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).
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
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.
This exhibition is curated by my Phd students: Briony Hughes, Caroline Harris and Gareth Hughes in collaboration with the Culture Team at Royal Holloway. It features work from artists and writers working with text and image in relation to ecological and environmental issues. It reflects the cultural environment and work of the practice-based students that I teach at MA and Phd level on the Poetic Practice pathway and some of the work by contemporaries that we admire, including: Susan Johanknecht and Kate Meynell and JR Carpenter. Really delighted to be showing some of my work from the Plume of the Volants series in this company.
This exhibition is open from 17 January 2024 – 24 March 2024 in the Davison Building Exhibition Space at Royal Holloway.
Work in the exhibition
“Silence cannot be heard in terms of pitch or harmony: it is heard in terms of time length” John Cage “If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence” Middlemarch, George Eliot.
from: Weather, Whether Radar: Plume of the Volants Limited Edition to coincide with exhibition (200 copies): currently available from foundmaterials@me.com £15 Digital Studio: https://weatherwhetherradar.art/work
https://www.tea-assembly.com/issues/8/moonflower-2021-or-a-scarlet-transfer
Details of the full issue and introduction from Felix Driver and Caroline Cornish below:
