18.2.25
Photographs by ‘Varya’
(Peformers of Fossil Oil: a book of hours – Redell Olsen, Francis di Lima, Verity Rowsell, Izzy Masters, Gareth Hughes, Serafina Lee).
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 events or situations.
Redell Olsen will discuss recent bookworks devised in response to the form of the medieval girdle book and their material poetics. She will trace a sometimes fictitious and highly speculative trajectory for this book form, from medieval accessory, through 19th and 20th century urban poetics, to a new enframing of a contemporary girdle book as necessary super-real performance object, which counters and marks the end of our fossil fuel era. https://redellolsen.co.uk/fossil-oil-a-book-of-hours/(Opens in new window)
Professor Redell Olsen is a writer and visual artist who also makes work in hybrid media, bookworks and performance. She co-directs the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London and runs the influential MA CW in Poetic Practice.
This is a practice-based seminar and will feature a walk with headphones around Senate House.
Seminar Series Out of Practice Seminar (Oops) Address Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Speakers Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London )
Event dates 18 February 2025, 5:00PM – 7:00PM
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as part of Writing from Radius
Group Publication – RADII book launch 26.10.24 at Small Publishers Fair 2 pm – edited by Briony Hughes in collaboration with Osmosis Press and RHUL Poetics Research centre.
Bookwork and Performance by Redell Olsen
Photograph by Sam Jones
New readings from bookwork: fossil oil: a book of hours
new bookwork with AMBruno at TATE
18 October 2024 at 13.30–17.30
25th and 25th of October
New bookwork – Fossil Oil: a book of hours shown as part of AMBruno’s – Intervals Project
Tate Britain – 18 October 2024 at 13.30–17.30
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/intervals-with-ambruno
A creative workshop at BCA with Lewi Mondal. Participants were encouraged to write or draw in response to a series of cubes desgined for the workshop by me. The cubes used images from the current exhibition at BCA on living rooms by Tony Fairwearther. I hope to use the cubes in other contexts and workshops and to develop further projects with BCA and other museum collections and archives. The cubes feature prompts for making, drawing, writing, remembering and imagining connections between personal and public archives that were suggested through play with the cubes themselves…
New performance work Saturday January 27th at Bury Museum and Art Gallery as part of an exhibition by Derek Tyman and Andy Webster.
Art-writing performance that builds on instrumental outakes from Beefheart’s, Trout Mask Replica. Olsen plays through and counters the often punishing methods of production endured by the original band members with an homage that is also a rewriting of the master’s voice. She offers a provocative chorus of speculative fragmentary imaginings from a variety of sources and eras to recast the legendary narratives of the making of the original album alongside interruptions drawn from the erased history of female drummers, nostalgic imaginings for futures that never were and cacophonies of protest relevant for our present day Frownlands.
