innovators to share ideas and practice with the maker community and the public.
Handmade brings the dialogue around the intersection of craft and digital culture to life, in one of Manchester’s prime heritage locations. Artists working in the areas of craft and digital technology display their work in an interactive craft fair designed to encourage visitors to create their own DIY artworks.
Saturday 19 May 2012, 10am-5pm Victoria Baths, Hathersage Rd, Manchester £2. Free to conference ticket holders.
Eléna Rivera reading and interview at The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Eléna Rivera reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
All Sensation is Already Memory
A compilation of sound art, drone, improvisation, noise, spoken word, sound poetry and other sonic experiments, from experimental label OSG. Contributors were asked to respond to Henri Bergson: “…In truth, all sensation is already memory.” The release is compiled either to play as a continuous album, or in three separate LP length sections; tracks are numbered accordingly. Free download at http://archive.org/details/VariousArtists-AllSensationIsAlreadyMemory
Includes Matt Dalby, Philip Davenport and lots more
Tony Lopez videos from The Other Room’s 4th birthday
Tony Lopez reading and interview below
Reading
Interview
Syntax: Coding for Writers 23rd and 30th June
OPEN CALL FOR PRACTITIONERS to take part in this workshop opportunity FREE OF CHARGE at FACT in Liverpool.
This is practical and thorough opportunity aimed at strong, established writers who are willing to experiment. No experience of coding is necessary though.
There’s lots of rhetoric around the need for this kind of knowledge for writers in the contemporary environment, and Mercy and FACT are keen to support the long-term establishment of expertise in this area. We are also influenced by the presence of Re:dock’s network and others like it in Liverpool and Manchester, where artists are engaging with coding in a playful and open way.
CONTENT
Processing is a programming environment which allows for all kinds of automated functions – appropriating, generating and animating text, integrating online content into your poems – and also interactivity. The workshops will be run by Tom Schofield, who is an established practitioner, and very aware of the particular requirements of working with text and Processing. Examples of things you can build in Processing are too numerous to mention, suffice to say there are implications for showing work as installation, on-line publication, video and in performance. As well as making your own work with support from Tom, you develop a pretty good idea of the possibilities of collaboration with more experienced coders.
APPLY
To apply please send a short statement of interest, bio and links to your work. Applicants will be chosen on the basis of their ability to contribute to a network of strong writers seeking support each other in experimenting with digital poetics – so good writing, experience and aptitude for contributing to critical conversations, and established practice.
REQUIREMENTS
You must be available to attend the workshops on 10am-5pm Saturdays 23rd and 30th June.
Between these workshops you will be expected and supported by the course leader, to complete homework tasks, developing your own work with Processing.
The workshops are FREE, paid for by FACT’s Open Curate It programme, and represent a continuation of this experimental workshop we did with Re-dock at Madlab last year, which were funded by Ideastap.
There are limited travel bursaries available from Mercy, funded by an Arts Council England GFA award, please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
For info and to apply please email nathan@mercyonline.co.uk
[application deadline 25th May]
LINK to Mercy for more details
Matthew Welton – Waffles
A recently released pamphlet by Matthew Welton from Egg Box and an early version of part of the poem read at The Other Room in 2010.
nick-e melville: Editorial
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
Philip Terry, Advanced Immorality
Other Room reader Philip Terry’s Advanced Immorality is out now from if p then q
The title of Philip Terry’s book, and the name of one of the seven poems in his latest collection, is an antonymic translation (opposites) of Terry’s own translations of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality. Queneau’s quennet form is further utilised in A Berlin Notebook. Also included are 50½ uproarious synopsises of imagined murder mysteries, the utter destruction of the sestina, Hamlet in four pages and much, much more. From start to finish Advanced Immorality is hilarious, polished, questioning and great fun.
Performance Writing Weekend at the Arnolfini
Reading and discussions 4-6th May in Bristol including Peter Jaeger, Harriet Tarlo, Larry Lynch, Marianne Morris, Nick Thurston, John Hall
Full programme HERE
Summer 2012 with The Other Room
Why go to Spain…
Our summer programme is making some progress. Here is what we’ve got so far. Take note that we’re no longer at our 4 year home The Old Abbey Inn but at some cracking new venues.
12th June, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Ira Lightman, Marcus Slease & TBA
19th July, @ Leeds Gallery, www.leedsgallery.com (not Leeds Art Gallery) with Hazel Smith and TBA
14th August, @ The Castle, Oldham Street, Manchester with Frank Kuppner, David Gaffney & Nathan Jones
quarter after
quarter after, a new journal for art and its reasons, is up and running with the recent release of Issue no. 1.
Adam Fieled * Chad Scheel * David Berridge * Michael Farrell * Jane Joritz-Nakagawa * Tiffany Monroe * Felino A. Soriano * Vernon Frazer * rob mclennan * Donna Kuhn * Merlin Flower * Christina Baker-Jones * David Harrison Horton * Lawrence Upton * Ric Carfagna * Roger Sedarat * Seekers of Lice * James Sanders * Linda Neiswender
The Other Room 4th birthday – Lopez, Cremin, Claire, Rivera
Our 4th birthday takes place with one stonking event on Thursday 19th April, 2012, 7 pm. Aside from the 3 fabulous performances on the night, other highlights will include a video from sound poet Paula Claire, the launch of The Other Room anthology 2011-12 and jelly and ice cream (or something like that).
The event as ever is free entry and is at our temporary home, The Deaf Institute in the Basement bar (arrive early to get a seat). The Deaf Institute is located in central Manchester, just off Oxford Road.
MAP HERE
LINK TO DEAF INSTITUTE
Previews of all our performers will follow shortly. You can book a ticket via Eventbrite. This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.
We hope to see you there.
So Anyway
Soanyway is a magazine project initiated by Derek Horton and Lisa Stansbie.
Soanyway is a repository for words, pictures and sound that tell stories.
CHECK IT OUT – www.soanyway.org.uk
Ron Silliman at The Kelly Writers House and live webcast
Shadowtrain, carriage 38
New issue out now featuring:
- Rupert M Loydell
- Nikolai Duffy
- Marion McCready
- Claire Crowther
- Stephen Nelson
- Yu-Han Chao
- Jon Plunkett
- Martin Stannard
- James Davies
