Out now on Test Centre. The book will be launched at X Marks the Bökship, in Matt’s Gallery, 42–44 Copperfield Road, Mile End, London E3 4RR, on June Wednesday 3rd at 7pm. Free entry and drinks.
Events
Storm and Golden Sky: Ross Sutherland and Patricia Farrell
FRIDAY May 29th, 7 PM start. Up the stairs (at the back of the barroom) at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm start! Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He has four collections of poetry: Things To Do Before You Leave Town (2009), Twelve Nudes (2010), Hyakuretsu Kyaku (2011), and Emergency Window (2012), all published by Penned In The Margins. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/ Patricia Farrell lives in Liverpool. She is a poet and visual artist. She co-organised the SubVoicive reading series in London in the 1980s and was a member of the arts group New River Project. She has collaborated with other writers and artists, most notably Robert Sheppard, as well the installation artist Jivan Astfalck, on the project B*twixst, and with Jennifer Cobbing, and Veryan Weston on the dance piece, A Space Completely Filled with Matter, which is published this month by Veer Press. Her work is published in a range of magazines and collections, including A New Tonal language in the Reality Street‘4 pack’ series, as well as individual pamphlets: most recently, Seven Bays ofSpirituality (Knives Forks and Spoons Press). She completed a PhD thesis in 2011 on poetic artifice in philosophical writing. Her collection, The Zechstein Sea, was published by Shearsman Books in 2013. http://patriciafarrell.weebly.com/
Preview of Other Room reader – Luke Allan
Luke Allan will read at The Other Room on 10th June, 7pm, alongside Amy Cutler and Peter Hughes. Below is an example of his work – one sandwich from his series ‘eight sandwiches’.
See more at his website HERE
Videos from The Other Room’s 7th birthday, April 2015
Steve Boyland
Sophie Herxheimer
Mark Greenwood
J R Carpenter
Jerome Fletcher
Lou Rowan
Peter Manson and Martin Corless Smith at Xing the Line
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Vlak and Richard Makin launches
DATE: Sunday, 24 May
TIME: 19:00–22:00
VENUE: Power Lunches
ADDRESS: 446 Kingsland Road, Hackney, London, E8 4AE
An evening of readings/performances hosted by VLAK magazine to mark the launch of VLAK 5, featuring Lou Rowan, Stewart Home, Jim Ruland, Ulli Freer, Becky Cremin, Sean Bonney, Will Rowe, Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Nat Raha, Tim Atkins, Jeff Hilson and more.
SPECIAL FEATURE: Launch of Richard Makin’s new novel, MOURNING (published by Equus Press, 2015).
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New issue of Galatea Resurrects
Featuring reviews of Other Room performer Nathan Walker’s Action Score Generator, an interview with Marton Koppany and lots more!
Speaking Parts
Raven Row, 56 Artillery Lane, London, E1 7LS. 16 to 24 May 2015. Open daily, 11am to 6pm.
Speaking Parts, a ten day exhibition framed by two weekends of performance, brings together artists who weave text and language – from poetic prose to the spoken word and scored voice – into the fabric of sculpture, film, painting and performance.
The works in the exhibition are for the most part ephemeral and portable, and depend on the input of the artist, collaborators and/or audience to be fully realised. Each piece has its own temporality, from one-off performance to intermittent activation.
During Speaking Parts, Raven Row will host Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live, an evening celebrating the work of the great British concrete poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002), with performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hannah Silva and David Toop.
Artists in Speaking Parts are Brian Catling (b. 1948, UK), Michael Dean (b. 1977, UK), Natalie Häusler (b. 1983, Germany), Ewa Partum (b. 1945, Poland), Heather Phillipson (b. 1978, UK), Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Poland) and Giorgio Sadotti (b. 1955, UK). The exhibition is curated by Amy Budd, writer and Exhibitions Organiser, Raven Row.
The exhibition will open with a series of performances on Friday 15 May for which places must be reserved. Admission is free. Please book your places for this and the two other evenings of performance following the links below.
Please note Speaking Parts will be open daily from Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 May.
