Interesting issue of Diagram webzine on Erasure is HERE
The next Other Room takes place on December 7th 2016 at The Castle Hotel, Manchester and as always is free entry. It features Kerry Morrison, Wayne Clements & Cathy Butterworth. More at the EVENTS page.
Kerry Morrison – Kerry is an experienced environment artist and ecologist. She has worked throughout the UK, including commissions for Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, and Grizedale Forest. Kerry has also worked in forests in Japan and Korea, parks, wilderness and farms in Germany, neighbourhoods in America, and urban streets in Finland. Her work is often performative and since 2006 she has endeavoured to create art without creating demands on natural resources.
Here is an example of her work, ‘Bird Sheet Music’ as featured on the BBC and at The Tate Gallery
Words on the Move: A Day of Talks and Performances across Languages, a collaboration between the Stories in Transit project, the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) at Birkbeck and www.watadd.com.
1 November, Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square (1-7pm)
Book your place for free via Eventbrite
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/words-on-the-move-tickets-28695709640
Animating Questions
1. Can culture, and specifically storytelling (in any form) provide shelter for people who have lost their homes? Can a tale become a home? Can a poem? Can a memory of literature and the process of making it over and over again build ‘a country of words’ (Mahmoud Darwish)? Can narratives build a place of belonging for those without a nation?
2. How do experiences of conflict and forced migration place pressure on narrative form? How might artists and writers respond or register these pressures in their creative work? What are the possibilities for creative collaboration in this context?
3. What methods and processes can be developed together to allow the unfolding and generation of stories? What role can imaginary narrative and non-narrative form play in contemporary conditions? In what ways can the ancient human capacity to tell and pass on stories help in the present crisis?
4. What are the best uses of contemporary media for supporting exchanges of stories across borders and to ease and/or explore communications between languages and cultures? How might we talk about and make texts that work across multiple languages (including non-verbal languages such as dance, music and visual art)?
Programme
1pm — Professor Marina Warner (Birkbeck) Introductory Remarks
1:15pm — Dr Steve Willey (Birkbeck) ‘Multi-Lingual Workshops’
1:30pm — Keynote Address, Dr Caroline Bergvall ‘Methods of Engagement’
2:30pm — Dr Camilla Nelson, (Schumacher College) ‘Performative Reflections on “Reading Movement” in Palestine’
4pm — Paula Claire, ‘Yet More War…and Peace’ (performance inviting creative response)
5pm — Dr Atef Alshaer, (University of Westminster) ‘Individual and Collective Voices in the Poetry of Mahmoud Darwish’
5:30pm — Fuensanta Zamrana Ruiz ’The Language of Violins: Teaching at the Baremboim-Said Foundation’
6pm — Roundtable, Chair: Professor Matthew Reynolds (St Anne’s College, Oxford University)
Organisers
Professor Marina Warner, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and a Professorial Research Fellow, SOAS, 2014-2017
Dr Steve Willey, Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Director of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre
Equus Press proudly presents, for one show only, LOUIS ARMAND & RICHARD MAKIN Live at Conway Hall, London. Join us at this year’s the Small Publishers Fair on Red Lion Sq for the (2nd edition) launch of Louis Armand’s Not-the-Booker Prize shortlisted novel, THE COMBINATIONS, & Richard Makin’s MOURNING. Readings, book signings & refreshments. Equus, in partnership with Litteraria Pragensia Books, will be manning a stall throughout the fair, throughout Friday 4th & Saturday 5th November, with a wide range of exciting new titles and selections from our backlist. Check out our catalogue at www.equuspress.com &www.litterariapragensia.com Free event! Everyone welcome.
Louis ARMAND will be reading from his recent Prague magnum opus, THE COMBINATIONS, praised by Richard Marshall as “an important and corrosive novel, which is a commitment to creativity in the face of absurdity, a politics of avant garde literary concentration and experience” and as “a ‘great novel’ — long and complex […] exemplifying remarkably the possibilities of the genre and contradicts the contemporary obsession with its decline and commodification” by Jean Bessiere. https://equuspress.wordpress.com/the-combinations/
Richard MAKIN will read from MOURNING, the final part of his trilogy (begun with WORK & DWELLING), described by David Caddy as “an extraordinary and distinct achievement. It is a demanding and enriching read characterized by highly wrought sentences, which cover a range of discourses and fictional events.” In the words of Iain Sinclair, “The writing is that it is. This is prose you must learn to experience before you begin to interpret […] the pages in their beautiful and delirious abstraction are ordered poetry.” https://equuspress.wordpress.com/mourning/
Readings & authors introduced by David VICHNAR.
All welcome!
Saturday, November 5 at 4:30 PM – 5 PM
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, WC1R 4RL London, United Kingdom
Friday, October 21 at 7:30 PM at Iklektic Studios, Waterloo, London
The Brunswick
82 North Street, LS2 7PN Leeds
Friday, October 21 at 7 PM – 10 PM
Not very invested in either theatre or poetry, we are doing these things.
– Gloria Dawson says poems, recent
– Linda Kemp, does the same, or not the same (poetry)
– Lisa Jeschke and Lucy Beynon perform THE TRAGEDY OF THERESA MAY
– Plus OTHERS to be confirmed
No tables will be harmed in the making of this event.
