There are now 21 if p then q Top Trump cards at the if p then q website. That’s enough to play with 3 players. There’ll be 32 in total which’ll come out as a limited edition set. This is the best thing since Snake.
Projects
TEXT-ME-UP!
Castlefield Gallery will host the launch of artist Tracey Moberly’s new book TEXT-ME-UP! Saving every single text message she has ever received since 1999, the book is an auto biographical work weaving personal narratives with psycho-geographical histories of Manchester, London, Moscow, New York and Haiti. Journeying from underground to mainstream in the worlds of both music and art it includes over 3,000 images.
Thursday 7 July 2011, 6-8pm, FREE
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arthur+martha: BLOOM
Via Philip Davenport:
The current arthur+martha project in Four Acre, St Helens has been short-listed for the national Bloom Awards. The Bloom Awards are for excellence and innovation in improving the quality of life, dignity and well-being of older people receiving care and support. We would really value your support. To register and to cast your vote on the various projects in the awards please follow this link http://lemosandcrane.co.uk/home/index.php?id=213425 and look for St Helen’s Council- Arts Service: Art of the Unexpected. Voting closes 24th June (5pm)
Poems about succumbing to temptation iced onto cakes, childhood memories painted onto plates, or poverty stitched onto tablecloths, bunting that questions etiquette, fading memories written on doilies, ‘sugar’ graffiti that evokes long gone childhoods, hardship and friendship. We have been invited older people in the an economically-deprived area to make a mix of poetry and art, celebrating their lives and visions. We’re trying to reach those who might not normally join in with art activities, by taking our workshops to the local Bingo night, housebound people’s homes, the doctors surgery, Tescos, a day centre for people diagnosed with dementia, a local library…
To read the latest about the project visit http://arthur-and-martha.blogspot.com/search/label/Four%20Acre%20St%20Helens
More photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/arthur-and-martha/
Re-Covering | Curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson
David Shrigley, Billy Childish, Harry Hill, Magda Archer, Robert Casselton Clark, Laurence Lane, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Monica Biagioli, Brian Reed, Lisa Slominski, Mr&Mrs, Andrew Bracey, Lee Machell, Paul Cordwell, Richard Healy, Nick Jordan, John Hyatt, Naomi Kashiwagi, Bren O’Callaghan & Mandy Tolley, Paul Stanley, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, David Alker, Ben Cove, Stratton Barrett & Peter Wankowicz, Cecilia Wee, Jake Geczy, Roisin Byrne, Christine Wong Yap, Ludovica Gioscia, Julie Hammonds & Kit Hammonds, Jason Minsky, Mark Haig & Sarah Perks, Ed Barton, Daniel Staincliffe, Margaret Cahill, Contents May Vary, Elizabeth Leeke, The Centre of Attention, Steve Hawley, Lee Campbell, Len Horsey, David Gledhill, The Confraternity of Neoflagellants & BABEL Working Group, Nicola Dale, Franz Otto Novotny.
Curated by Mike Chavez-Dawson, Re-Covering is an exhibition of works by 40 local and international artists who redesign the cover of an influential book onto a reclaimed piece of oak from school libraries. Displayed on an installation of shelves, the works are standard paperback size (110mm x 178mm x 15mm). Works in Re-Covering include: Travels in Hyper Reality [Umberto Eco]; Simulacra and Simulation [Jean Baudrillard]; The Waves [Virginia Woolf]; The Adventures of the Wishing-Chair [Enid Blyton]; The Shock of Medievalism [Kathleen Biddick]; The End of History and the Last Man [Francis Fukuyama]; and Journey to the Centre of the Earth [Jules Verne].
To coincide with Re-Covering is The Reading, a multiple writers’ residency initiated by the artist/writer Jane Chavez-Dawson. Produced by Mike Chavez-Dawson in collaboration with Jake Geczy and Matthew Pendergast, The Reading will develop throughout Re-Covering, with up to 70 writers working in Untitled Gallery in either 2.5 or 3 hour slots. Each writer produces a text to be projected onto the back wall of Untitled Gallery. All writers share the same brief: They must use the final paragraph of the previous writer’s work, and may use as stimuli the ambience of the gallery, the exhibition’s content, the stream of visitors and the knowledge that their writing is displayed in real-time.
