Month: October 2013

MATERIALS READING SERIES: CAITLÍN DOHERTY / NICK POTAMITIS

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The second reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, the 31st October, in the Armitage Room at Queens’ College, Cambridge, at 7.30 for 8pm. Email dmg37@cam.ac.uk and ljj28@cam.ac.uk for further information.

Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Cambridge: Foule Press, 2012) and SATELLITES(Tokyo: Tipped Press, 2012) and has a book forthcoming from Critical Documents. “An inter-galactic stargate opens. Titan falls through it.”

Nick Potamitis is the author of THE BOOK OF NIGHT TERRORS (Cambridge: Salt, 2010) and the forthcoming JUBILATE AJAX (Cambridge: Mountain, 2014). “despite / his being only an archetype, the philologist still / finds fault with the tableware.”

The Dark Would in Summerhall, Edinburgh

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Summerhall, Edinburgh 7 Dec – 24 Jan (Public preview 7pm, 6 Dec)

World-leading text artists and poets have contributed work about living and dying for The Dark Would exhibition, which includes pieces by Susan Hiller, Richard Long, Tom Phillips, Simon Patterson, Richard Wentworth, Tony Lopez, Caroline Bergvall, Steve Giasson, Erica Baum, Ron Silliman and many others, including ‘outsider’ artists.

Whether homeless people or outsider artists or art stars – we all have to find our way through the dark. Challenging and uplifting, The Dark Would reads the human traces that we leave in the world. This exhibition asks what it is to have a body and to lose it. As well as including work from the living, there will also be ‘answering’ works by dead artists and poets including Stephane Mallarme, Ian Hamilton Finlay and Joseph Beuys.

Summerhall hosts the world premiere of this ground-breaking show curated by poet Philip Davenport. The Dark Would exhibition is an ‘out-growth’ of the large anthology of text art and poetry edited by Davenport and published by Apple Pie Editions 2013.

There will be a series of artist’s talks paralleling the exhibition.

Enemies: the Selected Collaborations of SJ Fowler

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Out now from Penned in the Margins, featuring Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Cristine Brache, Patrick Coyle, Emily Critchley, Lone Eriksen, Frédéric Forte, Tom Jenks, Samantha Johnson, Alexander Kell, David Kelly, Sarah Kelly, Anatol Knotek, Ilenia Madelaire, Chris McCabe, nick-e melville, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Matteo X Patocchi, Claire Potter, Monika Rinck, Sam Riviere, Hannah Silva, Marcus Slease, Ross Sutherland, Ryan Van Winkle, Philip Venables, and Sian Williams.

 

Mike Chavez-Dawson video clip at The Other Room

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As part of The Dark Would celebrations at The Other Room Mike Chavez-Dawson produced Rorschachs, in part by writing dead poets’ names in paint. These names were given to him by the audience on the night. This clip shows him making John Keats and below that a still of Brecht (Berthold).

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Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist-curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester, UK. He instigated and curated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and David Shrigley’s solo show entitled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse (2012–13). His extraordinary proposal ‘Beyond the Medium, A Rake’s Dream…’ made the 100 favorite proposals for Artangel ‘OPEN’ 2013 and now is in production for 2015.He was recently commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art for their ‘Don’t Feed the Artist’ performance program, and awarded the open submission commission for Emergency 2013 by hab, z-arts and word of warning.

Chavez-Dawson judged (alongside Laurie Peake, Paul Stolper and Iain Andrews) and curated the neo:art prize 2013.
He is a PhD research fellow at MMU, MIRIAD, and has exhibited and performed at TATE Britain, Barbican, ICA, Cornerhouse, The Whitworth Art Gallery, British Art Show 7 at Nottingham Contemporary and The Whitstable Biennale (2008). He has also had numerous international shows and projects in Rome, New York, Sans Francisco, Lisbon, Seoul, Helsinki and Dresden.

Writers’ Forum North next event

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Writers’ Forum North is meeting again next saturday (26th October). It’s 2-4 pm in function room above Terrace bar in Edge street, Manchester M2. It’s just down road from Madlab, go through back entrance of Terrace and turn immediately right and go up the stairs.

Bring photocopies of poem you like (by someone else) – and one of your own.

The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry

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The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry edited by Tony Lopez

It is a remarkable phenomenon that the foremost among recent sites of this interrogation of boundaries has been a series of festivals located in Bury, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester. World leading artists and poets have been brought together in a range of exhibitions and performances that demonstrate a new and productive collision of different cultural enterprises and expectations. Among those shown at the Text Festivals are Fiona Banner, derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Joseph Beuys, Christian Bok, Brass Art, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Buchler, Augusto de Campos, Zeynep Cansu, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Liz Collini, Philip Davenport, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Eugen Gomringer, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Alexander Jorgenson, Satu Kaikonen, Martin Kippenburger, Karri Kokko, Marton Koppany, On Kawara, Helmut Lemke, Richard Long, Tony Lopez, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjorg Mayer, Steve Miller, Kerry Morrison, Maurizio Nannucci, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Holly Pester, Tom Philips, Shaun Pickard, Kate Pickering, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Spencer Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Ron Silliman, Mary Ellen Solt, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Harald Stoffers, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Aysegul Tozeren, TNWK, Tony Trehy, Nico Vasilakis, Carol Watts, Lawrence Weiner, George Widener, Ming Wong, and Eric Zboya. Artists, poets and curators working in these overlapping fields have written this book. It includes new essays by Tony Trehy (director of the Text Festivals), derek beaulieu, Christian Bok, Liz Collini, James Davies, Philip Davenport, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Tony Lopez, Holly Pester, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Carolyn Thompson, and Carol Watts.

OUT NOW from Plymouth University Press or via Amazon

Vlak 4

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New bulging issue…

The new issue of VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts will be available during the ‘Camarade‘ collaborate poetics event, hosted by Steven J. Fowler, 2-10pm, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, 26 October — or can be got direct at www.vlakmagazine.com …

INSIDE THE LATEST ISSUE….

‘ESSAYS’ Jeroen Nieuwland on ‘Printing Out the Internet’ Vanessa Place on Conceptualism David Vichnar on Mark Danielewski Darren Tofts on Peter Milne Ian Haig on the Horror of the Toilet Pam Brown on the UBU Films Collective Alice Notley on the Post-Olsonian Epic Dustin Breitling on the White Cube Bev Braune on ‘Harder They Fall’ Jim Ruland on ‘Django Unchained’ Niall Lucy on That Deadman Dance Ann Hamilton on Ian Hays Javant Biarujia on Environment and Language Karel Piorecký on Czech Concrete Poetry Benjamin Tallis on the Prague housing projects Olga Peková on Intermedia & The Posthuman

‘PHOTOMONTAGE’ Peter Milne, Ian Hays, Robert Herbert, Maldo Nolimerg, Vincent Dachy

‘PHOTOGRAPHY’ Adam Trachtman, Glendyn Ivin, Vadim Erent, Vadim Erent, Katherine Oktober Matthews

‘COLLABORATIONS’ David Kelly & Daniele Pintano Hal Porter & Mark Melnicove Fernando Corona & Chris Kraus Zuzana Husárová & Amalia Roxana Filip Louis Armand & John Kinsella Iris Fraser-Gudrunas & Mat Laporte Mark Atkins & Rod Mengham The Camarade Project curated by Steven J. Fowler: Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins Philip Terry & Jeff Hilson Allen Fisher & Philip Terry Emily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood Jeff Hilson & Robert Shepherd Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis

‘FICTION’ Philippe Sollers, Louis Armand, Fakie Wilde & Brentley Frazer, Sean Carswell, Thor Garcia, Lou Rowan, Scott O’Connor, Phil Shoenfelt, Holly Tavel, Morgan Childs, Damien Ober, Andrew Robert Hodgson, Prudence Trinca

‘NON-FICTION’ Stephanie Gray on Super 8 Film Stills Kent MacCarter on Pork Town Sean Bonney on Hunger & Ritual

‘POETRY’ Sam Langer, Vanessa Place, Frédéric Forte, Anselm Berrigan, Micah Ballard, Christodoulos Makris, Bev Braune, Corey Wakeling, Jill Jones, Stephanie Strickland, Steve Dalachinsky, DglsN.Rthsjchld, Stu Hatton, Jessica Wilkinson, Ondřej Buddeus, Marjorie Welish, Vincent Katz, Robert Kiely, John Wilkinson, Michael Farrell, Cecilia White, Shane Anderson, Andrew P. McLeod, Jennifer K. Dick, Peter Šulej, Jane Lewty, Nat Raha, Fiona Hile, Pam Brown, Brett Price, Nathan Thompson, J.T. Welsch

‘ART’ Tray Drumhann, Amy Evans-Bauer, Hara Miko, Jan Pícha

‘INTERVIEW’ Alice Notley with Olga Peková

VLAK editorial collective: Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Edmund Berrigan, Ali Alizadeh, Steven J. Fowlers, Jane Lewty, Stephen Mooney, Olga Pekova, Jeroen Nieuwland, Ewelina Chiu. ISSN 1804-512X. 425pp. Publication date: October 2013 Published by Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, London, New York, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam

