Robert Fitterman & Kim Rosenfield, poets-in-residence at Shandy Hall
Shandy Hall, Coxwold, August, 2010
information as material and the Laurence Sterne Trust proudly welcome poets Robert Fitterman and Kim Rosenfield as poets-in-residence at Shandy Hall during mid-August 2010. The Manhatten-based pair will stay 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 their residency the acclaimed conceptualists will generate work specifically for the up-coming ‘A Perverse Library’ exhibition at the museum, which has been curated by Simon Morris and opens on the first week end of September.
Fitterman and Rosenfield will also do two one-off readings: the first at ArtSpace Gallery, 8 Tower Street, York on Monday 16th August, 7pm; the second at the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, School of English and Humanities, Malet Street, WC1E 7HX, London on Monday 23rd August. Both events are free so please do come and enjoy this rare treat.
Postings on other residencies at Shandy Hall co-organised by iam can be found in the archive of this blog.
Published on August 13, 2010 .
Filed under: CURRENT
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Published on June 28, 2010 .
Filed under: CURRENT
Artists & Books exhibition
Johan Deumens Gallery (Haarlem), April 23 – June 5 2010.
artists: Takako Hamano / Anouk Kruithof / Caroline Waltmans / Ton Zwerver / Christiane Fichtner /
Kasper Andreasen / Annesas Appel / Frans Baake / Information as Material / Martin Peulen / Piet Vloemans / herman de vries / Hans Waanders / Alicja Werbachowska / Luuk Wilmering
Johan Deumens Gallery
Donkere Spaarne, 32zw NL-2011, JH Haarlem
Phone: +31 (0) 622 451545
Published on April 18, 2010 .
Filed under: CURRENT, EVENTS Tags: Alicja Werbachowska, Annesas Appel, Anouk Kruithof, artists' books, Caroline Waltmans, Christiane Fichtner, Claude Closky, Frans Baake, Hans Waanders, herman de vries, Information as Material, Johan Deumens, Kasper Andreasen, Luuk Wilmering, Martin Peulen, Maurizio Cattelan, Piet Vloemans, Sophie Calle, Takako Hamano, Ton Zwerver
Reisen I
Sharon Kivland
Price £2.00+pp
ISBN 9781907468018
Year 2010
Edition 150
Pages 16
Binding stapled
Illustration 2 BW illustrations
Dimensions 160 x 115 mm
Reisen I is the first is a series of occasional pamphlets, which refer to the trains, train journeys, railway-lines, stations, station platforms, railway timetables, and train compartments in the life and work of Sigmund Freud.
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Published on April 4, 2010 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: artists' books, railways, sharon kivland, Sigmund Freud, the interpretation of dreams, trains
[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
THE IDEOLOGY OF DAVID CAMERON’S CONSERVATIVE PARTY
Nick Thurston
Price £1 (including postage)
Format Postcard poem; one-colour print on 250gsm card
Year 2009
Edition unlimited
Dimensions 155 x 105 mm
“For this simple postcard poem Thurston has set one term within three equally-spaced pairs of inverted/floating commas. As an extension of the contemporary reduction of main-stream type standards in English, which conflates the straight quotation mark with the inverted/floating comma and confuses the American commitment to double quotes with the British flittering between single and double quotes, Thurston releases the spatial compression used by typographers to distinguish double quotation marks from two adjacent apostrophes and he refuses the false spacing used by typographers to separate a quotation mark from an adjacent apostrophe. Here, one term becomes pressured: is it a direct or indirect quotation?; is the term used ironically, cynically, doubtfully, or in a nontraditional or nonliteral sense?; is it claimed as a title or used as a nickname? Simultaneously, the tiering of three pairs presses the question ‘what usage or intention is set or sub-set within which?’. Details »
Published on December 1, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: conservative, david cameron, ideology, nick thurston, postcard poem, quotation marks
Freud and the Gift of Flowers
Forbes Morlock & Sharon Kivland
Price £7.50+pp
ISBN 9781907468001
Year 2010
Edition 500
Pages 32
Binding soft; perfectbound
Illustration 12 BW illustrations
Dimensions 170 x 100 mm
Freud and the Gift of Flowers is a revised version of a seminar paper given by Forbes Morlock at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, London, in June 2007. There are gardenias, there are letters and postcards, there are presents, and there are lavish illustrations of the flowers Freud did not receive.
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Published on November 25, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, flowers, forbes morlock, gift, sharon kivland, Sigmund Freud
Published on October 28, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, EVENTS Tags: black page, conceptual art, conceptual writing, exhibition, laurence sterne, night divides the day, patrick wildgust, shandy hall, simon morris, tristram shandy
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
He Wore, He Might Find, & He Moved
Nick Thurston
Price contact simon [at] informationasmaterial [dot] com for prices and availability
Format triptych of two-colour screenprints made with archival and lightfast inks on Somerset White Velvet 300gsm paper
Year 2009
Edition hand-numbered
Dimensions 1000 x 650 mm
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Published on September 15, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: art print, he might find, he moved, he wore, nick thurston, parse, samuel beckett, screenprint, watt
THE DIE IS CAST
Caroline Bergvall & Nick Thurston
Price £1.50+pp
ISBN 9780955309298
Year 2009
Pages 16
Edition 1000
Binding stapled; softback
Illustration text only
Dimensions 105 x 74 mm
With its simple and precise composition this pocketbook layers the tension between the technical history and the socio-metaphorical extension of the ‘cliché’.
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Published on September 1, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: artists' book, caroline bergvall, cliche, nick thurston, pocket book, steretype, the die is cast
Historico-naturalis et Archaeologica ex Dale Street (The Natural History & Antiquities of Dale Street in the County of Lancashire)
Robert Williams & Jack Aylward-Williams
Co-published by Unipress, Cumbria; designed by Anna Danby.
Price £5.00+pp
ISBN 9781869979287
Year 2009
Edition 200
Pages 24
Binding softback
Illustration 23 colour illustrations
Dimensions 147 x 136 mm
Inspired by Gilbert White’s famous book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne of 1789, Robert Williams & Jack Aylward-Williams set out to explore, collect and present material from Dale Street in Lancaster throughout the year 2007-08. Documented and developed through photographs and text that reference collections drawn from the environment, the project is doubly presented through this book and a cabinet of curiosities. Both the book and cabinet were informed by the dialogues between father and son, and between the residents of Dale Street.
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Published on July 7, 2009 .
Filed under: CURRENT, PUBLICATIONS Tags: art, dale street, gilbert white, jack williams, lancaster, natural history and antiquities, robert williams