As a live projection, this piece is entitled Network Aesthetics – The Reading, a curatorial extension of Re-Covering and features a live feed from writers participating in The Reading writers’ residency. Network Aesthetics – The Reading presents “writing as performance” [Phelan] whilst furthering “multiple iterations” [Derrida] of an exploration into live text as a performance document. The physical networks drawn across the participating venues intend to mimic scattered pages of an unfolding “intertextual” [Kristeva] novel. A live projection of the writing in real-time is to be displayed in Untitled Gallery and across multiple screens in Manchester, including Cornerhouse, CUBE, Chinese Arts Centre, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, and The Reading Room Collection, MMU Library.
Open Wednesday 12 – 7pm, Thursday – Saturday 12 – 6pm, Sunday 12 – 5pm
17 June – 31 July 2011
Sound and Dark: Geraldine Monk, Adeena Karasick, bill bissett, Iris Garrelf
The Text Festival rounds off its performance series with Sound and Dark (2)
Featuring Geraldine Monk (UK), Adeena Karasick (USA), bill bissett (CAN), Iris Garrelf (UK)
@ The Met Arts Centre
Market Street,
Bury, BL9 0BW
3rd June 2011 / 7.30pm
Continuing the Festival’s unique mix of sound and poetry with an evening:
Adeena Karasick is a poet, media-artist and the award-winning author of seven books of poetry and poetic theory. Marked with an urban, Jewish, feminist aesthetic that continually challenges normative modes of meaning production, and engaged with the art of combination and turbulence of thought, her work is a testament to the creative and regenerative power of language and its infinite possibilities for pushing meaning to the limits of its semantic boundaries. She is Professor of Global Literature at St. John’sUniversityin New York.
Geraldine Monk is one of the most exciting and provocative writer-performers on the British scene. Her readings a witty, warm and dynamic drawing on a prolific career which has spawned fourteen major works in the last twenty five years.
bill bissett is a famously anti-conventional Canadian poet with more than 60 books to his (uncapitalised) name immediately identifiable by the incorporation of his artwork and his consistently phonetic (funetik) spelling. As an energetic “man-child mystic,” bill bissett is living proof of William Blake’s adage “the spirit of sweet delight can never be defiled.” His idealistic and ecstatic stances frequently obscure his critical-mindedness, humour and craftmanship.
Iris Garrelf is a composer/performer intrigued by change, fascinated with voices and definitely enamoured by technology. She often uses her voice as raw material, which she transmuted into machine noises, choral works or pulverised “into granules of electroacoustic babble and glitch, generating animated dialogues between innate human expressiveness and the overt artifice of digital processing” as the Wire Magzine put it.
A vital part of her work, be it using voice or other sound material, is improvisation and the use of random elements, the ephemeral fragility and risk implied in giving up control to me moment, a sonic singularity.
Ticket Prices:
£8 / £4
The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances
The Other Room was asked to film the opening performances of 2011’s international Text Festival. This represents less than a quarter of the events took place.
On Saturday 30th April The third international Text Festival opened. The montage at the beginning shows a small percentage of the art on display in three galleries around Bury, Manchester. There are performances here by Marco Giovenale, Helen White & Moniek Darge, Marton Koppany, Helmet Lemke & Hans Specht and Sarah Sanders. The Lemke/Specht performance was a durational piece of four hours. What is captured here is only a small portion of that fabulous piece.
The Text Festival 2011 Opening Performances from The Other Room on Vimeo.
Click Here to see the video in a larger screen
Galatea Resurrects
The vital reviews journal continues to give us such goodies.
Of immediate note are reviews of P. Inman, Derek Henderson, Jeff Hilson and Place & Fitterman’s Notes on Conceptualism.
Polyply 8: Animal Animal
POLYply > 9 ANIMAL ANIMAL 14 April
Maria Fusco
Carol Watts
Anna Lawrence
Johan Thom
Peter Cusack
Thursday 14th April, 7pm-9pm
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
The Other Room 3rd birthday streamed out of The Old Abbey Inn
We will be attempting to stream Carrie Etter, Ken Edwards and Alec Finlay out of The Other Room to the internet at roughly 8pm UK time, 6th April, for any people unable to attend but wishing to watch online. Please convert this time for other locations.
The channel is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/otherroom3rdbirthday
The eq of revolution
Sound project featuring, amongst many other good things, Philip Davenport’s The eq of summer, a track sung by shamanic vocalist C. Johnson. This track comes from the CD Constellation of Luminous Details, which invited various sound artists to make variants on Davenport’s found poems (Ben Gwilliam, Lee Patterson, Gareth Bibby and others). Material from the CD is also to be used in an installation at the Text Festival by Holly Pester.
