Moving Words is an exhibit hosted at Illuminations Gallery, digital-visual exhibition space of the School of English, Media and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland in Maynooth, Ireland. The exhibit, curated by Dene Grigar, explores 30 years of net-based kinetic poetry and prose, presenting various artistic approaches and methods of expression, from cinematic animated text displayed originally on a computer screen to highly interactive textual spaces meant for mobile devices.
Nerve Lantern is a journal of experimental performance texts and texts about performance, supporting a range of forms including poets’ theatre and page-as-stage, published by Pyriform Press and edited by Ellen Redbird. Past contributors include: Anne Waldman, Carla Harryman, Kevin Killian, kari edwards, Michelle Ellsworth, Michael Basinski, Camille Roy, Akilah Oliver, Bhanu Kapil, Rodrigo Toscano, Jena Osman, and Sawako Nakayasu. Now accepting submissions for Issue 8, deadline: September 1, 2014.
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Saturday, 29 March 2014:
12.00-1.00. Readings and performances by students from the MA in Poetic Practice: Carrie Foulkes, Sophia Fratianne, Christian Groves, Kaori Maeda, and Heather Rimington.
2.00-3.15. Rod Mengham, Ben Hickman, Holly Pester
3.30-4.45. Frances Kruk, Aimee Le, Marcus Sleaze
5.15-6.30. Robert Sheppard, Rob Holloway, and Peter Hughes.
Venue: Centre for Creative Collaboration, 16 Acton St, London WC1
Films from the 1st March event in London, courtesy of SJ Fowler. More about the event, and links to more films, can be found at Robert Sheppard’s site.
Rose Theatre Reading at Edge Hill University: 26th March at 7.30 (£4.50)
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 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.
Francesca Lisette/nick-e melville/Samantha Walton/Jeroen Nieuwland.
Out this month on Vier Books.
Thursday 13th March, 7.30 pm, Room 151, Malet Street Main Building, Birkbeck College, Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX. Click here for a map link
The CPRC Birkbeck welcomes Robert Fitterman, Marc Atkins and Rod Mengham.
All welcome – free entry Featuring the launch of Robert Fitterman’s JUST ANOTHER SOFT MACHINE and Marc Atkins & Rod Mengham’s STILL moving (both new from Veer)
PLUSthe launch of Robert Fitterman’s No Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (new from Ugly Duckling Presse)
AND the launch of the U.S. edition of Robert Fitterman’s Holocaust Museum (new from Counterpath) (originally published by Veer in 2011)
JUST ANOTHER SOFT MACHINE
Veer Publication 059 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-66-7]A handbook of some ways contemporary poets use radical appropriation. The question is, how the meaning of anything readable changes when it’s moved into a new framing. Fitterman explores the terrain of quotation/conceptual writing.
A6 size. 34 pages. March 2014.STILL moving
Veer Publication 058 [ISBN: 978-1-907088-64-3]
’For Rod Mengham and Marc Atkins, cracking mirrors and counter-mirrors are not only a frontier between two worlds, they represent a systematic quest for desire, a haunted visual trope leaping towards an elsewhere as threatening as it is seducing, setting out to explore “the rear view of historical convergenceâ€, carefully recording instances in which the conjunctions, collisions and chiaroscuro of memory and fantasy take us beyond the scope of the thinkable and the imaginable.’ (Michel Delville)
Design by Vaughan Oliver and Marc Atkins.A4 landscape size. 80 pages. Colour and B&W. March 2014.No Wait. Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself is book-length poem that loosely borrows the poetic form and sentiment of James Schuyler’s The Morning of the Poem. In my version, the articulations of sadness and loneliness are culled from online sources and carefully woven together through a single speaker. To some degree, I have realized the poem as an essay on contemporary poetics–an essay that aims to problematize and highlight the expanded fields of subjectivity, personal expression, the mediated self, and even verse form itself as it migrates from screen to page.
‘Holocaust Museum reframes the captions of holocaust photographs from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. These captions—without their photographic images—are arranged loosely in the order or narrative constructed by the museum. There are many purposes to this project but the genesis is in articulating a cultural shift from image to text. The subject, this particular holocaust, was chosen because the images are shared in our collective memory—by presenting only the text, the reader is, hopefully, consigned into a more complicit experience.’
Nick Thurston
Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and writer. Marc has lived and worked for many years in London, but has also spend extended periods of time in Rome, Detroit, New York, Warsaw and Paris. Previous publications include The Prism Walls (Contraband), Logic of the Stairwell (Shearsman), The Teratologists(panoptika), Thirteen (Do-Not Press), Warszawa [texts by T. Pióro & A. Sosnowski] (Wig-press), Faces of Mathematics (panoptika), and Liquid City [text by Iain Sinclair] (Reaktion). Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at venues such as the Royal Academy, Royal College of Art, UEL School of Architecture, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, The Photographers Gallery, and the University of Liège.
Robert Fitterman is the author of 14 books of poetry including No Wait, Yep. Definitely Still Hate Myself (Ugly Duckling Press, 2014), Rob’s Word Shop (Ugly Duckling Press, forthcoming, 2015), Holocaust Museum (Counterpath, 2013, and Veer [London] 2012), now we are friends (Truck Books, 2010), Rob the Plagiarist (Roof Books, 2009), war, the musical (Subpress, 2006), and Notes On Conceptualisms, co-authored with Vanessa Place (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2009). His long poemMetropolis, has been published in 4 separate volumes. He teaches writing and poetry at New York University and at the Bard College, Milton Avery School of Graduate Studies. His writing can be found at his website: http://homepages.nyu.edu/~rmf1/
Rod Mengham is Reader in Modern English Literature at Cambridge University and Curator of Works of Art at Jesus College, Cambridge. He has published monographs and edited collections of essays on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction, violence and avant-garde art, the 1940s, contemporary poetry; anthologiesAltered State: the New Polish Poetry [ed. Mengham, Pioro, Szymor] (2003), Vanishing Points: New Modernist Poems [ed. Kinsella, Mengham](2005); poetry, includingUnsung: New and Selected Poems, (2001), Diving Tower (2006), Parleys and Skirmishes (2007), Bell Book (2012) and The Understory (2014). He has also curated numerous exhibitions, most recently ‘Sculpture in the Close 2013’ [Miroslaw Balka, Theaster Gates, Harland Miller, Damian Ortega, Doris Salcedo].
