ANATHEMA is a new reading series for experimental poetry and writing in Bristol, curated by Moot Press + Hesterglock Press + Sad Press
The Light Room
Arnolfini, 16 Narrow Quay, Bristol
BS1 4QA
Friday 31st March
6.30pm
Free (donation)
Poetry Reading in Bristol at the Arnolfini – More details here.
Keynote performance lecture – Professor Redell Olsen
I See/You Mean: The Minimalist Roman[ce]
Taking as its starting point the post-Minimalist nouveau roman, ‘I See/You Mean’ by Lucy Lippard this lecture will explore Minimalism in the visual arts and writing. It will consider aspects of critical discourse on Minimalism as itself encoding forms of romance and propose a counter series of poetic interventions by way of response.
Redell Olsen is a poet and text based artist whose visual work involves live performance with stills or moving image. Film Poems (Les Figues, 2014) collects the texts for her films and performances from 2007–2012. Her previous books include: ‘Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel’ (Subpress, 2012), ‘Secure Portable Space’ (Reality Street, 2004), ‘Book of the Fur’ (rem press 2000), and, in collaboration with the bookartist Susan Johanknecht, ‘Here Are My Instructions’ (Gefn, 2004). From 2006-2010 she was the editor of How2, the international online journal for Modernist and contemporary writing by women. In 2013-14 she was the Judith E. Wilson visiting fellow in poetry at the University of Cambridge. She is currently Professor of Poetry and Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London. redellolsen.co.uk
28 April 2016, 14.15 till 15.00 — Royal Academy of Art
In 1967 Art and Language designated a column of air ‘art.’ The place of writing as and in place of painting seemed assured. When you begin to look away from seeing and reading the dematerialised art work, there emerges a new possibility, a poetics of flickers. In 2016 this column of written air flickers with art forms very different from the art critical language associated with conceptual art. What does this flickering reveal? Poetics and the visual arts flicker with glimpses of this not not-conceptual-art, and not not-writing-as art. My performance/lecture will explore how writing might engage with a flickering ekphrastic turn to landscape painting and its spin-offs. Timothy Morton questions whether ‘Nature’ was ever really there as more than a flickering ghost. I will nevertheless resist the double bind associated with simplistic definitions of ekphrasis, undoing the binary logic of writing as a half-glimpsed phantom of another ‘proper’ subject. The possibility of the filmic will be registered across the boundaries between the documentary, the poetic, and the visual-as-writing. Tracing this exploration through existing works and images, this lecture/performance hopes to enact a writing of paintings for paintings and an aesthetics of art that flickers in writing.
http://www.sarconference2016.net/rc/index.html#archive
Video of Paper here
Peter Gizzi
Redell Olsen
Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio
8pm Monday 9th November 2015
Please join us in welcoming Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow Peter
Gizzi, who will be reading with past fellow Redell Olsen
http://redellolsen.co.uk/
http://www.petergizzi.org/
Free entry and refreshments
Live performance with film and recordings on wax cylinders.
30 August 2013 in Brighton, UK at the Nightingale Theatre.
Video documentation of the event at filmpoems
With thanks to Aleksander Kolkowski, Katy Price and Drew Milne.
Live event on 30 August 2013 in Brighton, UK at the Nightingale Theatre…
Featuring Redell Olsen, Holly Pester and Jeff Hilson – plus some other phonographic treats, including poems from the Mass Observation Archive and Aleksander Kolkowski whose archive Phonographies includes many contemporary musicians and sound artists, all recorded on wax cylinder to haunting effect.
Wax cylinders, digital recordings and more available here: !
Recording of event here…
RHUL POETICS RESEARCH CENTRE PRESENTS:
25 April Adrian Clarke / Jennifer Cooke / Will Montgomery / Sophie Robinson
22 May Redell Olsen / Nisha Ramayya / Gavin Selerie / Lydia White
18 June Allen Fisher / Kristen Kreider & James O’Leary / Stephen Willey
51 HOXTON SQUARE / LONDON N1 6BP / DANIEL BLAU GALLERY
7 pm
ALL WELCOME
Thursday 19:00, 2 May 2013
Judith E Wilson Studio, Faculty of English
WINE + BOOKS + INTERVAL
Nina Power & Redell Olsen
Beside an electric train, a tray of coal and Dawood’s ‘New Dream Machine Project’ in the winter pavilion, join us at Parasol Unit for Intercapillary Places:
Programme
Nina Power:
A talk on the philosophy and control of public space
Redell Olsen:
London launch of ‘Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel’ (Subpress, 2012)
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Thurs 13th Dec / Drinks from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.00pm
Arrive early from 5pm onwards to view the retrospective of work by Jannis Kounellis as well as Shezad Dawood’s ‘New Dream Machine Project’ in the winter pavilion
Tickets: £5/£4 conc – Free wine
Biographical Notes
Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and is the author of ‘One-Dimensional Woman’ (Zer0 Books, 2009).
Redell Olsen’s recent projects include films and texts for performance: ‘Bucolic Picnic (or, Toile de Jouy Camouflage)’ (2009), ‘Newe Booke of Copies’ (2009-10), ‘SPRIGS and Spots’ (2011-12) and the site-specific collaboration for film and performance “Lost Pool” (2010). Her previous publications include ‘Book of the Fur’ (rem press, 2000) and ‘Secure Portable Space’ (Reality Street, 2004). ‘Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel’ (2012) is just out from Subpress. She is a Reader in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. For more see: http://redellolsen.co.uk/
Jannis Kounellis was part of the Arte Povera movement in Italy that emerged during the 1960s. On show at Parasol Unit will be works such as Untitled (Carboniera), 1967; Untitled (steel plate and braid),1969, on loan from Centre George Pompidou, Musée national d’art; Metamorphosis, 1984, and Untitled, 1977, an electric train moving on steel plates installed around one of the pillars of the gallery.
Tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal –
To book your ticket please contact Lucy Britton on lucy@parasol-unit.org / 020 7490 7373 ext. 20
Please book ahead as spaces in the gallery can fill up