Cost: No cost
Time: 7 for 7.30, we start at 7.30
Access: Please note that the performance room is up a narrowish flight of stairs and therefore of limited access for people with certain mobility needs [This wasn’t the first choice of venue, which is far more accessible in this regard] There will also be amplification and some shouting.
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INFO/ LINKS
https://soundcloud.com/user-189188267/untitled-4-parts-7th-october-2016
https://eyhpress.wordpress.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPmTY8YzFfo
http://lisajeschkelucybeynon.blogspot.co.uk/
http://theclaudiusapp.com/6-beynon-jeschke.html
Come along to this great event. Date below. More details HERE
READING AND BEING READ
with Comma Press, If P Then Q, Michelle Green, Holly Pester &ZimZalla
MANCHESTER CENTRAL LIBRARY
Performance Room, Ground Floor
St Peter’s Square, City Centre, M2 5PD
11am to 4pm, 12 November 2016
Contraband Live! The first in a new series of poetry events, brought to you by poetry publisher Contraband + the Charterhouse Bar.
Featuring poetry by Linus Slug and Andrew Spragg, the launch of Stephen Mooney’s trilogy of poetry books and a performance by Special Guest Stars montenegrofisher!
Bring a poem with you to read in our Open Mic slot!
Readings to be followed by music + dancing into Friday morning!
You’re invited to the launch on Wednesday 19 October at 7.00 pm of Black Book: An Assemblage of the Fragmentary (Shearsman Books), by Robert Vas Dias, in collaboration with the artist Julia Farrer, to take place at St. James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL. Author and artist will be present to sign copies of the book, and refreshments will be served. Admission is free.
Black Book is the first major collaboration between a poet and artist reacting to the worst humanitarian crisis of our times since the second world war. This stunningly produced book “confronts us with what has become our common world since the initiation of the ‘war on terror’… and is as up-to-date as this morning’s news,” writes Robert Hampson.
Mel Gooding writes: “Vas Dias is an experimental poet whose language is always simple and direct, who does not beat around the bush, except to flush out a startling truth, transform the familiar to a strangeness. Farrer is an artist for whom the abstract is a means to the controlled expression of the deepest and most sharp feelings, to a refinement of poignancy, a stoic poise.”
And the Revd. Lucy Winkett: “Listen to this black book bringing cruel comfort to a world as it is.
And still dreaming of how it could be.”
Have a look at poems in limited editions, like the one below, by visiting Stephen Emmerson’s site. Beautiful.
From our recent August event
Poet in the City presents an evening of poetry and music in celebration of Frank O’Hara, 50 years since his death.
From curating with Jackson Pollock to collaborating with John Cage and his friendship with Billie Holiday, O’Hara was at the restless heart of the 1960s New York creative explosion.
Featuring performance and discussion with poet and critic Mark Ford and players from Aurora Orchestra.
6th November, Royal Exchange, Manchester
https://www.royalexchange.co.uk/whats-on-and-tickets/frank-o-hara-in-the-heart-of-noise
64 poems of fourteen (!) lines each. Such as: ‘Homelessness | spiders out | the majority of participants | O curb! O vultures! | freedom is mad inside’. Or: ‘the IMF walks the streets at night | if to suck on children’.
‘a cumulative impact which slowly seeps in, like a kaleidoscope of slow-moving debt, arrears and social smallness’. [Stuart Calton]
You can buy it here:
http://material-s.blogspot.co.uk/
From back in 2009
An exhibition organised by recent Other Room reader James Wilkes.
A number of events during the exhibition – including poetry (James Wilkes, Emma Bennett and Ella Finer), music, activism, debate and meditation – most of which are free. Further info and tickets from http://hubbubresearch.org/event/rest-discontents/
The first of a 3-part series ‘The Anatomy of Rest’ is also out on BBC Radio 4:http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07v07p0
James Davies reviews Rachel Sills
Martin Domleo reviews Yvonne Reddick
Colin Lee Marshall reviews Samantha Walton & Jo Lindsay
All HERE
8 September – 5 March 2017
Open daily, free entry
Painter, poet, actor and sculptor, a man once described as “the only all-round genius most of us are likely to meet,” Jeff Nuttall was one of the few people in the early 1960s to publish William S. Burroughs’ most experimental writing.
He was also a performance artist, a pioneer of ‘happenings’ and author of nearly 40 books. As a cultural critic, his seminal work, Bomb Culture, was discussed in Parliament. Nuttall was at the centre of the International Underground scene driven by social dissent and the fear of imminent nuclear attack.
Yet, despite being a giant of the counterculture, the Lancastrian-born polymath is little remembered today. That is set to change with our Autumn/Winter exhibition. Off Beat: Jeff Nuttall and the International Underground reveals a network of artists and writers whose work was shared worldwide via the low-fi, self-published magazines of the “mimeograph revolution”.
Chief among them was Nuttall’s My Own Mag. Burroughs was both a contributor and collaborator and displayed in the exhibition is a rare edition showcasing a Burroughs cut-up text. Other countercultural magazines are featured, to which Nuttall himself contributed, including the one-issue only “newspaper” The Moving Times, and five of Nuttall’s books.
It is Nuttall’s combination of word and image, art and activism – and content that remains provocative and sometimes shocking – that made him a legend in his own time. As we face our own uncertain times, Nuttall’s work feels as prescient today as it did five decades ago.
Please note: because of the adult nature of the content in this exhibition, it is not suitable for children.
Share your experience: #jrloffbeat @TheJohnRylands
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