The second in this series of performances where contemporary artists and poets presenting original commissions on the life and work of a figure of Habsburg Vienna is on Thursday, January 22nd, 7PM, at the Freud Museum, London. The lineup is as follows:
Emily Berry on Sigmund Freud
Esther Strauss on Anna Freud
Tom Jenks on Otto Gross
Jeff Hilson on Ludwig Wittgenstein
Phil Minton on Carl Jung
More at the Kakania site.
Friday, January 30 at 7:00pm
Caledonia Pub
22 Caledonia Street, L7 7 Liverpool
Xing the Line
LISA JARNOT & SIMON SMITH
Wednesday, January 14 at 7:30pm
The Apple Tree Clerkenwell in London, United Kingdom
Next week I will be doing a bit of a residency at Islington Mill, to make artworks, which I will have a brief exhibition of on the following week. (More details about the exhibition when I have them 100% confirmed) I want the theme of the work I make to be unexpected outcomes, so I had the idea to invite other artists to come and collaborate with me. Basically, I will be in the gallery space on the ground floor from 10am-5pm everyday next week (and over the weekend too), and people are welcome to just pop in and see me. I will provide all the materials needed. I will be doing a painting, a drawing, and a junk model sculpture.
Also, I’m hoping to set up a kind of interactive game that involves hiding toys and then other people looking for them (it will be a bit like Geocaching – do come and check it out if you have some time Fay – I could do with someone to brainstorm with about how to get it to work properly). So, people are welcome to come and take part in that as well. No art experience needed. If people wanted to donate toys to that project, that would be great. (If it works as I want it to, they won’t get them back though).
More details of the event can be found on Facebook, here: https://www.facebook.com/events/847462805315880/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming
Via Hannah Cawthorne
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Tim Atkins and Philip Terry on Tuesday 20th January from 7.30 at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the ninety-sixth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions).
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of Essex. He is the author of the lipogrammatic novel The Book of Bachelors, and the poetry collections Oulipoems, Oulipoems 2, and Shakespeare’s Sonnets. His translations include Raymond Queneau’s last published book of poetry, Elementary Morality. Recent publications include the novel tapestry from Reality Street (2013), and Dante’s Inferno from Carcanet Press (2014).
Tim Atkins is a widely-translated and published poet, his work having appeared in The USA, Canada, France, Mexico, Catalunya, and the UK. Titles include Horace (O Books),The World’s Furious Song Flows Through My Skirt–a play (Stoma), 1000 Sonnets (if p then q), Honda Ode (Oystercatcher), Petrarch (Book Thug), and 25 Sonnets (The Figures). The Complete Petrarch — published by Crater — was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year for 2014 and was a book of the year in the American arts magazine Salon. A recent Summer Faculty member of The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, h e is also editor of the online poetry journal onedit, and London correspondent for Lungfull poetry magazine.
Today we are releasing episode 83 of the podcast series “PoemTalk”—a discussion of a late meta-poem by Wallace Stevens, “The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain,” with Susan Howe, Dee Morris & Nancy Kuhl.
Karen Mac Cormack reading from November 2014
Full video below
Close up at this LINK
Don’t forget all our readings are archived in the middle panel.
Allen Fisher Double Launch @ BBK (Friday, 05 December 2014)
Reading, and double launch
The CPRC Birkbeck welcomes Allen Fisher.
Friday 5th December 2014
7:30pm, Keynes Library, School of Arts building, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.
Click here for a map link for Birkbeck
All welcome – free entry
Featuring the launch of two Allen Fisher Veer Books: the new editon of Defamiliarising ______________* , as well as the brand newSPUTTOR
Films from the first of the four events in the Kakania project, in which contemporary writers and artists respond to the work of key cultural figures in Habsburg Vienna, are now online, Above is Marcus Slease on painter Max Kurzweil with a full list below.
Claire Potter will perform at the next Other Room on Thursday 29th November, The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 PM start, free entry, book stall. The other performers are Karen Mac Cormack and Steve McCaffery.
The clip shows Claire performing at X Marks the Bökship in Bethnal Green, London. For more about Claire, visit her site.
