Events

Elizabeth James: a preview

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Elizabeth James will perform at the next Other Room on Thursday, 15th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham St., Manchester, M4 1LE. 7pm start, admission free. Visit her site for more information, including some links to poems. The other readers are Harry Gilonis and Jo Langton. A preview of Jo will appear tomorrow.

Elizabeth James is one of the dodgy tribe of librarian-poets. She has had poems published in magazines, small press pamphlets / chapbooks, on the web, and once as a CD sleeve note. She has often worked collaboratively with other poets including Frances Presley (‘Neither the One Nor the Other’ published by Form Books] and Peter Manson (Two Renga’, published in a Reality Street ‘Four Pack’);  with Jane Draycott she made a series of audio works combining poetry and other material, for independent and BBC radio; at the turn of the millennium too she experimented briefly with electronic poetry, including an early hypertext collaboration with Miekal And, still online. Her solo chapbook, ‘Base to Carry’ was published by Barque Press. A selection of work can be heard on the Archive of the Now. Has done other kinds of writing, including occasional art criticism and essays, and has a career as a librarian and curator at the National Art Library, a public research and reference library within the Victoria & Albert Museum.

Harry Gilonis – a preview

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Harry Gilonis will read at the next Other Room on Thursday, 15th August at The Castle Hotel, 66 Oldham St., Manchester, M4 1LE. 7pm start, admission free. For a flavour of his work, try this clip of him reading at Xing the Line last year. You can also read his Remarks on Poetry and Violence at the Militant Poetics site, read 3 poems at the eleksographia site, or watch him perform with Tim Atkins at last year’s Camarade event.

Previews of the other readers, Elizabeth James and Jo Langton, will appear soon.

Harry Gilonis is a poet, editor, publisher, and writer on art, poetry and music. His last appearance in Manchester was in a debate at Manchester Metropolitan University, opposing the curious proposition that “art is art and everything else is everything else”; his last reading in Manchester was at a squat in Rusholme.  His activity is often collaborative; he has co-published a renga written collectively with Tony Baker, from far away (Oasis Books) as well as several collaborations with visual artists.  There are a couple of very small collaborations with Elizabeth James, one published in a recent issue of the Anglo-Catalan magazine Alba Londres.  His most recent publications include a book of “faithless” Chinese translations, eye-blink (from London’s Veer Books), and a poem accompanying the solo CD, Whitstable Solos, by Evan Parker (Psi).

Benefits

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Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 19:30.

  • Ollie Evans
  • Fabian Macpherson
  • Amy Evans
  • Lydia White
  • Frances Kruk
  • Videos by Jow Lindsay
  • Animal Magic Tricks.

Entry: Donation on the door.
Venue: Power Lunches, Arts Café,
446 Kingsland Road Hackney,, E8 4AE London (nearest tube: Haggerston Overground)

Hardy Tree readings, Enemies exhibition closing night

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Readings from The Hardy Tree Gallery, St Pancras which took place on the closing night of the Enemies exhibition, 20th July 2013

Tamarin Norwood http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtE2sBTai1A

Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUhLczT7Wl4

James Davies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUyGoEE94UQ

Tom Jenks http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ5Kmy4UMxk

Ensemble collaborative reading & Goodbye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yJ3m5x4rs

The First Oxo Conference

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Malgras|Naudet, Crusader Mill, 66-72 Chapeltown Street, Manchester, M1 2WH.

Opening / Sculpture with Performances
Friday 19th July 2013
6 – 9pm

Sculpture Post – Performances
20th – 21st July 2013
12 – 6pm

O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O

Malgras|Naudet is pleased to present, The First Oxo Conference, curated by gallery member, Daniel Fogarty, as part of our summer 2013 programme, feat. Patrick Coyle, Tom Jenks, Holly Pester and Mark Reid.

Using the word ‘Oxo’ as a tool to look at language (objectively?), and the context of conferences as a format of presentation, ‘The First Oxo Conference’ is an evening of performances, and a weekend of what remains of their sculptural backdrop, that in one way or another relate to the word ‘Oxo’ and its many attributes both formally and linguistically.

