Pictures from our transatlantic and transpennine reading, taken by The Other Room’s resident Paparazzo Scott Thurston (think Marcello Mastroianni in La dolce vita but without the motor scooter or chain smoking) are up now on our Facebook page. This was a collaborative event with Information as Material and featured Alan Halsey, Karen Mac Cormack, Steve McCaffery and Geraldine Monk.
A one month advance notification of our next event at The Old Abbey Inn on Manchester Science Park, featuring Chris Goode, Jonny Liron and Tamarin Norwood. Entry to The Other Room is always free, but you can RSVP us at http://theotherroom.eventbrite.com/ if you’d like to let us know that you are coming. There will, as always, be a book table loaded with publications from not only the readers themselves but also other magazines, books and objects from the north west’s ever expanding avant small publishing scene. Details of our three performers below. Previews of each performer will appear here over the next month.
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Chris Goode is a writer and experimental maker who has been described by the Guardian as “British theatre’s greatest maverick talent”. Recent projects include OPEN HOUSE for West Yorkshire Playhouse, KEEP BREATHING for London Word Festival, WHERE YOU STAND for Queer Up North, GLASS HOUSE for the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, WHO YOU ARE for Tate Modern, and KISS OF LIFE for Sydney Opera House. He was also a member of the international touring cast of Tim Crouch’s multi-award-winning play THE AUTHOR. As a poet he has published three chapbooks with Barque Press, and was featured in the Chicago Review British Poetry issue in 2007. He released THE HISTORY OF AIRPORTS: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009′ through his own Ganzfeld imprint, and has now edited an anthology of younger poets, ‘BETTER THAN LANGUAGE’, which will be published in July 2011. He has been blogging at Thompson’s Bank of Communicable Desire (http://beescope.blogspot.com) since 2006. Chris is an Artsadmin Associate Artist.
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Jonny Liron is an experimental writer and performer. His performances include: with Chris Goode: Hey Mathew (Theatre in the Mill, Bradford), King Pelican (Drum Theatre, Plymouth), Glass House (Deloitte Ignite ’09 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden) and, as associate artist, The Adventures of Wound Man and Shirley (Queer Up North / UK tour); and with Jeremy Hardingham: Recovery (Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge) and Experience Dante (siteresponsive, various Cambridge locations).
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Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer. She has recently performed at Tate Britain, for the Maintenant poetry series and for the London Word Festival, and is completing an artist residency at the Chisenhale Gallery, London. Her first artist book “DO SOMETHING” was published by (U)LS in 2009. She has since published issues I-VI of art writing pamphlet “Text As” (Press, 2010) and her forthcoming book “was” will be published next year (LemonMelon Press). Recent critical and experimental texts on the blurring of art/life and words/things have appeared in activate Journal, a-n magazine, Cannon and for the Live Art Development Agency. In 2008 she co-founded art writing platform antepress with whom she has produced live and printed work for the ICA, Whitechapel Gallery, Art on the Underground and Resonance 104.4FM. She has taught art writing workshops at Central St Martins and has spoken on language and translation in her artwork at Spike Island, Cambridge University and SE8 Gallery. Tamarin holds first class degrees from Oxford University (2004) and Central Saint Martins (2007) in Linguistics & Medieval Italian and Fine Art respectively, and gained her MFA in Art Writing at Goldsmiths (2010). More at http://www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk
23 June · 19:00 – 20:30, Parasol Unit, London
Carol Watts: A talk on craniality, political economy & memory
Marianne Morris: Poems With Beats
Jakub Julian Ziolkowski: Exhibition ‘In Utero’
More here.
For women who write. A platform for female writers and performers of all genders to perform work of female origin. All welcome.
First Monday of every month, 7.30 PM start, £1 at Sandbar in Manchester.
Email: stirredwomen@gmail.com
YouTube: www.stirredsandbar/youtube
A double bill – talk and performances – of polyvocalia at Birkbeck. Monday 20 June. Free and all
welcome.
6pm, 43 Gordon Square, Room 124
Cris Cheek, ‘Before I am Anything Else: provisional transatlantic communities in polyvocal poetic
performance’.
