Harry Gilonis reads for The Other Room. This video is archived along with all other readings in the middle bar.
Mike Chavez-Dawson video clip at The Other Room
As part of The Dark Would celebrations at The Other Room Mike Chavez-Dawson produced Rorschachs, in part by writing dead poets’ names in paint. These names were given to him by the audience on the night. This clip shows him making John Keats and below that a still of Brecht (Berthold).
Mike Chavez-Dawson is an artist-curator based at Rogue Artists’ Studios, Manchester, UK. He instigated and curated the critically acclaimed shows ‘Unrealised Potential’ and David Shrigley’s solo show entitled ‘HOW ARE YOU FEELING?’ for the Cornerhouse (2012–13). His extraordinary proposal ‘Beyond the Medium, A Rake’s Dream…’ made the 100 favorite proposals for Artangel ‘OPEN’ 2013 and now is in production for 2015.He was recently commissioned by the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art for their ‘Don’t Feed the Artist’ performance program, and awarded the open submission commission for Emergency 2013 by hab, z-arts and word of warning.
Chavez-Dawson judged (alongside Laurie Peake, Paul Stolper and Iain Andrews) and curated the neo:art prize 2013.
He is a PhD research fellow at MMU, MIRIAD, and has exhibited and performed at TATE Britain, Barbican, ICA, Cornerhouse, The Whitworth Art Gallery, British Art Show 7 at Nottingham Contemporary and The Whitstable Biennale (2008). He has also had numerous international shows and projects in Rome, New York, Sans Francisco, Lisbon, Seoul, Helsinki and Dresden.
Hi Zero
Berridge & Lice launch
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Camaradefest
Pharmapoetica : a dispensary of poetry
Writers’ Forum North next event
Writers’ Forum North is meeting again next saturday (26th October). It’s 2-4 pm in function room above Terrace bar in Edge street, Manchester M2. It’s just down road from Madlab, go through back entrance of Terrace and turn immediately right and go up the stairs.
Bring photocopies of poem you like (by someone else) – and one of your own.
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
Vlak 4
New bulging issue…
The new issue of VLAK: Contemporary Poetics & the Arts will be available during the ‘Camarade‘ collaborate poetics event, hosted by Steven J. Fowler, 2-10pm, Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, London, 26 October — or can be got direct at www.vlakmagazine.com …
INSIDE THE LATEST ISSUE….
‘ESSAYS’ Jeroen Nieuwland on ‘Printing Out the Internet’ Vanessa Place on Conceptualism David Vichnar on Mark Danielewski Darren Tofts on Peter Milne Ian Haig on the Horror of the Toilet Pam Brown on the UBU Films Collective Alice Notley on the Post-Olsonian Epic Dustin Breitling on the White Cube Bev Braune on ‘Harder They Fall’ Jim Ruland on ‘Django Unchained’ Niall Lucy on That Deadman Dance Ann Hamilton on Ian Hays Javant Biarujia on Environment and Language Karel Piorecký on Czech Concrete Poetry Benjamin Tallis on the Prague housing projects Olga Peková on Intermedia & The Posthuman
‘PHOTOMONTAGE’ Peter Milne, Ian Hays, Robert Herbert, Maldo Nolimerg, Vincent Dachy
‘PHOTOGRAPHY’ Adam Trachtman, Glendyn Ivin, Vadim Erent, Vadim Erent, Katherine Oktober Matthews
‘COLLABORATIONS’ David Kelly & Daniele Pintano Hal Porter & Mark Melnicove Fernando Corona & Chris Kraus Zuzana Husárová & Amalia Roxana Filip Louis Armand & John Kinsella Iris Fraser-Gudrunas & Mat Laporte Mark Atkins & Rod Mengham The Camarade Project curated by Steven J. Fowler: Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson Marcus Slease & Tim Atkins Philip Terry & Jeff Hilson Allen Fisher & Philip Terry Emily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood Jeff Hilson & Robert Shepherd Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis
‘FICTION’ Philippe Sollers, Louis Armand, Fakie Wilde & Brentley Frazer, Sean Carswell, Thor Garcia, Lou Rowan, Scott O’Connor, Phil Shoenfelt, Holly Tavel, Morgan Childs, Damien Ober, Andrew Robert Hodgson, Prudence Trinca
‘NON-FICTION’ Stephanie Gray on Super 8 Film Stills Kent MacCarter on Pork Town Sean Bonney on Hunger & Ritual
‘POETRY’ Sam Langer, Vanessa Place, Frédéric Forte, Anselm Berrigan, Micah Ballard, Christodoulos Makris, Bev Braune, Corey Wakeling, Jill Jones, Stephanie Strickland, Steve Dalachinsky, DglsN.Rthsjchld, Stu Hatton, Jessica Wilkinson, Ondřej Buddeus, Marjorie Welish, Vincent Katz, Robert Kiely, John Wilkinson, Michael Farrell, Cecilia White, Shane Anderson, Andrew P. McLeod, Jennifer K. Dick, Peter Šulej, Jane Lewty, Nat Raha, Fiona Hile, Pam Brown, Brett Price, Nathan Thompson, J.T. Welsch
‘ART’ Tray Drumhann, Amy Evans-Bauer, Hara Miko, Jan Pícha
‘INTERVIEW’ Alice Notley with Olga Peková
VLAK editorial collective: Louis Armand, David Vichnar, Edmund Berrigan, Ali Alizadeh, Steven J. Fowlers, Jane Lewty, Stephen Mooney, Olga Pekova, Jeroen Nieuwland, Ewelina Chiu. ISSN 1804-512X. 425pp. Publication date: October 2013 Published by Litteraria Pragensia: Prague, London, New York, Melbourne, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam
— VLAK MAGAZINE www.vlakmagazine.com
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
Caesura #18
Friday, 8th November, 19:00.
