Seekers of Lice will perform at the Other Room in December. You can read this dialogue with VerySmallKitchen, who are publishing a collection of sol plays in November, at the VSK site.
very small kitchen
nick-e melville: Editorial
New e-book by nick-e melville published by Very Small Kitchen.
Available at the LINK
I am not a poet
I AM NOT A POET: A FESTIVAL AT THE TOTALKUNST GALLERY, EDINBURGH 7-21st AUGUST 2011
VerySmallKitchen and theTotalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh, present I AM NOT A POET, a 2 week festival exploring connections of language, writing and art practice. Beginning with conversations and lectures as part of AN EDINBURGH ZINE & SMALL PRESS FAIRon 7th August, I AM NOT A POET presents a series of three and one day exhibitions, alongside conversations, lectures, performances, publications, and screenings…
Artists include: Pete Cant, Magdalen Chua, Patrick Coyle, Alex Eisenberg, Jennie Guy, Colin Herd, Shandra Lamaute, Michelle Letowska, Marit Muenzberg, nick e-melville, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson, Gerry Smith, seekers of lice. Curated by David Berridge (VerySmallKitchen) and Mirja Koponen (Totalkunst Gallery)
TotalKunst Gallery
3 Bristo Place
Edinburgh
EH1 1EY
More at the LINK
This weekend at WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION
3rd September – 3rd October 2010
Open Fri – Sun 12 – 5pm
The Pigeon Wing
Guild House
Excelsior Works
Rollins Street
SE15 1EP
London
EVENTS: Weekend 4.
On Saturday September 25th 1.30-4.30, WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION presents an afternoon of performances, discussions and installations.
1.30pm How To Blush – performance lecture by seekers of lice:
“The talk as an installation space: How to blush is a collaged text circling around blushing via the life of the bedbug, the colour puce, visceral reactions, earlobes, Sappho…”
2.00-3.30pm LemonMelon Publishing Seminar.
LemonMelon extends the following invitation: Please join!!! LemonMelon would like to discuss the following with you
a book as strategy
a book as a living organism
a book as a platform for research
a book as an exhibition space
a book as a place of collaboration
a book as nearly invisible publishing
a book as structure
Specifically invited contributors are asked to present their publications and to respond to the above.
Contributers include: seekers of lice, Phil Baber/ Cannon, David Berridge/ VerySmallKitchen, James Davies/ If P Then Q, Marit Muenzberg/ LemonMelon.
3.30-4.30pm Janine Harrington, Performing Book Experiment No.2
“Performing Book Experiment No.2 is a structure for five or more dancers. The work aims to facilitate a playful interaction between the audience-reader and the performers. The structure is only activated when an audience member enters a “channel” of the space, their movement programs the danced material in a certain way. As the activator becomes aware of their role as co-author of the work they are able to play with the structure, changing the direction of movement, its relationship to time and scale.”
ALSO THIS WEEKEND:
The 25th will be the conclusion of Phil Baber’s The Archaeology of an Essay installation, the result of a 3 day residency at WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION:
“Through artifacts, images, and texts, I’ll be unpacking, plotting, and presenting the ‘source-code’ of an essay-in-progress.”
The Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing continues to unfold with Greetings from DEAL – a new installation project by Colin Priest, Malcolm Hobbs and Joe Reeves – and the online launch of LIKE IT IS: PRELUDE, an e-book by Nyeema Morgan.
WRITING/EXHIBITION/PUBLICATION concludes with a final weekend of performances and events on October 2-3. See full programme of events here: www.thepigeonwing.co.uk/events
WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION: VerySmallKitchen at THE PIGEON WING 3 Sep – 3 Oct 2010
Curated by David Berridge, VerySmallKitchen in residence at The Pigeon Wing presents a month long exploration of how writing moves (or not) between the locations of WRITING/ EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION. Throughout September The Pigeon Wing will be both work space and exhibition, with a program of exhibitions, readings, performances, research projects, libraries, and screenings, exploring an abundance of forms and practices at the interface of writing and art practices.
Notes, essays, scripts, scores, propositions, live writings, scrawls, appropriations, assemblings and dissemblings, accretive structures and/or deletions, are some of the strategies to be explored by a range of contemporary practitioners from the UK, Hungary, Ireland, the US and elsewhere. Throughout the exhibition, the gallery will also provide a focal point for the THE FESTIVAL OF NEARLY INVISIBLE PUBLISHING, a programme of self-organised events happening throughout the world, evidence of which are submitted to the gallery for archive and display.
The unfolding exhibition is organised around four key areas: WRITING LIVE, THE DEPARTMENT OF MICRO-POETICS, EXHIBITION/ PUBLICATION, and ASSEMBLING (the last presenting a remarkable exhibition-within-an-exhibition from Franticham/ Red Fox Press’s unique archive of rare assembling publications from 1970-2010). Whilst many artists have created texts and installations specifically for the space, others will produce work that unfolds at each of the live events, whilst other scores and contractual arrangements unfold at times not publicly announced. As part of Deptford X a final weekend will see artists working in the space leading up to a final performance event and feast.
As well as opening and closing performance events, the schedule currently includes: Ignite and Reprise: Films by Matthew MacKissack; LemonMelon Publishing Seminar; DISSASSEMBLING CANNON by Phil Baber; Aphorism as Art Practice Sunday; conversations with Simon Cutts and Francis van Maele; and month long writing residencies from Press Free Press, Julia Calver, Hammam Aldouri (assistanted by Helen Kaplinsky) and Tamarin Norwood.
Contributing artists:
Hammam Aldouri
Phil Baber
Bagazine
Julia Calver
Maurice Carlin
Anne Charnock
Rachel Lois Clapham
Emma Cocker
Simon Cutts
Matt Dalby
James Davies
Sonia Dermience
Karen Di Franco
Marianne Holm Hansen
Sarah Jacobs
Joy as Tiresome Vandalism
The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press
Helen Kaplinsky
Mirja Koponen
Márton Koppány
Freek Lomme/ Onomatopee
Matthew MacKissack
Marit Muenzberg/ LemonMelon
Tamarin Norwood
Pippa Koszerek
Mary Paterson
Press Free Press
Red Fox Press
Colin Sackett
Seekers of Lice
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