& then around the corner…
7.15pm, 32 Tavistock Square
FRIENDLY AMENDMENTS
Lawrence Upton, Chris Goode, Cris Cheek, Holly Pester & others revisit work by Sumner, bpnichol,
Basinski, Cobbing, MacLow & other scores, poems and possibilities
Thursday, June 23 · 7:30pm – 10:30pm
The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bllomsbury, London WC1N 1JD
More here.
This takes place on Friday 17th and Saturday and 18th June in St. Anne’s Square in Manchester. There are events and stalls run by a wide range pf publishers, including, on Saturday only, if p then q and zimZalla. More details here.
Saturday, July 2 at 2:00pm – July 16 at 2:00am
Manchester Art Crawl is a festival of contemporary art and ideas as part of the Not Part Of Festival offering a DIY, artist led, experimental fringe event to the Manchester International Festival. The festival straddles Manchester City Centre and neighbouring Salford occupying art and non art spaces alike. Spaces include the new Crawl Space on Ducie Street which acts as the research centre and hub for the festival. Other venues include Blank Space, Kraak Gallery, Islington Mill and Piccadilly Place.
The Art Crawl starts at The Triangle Shopping centre, the info hub for the festival where you can collect your maps and plan your personal crawl through the city beginning with the shows housed in empty units within the centre. The opening day will last between 2pm and 2am ending at Islington Mill with an experimental photography show, bbq, djs and a party in the gallery and courtyard.
The Art Crawl has a research focus on live art, at the centre of the festival the research hub invites artists and their public to discuss their ideas, concepts and interactions relating to the relationship between artist and viewer during the festival. The Art Crawl champions experimentation, interactivity, accessibility and the sharing of information. It is for this reason that the festival is #opendata and completely committed to transparency. This is done with the aim to encourage open experimentation with the festival internally and externally. The festival will prompt questions around what #opendata can mean to art, the relationship between artists, thinkers and data and the distribution of the results with an audience.
As part of the festival there is a big weekend of practice based research with talks, workshops, discussions and presentations. This takes place on the 2nd weekend of the festival between 9-10th of July, 12pm until 8pm with a café and donation bar at Crawl Space. All are invited to meet, gather and share ideas, research and stories of what happened out on ‘the street’ and in the spaces about individual artists’ work, research and interactions. Artists are invited to experiment with whatever output deemed appropriate to get thoughts across during this time. This can be a chat, a presentation, a video, images, sound, a workshop, a reading, a performance or just a discussion about something interesting. These ideas and thoughts will form the basis for the next jumping off point for the Manchester Art Crawl.
More information of individual artists work to be released via website soon.
In addition to her Other Room reading on 20th July, you can find Tamarin Norwood at the following places over the next couple of months:
Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
16 June – 6 August (opening 16 June, 6-8pm)
This exhibition will show how reading and interpreting literature is – in diverse ways – at the core of some of the most renowned contemporary artists’ practices: Allotrope, antepress, Julie Bacon, Ecke Bonk, Pavel Büchler, Davide Cascio, Tacita Dean, Cerith Wyn Evans, Maria Fusco, Kenneth Goldsmith, Rodney Graham, Joanna Karolini, Sean Lynch, Simon Morris, Brian O’Doherty, Michalis Pichler,Tim Rollins, Andrea Theis, Nick Thurston and Eric Zboya. Curated by Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes.
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Maintenant Slovakia in association with Literature across Frontiers & Arc Publications
Rich Mix, London
Saturday 18 June, 7pm
Ivan Štrpka – Mila Haugova – Marcus Slease – Tamarin Norwood – Jonty Tiplady – Colin Herd – James Wilkes.
Arc Publications’ Six Slovak Poets includes work by a generation who started publishing in the 1960s, who lived through the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and saw the 1993 division of the country give birth to today’s Slovak Republic. Emilia Haugovà and Ivan Štrpka, two of the collection’s contributors, will read alongside half a dozen London-based poets to celebrate the sixth event in the Maintenant series held at the Rich Mix arts centre in London’s Brick Lane. As ever, the Maintenant series will advocate a diverse selection of poetic methodologies, ages & nationalities – collecting together some of the most interesting poets Europe has to offer.
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The Urban Physic Garden
100 Union Street, London SE1 0NL
Friday 22 July, 7-9pm
This summer an Urban Physic Garden will bloom on a slice of neglected London land. The garden will provide a platform for artists, designers, gardeners and health practitioners from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. It will be a place for lively debate – an outside space where a range of people can come together to explore the role of plants in science, health, well-being and the environment, including readings of new poetry commissioned for the garden on 22 July.