The conference is hinged on ‘Oxo’; its physical suggestion of a rudimentary face (two eyes and a nose), its reading as an algorithm, a game of noughts and crosses, a set of orifices where food goes in and shit comes out, an equation or a brand name for a beef or vegetable extract. Throughout the evening the word ‘Oxo’ will be used as a clothes-horse, a device on which to hang a range of new and existing performance works by Patrick Coyle, Tom Jenks, Holly Pester and Mark Reid. Taking the format of a conference (after all, is an exhibition not too static and a meeting not too informal?), the evening brings together a range of performers whose work approaches language from a formal and / or potentially skewed perspective. There is an ‘Oxo’ Tower that looms over all of us, and not just as a backdrop to the Thames.

The speakers have been invited by Daniel Fogarty to perform in front of his vision of an ‘Oxo’ backdrop (…not the Tower), a new sculptural work by Fogarty consisting of a large sheet of hand-dyed material covered in the letters ‘o’ and ‘x’ falling in and out of formation, spanning the width of the gallery. The sculpture sits awkwardly between a nomadic tent and a promotional stand functioning as a backdrop, a temporary piece of architecture, against which the conference’s performances take place. Constructed with the potential for it to be flat-packed and moved from venue to venue, conference to conference, the sculpture / backdrop aims to act as a part of the performance / conference as much as a wall would. It is a passive agent, something like a prompt, prop or post-match analysis backdrop (with great bouncebackability), brought in and out of audience and gallery perspective with a range of text and performance-based works.

The weekend aims to point a finger (pick your ‘Oxo’ expression to match now), if only for a second, in the right or wrong direction, towards the temporary nature of graphical, spoken and written language.

www.danielfogarty.co.uk
www.malgrasnaudet.tumblr.com

O X O X O X O X O X O X O X O

Notes to Editors.
Daniel Fogarty is a Manchester-based artist whose current project is Another Television Ident, presented by VINYL : SITE, Birmingham. Past shows include IDENTS, Cornerhouse, Manchester; Held, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; The Manchester Contemporary, Manchester. Please contact Helen Collett at malgrasnaudet@gmail.com for further information.

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Do it exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery

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Initiated by curator Hans Ulrich Obrist with artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier 20 years ago, do it has been enacted in 50 different places, making it the widest-reaching and longest running ‘exhibition in progress’ ever to occur.

To celebrate its 20th anniversary, and in homage to the original idea, this new exhibition premieres 70 brand new instructions. It brings together artists from the first do it experiments with a new generation of contemporary artists from Ai Weiwei and Adrian Piper to Tracey Emin and Richard Wentworth.

do it is a generative exhibition conceived and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. do it 2013 is produced by Manchester International Festival and Manchester Art Gallery, in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), New York.

Opening times

Friday 5 July 2 – 6pm
Saturday 6 – Sunday 21 July 10am – 6pm
Monday 22 July – Sunday 22 September 10am – 5pm
(Open till 9pm every Thursday)

Nick Thurston: new book, new show

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Other Room reader Nick Thurston has two new projects: Of the Subcontract, Or Principles of Poetic Right, “a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service”, and Pretty Brutal Library, “a temporary public reference library, produced as an artwork in the format of a solo gallery show”, opening in at & Model gallery in Leeds on 25th July.

Scott Thurston and Nathan Thompson reading in Manchester

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Other room organiser and Other Room reader Nathan Thompson are involved in the following event:

 

Poetry Book Launch: Lucy Burnett, with Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey

To celebrate the launch of her first poetry collection, Leaf Graffiti (Northern House / Carcanet Press), Lucy Burnett will be joined by Caroline Hawkridge, Nathan Thompson, Scott Thurston & Helen Tookey for an eclectic night of poetry in the atmospheric surroundings of The Anthony Burgess Centre.