There has been no one city’s culture, at one singular time in modern history, more widely influential on contemporary thought than that of Habsburg Vienna a century ago. A time so densely constituted with intellectual revolution in fields as diverse as poetry, fiction, journalism, music, composition, philosophy, psychology, art…that it seems it can often only be evoked through a wistfulness that belies the melancholy, the energy and the seismic change that constituted it.
Against these reverberations, Kakania – over 4 events, over two dozen new commissions, multiple publications and an array of contemporary artists – aims to not just to evoke that era, but to envelope it, to transpose it. To relive it in new colours. Kakania is new artists making new work, paying their debt to that remarkable period of Austrian history in the writing, performance and artworks they are making.
From the Rich Mix Arts Centre to the Freud Museum to the Austrian Cultural Forum this is a project which explores the legacy of the Habsburg era through decidedly contemporary, original works of text and art which will attempt to be as complex and genre testing as the works, and the people, they are responsive to. This is a project where the past, and our understanding of it, will not be refracted through historical analysis, but the creative process, and one that is utterly contemporary. Kakania will be an opportunity for audiences to discover the Habsburg era in a wholly new guise, that is our era.
The first event takes place on Tues November 25th at the Rich Mix in London, featuring brand new commissions from:
Sharon Gal on Anton Webern
Jeff Hilson on Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ariadne Radi Cor & Diane Silverthorne on Alma Mahler
Dylan Nyoukis on Raoul Hausmann
Stephen Emmerson on Rainer Maria Rilke
Maja Jantar on Lou Andreas-Salome
Steve McCaffery will perform at the next Other Room on Thursday 29th November, The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester, M2 4PD. 7 PM start, free entry, book stall. The other performers are Karen Mac Cormack and Claire Potter.
The above clip shows Steve performing “The White Pages” and other work at the Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY. 14 January 2013. For more, visit Steve’s page at the Electronic Poetry Center.
Sam Riviere and Robert Sheppard are both reading as part of the MIRIAM ALLOTT VISITING WRITERS series.
The reading is for The Centre for New and International Writing in the School of English, which is at University of Liverpool, 19 Abercrombie Square – in the School of the Arts Library on the first floor.
Wednesday November 26th 5pm
This is a FREE public event followed by wine reception.
Please sign up beforehand at www.miriamallottseries.eventbrite.co.uk
Friday 14 & Saturday 15 November, 11am to 7pm. Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL.
The Small Publishers’ Fair is an annual celebration of books by contemporary artists, poets, writers and book designers. It is held in November, in London’s Conway Hall, and this year takes place from 11am to 7pm each day on Friday 14 and Saturday 15 November. Read more and download a programme here.
DATE & TIME
Thursday 27 November, 6.30pm
VENUE
The Priory Church of St John
St John’s Square
Clerkenwell
London EC1M 4DA
TICKETS
Free but booking is essential as capacity is very limited and if you turn up without a reservation you will not be admitted.
RSVP to info@pennedinthemargins.co.uk
Step back in time as you descend into the twelfth century crypt of the Clerkenwell Priory for a very special book launch. In the deep atmospherics of the ancient church of the Order of St John, poet Chris McCabe introduces and reads from his stunning new collection Speculatrix. Book your place early for what promises to be an unusual and magical event in one of London’s most mysterious spaces.
ABOUT THE BOOK
In his most daring collection to date, Chris McCabe delves into the shadowy recesses of London history, bringing forth unsettling anachronisms and revealing the city as a perilous place to exist.
Taking its name from the term for a female spy, Speculatrix is at once the voyeur and the observed. Fame and death are McCabe’s subjects, sifted and strained through his poems’ urgent rhythms. At the heart of the book, a sequence of wild, neurotic sonnets tears at the corpus of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre to conjure a visceral landscape of decay and financial collapse. Extending the collection beyond his trademark urban locale are startling poems for the loved and departed: from the artist Francis Bacon to the poets Arthur Rimbaud and Barry MacSweeney. In Speculatrix McCabe has pulled out all the stops, showing why he is considered one of British poetry’s most exciting and pioneering spirits.
Reading, and double launch: Peter Jaeger, Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac Cormack.
Wednesday 12th November 2014, 7.45 pm
Room 153, Malet Street Main Building, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX.
All welcome – free entry.
Featuring the launch of Peter Jaeger’s 540493390 (research) and Steve McCaffery’s TATTERDAMALION (both new from Veer).
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