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activate Journal issue 1, Vol. 1.
Published May 2011
activate is a peer-reviewed electronic journal based in the Department of Drama, Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University, London. The contributions to the inaugural issue, On the paper floor: exploring writing practices, share a concern with language “not as a text, but, as an event”, as Tim Etchells, the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, has aptly noted (1999, p. 105). This publication’s aim is to explore the notion of writing as a way of performing as well as the ways that performance is being elaborated through linguistic and writing processes; and in this way, to expand the forms and ways that one can “make writing perform” (Pollock 1998, p. 75). Includes my article The Inscription of Art and Everyday Life: How Being Slips into Performance.
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Mulberry Tree Press: Partial Fictions
Published May 2011
A collaboration between SE8 (Nicolas de Oliveira, Jonathan Houlding, Nicola Oxley), and St Pierre & Miquelon. This collection of partial fictions is the outcome of a collaborative project on the relationship between objects, location and language. In particular, it is concerned with the translation or transcription that takes place in order to facilitate the passage from one place to another, from the studio and the gallery to the printed page. Includes my antepress collaboration with Patrick Coyle and conductor Anthony Weeden, Getting to the Point.
15 Emmanuel Road, Cambridge (on Christ’s Pieces), from 6:30pm, Thursday 16th June.
With readings by:
The 52-page journal features poems by:
Richard Barrett, John Wilkinson, James Cummins, Rosa Van Hensbergen, Laura Kilbride, Tom Graham, Amy De’ Ath, Andy Spragg, Tomas Weber, Emily Critchley, Lisa Jeschke, Charles Bernstein, Jonty Tiplady, Keston Sutherland and The Liquid Bros.
Images by Lara Hawthorne, Harry Sanderson, Timothy Crombie and David Savagar and a poetry postcard courtesy of infinite editions (edited by Andy Spragg) by Emily Critchley, Tom Graham, Gerry Loose and Tom Raworth.
The journal will be available for the special price of £4 (usual price £5) at the launch. Wine etc.
At midday on the 2011 summer solstice, Tuesday, 21 June 2011, the skies above and around Leeds city centre will play host to a unique ‘sky writing’ project conceived by internationally renowned artist and writer, Caroline Bergvall, and delivered as a part of the 20th annual Refugee Week celebrations. As part of the project, the artist is inviting people right across Leeds to pick up their phones and video cameras, film the artwork as it passes overhead, and upload their footage to this Event page.
All the footage collected will be edited together into a film for presentation at Leeds Art Gallery later this year.
‘Ghost Cargo’ will fly for 90 minutes across the Yorkshire landscape, reaching Leeds city centre at midday. We are inviting everyone with access to a video camera or video enabled phone to get involved by filming Ghost Cargo as it passes overhead, and to upload their footage to this Event page (if you can add a comment under your video submission, with details of where you filmed from – an address or postcode – that would be great!)
The project is being delivered in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery and Writing Encounters, an initiative that supports writers and artists who work with text.
More information about the project can be found here: www.writingencounters.org
Steven Fowler has set up an online archive of some of his readings, including at the Wigmore Hall, Guildhall, Morden Tower, Birkbeck college, the Blue Bus, the New Gallery and the Art uncut protest.
Via Joe Luna:
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Announcing the fifth Hi Zero poetry reading of the season, featuring the tongues in action of:
JOHN WILKINSON
(Chicago)
DREW MILNE
(Cambridge)
ED LUKER
(Brighton)
More info soon. Make sure you can come. ALSO PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF VENUE: We are NOT at the HOPE this time, but at the OPEN HOUSE. It’s right next to London Road station.
If you’re coming from London, or further afield: From Brighton station, instead of walking out and down the hill, just jump on a train going up to Seaford or Lewes (usually platform 8), and the first stop will be London Road. You won’t need to buy an extra ticket for this journey, as an Anywhere – Brighton ticket covers both Brighton itself and London Road.
Once off at London Road, simply turn left and the OPEN HOUSE is RIGHT THERE.
See: http://tinyurl.com/5st3346 for a map.
Doors 7:30 for an 8 o’clock start – £4 for all.
Yes.”
More here.
