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The Text Festival 2011, Opening Performances

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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.

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CUBE GIVES AWAY LATEST INSTALLATION – FREE TO THE FIRST 100 VISITORS!

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COLLECTION AVAILABILITY: 12am – 5pm, Monday 18th April – Tuesday 19th April

For a limited period only, CUBE is giving visitors the opportunity to own a part of their current exhibition osa/MERZEN.

The monumental installation by osa (Office for Subversive Architecture), as featured in international architecture publications AJ and Blueprint magazine ends on Saturday 16th April. The exhibition is the first time the osa, renowned for their public realm works have worked in a gallery setting, with CUBE challenging them to ‘subvert’ the gallery space in response using the collage by Schwitters, YMCA Flag Thank-you Ambleside, made by the artist whilst in exile in Cumbria.

The exhibition has proved popular with visitors commenting “Wonderful, fascinating exhibition, excellent to see what can be done with imagination and discarded materials” and “Excellent, very brave, thought provoking, thank you” (Andrew J. Holland).

A unique window of opportunity has been provided by CUBE that will allow the first 100 people who arrive to own their very own piece of an International commission.

CUBE Staff will be on hand to assist the first 100 people who visit the gallery with their selection on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th April between 12 – 5pm.

All materials left at the end of the give away period will be recycled, reclaimed or reused.

CUBE 113-115 Portland Street Manchester M1 6DW
Tel: 0161 237 5525 fax 0161 236 5815
http://www.cube.org.uk
email info@cube.org.uk

The Other Room 23 reviewed

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Interesting discussions from Matt Dalby and Steve Waling

It was an ambitious programme this time. Derek Henderson read via live stream from Utah – and the other readers (Carrie Etter, Alec Finlay and Ken Edwards) were streamed out to the wider world. The venue was pretty packed and there were a number of new faces.

Derek Henderson reading from the recently released if p then q collection Thus & was the highlight of the evening for me. The collection is described as ‘a systematic erasure of Ted Berrigan’s 1964 collection The Sonnets.’

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The last Other Room was a really terrific night – to think that it’s already got to three years is quite stupendous. Derek Henderson live-streamed from Utah was one of the highlights, as was seeing the poet and editor Carrie Etter reading from her Shearsman book, Divining for Starters. Ken Edwards was also good, as was Alec Finlay. It was an interesting evening that brought up some issues.

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Scott Thurston’s Internal Rhyme now archived at PENN Sound

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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.

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Thus &: An Erasure of Ted Berrigan’s The Sonnets out now from if p then q

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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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LINK TO BUY FROM IF P THEN Q

Maintenant #49

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The notion and standing of the “poet” as a figure of cultural significance varies enormously from European nation to European nation. It almost goes without saying that by and large there has been a reduction in the audience and therefore cache afforded the poet as an artist, and many poets eschew the self-analysis and regard traditionally afforded to those recognised as somehow significant in their field. However there are poetic cultures that remain indelibly “literary”, where the poet is a voice representing far more than just their own concerns. Emilian Galaicu-Păun is inarguably one of these poets – eloquent, assured, politically engaged, his work has left a firm mark on European poetry, and is uniquely bound to the idiosyncratic circumstance of his home nation, Moldova. For the 49th edition of Maintenant, Emilian Galaicu-Păun.

(this interview was translated, conceived and written in collaboration with Livia Dragomir.)

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/maintenant-49-emilian-galaicu-paun/

Accompanying the interview are two of Emilian’s poems, translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Cristina Cîrstea

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/two-poems-emilian-galaicu-paun/

Maintenant #43 – Christodoulos Makris

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A scrupulous and gifted writer, Christodoulos Makris is a poet of language over territory, a poet of semblance over culture. Twenty years removed from his home nation of Cyprus, he has developed a reputation in both the UK and Ireland, his current place of residence, as a vital and astute poet. In a generous interview he discusses his knowledge of the poetry scene in Cyprus given its political constitution, how his own work is conceived, and how it has grown in the country he has chosen to live. In the very first Maintenant interview of 2011, we present Christodoulos Makris.


Accompanying the interview are five of his poems.

http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/five-poems-christodoulos-makris/

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