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On Reading and Walking and Thinking – exhibition at The Poetry Library

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This exhibition gathers work from three international artists who respond to the world through the written word, performative drawing and sculpture.
Thomas Evans’ The Theatre of the Wobbling Worlds is a theatre for a single performer composed of numerous pivoted stages laid out in a loose grid. Each stage presents a proposition of the world on a wobbling stage which invites participants into a humorous homage to the idea of the “theatre of the world”. David Rule’s short texts and prompts move between the observational and speculative, suggesting opportunities for reveries along the South Bank and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé’s praeludere uses a verbal score as a catalyst for action; walking, writing, singing and drawing are used to explore and map the everyday.
This project is co-curated by Chris McCabe and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé, in partnership with bookRoom at UCA Farnham James Hockey gallery, and The Saison Poetry Library at Southbank Centre.
From Tuesday 13th January – Sunday 1st March 2015.
Join us for the opening event on Tuesday 13th January at 7.30pm. To book your free place email: specialedition@poetrylibrary.org.uk

Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions: Fact Sheet

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Fact sheet below.

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Armchair Emblems, Prosthetic Mottos & Walking Definitions:

Fact Sheet

“I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.” –Franz Kafka, Diaries

“In my life the furniture eats me.” –William Carlos Williams, Spring & All

EMBLEM

Invented in 1531 by a Florentine legal scholar named Andrea Alciato, the emblem is a tripartite structure composed of a motto or epigram (generally moral in theme), an icon (often referred to as the emblem’s ‘body’) and a commentary on the two in prose or poem form. Many emblems made variations on this formula.

ARMCHAIR EMBLEM

The upholstered emblem or armchair emblem incorporates only the epigram/motto and image tension of the Renaissance emblem but retains its conceptual gist and glyphic structure.

PROSTHETIC MOTTO

An aspirational embodiment or transcorporation for the body-image. “Building the muscles of mind’s legs.” Enhanced mobility via an ingested foreign body.

TRANSCORPORATION

A translation from one body to another. An ingestion or introjection.

WALKING DEFINITION

An indoor walking stick that defines constituents of the built interior as allegories of mind. A measure. A ‘getting underway’ instrument, frequently ‘left around.’

BUILT INTERIOR

An indoor pedestrian structure comprised of mobile furniture for the solicitation of thinking. An allegory of mind.

SOLICITATION

The directed rousal of thinking through upholstered didactic prompts or forms (an intelligent furniture).

FORMS

Ornaments of thought. Including: the glyphic (static—the emblem); the mnemonic (transcorporable—the prosthetic); the definitive (the Walking Definition).

FURNITURE

What is lived with. “The relation of with.” Any instrument or form housing information intended to be absorbed by accompaniment.

–THOMAS EVANS