Indie literary press Penned in the Margins presents a summer solstice celebration of alternative poetry and experimental language, headlined by cult London writer IAIN SINCLAIR.
Iain is joined by US-based poet JOHN WILKINSON, one of the most influential experimental writers of his generation, plus new Penned in the Margins authors EMILY CRITCHLEY and ROB STANTON.
* Rob will be launching his debut collection, The Method
The event takes place in The Nave – a beautiful and atmospheric converted church and performance space in the Islington / Hackney borders. There will be a bar and a bookstall.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
Tickets are £6 online / £7 on the door
Buy now to avoid disappointment:
Allen Fisher
Ken Hyder
Justin Katko
Christian Kerrigan
Marianne Morris
Thursday 16 June, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry
14 June at 7.30pm at Choppards Mission, nr. Holmfirth.
Hosted by Ian McMillan as part of the Holmfirth Art Festival. Harriet Tarlo, Mark Dickinson and Frances Presley will answer questions and read.
For directions to Choppards Mission and for more information, go to http://www.holmfirthartsfestival.co.uk
June 2nd, Thursday, 7.30 pm
Reading for the 3rd Hay Poetry Jamboree at Oriel Contemporary Arts,
Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye.
Over three days, June 2-4, other participants include: Ralph Hawkins, Colin Still (films), Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green, Robert Sheppard, Carol Watts, Sean Bonney, Frances Presley, Glenn Storrhaug, Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoe Skoulding, Kelvin Corcoran, Maggie O’Sullivan.
June 9-11
Skipping across the pond: interaction between American and British poetries 1964-1970; Plenary for Legacies of Modernism: The State of British Poetry Today conference at Institut Charles V in Paris. Some of the other participants are: Peter Middleton, Romana Huk, Scott Thurston, Xavier Kalck, Luke Roberts, Nandini Ramesh Sankar, Robin Purves, Geraldine Monk, Carol Watts, John Wilkinson, Keston Sutherland, David Kennedy, Emily Critchley, Michael Kindellan, Simon Perril, Sophie Robinson, Ian Davidson, Sam Ladkin, Joe Luna, Will Montgomery, Vincent Broqua, cris cheek, Joshua Adams, Jennifer Cooke, Lacy Rumsey, Jeff Hilson, Neil Psatterson, Sara Crangle, Simon Jarvis, Drew Milne, Robert Hampson.
June 16, Thursday, 7pm-9pm
Proposals performance for POLYply, The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG; other participants are Ken Hyder,
Justin Katko, Christian Kerrigan (t.b.c.) and Marianne Morris.
The Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG.
June 21, Tuesday, early evening
Complexity Manifold: Falmouth synopsis, Performance and Contexture event,
University College Falmouth, Wood Lane.
July 6-7
follow up sessions to April 13th session
PARC NorthWest, Practice as Research Consortium, Manchester.
September 16th, Friday, 7.30 pm
British Romantic Painters, invited talk for the
Hereford Arts Appreciation Society.
September 30th, Friday, 7.30 pm
Images of Health and Well-being, twenty-first annual HACS lecture, Courtyard Theatre, Hereford.
October 14th, Thursday, 4.30 pm
Reading performance for Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago.
October 15th, Friday, 1 pm
Lecture for Department of English Language & Literature, University of Chicago.
October 27th, Thursday, 4.30 pm
Lecture for Department of English, University of Notre Dame,
Strength in frailty: British poetry in the new millennium.
October 27th, Thursday, 7.30 pm
Reading at Hammes Bookstore, South Bend, Indiana
supported by the Department of English, University of Notre Dame.
November 12th, Saturday 2.30 pm
Narrative Walls: Renaissance frescoes: Giotto to Michelangelo for The National Association of Decorative & Fine Arts Societies.
A bunch of invited artists – and some random joiner-inners – will be mashing up their different experimental sounds and words all together.
Featuring:
Matt Dalby – http://santiagosdeadwasp.blogspot.com/
Gary Fisher – http://gary-fisher.co.uk/
Noise Research – http://noiseresearch.tumblr.com/
FUEL
Wilmslow Road
Manchester, United Kingdom
Thursday, June 2 · 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Some links to June 7th (Leeds) reader Alan Halsey. See middle bar for more details and this POST. Don’t forget that Leeds is on Tuesday 7th June and Manchester on Wednesday 8th June. See you at The Other Room(s)
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Sound
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