Mudflats

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Fri, 22 Mar 2013 7.00 PM – 8.30 PM Tickets: £5/£3

Part of Northern Elements, which develops spoken word in the North of England through commissions of new, imaginative and high quality spoken word material, the Bluecoat is working with independent promoter Michael Egan to present performances celebrating lost stories and forgotten voices. Chris McCabe’s commission Mudflats explores where history, language and memory meet across generations for one Liverpool family, played out against the backdrop of an ever changing city and the river that flows through all their lives. Programme also includes Dinesh Allirajah, James Byrne, Andrew McMillan and Rebecca Sharp.

More here.

Linda Black – The Son of a Shoemaker

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Wednesday, 20 March, 6.30 PM, Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.

Linda Black’s exhibition of drawings and prints draws on her new book, The Son of a Shoemaker’ (Hearing Eye, 2012). The sequence of nineteen prose poems,based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen, is illustrated by the author. The exhibition includes other illustrations and etchings. There will be a reading and a musical performance.

No Medium – Craig Dworkin

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In No Medium, Craig Dworkin looks at works that are blank, erased, clear, or silent, writing critically and substantively about works for which there would seem to be not only nothing to see but nothing to say. Examined closely, these ostensibly contentless works of art, literature, and music point to a new understanding of media and the limits of the artistic object.

Dworkin considers works predicated on blank sheets of paper, from a fictional collection of poems in Jean Cocteau’s Orphée to the actual publication of a ream of typing paper as a book of poetry; he compares Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased De Kooning Drawing to the artist Nick Thurston’s erased copy of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of Literature (in which only Thurston’s marginalia were visible); and he scrutinizes the sexual politics of photographic representation and the implications of obscured or obliterated subjects of photographs. Reexamining the famous case of John Cage’s 4’33”, Dworkin links Cage’s composition to Rauschenberg’s White Paintings, Ken Friedman’s Zen for Record (and Nam June Paik’s Zen for Film), and other works, offering also a “guide to further listening” that surveys more than 100 scores and recordings of “silent” music.

Dworkin argues that we should understand media not as blank, base things but as social events, and that there is no medium, understood in isolation, but only and always a plurality of media: interpretive activities taking place in socially inscribed space.

More here.

Literary Collaboration at Edge Hill

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Literary Collaboration – a symposium hosted by the Edge Hill University Poetry and Poetics Research Group (English and History Department)

23rd April 2013 1pm-9pm E1 (afternoon) & Hub 2 (evening)

To accompany the exhibition of image and text MANIFEST by Pete Clarke and Robert Sheppard in the Edge Hill Arts Centre, Ormskirk, between April 8th – 26th 2013 (Private View April 16th 5.30 – 7.30).

We are living through an intense period of collaboration between writers and practitioners in other media – as well as between writers, either on the page, live, on the wall, or in new media. This symposium hopes to bring together practitioners and theorists to collaborate in a discussion of the issues raised by these often one-off encounters between artists.

Topics may include but need not be limited to:

  • Literary collaboration – poets, novelists and others
  • The theory of collaboration in the arts
  • The practice of collaboration
  • Multiple collaborations
  • Collaborations between humans and intelligent machines
  • Procedural and conceptual writing and collaboration
  • New methods of collaboration

We are looking for formal papers, demonstrations (but not ‘straight’ readings) that will last for 20 minutes (or less time if you desire).

Confirmed speakers so far:

  • Joanne Ashcroft (Edge Hill) on collaborating with Mina Loy
  • Pete Clarke (UCLAN) on artistic collaboration
  • Patricia Farrell (Edge Hill) will speak on the collaborations of Clarke and Sheppard
  • SJ Fowler
  • Rodge Glass (Edge Hill) on writing a graphic novel
  • Tom Jenks (Edge Hill) will speak on the human-machine interface
  • Nathan Jones (Mercy)
  • Andrew McMillan (JMU) on collaborations with photographers: a ‘third’ voice emerges.
  • Des McCannon (MMU) and Eleanor Rees (Exeter)

We are now looking for other speakers and presences.