Hay on Wye 3rd annual Jamboree
Advance notice of this splendid looking event.
THIRD HAY-ON-WYE POETRY JAMBOREE
JUNE 2nd – 4th 2011
Oriel Gallery of Contemporary Arts
Salem Chapel, Bell Bank, Hay on Wye
THURSDAY JUNE 2ND
6.30 – 7.30 pm: Festival Launch Reception
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Ralph Hawkins + Allen Fisher
FRI JUNE 3RD
11.00 – noon: Film and poetry: Colin Still
2.00 – 4.00 pm: Helen Lopez, John Freeman, Angela Gardner, Rhys Trimble, Paul Green
5.00 – 6.00 pm: Lecture: Robert Sheppard
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Carol Watts + Sean Bonney
SAT JUNE 4TH
11.00 – noon : Frances Presley, Glenn Storhaug
2.00 – 4.00 pm: Gavin Selerie, Tiffany Atkinson, David Annwn, Zoe Skoulding with Poetry Wales special bill.
7.30 – 9.15 pm: Kelvin Corcoran + Maggie O’Sullivan
9.30 – 10.30 pm: Grand Finale – Chicken of the Woods (bluegrass band, with dancing, drinking, and other enjoyable post-poetic shenanigans …)
Plus – All Saturday in Salem Chapel proper, Elysium Gallery in collaboration with
Hay Poetry Jamboree presents Bus Stop Cinema – a festival of short films.
ENTRANCE TO 7.30 EVENTS £5 (CONCESSIONS £3). ALL OTHER EVENTS FREE
Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme now archived at PENN Sound
Occassional Readings, Furzeacres on Dartmoor in Devon, UK, July 4, 2010
In this performance Scott Thurston reads the entirety of his book Internal Rhyme (Exeter: Shearsman Books, 2010). Divided into four sections, the book comprises a sequence of eighty poems in total, each constructed in four four-line stanzas which can be read in a vertical as well as in a horizontal direction. For this performance, Thurston experimented with reading two of the book’s sections in both directions. Taking the poems in groups of five, he used two approaches: firstly, reading all five in one direction and then returning to read the same five in the other direction and, secondly, reading each poem in one direction immediately followed by the other direction.
Internal Rhyme develops Thurston’s preoccupation with time and process as compositional elements, as seen in his previous book for Shearman, 2008’s Momentum. The subjects and themes are diverse and include poems responding to Blake, Klimt and Twombly alongside refigurings of the theoretical works of Alain Badiou.
Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets out now from if p then q
Ted Berrigan’s seminal The Sonnets is renowned for its famous use of cut up technique and reconfiguration throughout the sequence. Derek Henderson’s erasure Thus & eliminates all words and typographical duplications. In addition to the strikingly beautiful, often minimalist, sonnets created by Henderson, Thus & asks new questions of each Berrigan sonnet and the sequence as a whole. Thus & reveals (conceals) not only the clusters of phrases/lines that were cloned by Berrigan but also words which he repeated; many obviously subconsciously. What is left in Thus & is part skeleton, and underbelly, of maître-sonneteer Berrigan’s The Sonnets and part alien remix by techno-magician Derek Henderson.
Sampler & Concordance
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Osa / Merzen
Based on reflection of the work of artist Kurt Schwitters, osa is developing an accessible and tangible installation in the space of CUBE gallery in Manchester.
osa’s installation refers to Schwitters’ own collage technique which he called “Merz”, a method of rearranging collected objects such as papers, timber, wire, text snippets and paint.
The installation will transform the gallery space by using materials collected and provided by the city of Manchester, with the aim to blur the border between existing space and installation i.e. frame and content.
As with city development itself, the idea deals with the transformation process of the materials through the application within the installation as well as (the transformation) of the whole (overall system) as a reaction of addition and overwriting. This leads to a deliberate context displacement.
The installation will grow in three stages (17-19 February, 26-28 February, 25-28 March) and visitors are encouraged to become part of the development process by bringing their own collected materials of the built environment into the gallery.
Parts of the gallery space will be turned into a material store which not only acts as a collection point for the different ingredients of the installation, but also links back to the former function of the building (warehouse).
