James Davies

Jerome Rothenberg, Maggie O’Sullivan, Allen Fisher & Poems for the Millennium 3: Preview of 19th October event

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Some tasters for our three readers. In addition there will be readings by all three poets, Jeffrey Robinson and The Other Room of a selection of poem from Poems for Millennium Volume 3. Videos of O’Sullivan and Fisher can be found in the middle left column. Please note that this event starts at 6pm and is at THE INTERNATIONAL ANTHONY BURGESS FOUNDATION

Jerome Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over seventy books of poetry including Poems for the Game of Silence, Poland/1931, A Seneca Journal, Vienna Blood, That Dada Strain, New Selected Poems 1970-1985, Khurbn, and most recently, A Paradise of Poets and A Book of Witness (all from New Directions). Describing his poetry career as “an ongoing attempt to reinterpret the poetic past from the point of view of the present,” he has also edited seven major assemblages of traditional and contemporary poetry.

LINK TO Buffalo Page with links to poems and publications

Maggie O’Sullivan
 
O’Sullivan’s work is influenced by Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Beuys, Jerome Rothenberg, Bob Cobbing and Basil Bunting. Her books include An Incomplete Natural History (1984), In the House of the Shaman (1993), Red Shift (2000) and Palace of Reptiles (2003). She edited out of everywhere: An anthology of contemporary linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK (1996).

LINK to BEPC page

Allen Fisher
 
Allen Fisher has been involved in performance writing since 1962. A poet, painter, publisher, editor and art historian, he has produced one hundred and forty chapbooks and books of poetry, graphics and art documentation. He was co-editor and publisher of Aloes Books and he currently edits and publishes Spanner. He lives in Hereford and is Head of Contemporary Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University in Crewe. His books and chapbooks include: The Apocalyptic Sonnets (1978), Poetry for Schools (1980), Brixton Fractals (1985, republished 1999), Dispossession & Cure (1994), Civic Crime (1994), Now’s the time (1995), Fish Jet (1997), Place(collected set 2005) Gravity(2004), Entanglement(2004), Singularity Stereo(2006), Leans(2007), Birds (2009). 

LINK to Allen Fisher at BEPC

Mute Live

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Mute brings together a talented group of artists, musicians & composers for a one-off live event based around the use of sound as an art form.

Featuring performances & demonstrations by Edwyn Butler, Nicholas Donovan, Gary Fisher, Jennifer McDonald & Louise Woodcock, Daniel Watson.

Saturday, October 2 · 8:00pm – 10:30pm

Soup Kitchen Basement
31-33 Spear Street, M1 1DF
Manchester, United Kingdom

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Closing weekend of Writing / Exhibition / Performance at The Pigeon Wing

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Last chance to see the exhibition. Also a variety of live art and performances over the weekend:

Sat 2nd October Live Writing

Artists in residence in the space throughout the weekend include  Matt Dalby, Pippa Koszerek, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marianne Holm Hansen, and Press Free Press.

Sun 3rd October Live Writing

Artists in residence in the space throughout the weekend include  Matt Dalby, Pippa Koszerek, Rachel Lois Clapham, Marianne Holm Hansen, Karen Di Franco/ CONCRETE RADIO and Press Free Press.

7pm, Closing meal / Performance event

Performances include Julia Calver, Matt Dalby, James Davies, Marianne Holm Hansen, Press Free Press, and Helen Kaplinksy.

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This weekend at WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION

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WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION

3rd September – 3rd October 2010
Open Fri – Sun 12 – 5pm

The Pigeon Wing
Guild House
Excelsior Works
Rollins Street
SE15 1EP 
London

EVENTS: Weekend 4.

On Saturday September 25th 1.30-4.30, WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION presents an afternoon of performances, discussions and installations. 

1.30pm How To Blush – performance lecture by seekers of lice:

 “The talk as an installation space: How to blush is a collaged text circling around blushing via the life of the bedbug, the colour puce, visceral reactions, earlobes, Sappho…”

2.00-3.30pm LemonMelon Publishing Seminar.

LemonMelon extends the following invitation: Please join!!! LemonMelon would like to discuss the following with you

a book as strategy
a book as a living organism
a book as a platform for research
a book as an exhibition space
a book as a place of collaboration
a book as nearly invisible publishing
a book as structure

Specifically invited contributors are asked to present their publications and to respond to the above.

Contributers include: seekers of lice, Phil Baber/ Cannon, David Berridge/ VerySmallKitchen, James Davies/ If P Then Q, Marit Muenzberg/ LemonMelon.

3.30-4.30pm  Janine Harrington, Performing Book Experiment No.2

“Performing Book Experiment No.2 is a structure for five or more dancers. The work aims to facilitate a playful interaction between the audience-reader and the performers. The structure is only activated when an audience member enters a “channel” of the space, their movement programs the danced material in a certain way. As the activator becomes aware of their role as co-author of the work they are able to play with the structure, changing the direction of movement, its relationship to time and scale.”

ALSO THIS WEEKEND:

The 25th will be the conclusion of Phil Baber’s The Archaeology of an Essay installation, the result of a 3 day residency at WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION:

“Through artifacts, images, and texts, I’ll be unpacking, plotting, and presenting the ‘source-code’ of an essay-in-progress.” 

The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing continues to unfold with Greetings from DEAL – a new installation project by Colin Priest, Malcolm Hobbs and Joe Reeves – and the online launch of LIKE IT IS: PRELUDE, an e-book by Nyeema Morgan. 

WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION concludes with a final weekend of performances and events  on October 2-3. See full programme of events here: www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/events

33 questions per minute

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The current exhibition at Manchester City Art Gallery (as part of AND festival) is Recorder by artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. Most interesting of all his art pieces is 33 Questions Per Minute. As his website states:

“33 Questions Per Minute consists of a computer program which uses grammatical rules to combine words from a dictionary and generate 55 billion unique, fortuitous questions. The automated questions are presented at a rate of 33 per minute –the threshold of legibility– on 21 tiny LCD screens encrusted on the support columns of the exhibition hall or mounted on a wall. The system will take over 3,000 years to ask all possible questions.”

LINK to read more and video

Matchbox Poetry in India

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If poetry is all about firing your imagination, this one literally comes in a matchbox.

An avid poetry lover in Jorhat, India, is emptying matchboxes, filling them with rolls of poems and selling them for a mere Rupees 5 to help popularise Assamese poetry among the uninitiated.

The man behind the innovative idea, Bipul Regon, insists that the formula works.

“Innovative ideas always sell and believe me my messages in the matchboxes are selling big,” said Regon, a novelist himself.

Read more in The Calcutta Telegraph