Please send abstracts and proposals to shepparr@edgehill.ac.uk by March 18th, clearly marking the email ‘Literary Collaboration Proposal’.

If you wish to attend send you name to shepparr@edgehill.ac.uk . Attendees and delegates will be limited to 50 places.

There will be two sessions, the afternoon (1.30-5.30) and the evening (6.30-9.00). They can be booked together or separately. Please state whether : Afternoon: Evening or All day is desired.  Clearly entitle the email ‘Literary Collaboration Places’.

This event is free but limited to 50 speakers and delegates. Campus facilities will be open for refreshments and dining. This is a zero budget symposium.

Committee

Robert Sheppard

Joanne Ashcroft

Tom Jenks

Veer Books at the Surrey New Writers Festival

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Veer Books will be hosting a reading and launch evening as part of the Surrey New Writers Festival in Guildford on Saturday 16 March (6 – 8PM), featuring the launch of Allen Fisher’s Defamiliarising ____________* and Martin Bakero’s abjects. Readers will be: Allen Fisher, Martin Bakero, Adrian Clarke, Stephen Mooney. Hosted by Stephen Mooney and Holly Luhning. (free admission). Venue: Three Pigeons, Guildford,169 High Street,Guildford,GU1 3AJ. More here.

 

Iona by Andy Martrich

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Quince Eastwood: proud Iona alum, a man still drawn to that small Catholic college in New Rochelle. He’s looking for love in all the wrong places, and tracking info down via the absolute worst subforum. And how could he not? Iona’s a place where no one’s safe from transmutation, from instantly viral dipshittery.

Iona’s got its fair share of secrets, and plenty of embarrassing truths. Jeffrey McNition’s about to find himself subject to both. Oanez Nasdaq thinks academia is her ticket out of this mess— but there’s plenty of hard work ahead. She has to finish her PhD; she has to teach. Dr. Avery Moore is a psychiatrist who really wants to know Quince, and wants to know he can’t hurt her. The poor doctor’s about to learn how wrong she can be. So is Oanez, standing beside that green Honda Jazz one second longer than she should have.
Need any more? Dr. Steve Billings? Who’s Hopson — does he actually exist? What’s Steve into?

It’s not worth proving. Goodbye, goodbye, Starbucks.

More at BlazeVox.

 

ASTROTURF & other poems

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Beaming with the thrill of live violence, Hi Zero Publications announces the emission of _ASTROTURF & other poems_ by Joe Luna. A full set of histrionic lyric tantrums over 21 poems and 40pp., printed 8k comic-size in an edition of 100: “In basic passion it’s the Lana Del Rey arc bent into a Möbius strip”. More here.

The Claudius App IV

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with Amanda Berenguer, Sean Bonney, Anne Boyer, Daniel Buren, Cement Pond LLC, René Crevel, Francis Crot, Mónica de la Torre, Angela Genusa, Rob Halpern, Ian Hatcher, Danny Hayward, Cheryl Hoffmann, Justin Katko, Nicholas Komodore, Mayakov+sky, Chris Nealon, Idaho Pistols, Nat Raha, Luke Roberts, Jacqueline Rigaut, James Sanders, Verity Spott, and Divya Victor, here.

Juxtavoices at the Network Musical Festival

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The second Network Music Festival will take place in Birmingham (UK) on 22-24 February and will feature a performance by Juxtavoices on Sunday February 24th

Juxtavoices was formed in 2010 by composer Martin Archer and writer Alan Halsey. Since then the group has been surprising, delighting and occasionally alarming audiences across the region with their performances, often in public spaces. Comprising both trained and untrained voices, the group uses fixed texts and structures for its compositions, but no specific pitches are ever written and through use of improvised elements no two performances of a given piece are ever the same.

OUT OF THE DEBRIS

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 Simon Barraclough, Isobel Dixon and Chris McCabe have collaborated across film and music with Jack Wake-Walker (film) and Oli Barrett (music) of Petrels to produce  The Debris Field, an alternative artistic take on the sinking of the Titanic. After a sold out performance at the BFI in 2012, there will be  another London performance at the Rich Mix in Bethnal Green on Thursday 21st February.