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

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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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Shifting Audiences: Reconfiguring Pasts

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OoPs Seminar 19th March, Senate House, London
OoPs Seminar 19th March

Goes to Show: Rough Music in Frownlands

Out of Practice Seminar (Oops)
 
This talk considers the contexts and motivations of two recent works: a poem and performance. Each explores relationships to music, visual art and the noise of cultural and critical dissent. E.P. Thompson’s survey of the long standing European traditions of ‘Rough Music’ reveals the uncomfortable tensions between community-based rituals and the local enforcement of law. This talk will demonstrate how Thompson’s archival survey of folk traditions is highly generative for the formation of a contemporary poetics alive to its own fragility, even complicity with its apparent objects of subversion. Olsen’s recent performance, Frownlands, 1969 both celebrates and resists aspects of the commonality and energy of 60’s counterculture. At Bury Art Gallery she presented a feminist inflected performance-text, a nominy delivered karaoke style in a non-site plywood replica of the original scene of production: the Californian Woodland Hills house where the infamous album, Trout Mask Replica was recorded. The talk will explore the overlaps and gaps between imagined and empirical audiences. What happens when the reality of performance and poetic language come up against wider conflicts of interest and power relations at large in the speculative imaginaries and curatorial fantasies of public engagement and participation?

Bedford Room, G37, Ground Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Speakers Redell Olsen (Royal Holloway, University of London), Christopher Ohge (Institute of English Studies, SAS) 19 March 2024, 5:00PM – 7:00PM
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