— VLAK MAGAZINE www.vlakmagazine.com

ENEMIES: THE SELECTED COLLABORATIONS OF SJ FOWLER

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ENEMIES: THE SELECTED COLLABORATIONS OF SJ FOWLER
Toynbee Studios, London E1 6AB (Map)
Friday 25 October
7pm, Free
 Readings with Sam Riviere, David Berridge, Tim Atkins, Sarah Kelly, Eirikur Orn Norddahl and Tom Jenks. From the publisher:
“You are invited to join independent poetry publisher Penned in the Margins for the launch of SJ Fowler’s groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary collection Enemies; the result of collaborations with over thirty artists, photographers and writers – each imbued with the energy, innovation and generosity of spirit that has become Fowler’s calling card as a poet.
Meta-diary entries mingle with a partially redacted email exchange; texts slip and fragment, finding new contexts alongside paintings, diagrams and YouTube clips. Animalistic Rorschach blots and behind-the-scenes photographs from the Museum inspire a poetic that is dynamic but unstable: Fowler’s texts walk the high-wire between reason and madness, the individual and the collective, human and animal.
The Enemies are: Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Cristine Brache, Patrick Coyle, Emily Critchley, Lone Eriksen, Frédéric Forte, Tom Jenks, Samantha Johnson, Alexander Kell, David Kelly, Sarah Kelly, Anatol Knotek, Ilenia Madelaire, Chris McCabe, nick-e melville, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Matteo X Patocchi, Claire Potter, Monika Rinck, Sam Riviere, Hannah Silva, Marcus Slease, Ross Sutherland, Ryan Van Winkle, Philip Venables, Sian Williams”
“An overwhelming assault. The geography is unnerving, almost familiar, then stinging in its estrangement.
Intensity crackles. Tension teases. At what point does collision become collaboration? When do the bandages come off?”
Iain Sinclair

Caesura #18

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Friday, 8th November, 19:00.

Artisan Bar. 35 London Rd, Edinburgh,  EH7 5BQ.

THIS MONTH we’ve got a radical writer and mixed-media artist who champions all things good, an incredible local poet and occasional performance artist, an avant-guard writer venturing through from the wild west and a local, by of Calfornia, innovative poet.

That is: Sandra Alland, Iain Morrison, Karen Veitch and James Leveque

WHAT IS IT? Bespoke spoken word performances at Edinburgh’s monthly night of racketeers and raconteurs, experiments and experience, synapses and sounds. Avante-jive for the masses.

SANDRA ALLAND

Sandra Alland is a writer, filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been published and presented throughout the UK, North America and Europe. Sandra’s poetic love-affair with voice-activated software and disability poetics, Naturally Speaking, was published in 2012 by Toronto’s espresso Books. In 2009, Edinburgh’s Forest Publications published Sandra’s chapbook of short fiction, Here’s To Wang, which quickly went into a second printing. Sandra has published widely, including two other books of poetry: Blissful Times (BookThug, Toronto); and Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan, Toronto). She was guest editor at Jacket2 for a special edition on Scottish poets in 2012.
– www.blissfultimes.ca

IAIN MORRISON

Iain Morrison serially lost kitten slipper and voguer, Dickinsonian Mirror’s son, who despite veering all over the shop, remains interested loyally in sound structures and overlays in support/distort of meaning structure; expresses this in poems at present. Hoping to present new poem sequence at Caesura. At time of writ, proven in clinical trials to be enjoying whatever was happening way too much.

KAREN VEITCH

Karen Veitch grew up in Glasgow, where she currently resides. In 2013 she completed her doctorate studies at the University of Sussex in political and working-class women’s poetry of the Depression Era United States. She has translated Spanish poetry (such as by Pedro Salinas) into English and her work has been published in Comparative American Studies and SCREE.

JAMES LEVEQUE

James Leveque was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on Fresno, California. He has lived in Edinburgh since 2009. He is completing a PhD in literature and works as a tutor. His poetry has appeared in SCREE and the San Joaquin Review.

26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)

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In November of 2008, derek beaulieu approached a number of poets and conceptual writers, asking them to fulfill a series of simple instructions: “On a single sheet of paper in letters approximately one half inch tall write the alphabet from A to Z”.

“26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)” documents the results of that request, and includes work from Gareth Jenkins, Lorenzo Menoud, Oana Avasilichioaei, Helen Hajnoczky, Robert Fitterman, Donato Mancini, Gregory Betts, Jonathan Ball, Nico Vassilakis, Mark Laliberte, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Christian Bök, Harold Abramowitz, Johanna Drucker, Giles Goodland, Ross Priddle, Gitte Broeng, John Bennett, Crag Hill, Peter Ganick, Jeff Hilson, Peter Jaeger, Nick Thurston, Stephen McLaughlin, Kjetil Røed and kevin mcpherson eckhoff.