Performance Programme:
Friday 15 May, 6.30pm: Ewa Partum, Natalie Häusler, Giorgio Sadotti. Book here.
Wednesday 20 May, 6.30pm: Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live with Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hannah Silva and David Toop. Book here.
Saturday 23 May, 6.30pm: Agnieszka Polska and David Bernstein, Brian Catling, Michael Dean, Giorgio Sadotti. Book here.
Gelynion: a Welsh Enemies project / Enemies Cymru
Beginning on the 19th May through to 5th June 2015 2015
visiting Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Hay-on-Wye & London
Gelynion is an exploration of contemporary Welsh poetry through the potential of collaboration. Shining a light on the often overlooked contemporary Welsh avant-garde, and placing that work firmly beside more literary poetry and the Cynghanedd tradition, Gelynion aims to bring together communities of writers that might not otherwise collaborate, from all four corners of the country & beyond. Generously supported by the Arts Council of Wales & Poetry Wales, Gelynion will also produce these original collaborations in both of Wales’ languages.
Gelynion involves over 40 poets with a core group performing new collaborations each night throughout the tour, including Poetry Wales’s Nia Davies, Joe Dunthorne, Zoë Skoulding, Eurig Salisbury, SJ Fowler and Rhys Trimble. The core poets will tour these new pieces in rolling pairs throughout Wales and at each reading multiple poets from the local area and beyond are invited to create their own collaborations.
The tour begins in Newport on May 19th and visits Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor before a culminating premiere performance at the Hay-on-Wye festival on May 29th. Then the project will close for 2015 with a reading at the Rich Mix Arts Centre in London on June 5th.
Gelynion is co-curated by Nia Davies & SJ Fowler, and generously supported by Arts Council Wales, Poetry Wales & the Hay-on-Wye festival.
The Speaking Trumpet
Edge Hill University writers at The Tate Liverpool. Saturday, May 16, 2015 from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM. A reading of surrealist and fantastical new writing, inspired by Leonora Carrington. Readers include Ailsa Cox, Claire Dean, James Byrne, Tom Jenks and Jenny Barrett. Free, but you can confirm a place here.
Poetry Comic Books Exhibition launch
Poetry Comic Books Exhibition
At The Poetry Library, Southbank
Tuesday 12th May, 7.30
Join us at this opening event to view the new Poetry Comics exhibition, drink some wine, and contribute to the exhibition with your own poetry comics made on the evening.
The exhibition invites you to explore the world of Poetry Comics (from 12th May – 12th July) with items from The Saison Poetry Library collection and beyond.
This terrain, in which word and image meet, can be seen as building upon the tradition of Blake’s Illuminated Books and making it new. Includes works on display from Kenneth Koch, Joe Brainard and Bianca Stone and a range of reading copies of books including Howl: A Graphic Novel by Eric Drooker and Allen Ginsberg and Beowulf Cartoon by Mike Weller.
Admission is free. To book your place email:
specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk
Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You
A Free Symposium on Bob Cobbing. Chelsea College of Arts (Banqueting Suite). 10:00- 18:00, Thursday 21 May.
Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You contextualises Cobbing’s work as a concrete poet as well as looking at his legacy as an organiser. The day is built around concerns that continue to be relevant today, such as the value of artist-led publishing initiatives, archiving artist collections, and the intersections between art, poetry, literature and music. More details can be found at Robert Sheppard’s site.
The Other Room 7th Birthday Tonight!
A World Without Words
A World Without Words is a project by writer and filmmaker Lotje Sodderland, in collaboration with poet and curator SJ Fowler and artist and material engineer Thomas Duggan.
Bringing together the most dynamic genre pioneers in neuroscience and sensory aesthetics, A World Without Words explores the nature of human language through a collaborative program of exhibitions, interactive events, and screenings in bespoke venues across London.
Language is considered perhaps the most characteristic ability of the human species, yet very little is known about it. When Lotje had an unprovoked brain hemorrhage, she woke to find a familiar stranger inhabiting her body, where her ‘self’ used to be. Unable to read, write, speak, or think coherently, she used this unique opportunity as a lens through which to explore the everyday assumptions of how we wield words to express ourselves, bringing a profoundly personal perspective to the contemporary Copernican revolution of neuroscience.
