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NOTA Chapter 1 launch at I’m with you: INDEX

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NOTA Chapter 1 launch at I’m with you: INDEX

28 February, 7.30 – 11.00
]performance s p a c e[
Swan Wharf, 60 Dace Road E3 2NQ

Please join us for I’m with you: INDEX, an evening of performances, videos and texts that focus overtly on indexing, notation and script. 

 Here, Open Dialogues will be launching Chapter 1 of NOTA, a collection of notes made inside live performances. NOTA CHAPTER 1 will be assembled and launched on the night alongside Emergency Index Vol. 2, a bible of performance art activity. 

Artists on the night include:

]performance s p a c e[, Brian Lobel, Season Butler, Warren Garland + Josh Baum, Yoko Ishiguro, Eirini Kartsaki, Open Dialogues, Justin Hunt + Johanna Linsley, Daniel Oliver 

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 ABOUT NOTA
NOTA: NOT, NOTES, NOTER (NOTA), NOT/A, is a research framework produced by Open Dialogues that presses on the time, place and quality of notes in relation to performance. Chapter 1 is the first of ten publications to accompany the work.  It is a collection of time-stamped documents – handwritten notes, absent-minded doodles and choreographic diagrams – that were NOTAted in relation to SHOWTiME performance festival (Presented by Alex Eisenberg and John Pinder (Present Attempt) at Rich Mix, London 2012). The publication is designed by Hato Press and includes a critical text by Rachel Lois and Mary of Open Dialogues on the subject of notes as the future of performance remains.

Chapter 1 will be assembled live on the evening of the launch by Rachel Lois and Mary, bound by hand and finished with a unique time-stamp. No two publications are the same.

Available for the special launch price of £4.

ABOUT EMERGENCY INDEX:

This is a bible of performance art activity. And if you are, like I am, a believer in performance art and the value of this ephemeral art activity to change the hearts and minds and consciousness of people, then you need to have this bible in your life. The end. —Martha Wilson

We’ve been seeing performance art materialize around us, but without feeling that there was a context for such ideas. Artists have been doing such pieces for a long time without much recognition that in fact their ideas are related. Now, with Emergency INDEX, we get the sense of a magical secret shared among many artists. Emergency INDEX is a profoundly important publication. It guides us to a new place. —Robert Ashley 

Emergency Index: http://www.emergencyindex.com/

I’m with you: www.imwithyou.me

Open Dialogues: http://www.opendialogues.com/

 

SHOW TiME: http://www.show-time.org.uk/

 

Accidentally on Purpose

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Strategies for Approaching Repeating Problems

Emma Cocker & Rachel Lois Clapham, Fatima Hellberg, Gil Leung, Andrew McGettigan, Francesco Pedraglio, David Raymond Conroy, Alex Vasudevan

Forming part of Accidentally on Purpose curated by Candice Jacobs and Fay Nicolson and produced in collaboration with QUAD

www.accidentalpurpose.net
6 October 2012, 11am – 5pm
The Box, QUAD, Market Place, Derby, DE1 3AS

Strategies for approaching repeating problems presents a series of performances, presentations and talks around the ideas explored in the Accidentally on Purpose exhibition at QUAD, connecting the exhibition to wider contemporary issues in cultural production and discourse.

From difficulties inherent in language and communication to the way artists and writers position themselves in relation to wider social issues, such as education and the public sphere, this event will identify an array of current or ever-present difficulties, discuss their perception from different positions and consider whether notions of progress or return are clichés or inevitable fates.

More at Rachel Lois Clapham’s blog.

Nota at Showtime

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Rachel Lois Clapham: a preview

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Rachel Lois Clapham will be performing along with David Berridge and Philip Terry at the next Other Room on Wednesday 24th August. For a flavour of her work, try these three films of her diagrammatic readings: 0456461 to 0456464 2009; (W)reading The Crack-Up Fitzgerald, F. Scott  2010; Re- Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker 2010 – ongoing.

A preview of Philip Terry will appear shortly. Read this post for a preview of David Berridge.

The Other Room 27: one month away

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The next Other Room will be on Wednesday 24th August at The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY, on Manchester Science Park. The performers are David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham and Philip Terry. 7 pm start. There will be a bookstall stocked with publications from the three performers and other books, chapbooks, pamphlets and objects from the north-west’s vibrant small publishing scene.

The Other Room is always free, but you can book a ticket via Eventbrite. This will let us know you are coming and put you on our mailing list. Eventbrite will also give you updates and reminders relating to this event.

Details of the three performers below. Previews of each will appear here over the next month.