Artisan Bar. 35 London Rd, Edinburgh, EH7 5BQ.
THIS MONTH we’ve got a radical writer and mixed-media artist who champions all things good, an incredible local poet and occasional performance artist, an avant-guard writer venturing through from the wild west and a local, by of Calfornia, innovative poet.
That is: Sandra Alland, Iain Morrison, Karen Veitch and James Leveque
WHAT IS IT? Bespoke spoken word performances at Edinburgh’s monthly night of racketeers and raconteurs, experiments and experience, synapses and sounds. Avante-jive for the masses.
SANDRA ALLAND
Sandra Alland is a writer, filmmaker, performer and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has been published and presented throughout the UK, North America and Europe. Sandra’s poetic love-affair with voice-activated software and disability poetics, Naturally Speaking, was published in 2012 by Toronto’s espresso Books. In 2009, Edinburgh’s Forest Publications published Sandra’s chapbook of short fiction, Here’s To Wang, which quickly went into a second printing. Sandra has published widely, including two other books of poetry: Blissful Times (BookThug, Toronto); and Proof of a Tongue (McGilligan, Toronto). She was guest editor at Jacket2 for a special edition on Scottish poets in 2012.
– www.blissfultimes.ca
IAIN MORRISON
Iain Morrison serially lost kitten slipper and voguer, Dickinsonian Mirror’s son, who despite veering all over the shop, remains interested loyally in sound structures and overlays in support/distort of meaning structure; expresses this in poems at present. Hoping to present new poem sequence at Caesura. At time of writ, proven in clinical trials to be enjoying whatever was happening way too much.
KAREN VEITCH
Karen Veitch grew up in Glasgow, where she currently resides. In 2013 she completed her doctorate studies at the University of Sussex in political and working-class women’s poetry of the Depression Era United States. She has translated Spanish poetry (such as by Pedro Salinas) into English and her work has been published in Comparative American Studies and SCREE.
JAMES LEVEQUE
James Leveque was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up on Fresno, California. He has lived in Edinburgh since 2009. He is completing a PhD in literature and works as a tutor. His poetry has appeared in SCREE and the San Joaquin Review.
Coming next in December
26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)
In November of 2008, derek beaulieu approached a number of poets and conceptual writers, asking them to fulfill a series of simple instructions: “On a single sheet of paper in letters approximately one half inch tall write the alphabet from A to Z”.
“26 Alphabets (for Sol LeWitt)” documents the results of that request, and includes work from Gareth Jenkins, Lorenzo Menoud, Oana Avasilichioaei, Helen Hajnoczky, Robert Fitterman, Donato Mancini, Gregory Betts, Jonathan Ball, Nico Vassilakis, Mark Laliberte, Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, Christian Bök, Harold Abramowitz, Johanna Drucker, Giles Goodland, Ross Priddle, Gitte Broeng, John Bennett, Crag Hill, Peter Ganick, Jeff Hilson, Peter Jaeger, Nick Thurston, Stephen McLaughlin, Kjetil Røed and kevin mcpherson eckhoff.
The Other Room presents The Dark Would Tonight
Not to be missed…
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MATERIALS READING SERIES – REITHA PATTISON / LUKE ROBERTS
This is a new reading series of poetry. It is in Cambridge. Two readers will read every two weeks. This is the first reading. The first two readers will be Reitha Pattison and Luke Roberts, THIS Thursday, the 17^th October, at 7.30 for 8p.m. in the Armitage Room (FF) at Queens’ College. Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) and Lisa Jeschke (ljj28@cam.ac.uk) for further information & / or clarification.
Reitha Pattison is the author of SOME FABLES (Cambridge: Grasp, 2011) and the recent A DROLL KINGDOM (Scarborough, ME: Punch Press, 2013), as well as a co-editor of the Collected Poems of Ed Dorn (London: Carcanet, 2012) “The undersong of / the ‘economic cosmos’ is heard in / the meadow where the herbicides / work swift harm for a margin like / inharmonic blue prairie fires.”
Luke Roberts is the author of FALSE FLAGS (Cambridge: Mountain, 2011) and has a new book forthcoming from Equipage. “There is a car inside my stomach. / You are centuries late.”
