SJ Fowler

The Verb: Voice Hearing

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Ian McMillan’s guests include Charles Fernyhough, author of ‘Pieces of Light’ (Profile). Charles is Professor of Psychology at Durham University, where he is leading the ‘Hearing The Voice’, an interdisciplinary research project that aims to better understand the experience of hearing voices.

The poet SJ Fowler celebrates the avant garde in his work and he has written a new piece for us inspired by the work of ‘Hearing of the Voice’. Fowler’s latest collection of poetry is ‘Enthusiasm’ (Test Centre).

Listen live on BBC Radio 3 at 22:00 on Friday, 15th January or on the BBC website afterwards.

Camarade 61

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7pm – Free Entry – Apiary Studios: 460 Hackney Rd, E2 9EG.
A stand alone Camarade poetry event in London to mark the beginning of 2016, the 61st event of it’s type curated by the Enemies project. Featuring: 
 
Tim Atkins & JJ Mars
Lavinia Singer & Ella Frears
John Canfield & Joe Turrent
Simone Gilson & Claudia Juhre
Liddy Gilbert & James Caley
Maren Nygard & Eley Williams
Sarah Kelly & Iris Colomb
Prudence Chamberlain & SJ Fowler
Farhana Khatun & Freya Harwood Bond
Molly Bergin & Megan Haycock
Olga Kolesnikova & Richard Scott
Susie Campbell & Mike West
Keely Laufer & Emma Mackilligin
Julia Lewis & Annabel Banks
Clover Peake & Giovanna Coppola

A WORLD WITHOUT WORDS V

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January Saturday 9th | 7.30pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG. Free Entry.
A World without Words will return to Apiary Studios on Hackney Road, London. Another exceptional panel of speakers and performers, exploring language, the human brain, aphasia and creativity, from the worlds of neuroscience and avant-garde art, will share new ideas and artworks, created specifically for the event. Featuring:

Dr. Daniel Margulies of the Max Planck Institute is a neuroscientist with a background in the humanities. His work consists of neuroanatomy that explores how connectivity within the cerebral cortex is organized, as well as ongoing collaborations that address the functional implications of this organization for spontaneous thought, or ‘mind-wandering’, amongst other things.

Josh Alexander is a film-maker and artist. He will present a newly commissioned piece of video art responding to the a World without Words project and it’s concerns.

Gillian Bridge is a resilience consultant specialising in brain and language development and the use of language affect on behaviour and communication. Her work also seeks an understanding and treating of dysfunctional behaviour (incl addictions) and developmental disorders (particularly autism and Asperger’s) in her practise as a psycholinguistic consultant.

Elena Agudio is a Berlin-based art historian and curator. She is artistic director of the non-profit association AoN – a platform for Neuroscience and Art, a project in collaboration with the Medical University of Charité, The School of Mind and Brain of the Humboldt University and the Institut für Raumexperimente led by Olafur Eliasson.

Christian Patracchini is an artist, writer and curator who works across different art forms, alternating between performance, text, sound and drawing. Within this commissioned performance he is interested in what constitutes a novelty and how thinking through movement can alter the force of thought.

Sarah Kelly creates works with text and handmade paper. Her work is concerned with pages (surfaces, interfaces and skins) and explores embodied language and mark making in connection with somatic bodies of knowledge. It encompasses poetics, sculptural paper making, movement, typography, calligraphy, translation and iteration. She will present a new commission on the night.
Admission is free and booking is not required. Email steven@sjfowlerpoetry.com for enquiries.

Pugilistica: celebrating boxing poetry

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Held on November 4th 2015, in the extraordinary environs of http://www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica brought together poets, academics, writers, artists and photographers to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. It featured fiction from Anna Whitwham, poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who presented his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’ The event also saw the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition. More at the Enemies Project site.

Pugilistica: a literary celebration of boxing

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November 4th at Apiary Studios : 7.30pm – Free entrance.
458 Hackney Rd, London E2 9EG 
www.theenemiesproject.com/pugilistica

Held in the extraordinary environs of www.apiarystudios.org in Hackney, London, Pugilistica will bring together poets, academics, writers, artists and journalists to celebrate the sport of boxing through talks, readings, discussion and screenings. Featuring:

Fiction from Anna Whitwham, Poetry from Tim Atkins, Ulli Freer, Stephen Mooney, Art History from Sarah Victoria Turner and Journalism from Oliver Goldstein and Don McRae, who will present his new book ‘A Man’s World: the Double Life of Emile Griffith.’

The event will see the relaunch of Fights, by SJ Fowler, published by Veer Books in a revised second edition.

Mondo: The Global Avant Garde

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Start date: Thursday 5th Nov 2015 Session times: Thursdays, 6.45 – 8.45pm, weekly. 5 sessions.

Explore a world of avant-garde poetry movements in SJ Fowler’s company and discover how their remarkable explorations in the written word often compliment, rather than antagonise, more formal writing practice. Over 5 sessions, 5 global avant-garde poetic movements will be used as references to springboard you into new writing techniques, stressing the possibility amidst the history. Covering five different movements of the post-war period, in five different nations, this course – with the energy, dynamism and invention of the writing it explores – will enrich anyone’s poetry horizons. Steven will organise a post-course reading for students on this course. See more at The Poetry School site.

A Language Art: Course for Tate Modern

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Mondays, 26 October – 30 November 2015, 18.45–20.45.

Over six weeks, SJ Fowler explores the intersections between the post-war traditions of modern art and avant-garde poetry. Discovering poets and artists from the Tate collection who make use of language, sound, space, printing and writing, this course reveals how these practises are fundamental to both arts.