July 25th, 6.30pm, The International Anthony Burgess Foundation, Cambridge St, Manchester M1 5BY

FREE

Lucy Burnett’s first collection, Leaf Graffiti, was published by the Northern House imprint of Carcanet Press in April 2013. She has previously been published in magazines including Stand, Poetry Wales, Shadowtrain andnthposition. Lucy has just been appointed by the Arvon Foundation as Centre Director of The Hurst in Shropshire where she will take up position in the autumn; previously she taught Creative Writing at the Universities of Strathclyde and Salford, where she also completed her PhD.

Caroline Hawkridge wrote women’s health books before completing a MA in Creative Writing at MMU, where she was nominated for Faber New Poets. Currently, she is poet-in-residence at the National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester.

Nathan Thompson was born in Cornwall and studied music at the University of Exeter, where he subsequently lectured part time in musicology. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Salford, and lives in Hebden Bridge. His collections of poetry include the arboretum towards the beginning and The Visitor’s Guest from Shearsman, and pamphlets from Oystercatcher Press, Knives Forks & Spoons and Gratton Street Irregulars.

Scott Thurston’s books include Reverses Heart’s Reassembly (Veer, 2011), Of Being Circular (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2010) and three collections with Shearsman: Internal Rhyme (2010), Momentum (2008) and Hold (2006). He co-organises The Other Room poetry reading series in Manchester and co-edits the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Scott has written widely on contemporary poetry and lectures at the University of Salford.

Helen Tookey is a poet, writer and editor currently living in Liverpool. Her poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Wales,Poetry Review, PN Review, New Walk, New Poetries V (Carcanet, 2011) and The Best British Poetry 2013 (Salt, forthcoming autumn 2013). Her first full-length collection Missel-Child is due from Carcanet in January 2014.

Dym

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Dym. Occasional events selecting mediums and cramming them into one another.

Poets:

  • Francesca Lisette.
  • Amy De’Ath.
  • Caitlin Doherty.
  • Oliver Tatum

Music and Performance collaborations from and involving:

Rebeckah Davies, Ollie Evans, Dolly Dollycore, Ewa Justja, The Zero Map, Lora Pierre etc…

DJs…

Dolly Dollycore, Alan Hay.

Bees Mouth, Brighton/Hove. 12th July. 19:30

£5 waged.
£4 unwaged.

HOW QUEUES WORK live event #1

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Writing the queue. The queue as constraint upon poetic practice. The inhabiting of a public space for a predetermined length of time and writing in that public space. Considering: queuing as class occupation. Queuing as primary means by which the city is experienced. The redundancy of psychogeography? The development and rules of the queue. The queue as useful autobiographical metaphor?

As the next stage of his ongoing HOW QUEUES WORK project on Saturday 20th July Richard Barrett will occupy a place in the bus queue at the stop outside the Palace Hotel, opposite Cornerhouse, Manchester for exactly one hour between the times 14.30 and 15.30. During that time he will produce a text responding to the experience of queuing taking in the sights and sounds of the city available to him from his place in the queue and considering each of the points listed in the above paragraph. At 15.30 Richard will board the number 42 bus and leave.

Guiding text of this event will be Michel de Certeau’s the Practice of Everyday Life.

To take part – turn up.

Enemies: visual art & avant-garde poetry

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The next installment of the Enemies Project will be a two week exhibition of visual art & avant-garde poetry in collaboration at the Hardy Tree gallery (119 Pancras Road, London, NW1 1UN http://hardytreegallery.com) July 6th to 20th 2013, with the space open for viewing 12-6pm July 7th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 18th, 19th, 20th, and featuring seven events over the fortnight.

