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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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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23.10.24 – Surrey HIlls Arts

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

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