bucolic picnic

Bucolic Picnic (or, toile de jouy camouflage) 2009

is a film poem that uses found footage from a number of sources, including: a 1927 film version of Robinson Crusoe, amateur footage of people who make and use their own ghillie suits, documents relating to the history of toile de jouy textile production in France and the development and production of camouflage materials in Britain and the U.S..

Published in Film Poems. Los Angeles: Les Figues, 2014.

See compressed version of the film here.

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Walking the Book: from medieval object, urban flâneuse, to run(a)way disgust

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https://ies.sas.ac.uk/events/walking-book-medieval-object-urban-flaneuse-runaway-disgust This session focuses on the properties of the handmade object and foregrounds the necessity of craft and  embodied practice in a digital era in which disgust and pleasure are often encountered by proxy or at one remove from actual … Continue reading →

fossil oil: a book of hours

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The poet and artist, Redell Olsen, known for her hybrid poetic texts, films and performances launches a new bookwork: Fossil Oil: a book of hours to be shown at TATE Britain as part of AM Bruno’s Intervals project on 18th October 2024 and at the Small Publisher’s Fair in Conway Hall, London on the 25th and 26th of October. Continue reading →

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Runnymede Literary Festival 2025

RUNNYMEDE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL

Poetry and performance event
Saturday, 15 March 2025, 10.00-4.45

10.15: Francis de Lima, Verity Rowsell, Izzy West et al
10.45: Robert Hampson & Joanna Levi; Jeff Hilson
2.00: Amy Evans Bauer and Cat Chong
3.30: Karenjit Sandhu and Redell Olsen

ALL WELCOME – Poetics Research Centre, RHUL
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