As within the contemporary pluralistic city (CPC), existing relationships will be shifted through continuous surprising and unexpected interrelations of the single elements as well as and new ones will be uncovered; without a descriptive manual.
“Merz is sensing without knowing”, Kurt Schwitters, 1920.
For more information and press images, please contact: info@cube.org.uk, 0161 237 5525.
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“is a monthly serialized, interweb archive of creative, heterodox texts & provocative, culturally relevant critiques, commentaries, interviews & podcasts on 21st century motifs, figures, films, literature, images & music — aimed to oppose, resist & upend any & every traditionally neutered, perpetually homogenized, mainstream objective”
More here.
Wave us Goodbye: today in Manchester at Screen at the Triangle
Poetry films on the BBC Big Screen in Manchester will commemorate the Holocaust, bringing together the memories of older Jewish people.
The project, titled BRING LIGHT TOWARDS YOU, is one of many arts projects run by the arthur+martha arts organisation. In the build-up to Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January, poetic texts created by the older people, most of whom are Holocaust survivors, will be displayed ‘in lights’ on the Screen at The Triangle in the city centre. These films will screen in ‘sets’ roughly every half an hour between other shows and run for a week.
The Holocaust has often been linked to trains: millions of people, particularly Jews, were taken to concentration camps by train before being killed in the notorious Nazi ‘Final Solution’ during the Second World War. These 30-second films give fragments from accounts of their journeys: to destruction and journeys of escape.
Artist Lois Blackburn and poet Philip Davenport worked with older Jewish people living at The Morris Feinmann Home, Manchester, exploring issues related to the Holocaust. “To hear these stories has been a powerful, haunting experience,” said Davenport. “The poems are little pockets of emotion that bring alive one of the most notorious events in recent history. It’s hard to imagine the reality of the Holocaust because it was so huge, so brutal. What these tiny moments of remembering do is connect to ordinary people’s experience.”
Lois Blackburn added: “As in all our projects, we talked to people about the small details of their experience, because it is people’s everyday lives that collectively make history. It’s the sandwiches your mum made, or the look on your sister’s face as you said goodbye. The fact that we’ve been able to help people transform these memories into messages that will be seen my thousands is an extraordinary privilege.”
Maria Turner, Activities Co-ordinator at the Morris Feinmann Home, described arthur+martha’s work as: “Sensitive and caring.”
Some of the pieces were shown on the electronic billboard in Piccadilly Railway Station on Holocaust Memorial Day 2009, but this is the first time that the whole sequence has been seen. arthur+martha have continued to develop the project in partnership with Holocaust Memorial Day Trust, working with young people with special needs, Roma children and many others.
THE FULL SEQUENCE OF TEXT ANIMATIONS CAN BE VIEWED AT
http://www.arthur-and-martha.co.uk/pages/kindness%20samples.htm
Reality Street launches ReScript
The imprint launches in January 2011 with two titles:
Dracula’s Precursors, a collection of three early vampire tales, including the neglected classic “The Mysterious Stranger” – with an introduction by David Annwn
The Ivory Gate, which includes later poems and fragments by Thomas Lovell Beddoes – edited with an introduction by Alan Halsey
More will appear in 2011. For more details, and to buy, go to
LINK
Maintenant #42 – Aase Berg
One of the most deft and iconoclastic poets in Northern Europe, over the course of the last 25 years Aase Berg has developed, remarkably, a reputation to match her talent. One of the founding members of the Stockholm Surrealist Group in 1986, it was during the 90’s that she came to the fore as one of the most prominent poets, theorists and critics in Sweden. In the 42nd edition of the Maintenant series she discusses the several collections of poetry she has published, some of which with the Bonnier publishing house, the largest and most prestigious in Sweden, and her thoughts in general on poetic innovation and the state of poetry in contemporary Sweden.
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-42-aase-berg/
Accompanying the interview are eight of her poems, spanning four collections. Translations are published with thanks to Johannes Goransson
POETRY in 1960 – A SYMPOSIUM
Video and audio up at PENN from the recent symposium.
UNFIXED
Flat Time House is pleased to host a weekend of events organised by Reading for Reading’s Sake with:
David Berridge, Maurice Carlin, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker, Patrick Coyle, Ella Finer, John Hill, Helen Kaplinsky and Stefan Sulzer
UNFIXED is a series of events developed by Reading for Reading Sake (RfRS)
Flat Time House, John Latham Foundation and Archive, London
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