Lucy Harvest Clarke takes The Other Room interview in the garden at zimZalla HQ.
Lucy Harvest Clarke – The Other Room Interview from The Other Room on Vimeo.
Audio Visual
The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances
The Other Room was asked to film the opening performances of 2011’s international Text Festival. This represents less than a quarter of the events took place.
On Saturday 30th April The third international Text Festival opened. The montage at the beginning shows a small percentage of the art on display in three galleries around Bury, Manchester. There are performances here by Marco Giovenale, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Marton Koppany, Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht and Sarah Sanders. The Lemke/Specht performance was a durational piece of four hours. What is captured here is only a small portion of that fabulous piece.
The Text Festival 2011 Opening Performances from The Other Room on Vimeo.
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Kurt Schwitters Ursonate in four movements
The stunning rendition of The Ursonate performed by Jaap Blank, Christian Bok, Florian Kaplik and Christopher Fox, at Warth Mill, Bury, as part of the Text Festival can be found HERE
Bök on Radio 3
Canadian poet Christian Bök explains how he has encoded his work into the DNA of a bacterium in a bid to make his work live forever on The Verb.
Derek Beaulieu at Penn Sound
Other Room reader and Text Festival contributor Derek Beaulieu now has a Penn Sound page, here.
Derek Henderson Reading
Live via Ustream on April 6th 2011
Ken Edwards reading
From The Other Room, 6th April 2011.
Alec Finlay
Alec Finlay’s performance at The Other Room on 6th April 2011 and his interview beforehand.
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Reading
The Other Room 3rd birthday streamed out of The Old Abbey Inn
We will be attempting to stream Carrie Etter, Ken Edwards and Alec Finlay out of The Other Room to the internet at roughly 8pm UK time, 6th April, for any people unable to attend but wishing to watch online. Please convert this time for other locations.
The channel is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/otherroom3rdbirthday
Bob Cobbing on Radio 4
Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You
Sun 20 Mar 2011; 16:30; BBC Radio 4 (FM only)
Sat 26 Mar 2011; 23:30; BBC Radio 4
Bob Cobbing’s playful experiments with sound and text have inspired a generation of poets, artists and composers. A writer whose work skittered between literature and music, poetry and artwork – he is, perhaps, best remembered for his extraordinary poetry readings. With his operatic, resonant voice he would boom, howl, chant and whisper leaving his audience enchanted and enraged in equal measures.
In this programme we delve into the work of Bob Cobbing – exploring his influence on the publishing world, his role in one of the most turbulent periods at the Poetry Society and the visual poem that outraged Margaret Thatcher.
Revered and reviled – he has been a controversial figure at times. In this feature the writers Iain Sinclair, Peter Finch, Alan Brownjohn and Paula Claire, amongst others, reflect on the musicality of his work, how he challenged the conventional notion of poetry and the surprising controversy sound and visual poetry caused in the twentieth century.
More here.
Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme now archived at PENN Sound
Occassional Readings, Furzeacres on Dartmoor in Devon, UK, July 4, 2010
In this performance Scott Thurston reads the entirety of his book Internal Rhyme (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010). Divided into four sections, the book comprises a sequence of eighty poems in total, each constructed in four four-line stanzas which can be read in a vertical as well as in a horizontal direction. For this performance, Thurston experimented with reading two of the book’s sections in both directions. Taking the poems in groups of five, he used two approaches: firstly, reading all five in one direction and then returning to read the same five in the other direction and, secondly, reading each poem in one direction immediately followed by the other direction.
Internal Rhyme develops Thurston’s preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements, as seen in his previous book for Shearman, 2008’s Momentum. The subjects and themes are diverse and include poems responding to Blake, Klimt and Twombly alongside refigurings of the theoretical works of Alain Badiou.
Jeremy Beardmore interviewed by The Other Room
Posie Rider and Joseph Walton
From The Other Room 22, February 2nd 2011.
Wave us Goodbye: today in Manchester at Screen at the Triangle
Poetry films on the BBC Big Screen in Manchester will commemorate the Holocaust, bringing together the memories of older Jewish people.
The project, titled BRING LIGHT TOWARDS YOU, is one of many arts projects run by the arthur+martha arts organisation. In the build-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, poetic texts created by the older people, most of whom are Holocaust survivors, will be displayed ‘in lights’ on the Screen at The Triangle in the city centre. These films will screen in ‘sets’ roughly every half an hour between other shows and run for a week.
The Holocaust has often been linked to trains: millions of people, particularly Jews, were taken to concentration camps by train before being killed in the notorious Nazi ‘Final Solution’ during the Second World War. These 30-second films give fragments from accounts of their journeys: to destruction and journeys of escape.
Artist Lois Blackburn and poet Philip Davenport worked with older Jewish people living at The Morris Feinmann Home, Manchester, exploring issues related to the Holocaust. “To hear these stories has been a powerful, haunting experience,” said Davenport. “The poems are little pockets of emotion that bring alive one of the most notorious events in recent history. It’s hard to imagine the reality of the Holocaust because it was so huge, so brutal. What these tiny moments of remembering do is connect to ordinary people’s experience.”
Lois Blackburn added: “As in all our projects, we talked to people about the small details of their experience, because it is people’s everyday lives that collectively make history. It’s the sandwiches your mum made, or the look on your sister’s face as you said goodbye. The fact that we’ve been able to help people transform these memories into messages that will be seen my thousands is an extraordinary privilege.”
Maria Turner, Activities Co-ordinator at the Morris Feinmann Home, described arthur+martha’s work as: “Sensitive and caring.”
Some of the pieces were shown on the electronic billboard in Piccadilly Railway Station on Holocaust Memorial Day 2009, but this is the first time that the whole sequence has been seen. arthur+martha have continued to develop the project in partnership with Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, working with young people with special needs, Roma children and many others.
THE FULL SEQUENCE OF TEXT ANIMATIONS CAN BE VIEWED AT
http://www.arthur-and-martha.co.uk/pages/kindness%20samples.htm
The Other Room 20 and 21: recordings now available
Recordings of The Other Room’s launch event for Poems of the Millennium Volume 3 with Allen Fisher, Maggie O’Sullivan, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg and others and The Other Room 21, with Neil Addison and Louise Woodcock.
The Other Room 20, October 19th 2010. Launch event for Poems for the Millennium Volume 3.
Allen Fisher
Maggie O’Sullivan
Jerome Rothenberg
Readings from Poems for the Millennium Volume 3
James Davies, Allen Fisher, Tom Jenks, Maggie O’Sullivan, Jeffrey C. Robinson, Jerome Rothenberg, Scott Thurston
The Other Room 21, 1st December 2010
Neil Addison
(audio only)
Louise Woodcock
POETRY in 1960 – A SYMPOSIUM
Video and audio up at PENN from the recent symposium.
Emily Critchley interviewed
Emily Critchley interviewed by The Other Room, October 6th 2010.
Steve Willey
Interview and film from Steve’s 6th October reading at The Other Room.
Interview
Reading
Adrian Clarke
Interview and film from Adrian Clarke’s 6th October reading.
Interview
Reading
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