Month: October 2013

MATERIALS READING SERIES – REITHA PATTISON / LUKE ROBERTS

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This is a new reading series of poetry. It is in Cambridge. Two readers will read every two weeks. This is the first reading. The first two readers will be Reitha Pattison and Luke Roberts, THIS Thursday, the 17^th October, at 7.30 for 8p.m. in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College. Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) and Lisa Jeschke (ljj28@cam.ac.uk) for further information & / or clarification.

Reitha Pattison is the author of SOME FABLES (Cambridge: Grasp, 2011) and the recent A DROLL KINGDOM (Scarborough, ME: Punch Press, 2013), as well as a co-editor of the Collected Poems of Ed Dorn (London: Carcanet, 2012) “The undersong of / the ‘economic cosmos’ is heard in / the meadow where the herbicides / work swift harm for a margin like / inharmonic blue prairie fires.”

Luke Roberts is the author of FALSE FLAGS (Cambridge: Mountain, 2011) and has a new book forthcoming from Equipage. “There is a car inside my stomach. / You are centuries late.”

Preview of The Other Room, The Dark Would, 16th October

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Create at Salford has written this on tomorrow’s The Other Room –

Four of our 2012 MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment alumni, including Nigel Wood, Jo Langton, Stephen Emmerson and Leanne Bridgewater, as well as current part-time student Richard Barrett have contributed to a new pioneering anthology called The Dark Would.  Compiling work from over 100 international contributors, The Dark Would celebrates the continuum of language-based creative practice between visual art and poetry.  This ground-breaking anthology features work from some of the most noted artists and poets alive today including Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Charles Bernstein and many more.

Commenting on the brilliance of this comprehensive anthology, contributing author and English and Creative Writing Senior Lecturer, Dr. Scott Thurston stated: “I hear The Dark Would as a plea to develop the cross-generic approach even further so that it incorporates more totally the whole gamut of the arts – to encourage conversations not just between artists and writers, but between musicians and sculptors, between dancers and poets, between film-makers and performers, and to ultimately break down these generic distinctions altogether.”

Following a sold-out preview at London’s prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery, the editors and contributors of the language art compilation are eagerly anticipating their Northern launch event at Manchester’s Castle Hotel tomorrow 16th October at 7pm.  Nigel Wood and Jo Langton will both be reading from a selection of their literary works at the event alongside Rogue Artists’ Studios’ Mike Chavez-Dawson, visual artist Carolyn Thompson and international artist and curator Laurence Lane.

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Sarah Sanders – with:

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with: presents the outcomes of three collaborations between artists that arose from discussions during a series of crit sessions, held at Rogue Project Space, in 2011-2012.  During the sessions one or more of the artists presented an aspect of their practice to the group and conversation developed.  The name of the crit sessions ‘Community of Practice’, referred to the book by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) that describes how a group of individuals with common interests can develop professionally by sharing experiences through storytelling and regular interaction.

From these discussions, common interests and relationships developed organically, and these led to collaborations. Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele discovered similar concerns in mapping of place and history in relation to architecture. Julie Del Hopital and Nicola Dale exchanged ideas about the idiosyncrasies of knowledge and language. Jacqueline Wylie and Sarah Sanders considered a dialogue built through drawing, and enforced physical distance.

with: will show the results from the three collaborations-

Sanders and Wylie’s Skype based conversations on art and learning inspired a series of exercises performed by the artists on and off-line, exploring how communication is mediated by technology.

Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele’s film investigates the canal basin which their studio spaces overlook, using methods which sometimes clash awkwardly and sometimes merge.

Del Hopital and Dale’s collaboration “Stalker” simultaneously presents analogue and digital footage of the day the artists let objects with very personal meanings sink or sail away on the River Mersey.

The artists have invited writer and curator ‘Lauren Velvick’ to reflect on the collaborations within a text available to the public at the event.

