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James Davies Archive of the Now page
A recording of James Davies has been added to the ever growing Archive of the Now.
4 recordings and other information:
http://www.archiveofthenow.org/new-additions/
Nathan Walker a preview
Nathan Walker will perform alongside Emma Bennett and Hannah Silva at The Other Room’s 6th birthday on April 2nd at The Castle Hotel. The event starts at 7 and is free admission. Here’s a little preview of Nathan’s work.
Hidden Door Festival
28 March – 5 April 2014
Market Street Vaults Edinburgh
Hidden Door – a not-for-profit independent festival for Edinburgh.
A one-off opportunity to occupy the forgotten vaults of Market Street.
80 visual artists, 50 live music acts, 40 film makers, 30 poets, 30 performers, 20 animators, 9 unique parties, 2 live music vaults, 2 bars, 1 theatre, 1 cinema, 1 secret music venue, 1 site, 1 chance.
24 Rediscovered vaults on Market Street Edinburgh unlocked for 9 days only, to showcase some of Scotland’s best breakthrough talent.
Hannah Silva a preview
Hannah Silva will perform alongside Emma Bennett and Nathan Walker at The Other Room’s 6th birthday on April 2nd at The Castle Hotel. The event starts at 7 and is free admission. Here’s a little preview of Hannah’s work.
Winkfield/Champion Interviews
Trevor Winkfield tells the tale of his education and progress as a painter with all the drollery at his command. His interlocutor, the poet Miles Champion, is the perfect collaborator. How I Became A Painter is the best book by or about a painter published in 2014. Of course I have not read all the books by or about a painter published this year, but I am the publisher of Winkfield and Champion’s book and I know I am right. “I’ve just been hit by a thunderbolt . . .” begins Winkfield’s first answer to Champion. Zounds! And on almost every one of the 103 pages that follow there are illustrations, most of them in color.
More at Pressed Wafer Press HERE
Emma Bennett a preview
Emma Bennett will perform alongside Hannah Silva and Nathan Walker at The Other Room’s 6th birthday on April 2nd at The Castle Hotel. The event starts at 7 and is free admission. Here’s a little preview of Emma’s work.
Blue Bus – Elaine Randell, Robert Hampson and Joanne Ashcroft
The Blue Bus is pleased to present a reading by Elaine Randell, Robert Hampson and Joanne Ashcroft , on Tuesday 18th March, from 7.30at The Lamb (in the upstairs room), 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1. This is the eighty-sixth event in THE BLUE BUS series. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). For future events in the series, please scroll down to the end of this message.
Joanne Ashcroft is currently undertaking creative writing practice-led research at Edge Hill University investigating the idea of ‘multi-voice lyric’in contemporary innovative poetry. She is a member of the Poetry and Poetics Research Group at Edge Hill. She was joint winner of the inaugural Rhiannon Evans Poetry Scholarship 2010. From Parts Becoming Whole (The Knives Forks Spoons Press, 2011) is her first book of poetry. Joanne was winner of Poetry Wales Purple Moose Prize 2012, and her pamphlet Maps and Love Songs for Mina Loyis available from Seren. She teaches poetry part time at Edge Hill University.
Robert Hampson is Professor of Modern Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he teaches on the Poetic Practice pathway of the MA in Creative Writing. In the 1970s he co-edited Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards. In 2001, Stride published Assembled Fugitives: Selected Poems 1973-1998. His recent publications include a second edition of Seaport(Shearsman, 2008), an explanation of colours (Veer, 2010), and Reworked Disasters (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2013), which was long-listed for the Forward Prize (2013).
Elaine Randell was born in 1951 in south London, and has been living close to Romney Marsh, Kent for over thirty years. Living with her husband, three daughters, two English Setter dogs and a herd of rare breed sheep and other livestock, she works as a social worker and psychotherapist. Her Selected Poems represents thirty-five years of work as poet, glimpses in time, concerns, loves, gardening and other preoccupations. Her Selected Poems 1970-2005 (2006) and Faulty Mothering (2010) are both available from Shearsman.
NOTA Chapter 1 launch at I’m with you: INDEX
NOTA Chapter 1 launch at I’m with you: INDEX
28 February, 7.30 – 11.00
]performance s p a c e[
Swan Wharf, 60 Dace Road E3 2NQ
Please join us for I’m with you: INDEX, an evening of performances, videos and texts that focus overtly on indexing, notation and script.
Here, Open Dialogues will be launching Chapter 1 of NOTA, a collection of notes made inside live performances. NOTA CHAPTER 1 will be assembled and launched on the night alongside Emergency Index Vol. 2, a bible of performance art activity.
