[Photograph: Pavel Büchler's You Don't Love Me (2007). Photograph: Leeds City Gallery.]
The subject of iam’s forthcoming documentary, making nothing happen (dir. Simon Morris; funded by Manchester Metropolitan University and York College; due September 2010), Pavel Büchler, has been awarded the 2010 Northern Art Prize.
Martin Wainwright’s report on the ceremony for The Guardian, Friday 22 January, 2010, follows:
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Büchler scoops the North’s answer to the Turner Prize, declaring his love for Manchester’s buzzing art scene.
He claimed to have last won a competition when he was 13, but artist Pavel Büchler played it cool last night when a packed gallery in Leeds heard that he had taken the third Northern Art prize.
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Published on March 7, 2010 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, CURRENT Tags: artist, making nothing happen, northern art prize, pavel buchler
Marie-Josée Jean & Klaus Scherübel, artists-in-residence at Shandy Hall
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, October, 2009
information as material and the Laurence Sterne Trust were proud to welcome the artist Klaus Scherübel and curator Marie-Josée Jean as artists-in-residence at Shandy Hall in 2009. The Montreal-based pair stayed on site at the Hall, which is the former residence of the famed 18th century English writer Laurence Sterne and now functions as a museum dedicated to exploring the legacy of his work in the arts generally and in the context of the artefacts of his estate.
Postings on other residencies at Shandy Hall co-organised by iam can be found in the archive of this blog.
Published on October 11, 2009 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, CURRENT Tags: artist, Klaus Scherübel, Marie-Josée Jean, residency, shandy hall, vox centre
iam publisher’s talk whilst teaching at Mildred’s Lane, Pennsylvania, USA.
In the summer 2009, Simon Morris was invited by Mark Dion, Morgan Puett and Robert Williams to teach at the experimental art school Mildred’s Lane in rural Pennsylvania, USA. Morris was brought in to contribute to Williams’ onsite building project entitled, Opus Magnum: Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum & The Philosophick Childe (The Great Work: The Chemical Theatre of Britain) The Alchemist’s Shack. Simon completed a live performace with New York poet Rob Fitterman and gave an extensive talk on iam’s publications. (Click on the link above to find out more about the Mildred’s Lane initiative.)
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Published on July 27, 2009 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, EVENTS Tags: mark dion, mildred's lane, morgan puett, pennsylvania, publisher talk, robert fitterman, robert williams, simon morris
Craig Dworkin, poet-in-residence at Shandy Hall
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, February 2009
information as material and the Laurence Sterne Trust were proud to welcome the poet, critic and theoretician Craig Dworkin as poet-in-residence at Shandy Hall in 20xx. The Utah-based writer stayed on site at the Hall, which is the former residence of the famed 18th century English writer Laurence Sterne and now functions as a museum dedicated to exploring the legacy of his work in the arts generally and in the context of the artefacts of his estate. The residency served as a research period toward Dowrkin’s new book, A Perverse Library, published by iam in September 2010, and the related exhibitionary installation, to be presented at Shandy Hall from September to October 2010.
Postings on other residencies at Shandy Hall co-organised by iam can be found in the archive of this blog.
Published on February 1, 2009 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, EVENTS Tags: conceptual writing, craig dworkin, residency, shandy hall
The Voice and Nothing More: an academic mash up
A collaborative performance by Simon Morris & Rob Lavers
Wednesday 14 January 2009, 12pm.
‘The Voice and Nothing More’, Woburn Research Centre, The Slade School of Art, University College London, January 12 – 16, 2009.
Festival organised by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck.
From a subsequent review by David Berridge:
“At the Slade School of Art on Wednesday lunchtime, Simon Morris – writer, performer and publisher of information as material – was launching ‘The Voice and Nothing More’, a short festival of workshops, an exhibition, and performances exploring the voice in contemporary art. Befitting his role as scene setter, Morris read a text that seemed to outline different properties of the voice. I heard sections on laughing, crying, and female orgasm.
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Published on January 14, 2009 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, EVENTS Tags: david berridge, Neil Luck, rob lavers, Sam Belinfante, simon morris, slade school of art, the voice and nothing more
iam publisher’s talk at the offices of Fillip magazine, Vancouver
Fillip 305 Cambie Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6B 2N4, Canada.
2nd November, 2pm.
information as material accepted the kind invitation of the Fillip magazine editorial team to give a publisher’s talk on iam’s books whilst Nick was in town for a show. Click on the link above for further info about the Fillip project.
Published on November 1, 2008 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, EVENTS Tags: editor, fillip, nick thurston, publisher talk, vancouver
Kenneth Goldsmith, poet-in-residence at Shandy Hall
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, October 2007.
information as material and the Laurence Sterne Trust were proud to welcome the poet Kenneth Goldsmith as poet-in-residence at Shandy Hall in 2007. The New York based conceptual writer stayed on site at the Hall, which is the former residence of the famed 18th-century English writer Laurence Sterne and now functions as a museum dedicated to exploring the legacy of his work in the arts generally and in the context of the artefacts of his estate. During Golsmith’s stay iam organised talks and presentations at ArtSpace Gallery, York University, and the British Library.
Postings on other residencies at Shandy Hall co-organised by iam can be found in the archive of this blog.
Published on October 25, 2007 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, EVENTS Tags: art space gallery, british library, kenneth goldsmith, poet, residency, shandy hall, sucking on words, york university
The Royal Road to the Unconscious from Simon Morris on Vimeo.
The aleatory moment (223,704 words traveling at 90mph).
1st June 2003
(This short video documents the crux in the performance for the eponymous book, published by iam in 2003.)
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Published on July 2, 2004 .
Filed under: ARTISTS / AUTHORS, PUBLICATIONS Tags: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, appropriation, art, dallas sietz, daniel jackson, documentation, ed ruscha, film, maurizio cogliandro, Sigmund Freud, simon morris, the interpretation of dreams, the royal road test, the royal road to the unconscious