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PV Friday 18th October 2013 6-9pm

Open Saturday 19th October + Sunday 20th October 2013 1-4pm

Open Crit: Saturday 19th October 2013 3-4pm  ALL WELCOME

Rogue Project Space

66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly

Manchester, M1 2WH

For further information:

Rogue Artist Studios and Project Space http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk/

Community of Practice http://communityofpracticeman.tumblr.com/

Zone Magazine

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Issue 1 out now, featuring Tim Atkins, Áine Belton, Caroline Bergvall, Natalie Bradbeer, Bonny Cassidy, Stephen Collis, Kelvin Corcoran, Amy Evans, Ollie Evans, Allen Fisher, Nancy Gaffield, David Herd, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, John James, Doug Jones, Dorothy Lehane, Tony Lopez, Aodán Mccardle, Anthony Mellors, Stephen Paul Miller, Richard Parker, Denise Riley, Will Rowe, Simon Smith, Sam Solomon, Juha Virtanen, Steve Willey, and Heidi Williamson.

Archive of the Now

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The Archive of the Now is a digital and print collection of poetry by over 140 poets, mostly based in the UK.

Inspired by resources such as UBUWeb and PennSound, we hope to represent the true diversity of poetic practice in the UK. We are dedicated to supporting emerging authors, providing a new distribution network for challenging poetry, and opening up opportunities for collaboration and exchange.

The Archive focuses on audio recordings of experimental and innovative poets performing for live audiences and in studio settings. Many of the recordings were made in the poet’s home using portable digital recording equipment. While the quality and sound-proofing may vary, each recording gives a unique insight into the sounding of this challenging and inspiring body of work.

New recordings are being added all the time. We have a substantial list of poets we hope to record in the next two years, but we welcome suggestions of other poets working within the experimental tradition in (or with ties to) the UK.

In addition to sound recordings, the Archive provides information on individual poets, with links to their publishers, online projects and other material. The print archive includes small press publications, chapbooks, little magazines, manuscripts and correspondence. The archives of the late British poet Bill Griffiths form a major part of this collection.

New additions and a re-designed website, here.

press free press

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To celebrate National Poetry Day, pressfreepress put on four impromptu performances of THE NOTECARDS (text and objects by seekers of lice, performance by pressfreepress)  in various locations around the Southbank Centre. Watch the clip above to see their performance.

The Other Room, Dark Would preview: Laurence Lane

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The Other Room’s next event is a northern launch of the anthology The Dark Would which takes place October 16th at The Castle Hotel in Manchester, 7pm. For more information see the poster in the middle column of this page.

Laurence Lane is an artist and curator. In June 2000 he co-founded The International 3, a gallery space in city centre Manchester that developed out of the city’s artist-led activity. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and as a curator he has commissioned, produced and presented work by many artists involved in a broad range of contemporary art practice.

AMODERN 2: NETWORK ARCHAEOLOGY

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Networks have structured our social – and media – development long before the emergence of the “network society.” From the letter-writing networks of the proto-Italian aristocracy to the electrical networks that facilitated industrialization; from the spread of woodcuts, pamphlets, and ballads that supported the Protestant Reformation to the twentieth century emergence of broadcast radio and television networks, media have always been situated in the matrices of networks of circulation and distribution, facilitating historically specific modes of connection. These histories often remain disconnected from research on digital networks, the latest to re-shape our socio-technical environment into a mesh of interconnecting nodes. An archaeological approach, one that routes between contemporary and historical networks, Alan Liu argues, has the potential to regenerate a sense of history that would temper the presentism of digital culture, all too often experienced as instantaneous and simultaneous.

This special issue of Amodern features original research, initially presented in 2012 at the “Network Archaeology” conference at Miami University of Ohio, on the histories of networks, the discrete connections that they articulate, and the circulatory forms of data, information, and socio-cultural resources that they enable. Drawing from the field of media archaeology, we conceptualize network archaeology as a call to investigate networks past and present – using current networks to catalyze new directions for historical inquiry and drawing upon historical cases to inform our understanding of today’s networked culture. In this introduction, we elaborate how network archaeology opens up promising areas for critical investigation, new objects of study, and prospective sites for collaboration within the productively discordant approach of media archaeology.

http://amodern.net/

An Army of Lovers

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Juliana Spahr, David Buuck, City Lights Publishers.