Artists on the night include:
]performance s p a c e[, Brian Lobel, Season Butler, Warren Garland + Josh Baum, Yoko Ishiguro, Eirini Kartsaki, Open Dialogues, Justin Hunt + Johanna Linsley, Daniel Oliver
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ABOUT NOTA
NOTA: NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), NOT/A, is a research framework produced by Open Dialogues that presses on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to performance. Chapter 1 is the first of ten publications to accompany the work. It is a collection of time-stamped documents – handwritten notes, absent-minded doodles and choreographic diagrams – that were NOTAted in relation to SHOWTiME performance festival (Presented by Alex Eisenberg and John Pinder (Present Attempt) at Rich Mix, London 2012). The publication is designed by Hato Press and includes a critical text by Rachel Lois and Mary of Open Dialogues on the subject of notes as the future of performance remains.
Chapter 1 will be assembled live on the evening of the launch by Rachel Lois and Mary, bound by hand and finished with a unique time-stamp. No two publications are the same.
Available for the special launch price of £4.
ABOUT EMERGENCY INDEX:
This is a bible of performance art activity. And if you are, like I am, a believer in performance art and the value of this ephemeral art activity to change the hearts and minds and consciousness of people, then you need to have this bible in your life. The end. —Martha Wilson
We’ve been seeing performance art materialize around us, but without feeling that there was a context for such ideas. Artists have been doing such pieces for a long time without much recognition that in fact their ideas are related. Now, with Emergency INDEX, we get the sense of a magical secret shared among many artists. Emergency INDEX is a profoundly important publication. It guides us to a new place. —Robert Ashley
Emergency Index: http://www.emergencyindex.com/
I’m with you: www.imwithyou.me
Open Dialogues: http://www.opendialogues.com/
SHOW TiME: http://www.show-time.org.uk/
Tim Allen – Tattered By Magnets
Even more Tim Allen this time published by KFS. Click HERE for more.
Dusie Magazine 16
Poetry and prose by Christina Chalmers, Frances Kruk, Samantha Walton, Kit Fryatt, David Kelly, Kent Johnson, Verity Spott, Jeff Hilson, Holly Pester, Juha Virtanen, Alice Notley, Nikola Blok, Nat Raha, Susana Gardner, Joshua Ware, David Toms, Steve Willey, Geraldine Bhoyroo, Sam Langer, Jeroen Nieuwland, Carol Watts, Sean Bonney, Lila Matsumoto, Ollie Evans, Louis Armand, Karen Veitch, Lisa Jeschke, David Grundy, and an extract from a novel by Ja el Wiltong, all HERE
Steve Spence reviews Tom Jenks’ Streak Artefacts
New at Stride, along with a number of other new pieces. Click HERE
David Buuck at Birkbeck
Reading and conversation with David Buuck
David will read work that comes directly out of thinking about Occupy Oakland & its more militant actions/offshoots/confrontations, put into context with broader questions about poetics and how Bay Area (& other North American) poet-activists are beginning to (re)think-through the always tangled questions of poetry/politics/etc.
7-9 pm
Wednesday 18th December
Room G 16
Birkbeck College, Main Building, Torrington Square
David Buuck is a writer who lives in Oakland, CA. He is the founder of BARGE, the Bay Area Research Group in Enviro-aesthetics, and co-founder and editor of Tripwire, a journal of poetics. An Army of Lovers, co-written with Juliana Spahr, is forthcoming from City Lights this fall, and SITE CITE CITY will be out from Futurepoem in 2014. Some publications, writing & performance samples, etc. available via davidbuuck.com
Jo Langton at The Other Room August 2013
Jo Langton at The Other Room August 2013
[vimeo https://vimeo.com/77483824 w=250&h=216]MATERIALS READING SERIES: CAITLÍN DOHERTY / NICK POTAMITIS
The second reading in the Materials Reading Series will take place on Thursday, the 31st October, in the Armitage Room at Queens’ College, Cambridge, at 7.30 for 8pm. Email dmg37@cam.ac.uk and ljj28@cam.ac.uk for further information.
Caitlín Doherty is the author of O (Cambridge: Foule Press, 2012) and SATELLITES(Tokyo: Tipped Press, 2012) and has a book forthcoming from Critical Documents. “An inter-galactic stargate opens. Titan falls through it.”
Nick Potamitis is the author of THE BOOK OF NIGHT TERRORS (Cambridge: Salt, 2010) and the forthcoming JUBILATE AJAX (Cambridge: Mountain, 2014). “despite / his being only an archetype, the philologist still / finds fault with the tableware.”
