The complete text of zimZalla object 010 read in its entirety. # consists of 50 unique micro-texts presented in a vial. More about the object can be found on the zimZalla site.
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zimZalla object 010: # – Richard Barrett
#: Richard Barrett
# is a treatment of selected text output from the @_M_I_A_ Twitter feed. Using instinctive interventions, the original text has been transformed to create a new artefact. Echoes, repetitions and ghost-motifs occur and re-occur throughout #, laying trails true and false, with the # symbol doubling as medical shorthand for “fracture”. For distribution, the complete work has been split into fifty micro-texts of which only a single version exists, each presented in a labelled vial and accompanied by a bespoke extraction tool. # can be owned individually only in part and totally only in common. Each micro-text object is available in exchange for a gift, which can be in a physical, digital, verbal, gestural, symbolic or any other form. Use and exchange value are entirely irrelevant. As gifts are received, they will be listed on the Twitter feed #zimzalla. This list will be collated for presentation as a future object. Contact mail@zimzalla.co.uk or encounter a relevant individual in logical space. Visit the zimZalla site for more #.
AVENIR – Julius Kalamarz
zimZalla object 009, AVENIR by Julius Kalamarz, is now available.
AVENIR is a series of synesthetic (grapheme → color) interpretations of color fields. The interpretations, and their corresponding colors, are presented on 24 cards housed within a box. The monochromes of Yves Klein inspired the concept, while the Event Scores of George Brecht inspired its presentation.
Click here to find out more, view a sample or buy a set.
Manchester Book Market
This takes place on Friday 17th and Saturday and 18th June in St. Anne’s Square in Manchester. There are events and stalls run by a wide range pf publishers, including, on Saturday only, if p then q and zimZalla. More details here.
AVENIR
The next zimZalla object will be AVENIR by Julius Kalamarz.
AVENIR is a series of synesthetic (grapheme → color) interpretations of color fields. The interpretations, and their corresponding colors, are presented on 24 cards housed within a box. The monochromes of Yves Klein inspired the concept, while the Event Scores of George Brecht inspired its presentation.
The anticipated release time for this object is May 2011. Click here to visit the zimZalla site and view a sample.
Lucy Harvest Clarke – World Banner
“A series of 12 poems of 12 lines each overlaid on card globes each line for each 12 lines of latitude where 12 different correspondents are simultaneously creating one poem in a single globe and the work to be titled “World Banner” also consisting of a legend of all the poems included in the purchase price of £12 per globe.”
Available now via zimZalla.
zimZalla 008
zimZalla object 008, A Dictionary of Poetic Forms by Tom Watts, is now available. Playfully deconstructing the structures and strictures of formalised verse, the dictionary is a set of rules for non-participants and a guide book to places already visited. Click here for more information.
zimZalla object 007 now available
zimZalla object 007 is Blueprints, a sheath of visual poems on Tracing Paper by Andrew Topel. It is available now for £4 including postage. Click here for more details.
zimZalla object 006
zimZalla object 006, Klitschko, an A3 poster poem by SJ Fowler, is now available. Visit the zimZalla site for details.
Soho Curzon Poetry Reading – SJ Fowler – October Wednesday 6th 7pm
A release of five SJ Fowler publications by four presses Zimzalla / Knives Forks & Spoons press / Kitt press / Arthur Shilling press (http://www.zimzalla.co.uk) (http://www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk) (http://www.kittpress.com) (http://arthur-shilling-press.blogspot.com) Wednesday October 6th 2010 ~ 7pm ~ Entrance free the Soho Curzon cinema, Mezzanine bar
99 Shaftesbury Avenue London W1D 5DY 0871 703 3988
A unique collaborative poetry event featuring the presence of the four of the UK’s most vital and productive publishing organisations. The event will feature a forty-minute reading from SJ Fowler and a sales table with work from the list of each of the presses.
SJ Fowler is one of the most prolific and inventive young poets emerging in Britain. A formidable reader, his poetry is concerned with the latency of aggression in passive cultures, and the violence of the banal. A devotee of boxing, his symbolic engagement with the combative arts lends his writing an assailing immediacy. Concurrently antagonistic and innovative, his poetry is distinct and affecting whether spoken or read from the page – Robert Sutcliffe (editor of Kitt press)
Kitt press present Saint Augustine of Hippo
A poetic / pictorial collaboration with the artist David Kelly, the book is a love letter to Augustine’s secular lust and apparently disingenuous commitment to chastity. The fragmented abstract of an Augustine icon permeates the poetry.
The Knives forks Spoons press present Arthur Abraham
Ten poems in celebration of the German / Armenian boxer recall the tonality of epic Anglo-Saxon poetry run through the grinder of avant-garde documentation.
Kitt press present Animal Husbandry
A series of poems written in response to the Rorschach inkblot paintings of Sian Williams. Each is a meditation on the novelty of this psychological test and the supposed inevitability of its response – an invocation of the sexualized female form.
Arthur Shilling press presents Antonio Margarito
A poetry cycle dedicated to the Mexican boxer banned for loading his gloves with Plaster of Paris, the poems evoke Aztec ritual invocations and Beat-esque free verse ecstatics.
ZimZalla presents Klitschko
Zimzalla object number 6 is a boxing poster designed by SJ Fowler in the manner of the Vienna group concrete poets. Mixing heavy blocked type with irreverent commentaries on the nature of punching people in the face for a living.
zimZalla object 005
zimZalla object 005 – a miniature book of visual poetry by Derek Beaulieu – is now available. Each book is accompanied by a mganifying glass and presented in a cloth bag. More at the zimZalla site. Check out Derek’s new site too.
zimZalla object 004
zimZalla object 004, a postcard set by Stephen Emmerson, is now available. Go here to view a sample or buy. Also available on zimZalla:
Object 001: Opposable Dumbs – Tina Darragh
Object 002: Poetry – James Davies, Julius Kalamarz, Holly Pester
Object 003: Sound poetry – Matt Dalby
zimZalla object 002
Out now, featuring poetry from James Davies, Julius Kalamarz and Holly Pester. Click here for more information.
zimZalla
zimZalla is a new project intermittently releasing avant objects. The first object is Opposable Dumbs by Other Room reader Tina Darragh. This is a free ebook and is available for download at www.zimzalla.co.uk
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