The Salford Concert series continues…
WEDNESDAY 10th JUNE at the most Sofa-centric venue in town: ISLINGTON MILL, James street, Salford, (for the sat-nav savvy: M3 5HW)
doors opening: 8.00pm, your financial outlay: a mere £5.
James Davies
Marjorie Perloff
Lovely critic now has a lovely new website with lots of essays online.
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse.
Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. takes an imaginative and expansive look at text-based art practices, using the concrete poetry of the 60s as its starting point. The exhibition goes on to look at other practices from this era, and concludes with work from younger artists currently exploring the literary and graphic potential of language.
Exhibiting artists: Vito Acconci, Carl Andre, Anna Barham, Matthew Brannon, Henri Chopin, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Alasdair Gray, Philip Guston, David Hockney, Karl Holmqvist, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Janice Kerbel, Christopher Knowles, Ferdinand Kriwet, Liliane Lijn, Robert Smithson, Frances Stark and Sue Tompkins.
17 June – 23 August 2009
@ ICA, London
Silveronda
The title of Lucy Harvest Clarke’s first collection due out in September from if p then q.
See selections of her work at:
Fact-Simile
FACT-SIMILE is a literary journal published twice annually and publisher of books. Their latest book is The O Mission Repo by Travis MacDonald (see reading below); a retranscribing and rescoring of the 9/11 governmental report.
Allen Fisher reading Quietly Random at Matchbox
Allen will be performing at the next Other Room on 3rd June. As a taster, try this clip recorded at James Davies’ Matchbox event in 2007.
Caroline Bergvall: Cash for Questions
Although unfortunately no cash can be involved, Caroline Bergvall will answer your questions in issue 4 of if p then q due out in September 2009. If you have anything to ask her please email me at ifpthenq@fsmail.net . Mundane and pop questions are encouraged. The format is taken from a regular Q magazine feature of which there are many examples on the web.
Thanks, James
Early Doors at Islington Mill
Friday 22nd May
11am – 7pm
With the exception of our annual yuletide knees-up ‘Xmas at the Mill’, chances to have a look around and see what everyone gets up to at Islington Mill are few and far between.
So at long last we have decided to prop open the grey door to the public and give you of curious mind the chance to come along and see who does what and where.
It’s an amazing opportunity to meet people involved in all areas of the cultural spectrum from film-making to fine art, theatre to ceramics, music to multimedia and print making to graphic design. You can get a taster of the people based here by visiting the Directory page on our website.
Futuresonic 2009
Futuresonic 2009 and the Social Technologies Summit will take place 13-16 May 2009, featuring world premieres of astonishing artworks, an explosive city-wide music programme, and visionary thinkers from around the world. The festival has four strands – Art, Music, Ideas and EVNTS – and occupies the orbits of art, performance, music, design and digital culture.
Claus Van Bebber
Deserving of much attention for his early use of turntables and prepared records. This German based artist of longstanding comes directly out of and is contemporary to the late 70’s Milan Knizak ‘Broken Music’ school of playing physically ruined records.
If you missed Bebber at The Text Festival he performs again at The Salford Concert Series on Thursday 7th May.
The Text Festival
After the main weekend of The Text Festival it has been reviewed in depth at the following sites:
New Issue of Great Works
Includes:
- Jeffrey Side, seven poems
- David Chaloner, three poems
- Richard Makin, eight poems from Rift Designs
- Hannah Silva, seven poems
- Scott Helmes, two poems
- Christopher Barnes, six poems
- Lucy Harvest Clarke, three sonnets
- Richard Barrett, two poems
- James Price, three poems
- Aidan Semmens, three poems
- John Gilmore, two excerpts from Head of a Man and three Etudes
- Kenny Knight, six poems from The Honicknowle Book of the Dead
- Ben Stainton, four poems
- Ron Singer, The Shiny Pants Brigade
- Charles Freeland, six poems
- Caleb Puckett, three poems
- Mary Michaels, three prose poems
- Boris Jardine, five poems
- Michael Egan, three poems
- Tomas Weber, two poems
- Alan Baker, from The Book of Random Access
- Rufo Quintavalle, two poems
- AnnMarie Eldon, five poems
- Mendoza, poems
- Joseto Solis, from The Ingredients of Oneself
- Tina Hyett, poems from In the Dirt
- Spencer Termott, THE MATCHING TYE SET (from In the Dirt)
via Peter Philpott
Apple Pie Editions
Apple Pie is a lab for poetic artefacts: art objects, billposters, prints, CDs, photographs, as well as books. The list contains work from invited artists, poets, musicians and collaborators.
via Phil Davenport
Expresso Book Machine
It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible.
Richard Barrett reads The Rushes
The Other Room 6 was a night of technical meltdown. We’ve asked all readers to give us something to be representative of their fabulous readings. Here Richard Barrett reads the whole of his Rushes sequence. Filmed April 2009 outside The Old Abbey Inn, Manchester.
A Few Traces Left
As part of The European Night of Museums 2009 and Museums at Night, sound artists and musicians will perform a collaborative durational improvisation. Dense and sparse, loud and quiet, dialogues will evolve on and around one big table that will be their common work place in the gallery. Traces, marks, drawings plus projections of their actions will be left on the same table for the duration of the subsequent exhibition.
Venue: Chapman Gallery, University of Salford, Chapman Building, Peel Park Campus, Salford, M5 4WT
Curated by Helmut Lemke & Ben Gwilliam
Saturday 16 May – Friday 05 June
Mon – Fri 10.00am – 4.00pm
Admission:Free
Performance Date: Saturday 16 May, 7.00pm – 11.00pm
Geraldine Monk at The Other Room
Geraldine Monk at first The Other Room, April 2008
Tom Jenks reading at The first ever The Other Room
The first part of Tom’s reading. Alan Halsey and Geraldine Monk also kicked off the show. Videos of them are currently being transferred, uploaded and caressed.
The Other Room 2, June 2008
The Other Room’s second outing proved to be as wonderful as the the first thanks to the amazing line-up. At the start of the first part of Alex Middleton’s reading you can hear some people talking who proved difficult to bargain with but they do leave after about 3 minutes so persevere and enjoy.
Robert Sheppard
Alex Middleton reading translations of Inger Christensen
Harriet Tarlo
ctrl+alt+del
First issue of Rhys Trimble’s ctrl+alt+del e-sheet. The e-sheet is intended to be distributed by an e-list, download and friendly people printing and droplifting.
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