Month: November 2010

Ghosts move about me patched with histories

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Philip Davenport and Nicola Smith
Chinese Art Centre, Manchester 9 – 17 December

Artists’ Talk: 9 December 5.30- 6.30pm
Preview Evening: 9 December – 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Tour dates: 9 – 11 December

Ghosts move about me patched with histories is an immersive text/art experience, designed by poet Philip Davenport and performance artist Nicola Smith. Both have previously taken part in artist residencies in Chongqing and will use the exhibition to reflect on their experiences in China. The exhibition counterpoints the freedom of being in a strange environment with the limits imposed by social control.

Davenport’s text installation is a poem written into wallpaper, covering one side of the gallery. Nicola will act as a deliberately misleading tour guide, taking visitors through the environment created by the pair, including a pause for snacks, some trashy TV and a computer that rewrites Davenport’s words with infinite variations, programmed by poet Tom Jenks. A live chicken will be ‘resident’ in the space.

The artist talk is free but booking is required: please follow the link below for tickets: http://whisper-residency-artists-talk.eventbrite.com/

The tours are free and running as part of the open studio as follows:

9 Dec – 7pm       10 Dec – 1.15pm and 3.30pm       11 Dec – 1.15pm

Special thanks to Tom Jenks and Leftfield, School of Art & Design, University of Salford www.salfordleftfield.co.uk for their support.

C’est mon dada

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Red Fox’s cool series hits its 50th publication with Klaus Groh “Frutas y Terra”

Visaul poetry / Collages on Spanish fruit and vegetable packaging.
A6 format – 48 pages – laser printing.
Thread and quarter cloth binding
November 2010
price: 15 euro / 20 US $ / 13 UK Sterling

LINK

“Bibliocidal Tendencies”: British Publisher Information as Material Tears Into Literature for Art’s Sake

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“Conceptual writing is a fusion of art and literature. This process-based practice involves works where the idea is the writing and the writing is the idea. It is a non-expressive poetry, a poetry of intellect rather than emotion. Non-conceptual writing involves old-fashioned ‘creative’ prose and there’s more than enough of that material in the world already. Conceptual writing appreciates the wealth of text in the world — from the highfalutin to the everyday — understanding that new meaning can be generated through re-framing extant material. Conceptual writing produces a critical relation to non-conceptual writing, and in so doing opens a space of possibility for new forms of readership. We write through the work of others, comfortable in the knowledge that all writing draws on a host of influences. As James Joyce famously remarked: “I am quite content to go down to posterity as a scissors and paste man for that seems to me a harsh but not unjust description.” In conceptual writing the references are explicit rather than implicit.”

More here.

DEPT

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DEPT #1 now available. Features new work from Simon Howard, Becky Cremin, Nat Raha, James Davies, Stephen Emmerson, Bill Drennan, Lucy Harvest Clarke, Tim Thornton, Alex Davies, Karen Sandhu and Gary Fisher. Costs 3 quid. Or exchanges very welcome. Send a message to barrett.richard1@googlemail.com if you want one. Please send submissions of poetry/essays/reviews/photographs for #2 to the same address.

New BlazeVOX now online

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Featuring Alban Fischer, Amy Hard, Amanda Stephens, Amy Lawless, Amylia Grace, Andrea Dulanto, AE Baer, Anisa Rahim, Antony Hitchin, Brad Vogler, Barbara Duffey, Benjamin Dickerson, Bob Nimmo, Billy Cancel, Brian Edwards, Brian Anthony Hardie, Ashley Burgess, Carlos Ponce-Meléndez, Carol Smallwood, Caroline Klocksiem, Chad Scheel, Christine Herzer, Darren Caffrey, David Toms, Debrah Morkun, Diana Salier, Donna Danford, David Plumb, Ed Makowski, Elizabeth Brazeal, Eric Wayne Dickey, Erin J. Mullikin, Julie Finch, Flower Conroy, George McKim , Geoffrey Gatza, Sarah Sweeney, Geer Austin, Heather Cox, henry 7. reneau, jr, Howie Good, Ivan Jenson, Ian Miller, James Mc Laughlin, Jason Joyce, Jeff Arnett, Julia Anjard Maher, Joshua Young, Jennifer Thacker, Kate Lutzner, Kelci M. Kelci, Laura Straub, Martin Willitts Jr, Margot Block, Myl Schulz, Camille Roy, Megan Milligan, Michael Caylo-Baradi, Michael Crake, Michael Hartman, Nick Miriello, Nicole Peats, Orchid Tierney, Philip Sultz, SJ Fowler, Steven Taylor, Steve Potter, Stephan Delbos, Simon Perchik, Sean Neville, Sarah Sousa , Bob Whiteside, Ricardo Nazario y Colón, Santiago del Dardano Turann, John Raffetto, Bruce Bromley, Carl Dimitri, Gregory Dirkson, Jordan Martich, Natalie McNabb, Moura McGovern, Jennifer Houston, Robert Vaughan, Christi Mastley, pd mallamo and bruno neiva. Get it here.

Maintenant #35 – Ragnhildur Jóhanns

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Celebrating the third Maintenant reading of 2010 we introduce Ragnhildur Jóhanns, one of four innovative Icelandic poets to read at the Rich Mix arts centre in London on November 27th, and one of the most exciting and elastic poetic talents to emerge in Europe over the last few years. A unique craftswoman, she is a sculptural, visual and physical poet, unhindered by convention. She works with text, with performance but seeks to create poetic objects, pure concrete poems, that is literally fashioning books out of her work and embodying the text. Fulfilling our remit to introduce poets who will undoubtedly rise to prominence in the next few decades and who refuse to be limited by what has come before, for the 35th Maintenant interview, Ragnhildur Jóhanns.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-35-ragnhildur-johanns/

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ten-poems-ragnhildur-johanns/

Other Room 21 update

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Unfortunately Matt Wand won’t be able to perform at The Other Room 21, 1st December. We will hopefully be putting him on at a later date. Watch this space for a replacement to perform alongsde Ken Edwards and Neil Addison.

blart 1

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blart 1 is now online here
http://blartmagazine.jimdo.com/
featuring work by:

  • tom jenks
  • andy jordan
  • nicolas spicer
  • chris stephenson
  • james davies
  • ryan ormonde
  • jasmine rosenbloom
  • sean burn
  • gareth durasow
  • alison faulds
  • allen fisher
  • matthew martin
  • steven waling
  • michael zand
  • david marriott
  • colin herd
  • becky cremin
  • geof huth
  • posie rider
  • yolanda tudor-bloch
  • richard barrett
  • hazel mcadin
  • david clarke
  • tom oliver graham
  • michael dean
  • zachary chartkoff
  • ariel moon
  • nat raha
  • s j fowler