The Other Room 8 takes place tonight at The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY, featuring poetry and performance by Matt Dalby, Alex Davies and Allen Fisher. Entry is free and the evening starts at 7 PM. Hope to see you there. Click here for a map.
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. takes an imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices, using the concrete poetry of the 60s as its starting point. The exhibition goes on to look at other practices from this era, and concludes with work from younger artists currently exploring the literary and graphic potential of language.
Exhibiting artists: Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Anna Barham, Matthew Brannon, Henri Chopin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, David Hockney, Karl Holmqvist, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Janice Kerbel, Christopher Knowles, Ferdinand Kriwet, Liliane Lijn, Robert Smithson, Frances Stark and Sue Tompkins.
17 June – 23 August 2009
@ ICA, London
The April 1st 2009 evening marked the first year of The Other Room. You can’t have a birthday without cake and we didn’t. Click on the picture of Mr. Richard Barrett’s bespoke artefact as elegantly gripped by the man himself to see more.
A reminder that Other Room reader Richard Barrett is reading as part of the second farewell evening for Manchester poetry magazine The Ugly Tree. Thursday 28 May, from 6.00pm. Free. Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. An insider reveals that Ringroad, as featured in The Other Room Anthology, may be given an airing.
“Come along to the Bay Horse on Thursday to find out more about the Cutting Room Experiment. This is the event which could see hundreds of people bouncing around in the biggest Space Hopper race ever, a huge silent disco and a mass dance routine to Michael Jackson’s Thriller just to name a few. Until votes close on Friday, May 29 anything could happen!
With an interactive website, this event wants the audience to get involved, come up with their own ideas and also vote for their favourites in each stream.
And this is where you come in – bloggers are the new influencers and we want you to get involved. Have a look at the website – http://www.cuttingroomexperiment.com – there are 12 streams on everything from architecture and design, dance, pop music, art and craft, literature and loads more to make sure there is absolutely something for everyone to enjoy. Get voting or if you have a better idea, then put it down.
Please join us at the Bay Horse on Thursday, May 21 at 6.30pm for a free pint and a chat. It would be great to meet you.
Bay Horse, 35-37 Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 1NA.
T: 0161 661 1041
“The Octagon Theatre continues its run of events in partnership with its Principal Sponsor, the University of Bolton, as the university presents an end of year showcase of poetry, prose and drama by students on the Creative Writing course.”
Wednesday 20 May – Thursday 21 May 2009
Friday 22nd May
11am – 7pm
With the exception of our annual yuletide knees-up ‘Xmas at the Mill’, chances to have a look around and see what everyone gets up to at Islington Mill are few and far between.
So at long last we have decided to prop open the grey door to the public and give you of curious mind the chance to come along and see who does what and where.
It’s an amazing opportunity to meet people involved in all areas of the cultural spectrum from film-making to fine art, theatre to ceramics, music to multimedia and print making to graphic design. You can get a taster of the people based here by visiting the Directory page on our website.
In 2007, Ackroyd & Harvey gathered and germinated hundreds of acorns from renowned artist Joseph Beuys’s seminal artwork 7000 Oaks in Germany, and in doing so began a new long term research project. This will be the first exhibition of Beuys’s Acorns, which explores the agency of ideas associated with the provenance of the trees and provokes questions as to the artists relationship with nature, the changing climate and collapsing economic order. Beuys had a mission. To change the social order. Mostly the money system. Ackroyd & Harvey will ask what the legacy of Beuys’s mission is given the climate of ecological and economic degradation at the beginning of the 21st century.
On July 1st P. Inman and Tina Darragh will perform The Other Room. To commemorate this fantastic reading we will be making a two films – one for Tina and one for Pete -where they’ll be interviewed. We would like to pose questions set by you. If your question is featured you will be credited at the end of the film. The resulting movies will be hosted here on the site. Please email us: otherroomeditors@googlemail.com
Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit will take place 13-16 May 2009, featuring world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. The festival has four strands – Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS – and occupies the orbits of art, performance, music, design and digital culture.
Ron Silliman Reading “Albany” from The Alphabet, The Met, Bury, UK (2 May 2009). Via Geof Huth.
Other Room reader Richard Barrett is reading as part of the second farewell evening for Manchester poetry magazine The Ugly Tree. Thursday 28 May, from 6.00pm. Free. Manchester Central Library, St Peter’s Square, Manchester M2 5PD. Get down there to catch up with where this rapidly emerging poet is at.
Deserving of much attention for his early use of turntables and prepared records. This German based artist of longstanding comes directly out of and is contemporary to the late 70’s Milan Knizak ‘Broken Music’ school of playing physically ruined records.
If you missed Bebber at The Text Festival he performs again at The Salford Concert Series on Thursday 7th May.
After the main weekend of The Text Festival it has been reviewed in depth at the following sites:
Venue: Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Curated by Helmut Lemke & Ben Gwilliam
Saturday 16 May – Friday 05 June
Mon – Fri 10.00am – 4.00pm
Admission:Free
Performance Date: Saturday 16 May, 7.00pm – 11.00pm
Geraldine Monk at first The Other Room, April 2008
An advanced warning to get those cheap train tickets and call in sick to work to go down to London, get out of Mancunia or jump on a plane if you can to the always stunning Openned.
The next Openned night takes place at 7.15pm on Wednesday 27th May. Confirmed readers: Rebecca Cremin, Johanna Linsley, Ryan Ormonde, Michelle Naka Pierce, Chris Pusateri, Catherine Wagner. Join the Facebook event. Openned nights are held at The Foundry in London, UK.
The first part of Tom’s reading. Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk also kicked off the show. Videos of them are currently being transferred, uploaded and caressed.
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