Berridge & Lice launch
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The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry
The Text Festivals: Language Art and Material Poetry edited by Tony Lopez
It is a remarkable phenomenon that the foremost among recent sites of this interrogation of boundaries has been a series of festivals located in Bury, on the outskirts of Greater Manchester. World leading artists and poets have been brought together in a range of exhibitions and performances that demonstrate a new and productive collision of different cultural enterprises and expectations. Among those shown at the Text Festivals are Fiona Banner, derek beaulieu, Caroline Bergvall, Joseph Beuys, Christian Bok, Brass Art, Marcel Broodthaers, Pavel Buchler, Augusto de Campos, Zeynep Cansu, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Liz Collini, Philip Davenport, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Hamish Fulton, Eugen Gomringer, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Alexander Jorgenson, Satu Kaikonen, Martin Kippenburger, Karri Kokko, Marton Koppany, On Kawara, Helmut Lemke, Richard Long, Tony Lopez, Jackson Mac Low, Hansjorg Mayer, Steve Miller, Kerry Morrison, Maurizio Nannucci, Patrick Fabian Panetta, Holly Pester, Tom Philips, Shaun Pickard, Kate Pickering, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Spencer Roberts, Ed Ruscha, Ron Silliman, Mary Ellen Solt, Magda Stawarska-Beavan, Harald Stoffers, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Aysegul Tozeren, TNWK, Tony Trehy, Nico Vasilakis, Carol Watts, Lawrence Weiner, George Widener, Ming Wong, and Eric Zboya. Artists, poets and curators working in these overlapping fields have written this book. It includes new essays by Tony Trehy (director of the Text Festivals), derek beaulieu, Christian Bok, Liz Collini, James Davies, Philip Davenport, Robert Grenier, Alan Halsey, Tony Lopez, Holly Pester, Hester Reeve (HRH.the), Carolyn Thompson, and Carol Watts.
OUT NOW from Plymouth University Press or via Amazon
ENEMIES: THE SELECTED COLLABORATIONS OF SJ FOWLER
ENEMIES: THE SELECTED COLLABORATIONS OF SJ FOWLER
Readings with Sam Riviere, David Berridge, Tim Atkins, Sarah Kelly, Eirikur Orn Norddahl and Tom Jenks. From the publisher:
“You are invited to join independent poetry publisher Penned in the Margins for the launch of SJ Fowler’s groundbreaking, multi-disciplinary collection Enemies; the result of collaborations with over thirty artists, photographers and writers – each imbued with the energy, innovation and generosity of spirit that has become Fowler’s calling card as a poet.
Meta-diary entries mingle with a partially redacted email exchange; texts slip and fragment, finding new contexts alongside paintings, diagrams and YouTube clips. Animalistic Rorschach blots and behind-the-scenes photographs from the Museum inspire a poetic that is dynamic but unstable: Fowler’s texts walk the high-wire between reason and madness, the individual and the collective, human and animal.
The Enemies are: Tim Atkins, David Berridge, Cristine Brache, Patrick Coyle, Emily Critchley, Lone Eriksen, Frédéric Forte, Tom Jenks, Samantha Johnson, Alexander Kell, David Kelly, Sarah Kelly, Anatol Knotek, Ilenia Madelaire, Chris McCabe, nick-e melville, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Matteo X Patocchi, Claire Potter, Monika Rinck, Sam Riviere, Hannah Silva, Marcus Slease, Ross Sutherland, Ryan Van Winkle, Philip Venables, Sian Williams”
“An overwhelming assault. The geography is unnerving, almost familiar, then stinging in its estrangement.
Intensity crackles. Tension teases. At what point does collision become collaboration? When do the bandages come off?”
Iain Sinclair
Intensity crackles. Tension teases. At what point does collision become collaboration? When do the bandages come off?”
Iain Sinclair
The Other Room, Dark Would preview: Laurence Lane
The Other Room’s next event is a northern launch of the anthology The Dark Would which takes place October 16th at The Castle Hotel in Manchester, 7pm. For more information see the poster in the middle column of this page.
Laurence Lane is an artist and curator. In June 2000 he co-founded The International 3, a gallery space in city centre Manchester that developed out of the city’s artist-led activity. He has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and as a curator he has commissioned, produced and presented work by many artists involved in a broad range of contemporary art practice.
Philip Terry’s Tapestry on shortlist for The Goldsmith’s Prize
Other Room reader and Reality Street author Philip Terry has been shortlisted for the new Goldsmith’s Prize.
Taking as its starting point marginal images in the Bayeux Tapestry, which have been left largely unexplained by historians, Terry retells the story of the Norman Conquest from the point of view of the tapestry’s English embroiderers. Combining magic realism and Oulipian techniques, this is a tour de force of narrative and language.
Read more HERE
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