Sessions are based within the galleries of Tate Modern in the presence of works by Gerhard Richter, Li Yuan-Chia and RB Kitaj, which bring to light some of the great moments in modern art and poetry that have enriched the traditions of both writing and art-making. Each week participants are also introduced to contemporary examples of work inspired by those held in the Tate Collection, as well as encouraged to create and share their own avant-garde poetry and text art in the extraordinary environment of the museum. One session is held at Tate Britain and includes the chance to explore Tate’s Prints and Drawings Rooms.

This course is for people interested in developing their own skills and understanding of experimental poetry and modern and contemporary art practises. More details at the Tate site.

Dagestan: SJ Fowler

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Dagestan is a place we go to fight for money. A place where we are paid to be filmed, and perhaps be killed.

Dagestan is an thrilling new play by poet and martial artist SJ Fowler, set in the shadowy world of global security. Enter the minds of military contractors to uncover a culture of violence, gallows humour and moral uncertainty.

Fri 16 October – Sat 17 October at the Rich Mix, London.

Produced by Penned in the Margins

Talking Performance at the Tate

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Tate Modern : July 18th 2015
East Room : Level 6 : 3pm – 5pm
£9, concessions available.

The London based poets, writers and artists Patrick Coyle and SJ Fowler perform new works that push the boundaries of what we understand by performance and poetry. Following an hour of performance this is an opportunity to join them in an in depth discussion to further explore these disciplines and other notions of the avant-garde. More here.

Berlin Camarade

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The Berlin Camarade will pair 32 poets to write new collaborations especially for this event, drawing from the extraordinary poetry scene of Berlin, one of the most dynamic avant-garde hubs in Europe. Berlin as a brilliant, poetic, communal landscape of literature will be revealed across the possibilities of collaboration. www.theenemiesproject.com/berlin
 
June Tuesday 23rd – 8pm at http://www.lettretage.de {Mehringdamm 61, 10961 Berlin, Germany}. Entrance fee of 5€ (4€ reduced for students). All proceeds go entirely to Lettretage.
 
The event will be split into two acts, with 16 poets in 8 pairs presenting brand new collaborations in each. Curated in partnership with Lettretage.
 
Beginning at 8pm
 
Monika Rinck & Nele Brönner
Sam Langer & Jeroen Nieuwland
Catherine Hales & Brigitte Oleschinski
Polly Dickson & Esther Yi
Lara Rüter & Georg Leß
Alexander Gumz & Christoph Szalay
Laura Elliott & Angus Sinclair
Max Czollek & Ernesto Estrella
 
Beginning at 9.30pm
 
Andreas Bülhoff & Charlotte Warsen
Martin Jackson & Mike Saunders
Birgit Kreipe & Yevgeniy Breyger
Christiane Heidrich & Rike Scheffler
SJ Fowler & Daniela Seel
Tom Bresemann & Alexander Filyuta
Eugene Ostashevsky & Norbert Lange
Cia Rinne & Uljana Wolf

Gelynion: a Welsh Enemies project / Enemies Cymru

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Beginning on the 19th May through to 5th June 2015 2015
visiting Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor, Hay-on-Wye & London

Gelynion is an exploration of contemporary Welsh poetry through the potential of collaboration. Shining a light on the often overlooked contemporary Welsh avant-garde, and placing that work firmly beside more literary poetry and the Cynghanedd tradition, Gelynion aims to bring together communities of writers that might not otherwise collaborate, from all four corners of the country & beyond. Generously supported by the Arts Council of Wales & Poetry Wales, Gelynion will also produce these original collaborations in both of Wales’ languages.

Gelynion involves over 40 poets with a core group performing new collaborations each night throughout the tour, including Poetry Wales’s Nia Davies, Joe Dunthorne, Zoë Skoulding, Eurig Salisbury, SJ Fowler and Rhys Trimble. The core poets will tour these new pieces in rolling pairs throughout Wales and at each reading multiple poets from the local area and beyond are invited to create their own collaborations.

The tour begins in Newport on May 19th and visits Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth, Bangor before a culminating premiere performance at the Hay-on-Wye festival on May 29th. Then the project will close for 2015 with a reading at the Rich Mix Arts Centre in London on June 5th.

Gelynion is co-curated by Nia Davies & SJ Fowler, and generously supported by Arts Council Wales, Poetry Wales & the Hay-on-Wye festival.

A World Without Words

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A World Without Words is a project by writer and filmmaker Lotje Sodderland, in collaboration with poet and curator SJ Fowler and artist and material engineer Thomas Duggan.

Bringing together the most dynamic genre pioneers in neuroscience and sensory aesthetics, A World Without Words explores the nature of human language through a collaborative program of exhibitions, interactive events, and screenings in bespoke venues across London.

Language is considered perhaps the most characteristic ability of the human species, yet very little is known about it. When Lotje had an unprovoked brain hemorrhage, she woke to find a familiar stranger inhabiting her body, where her ‘self’ used to be. Unable to read, write, speak, or think coherently, she used this unique opportunity as a lens through which to explore the everyday assumptions of how we wield words to express ourselves, bringing a profoundly personal perspective to the contemporary Copernican revolution of neuroscience.

A World Without Words is the latest in Lotje’s body of work around visual perception and neurolinguistics, notable highlights being her Guardian feature All In My Mind and multiple award-winning documentary My Beautiful Broken Brain.

The first event is on May 6th 7.00pm – 10.00pm, Apiary Studios, 458 Hackney Road, London, E2 9EG. Entry is free. Space is limited so come early to get a spot.