Iain Sinclair and Ragnhildur Johanns have produced a triptych meditation on Eyjafjallajökull, the Icelandic volanic eruption finding form as a series of wall hung book sculptures – paper forms which appear to be a frozen moment of evolution between the book and the image, crossing Islands north, south and skyward.
David Kelly and Dylan Nyoukis have drawn together the dangling threads of modernist collage and guttural sound art to fashion a hyper cassette tape mural accompanied by super8 scratch screenings and original sonic dabblings.
Ben Morris & Marcus Slease have realised the aberrant underbelly of the gentle metropolis dirge in an acoustamatic tin tin of the city, bringing the offbeat poetics and grinding sonic beauty of London into three dimensions, falling off a wall.
Thomas Duggan and SJ Fowler print a poem in silk – silk fibroin, entirely biocompatible and biodegradable and programmed to disappear, when required, without leaving any trace – 3D poetry in a revolutionary new material developed using the very latest design technology, that has the potential to realise new environmentally sustainable modes of substance – material never seen in public before.
The exhibition is the backbone of our summer programme – four wholly original works of visual art born of radical collaborative practise where six months of exchange comes to fruition in the unique Hardy Tree gallery in St Pancras. The exhibition, and all events, are free of charge and intended as an opportunity for artists, poets and anyone with interest in the field to meet and share ideas along with the work. During this groundbreaking exhibition seven events, innovative in medium and form, will hope to shine a light on the most dynamic and creative poets and artists active in the contemporary London scene.
July Saturday 6th – Exhibition opening night:
performances from Dylan Nyoukis & David Kelly, Ben Morris & Marcus Slease, SJ Fowler, Iain Sinclair & Ragnhildur Johanns.
July Monday 8th – Voice art
Celebrating the non-lingual in poetry / avant garde music / sound art, sonic landscapes without technological assistance, experimentation in unpure human sound – performances from Ben Morris. Dylan Nyoukis. Holly Pester. SJ Fowler. Emma Bennett & more.
July Thursday 11th – Mini-lecture Poetics
Short, informal, aberrant talks given by contemporary British experimental poets – Peter Jaeger on John Cage & Buddhism, Philip Terry on poetry novels & the Bayeux Tapestry, Tim Atkins on London poetry in the 90s, Marcus Slease on travelling poetics & more
July Saturday 13th – ‘Dear world & everyone in it’
Readings from the groundbreaking anthology, published by Bloodaxe and edited Nathan Hamilton, featuring Fabian MacPherson, Ahren Warner, Stephen Emmerson, Amy Evans, Becky Cremin, Andy Spragg & more.
July Monday 15th – The Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
A rare academic entity, the CPRC, based in Birkbeck College, University of London is a hub for avant garde poets featuring Dan O’Donnell, Ollie Evans, Mendoza, Dan Eltingham, Albert Pellicer, James Wilkes, Vicky Sparrow, Mark Jackson & more
 
July Thursday 18th – P.O.W.
Edited by Antonio Carvalho, P.O.W. is a publishing project reigniting the great global tradition of concrete poetry. Readings from Chris McCabe, Chrissy Williams, Pascal O’Loughlin & more
July Saturday 20th – Closing night: a celebration of art writing
Brand new performances and artworks from Tom Jenks, Claire Potter, Patrick Coyle ,Tamarin Norwood & a host of collaborative performances from poets / artists involved in the Enemies project.
All events begin at 7.30pm and take place at the Hardy Tree gallery, situated just behind the British library. Please share the poster/s far and wide if possible.  Contact steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for further details.

www.weareenemies.com supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation and Arts Council England.

Gareth Twose, Top Ten Tyres launch

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Town Hall Tavern
Manchester
July 6th, 8.30, FREE entry

Gareth Twose is a former journalist and organiser of Writers’ Forum North.  Recent work has appeared in publications including 3am, Depart, Litter, Assent, Ink, Sweat and Tears, & Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot.   He was co-organiser of the Manchester Poets for Pussy Riot event (2012). Top Ten Tyres is his debut collection. http://www.theredceilingspress.co.uk/

Rachel Sills lives in Manchester. She has had poems published in Stand magazine, and has a PhD on Frank O’Hara’s poetry.

Richard Barrett lives in Salford. His latest chapbooks The Shangri Las and 3 are forthcoming from, respectively, erbacce press and blartbooks.

Other Room events rest of 2013

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Some dates for your diary for the rest of 2013 and many readers confirmed.

All events take place at The Castle Hotel, Manchester at 7pm

June 24th – cris cheek, Sarah Crewe, Lewis Freedman
August 15th – Jo Langton, Harry Gilonis and Elizabeth James
October 16th – The Dark Would, Manchester launch
December 4th – TBC