Preview of The Other Room, The Dark Would, 16th October
Create at Salford has written this on tomorrow’s The Other Room –
Four of our 2012 MA Creative Writing: Innovation and Experiment alumni, including Nigel Wood, Jo Langton, Stephen Emmerson and Leanne Bridgewater, as well as current part-time student Richard Barrett have contributed to a new pioneering anthology called The Dark Would. Compiling work from over 100 international contributors, The Dark Would celebrates the continuum of language-based creative practice between visual art and poetry. This ground-breaking anthology features work from some of the most noted artists and poets alive today including Richard Long, Fiona Banner, Charles Bernstein and many more.
Commenting on the brilliance of this comprehensive anthology, contributing author and English and Creative Writing Senior Lecturer, Dr. Scott Thurston stated: “I hear The Dark Would as a plea to develop the cross-generic approach even further so that it incorporates more totally the whole gamut of the arts – to encourage conversations not just between artists and writers, but between musicians and sculptors, between dancers and poets, between film-makers and performers, and to ultimately break down these generic distinctions altogether.”
Following a sold-out preview at London’s prestigious Whitechapel Art Gallery, the editors and contributors of the language art compilation are eagerly anticipating their Northern launch event at Manchester’s Castle Hotel tomorrow 16th October at 7pm. Nigel Wood and Jo Langton will both be reading from a selection of their literary works at the event alongside Rogue Artists’ Studios’ Mike Chavez-Dawson, visual artist Carolyn Thompson and international artist and curator Laurence Lane.
Sarah Sanders – with:
with: presents the outcomes of three collaborations between artists that arose from discussions during a series of crit sessions, held at Rogue Project Space, in 2011-2012. During the sessions one or more of the artists presented an aspect of their practice to the group and conversation developed. The name of the crit sessions ‘Community of Practice’, referred to the book by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) that describes how a group of individuals with common interests can develop professionally by sharing experiences through storytelling and regular interaction.
From these discussions, common interests and relationships developed organically, and these led to collaborations. Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele discovered similar concerns in mapping of place and history in relation to architecture. Julie Del Hopital and Nicola Dale exchanged ideas about the idiosyncrasies of knowledge and language. Jacqueline Wylie and Sarah Sanders considered a dialogue built through drawing, and enforced physical distance.
with: will show the results from the three collaborations-
Sanders and Wylie’s Skype based conversations on art and learning inspired a series of exercises performed by the artists on and off-line, exploring how communication is mediated by technology.
Annie Harrison and Jenny Steele’s film investigates the canal basin which their studio spaces overlook, using methods which sometimes clash awkwardly and sometimes merge.
Del Hopital and Dale’s collaboration “Stalker” simultaneously presents analogue and digital footage of the day the artists let objects with very personal meanings sink or sail away on the River Mersey.
The artists have invited writer and curator ‘Lauren Velvick’ to reflect on the collaborations within a text available to the public at the event.
with:
PV Friday 18th October 2013 6-9pm
Open Saturday 19th October + Sunday 20th October 2013 1-4pm
Open Crit: Saturday 19th October 2013 3-4pm ALL WELCOME
Rogue Project Space
66-72 Chapeltown Street, Piccadilly
Manchester, M1 2WH
For further information:
Rogue Artist Studios and Project Space http://www.rogueartistsstudios.co.uk/
Community of Practice http://communityofpracticeman.tumblr.com/
Blart 3
Online now, featuring work from Chris Stephenson, Peter Barlow, Scott Thurston, Tom Jenks, Andrew Spragg, sl mendoza, James Davies and Sarah Kelly.
Zone Magazine
Issue 1 out now, featuring Tim Atkins, Áine Belton, Caroline Bergvall, Natalie Bradbeer, Bonny Cassidy, Stephen Collis, Kelvin Corcoran, Amy Evans, Ollie Evans, Allen Fisher, Nancy Gaffield, David Herd, Ben Hickman, Jeff Hilson, John James, Doug Jones, Dorothy Lehane, Tony Lopez, Aodán Mccardle, Anthony Mellors, Stephen Paul Miller, Richard Parker, Denise Riley, Will Rowe, Simon Smith, Sam Solomon, Juha Virtanen, Steve Willey, and Heidi Williamson.
Archive of the Now
The Archive of the Now is a digital and print collection of poetry by over 140 poets, mostly based in the UK.
Inspired by resources such as UBUWeb and PennSound, we hope to represent the true diversity of poetic practice in the UK. We are dedicated to supporting emerging authors, providing a new distribution network for challenging poetry, and opening up opportunities for collaboration and exchange.
The Archive focuses on audio recordings of experimental and innovative poets performing for live audiences and in studio settings. Many of the recordings were made in the poet’s home using portable digital recording equipment. While the quality and sound-proofing may vary, each recording gives a unique insight into the sounding of this challenging and inspiring body of work.
New recordings are being added all the time. We have a substantial list of poets we hope to record in the next two years, but we welcome suggestions of other poets working within the experimental tradition in (or with ties to) the UK.
In addition to sound recordings, the Archive provides information on individual poets, with links to their publishers, online projects and other material. The print archive includes small press publications, chapbooks, little magazines, manuscripts and correspondence. The archives of the late British poet Bill Griffiths form a major part of this collection.
New additions and a re-designed website, here.
otherroom.org 