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DAVID BERRIDGE lives in London, where he curates VerySmallKitchen. He makes language works for exhibition, performance, print and online publication. In print, The Moth Is Moth This Money Night Moth is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press and Kafka Thinking Stations: A Chora(L) Song Cycle by The Arthur Shilling Press. Electronically, Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys is published by Beard of Bees and Black Gardens by The Red Ceilings Press.
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RACHEL LOIS CLAPHAM produces writing on and as performance as part of UK collaboration Open Dialogues and curates radical writing with the Arts Council partnership In a word…. Her own practice points…, punctuates movement and presses on physical gestures as text. Recent work includes Re- (PSL Gallery Leeds, Norwich Arts Centre and John Latham Archive London), WORK TRY HARD (Kaleid Editions) and (W)reading Performance Writing : A Guide (Live Art Development Agency).  wwwopendialogues.com
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PHILIP TERRY was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (Vintage, 2000), Fables of Aesop (Gilliland Press, 2006) and the poetry collection Oulipoems (Ahadada, 2006). In 2008 Carcanet published his acclaimed translation of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality. His latest Carcanet collection Shakespeare’s Sonnets was published in 2010. His chapbook Dante’s Inferno is published by Oystercatcher Press.

Writing (the) Space

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Wild Pansy Press Project Space
4 May – 19 May 2011 (Mon-Fri 9-6)
Old Mining Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT

‘If I hammer, if I recall in, and keep calling in, the breath, the breathing as distinguished from the hearing, it is for cause, it is to insist upon a part that breath plays in verse which has not (due, I think, to the smothering of the power of the line by too set a concept of foot) has not been sufficiently observed or practiced, but which has to be if verse is to advance to its proper force and place in the day, now, and ahead. I take it that PROJECTIVE VERSE teaches, is, this lesson, that that verse will only do in which a poet manages to register both the acquisitions of his ear and the pressure of his breath.’ Extract, Projective Verse, 1950.

Charles Olson’s Projective Verse invites writing to be considered spatially, as OPEN, or as FIELD (of) composition in three dimensions. His proposition is one of text as space of action, of breath as punctuation, and of the bodily pressures of writing in which ‘form is never more than an extension of content’.

WRITING (the) SPACE presses down on and around this unique poetics of writing in contemporary performance related practice – in particular, the possibilities of performance writing in spatial and physical terms. WRITING (the) SPACE is conceived as a period of action research within the Wild Pansy Press Project Space

For WRITING (the) SPACE, Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker present a new iteration of their ongoing collaborative project Re –, which essays the relationship between performance/document, live/recording, writing/written through the collision of spoken, textual and gestural languages. This iteration of the project addresses the emergent grammar of Re-, exploring the spatial and physical possibilities of writing. Extracted fragments from earlier conversations rub against mute utterances of a finger diagramming, nails pink; a spoken text of dislocated phrases; partial scores awaiting activation; punctuation, the space of breath. Re– (WRITING (the) SPACE) is open to the public from 4 – 19 May, 9-6pm Mon-Fri.

WRITING (the) SPACE Event, 19 May 09.30am – 8pm

Drawing together the practices of diverse artists and writers, this day-long event attempts to further explore notions of physical and spatial writing, drawing on the installation Re – (WRITING (the) SPACE) and Olson’s notion of Projective Verse.

09.30-6pm: > OPEN > < OLSON > < OPEN <.
A laboratory exploring practice based examples of Olson’s OPEN text. Presenting: David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Emma Cocker, Victoria Gray, Claire Hind and Mary Paterson. Audience space is limited so booking is essential, please email rachellois@opendialogues.com.

6-8pm : How is Art Writing?
Dinner, drink, conversation and live performance by Giles Bailey on the last day of the exhibition as part of the In a word…artists’ dinner series. All welcome but booking essential, click on In a word… to book online.

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WRITING (the) SPACE is developed by Rachel Lois Clapham (Open Dialogues) in partnership with New Work Yorkshire and supported by In a word…

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In a word… is a research programme profiling an ecology of radical writing practice in, around and from Yorkshire. http://writingencounters.squarespace.com/in-a-word/

Open Dialogues is a UK collaboration, founded by Rachel Lois Clapham and Mary Paterson, that produces writing on and as performance. http://www.opendialogues.com

New Work Yorkshire is a proactive, engaged and mutually supportive collection of individuals who aim to develop a vibrant and diverse New Work sector in Yorkshire.

Wild Pansy Press is an art collective, a small publishing outfit affiliated with Leeds University Fine Art and a public venue for experimental works which use the practices of reading, writing and publication as their medium and/or content. wildpansypress.com