A World Without Words is the latest in Lotje’s body of work around visual perception and neurolinguistics, notable highlights being her Guardian feature All In My Mind and multiple award-winning documentary My Beautiful Broken Brain.
The first event is on May 6th 7.00pm – 10.00pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG. Entry is free. Space is limited so come early to get a spot.
The Science of Poetry, the Poetry of Science
A series of events at the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics, including Other Room readers Linus Slug and Peter Manson on 5th May.
Enemigos
Films from the evening of collaborations between Mexican and British writers are online now, including this by Rocio Ceron and Holly Pester. More at the Enemies Project site.
Jerome Fletcher: A Preview
The video below is Ha Perdut La Veu, A bilingual digital text work. English/Catalan. Deleuze and Guattari meet children’s literature.
Jerome will read at The Other Room 7th birthday, 30th April.
For more details of the night see the poster in the middle column.
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Live Coding Alternatives Workshop call
Call for position papers and performances as part of Critical Alternatives, 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference, 17 or 18 August 2015, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Organizers: Alan Blackwell, Reader in Interdisciplinary Design, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge (UK); Emma Cocker, Reader in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University (UK); Geoff Cox, Associate Professor, Participatory IT research centre, Aarhus University (DK)
Live Coding Alternatives is an interdisciplinary workshop (‘live laboratory’) for testing and exploring live coding as a creative, aesthetic and potentially political practice for constructing ‘critical alternatives’ within both computing and everyday life. The workshop explores this emergent field and aims to open up deeper critical questions about contemporary cultural production and computational culture. It is structured around live research practices of writing, presentation and performance, collaboratively interrogated through discussion, and the development of critical frameworks that reflect the live coding dynamic. Live Coding Alternatives emphasizes the relation of live coding to the cultivation of ‘alternative’, potentially subversive, ways of operating within contemporary culture. In addition the workshop explores the alternative possibilities offered by live coding practice as able in itself to generate epistemic claims through software development, improvised live performance and ‘artistic research’. The intention is not only to propose how live coding transforms code and coding practice but to investigate the transformational potential inherent within the process of live coding itself. We ask what possibilities for change and action does the practice of live coding suggest? What alternative ways of ‘being operative’ are evoked? We welcome analytical, theoretical and reflective papers from diverse disciplines but especially want to encourage expanded notions of live coding in the form of performances and alternative presentation modes.
Initial areas of interest might include:
* Live coding and performance writing, interplay of text and code, experimental notation practices
* Live coding, its transformative potential and politics
* Live coding, temporality and just-in-time production
* Live coding, alternative epistemologies and artistic research
* Live coding, subjectivity and ‘life’ coding
* Live coding and attribution in reputation economies
* Live coding as the persistent traces of interaction
Position papers will be circulated in advance. Working throughout the day, there will be a critical interlocutor and facilitator, helping excavate and elaborate key ideas connecting live coding to the cultivation of various ‘critical alternatives’. Results of the workshop will be published on the Live Coding Network website<http://www.livecodenetwork.org/>.
Important dates:
Call goes live: 02 April
Proposals due: 20 May (email 300 word proposals to gcox@dac.au.dk)
Results made known: 31 May
Workshop: 17 or 18 August 2015, Aarhus
About Critical Alternatives: 1975-1985-1995-2005 — the decennial Aarhus conferences have traditionally been instrumental for setting new agendas for critically engaged thinking about information technology. The conference series is fundamentally interdisciplinary and emphasizes thinking that is firmly anchored in action, intervention, and scholarly critical practice. In 2015, we see critical alternatives in alignment with utopian principles—that is, the hope that things might not only be different but also radically better. At the same time, radically better alternatives don’t emerge out of nowhere: they emerged from contested analyses of the mundane present and demand both commitment and labor to work towards them. More information here .Critical Alternatives, 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference.
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