Wednesday 12th March 2014 at 7:30pm, Quad South Hall, York St John University. A performance featuring two upcoming Other Room readers Nathan Walker and Emma Bennett. Three Radio Plays with visuals – phonic disturbances – speaking quickly and slow – circling round – superimposing and sitting things next to – handing things down and handling things over – aligning shirts – snecking and videos of pictures. More here.
Radical poetry in Liverpool at News from Nowhere News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop
Monday, March 31st, 7pm start
CHRIS McCABE – One of the UK’s most innovative poets and the author of THE HUTTON INQUIRY.
NIALL McDEVITT – Launching PORTERLOO: ‘A brilliant explosive book…the best politically weaponised poetry ever’. (Jeremy Reed).
SARAH CREWE – Liverpool poet, author of SEA WITCH and co-editor of CATECHISM: POEMS FOR PUSSY RIOT.
& JAMES BYRNE – Editor of THE WOLF Magazine, launching SOAPBOXES: a pamphlet of political satire.
Hosted by JAMES BYRNE & SANDEEP PARMAR
News from Nowhere: Radical & Community Bookshop, 96 Bold Street, Liverpool, 0151 708 7270
This is a FREE event but please RSVP via Facebook event page or by calling the number above. Spaces limited.
For the first time ever in London, Morten Søndergaard’s Wordpharmacy will be exhibited for Steven Fowler’s Fjender project.
From March 15th -31st, The Hardy Tree gallery, just behind Kings Cross St Pancras, will be turned into a fully functioning poetic chemist’s, a pharmacy for the avant garde poet, replete with stocked shelves, white-coated pharmacist and a near endless supply of word-drugs.
There will be a special reading/preview on Thursday March 20th, 7.30pm, at the Hardy Tree gallery. Free entry. A half dozen British based poets have been commissioned to write, or conceive of, original works that respond to the ideas and concepts of the project. On this evening brand new work from Alison Gibb, David Berridge, Claire Trevien, Andy Spragg, Prudence Chamberlain, Fabian MacPherson & of course, Morten Søndergaard himself will be shared.
Fjender – March Saturday 15th at the Rich Mix Arts Centre
Venue 2 – 7pm doors – free entry
The flagship event of the Fjender project, featuring new collaborations from Martin Glaz Serup & Peter Jaeger, Cia Rinne & Chrissy Williams and Morten Søndergaard & Steven Fowler. The Danish poets will also share their own work, and there will be a series of brand new commissions from UK based poets. New work by James Davies, Prudence Chamberlain, Philip Terry, Claire Trevien, Fabian MacPherson and Stephen Emmerson, who will present his Neurolinguasulphate. The evening will also feature a collaborative group reading from 13 Poetry School students.
Congratulations to previous Other Room readers Chris McCabe and Zoë Skoulding, and imminent reader Hannah Silva for for their nominations. The winner will be announced on March 28th. More information at The Poetry Society site.
POLYproject > 5: LOCATION COMPOSITE #6
A realisation of one of James Saunders’ Location Composites compositions.
Sounds: Sarah Hughes, Kostis Kilymis, Artur Vidal
Words: Andrew Spragg, Amy Cutler, Chris McCabe
Thursday 6 March
The Centre for Creative Collaboration
16 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NG
Free entry, 7pm
http://polyply.wordpress.com/2014/02/25/polyproject-5/
Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre and MA Poetic Practice, Royal Holloway
Supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Royal Holloway
The third event in Shearsman’s 2014 Reading Series takes place on Tuesday, 4 March at 7:30 pm and features Simon Perril and Ron Silliman. Both readers will be launching books on the evening, with Simon Perril launching Archilochus on the Moon and Ron Silliman launching Northern Soul. Swedenborg Hall, Swedenborg House, 20/21 Bloomsbury Way, London WC1A 2TH.
The eight reading in the Materials Reading series will feature readings from MEG FOULKES and STUART CALTON.
MEG FOULKES is the author of ‘Poems’ (Rank Xerox, 2004) and ‘Sylvester’s Crown and Other Poems’ (Arehouse, 2005).
“Bring on the fanfare, success / Writes poems of determined luck / So pleased, so incurably pleased / To be known still.”
STUART CALTON is the author of ‘Sheep Walk Cut’, ‘The Bench Graft’ (both Barque Press, 2004), ‘United Snap-Up’ (Fenland Hi-Brow Press, 2004), ‘The Corn Mother’ (Barque Press, 2006), and ‘Three Reveries’ (Barque Press, 2010). His most recent book is ‘The Torn Instructions for No Trebuchet’ (Barque Press, 2013), which he will read on this occasion.
“still forever I / hate this fucking system and I wanted our life / better to realize the true generality and make its / really-existing untruth external in our / particular.”
Armitage Room (FF), Queens’ College, Cambridge, Friday 7th March, 7.30 for 8pm. BYOB.
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/
After some weeks out of action, the Archive of the Now is back online. The Archive of the Now is a digital collection of poets performing their own work. Based at Queen Mary University of London, it hosts many specially commissioned recordings unavailable anywhere else, all of which can be downloaded free of charge.
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