A picaresque experimental novel, An Army of Lovers is the story of Demented Panda and Koki, two friends trying to be political poets in a time when poetry has lost its ability to effect social change. Their collaboration unleashes a torrent of consumerist excess that morphs into a Gitmo-style torture camp. Our heroes struggle to avoid complicity in the spectacle, yet are unable to overcome it through poetry. Instead it invades their bodies, manifesting itself through blisters and other symptoms, as the poets attempt to move beyond this impasse. Absurdist, fantastic, conceptual, Army is a novel for the Occupy generation.

Xing the Zone

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Launch of issue one of ZONE. Readings by contributors Tim Atkins, Natalie Bradbeer, Amy Evans, Ollie Evans, Nancy Gaffield, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, Doug Jones, Dorothy Lehane, Richard Parker, Will Rowe, Juha Virtanen, Steve Willey.

Philip Terry’s Tapestry on shortlist for The Goldsmith’s Prize

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Other Room reader and Reality Street author Philip Terry has been shortlisted for the new Goldsmith’s Prize.

Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry’s English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.

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The Other Room, Dark Would preview: Carolyn Thompson

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The Other Room’s next event is a northern launch of the anthology The Dark Would which takes place October 16th at The Castle Hotel in Manchester, 7pm. For more information see the poster in the middle column of this page.

Carolyn Thompson is an artist whose interests lie in developing pre-existing narratives into new adaptations that reference the original in either content or form. She uses found objects, images and printed matter (text, books, maps and diagrams) as source material, in order to evoke a sense of memory, history, nostalgia and humour. The resulting adaptations are new visual versions in the form of artist’s books, collages, drawings and installations that reflect, or work in contrast to, the stories, histories or language of the original ephemera, whilst responding to sculpture, drawing and architecture. http://www.carolynthompson.co.uk/

CFP: 1913 / the art of noises / 2013

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University College Cork, 13 December 2013.

The year 1913 was a momentous one in art. From Proust to Stravinsky, Duchamp to Malevitch, Modernism was to recalibrate the way the world was seen; Futurism offered to change the way the world was heard. One hundred
years ago, Luigi Russolo published his manifesto, L’arte dei Rumori (The Art of Noises), announcing a new way not only of conceiving music but also how we would hear the world around us. In the future, noises would be the material of music. Russolo’s manifesto, and his strange intonarumori devices, have been fantastically influential in the intervening century, and this event seeks to capture some of those connections, in both discursive and performative modes.

Possible themes: New sounds; new instruments; celebration of speed, war, or the modern city in music, visual art and poetry; Futurist manifestos; music and sound art; connections to other artworks and artists in 1913; influences of Futurism in music and other arts.

Proposals are invited for papers on any of the suggested themes, in the form of an abstract or outline of not more than 300 words.  Proposals are also invited for art works – especially performances, installations, sound sculptures, compositions which are specifically designed to address the themes suggested. The proposal should outline the projected artwork, and should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 300 words that details the relationship of the work to the themes of the symposium. The proposer will be responsible for supplying all equipment/special resources required for the creation or display/performance of any accepted proposal.

Please send your proposal by 5pm, October 31st by email to phegarty@french.ucc.ie. The selection panel will meet as soon after this date as possible and inform selected contributors forthwith.

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette

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The next Peter Barlow’s Cigarette features The Other Room’s James Davies and previous reader Chris McCabe as well as Anna Percy and Sheila Hamilton.

Peter Barlow’s Cigarette
James Davies, Anna Percy, Chris McCabe, Sheila Hamilton
12th October, 8.30
Town Hall Tavern, Manchester
Free