Month: August 2012

zimZalla 016: Female Versions of Christ by j/j hastain

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Nine texts accompanied by eight illuminations. The texts, printed on high quality textured card, are discrete but kindred blocks, obliquely referenced and counterpointed by the illuminations, which are full colour collages, printed on transparencies. The texts and illuminations are in labelled envelopes, with these envelopes in turn housed inside a full colour outer envelope. More information, including how to buy, can be found at the zimZalla site.

Stephen Emmerson: Albion

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Stephen Emmerson
Albion – 9th & 10th August @ Inland Studios, Camberwell
6pm – 9pm
A poem-installation

William Blake was a visionary English poet and artist who wrote, etched, and printed illuminated books. He despised organised religion, but claimed to see visions of angels and devils, and regularly spoke to the spirit of his dead brother.

 

Whilst living on Hercules Road in Lambeth he composed many of his prophetic works including ‘The Book of Urizen’,’The Four Zoas’, and ‘Europe: A Prophecy’.

He also set his poems to music, though there are no surviving notations.

Albion is a poem-installation based on psychogeographical information and psychic and paranormal investigations that explore Blake’s complex methods of composition and mythopoetics. It is also an attempt to reconnect with the political aspects of Blake’s work.

Albion is an invitation to help Blake complete a new poetic work. Participants can channel Blake using a pentagram and a series of typewriters, and by translating the audiovisual landscape into text.

Inland Studios

25a Camberwell Church Street
London

SE5 8TR

http://www.inlandstudios.co.uk/home/index.php?/contact/

Maggie O’Sullivan at eclipse

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An important addition to the essential online archive sees eight of Maggie O’Sullivan’s early books now available for free reading and download:

Concerning Spheres, 1982
An Incomplete Natural History, 1984
Un-Assuming Personas, 1985
A Natural History in 3 Incomplete Parts, 1985
From the Handbook of That & Furriery, 1986
Divisions of Labour, 1986
States of Emergency, 1987
Unofficial Word, 1988

plus  eXcLa (1993, written in collaboration with Bruce Andrews). The first eight titles are also available in black and white facsimile in Maggie’s book Body of Work (Reality Street, 2006).

David Gaffney – A Preview

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David Gaffney will perform at August 14th 2012 The Other Room alongside Nathan Jones and Frank Kuppner. See the middle column of details of how to attend the event.

Below is an example of one of his flash fictions ALL MOD CONS.

Jake invented a prescription glass windscreen for his car so that he could drive without wearing his corrective lenses. He enjoyed the feeling of freedom – no plastic pads digging into his nose – and it had the added advantage that car thieves couldn’t drive the vehicle unless they happened to have the same degree of myopia. 

Jennifer needed a lift. However, she soon began to complain. She couldn’t see, everything was blurred, and to stop herself being sick she had to stick her head out the window like a dog.

‘You idiot,’ she said to him when he dropped her off.

He wouldn’t ring her again. A permanent relationship would mean grinding the windscreen to suit two different people and he could imagine the arguments – it would be the self-cleaning bed-sheets saga all over again. He went to bed, turned up the shipping forecast and drifted to sleep.

 Click HERE to visit his website