British Library curator Jon Fawcett asked me to participate in a panel discussion (or what he described as a debate) on the Avant-Garde manifesto. The panel was advertised on the British Library website thusly: A slap in the face of public taste: The art of manifestos February 18, Event time: 18.30 – 20.00 Location: Conference … More •A Slap in the Face @ British Library•
Yesterday my poem Mass Redux was performed @ Wigmore Hall. The work was part of Voiceworks, a collaboration between Birkbeck’s Contemporary Poetics Research Centre and the School of Music at Guildhall. I had been spinning some of the lines of the poem that was to become Mass Redux in my head for some time. I … More •Mass Redux @ Wigmore Hall•
One day after the ‘A Slap in the Face’ panel, Jon Fawcett called again and asked me if I could join in some kind of Avant-Garde comedy troupe that was performing for Breaking the Rules at the British Library. But I sadly had to decline because of this: This weekend I participated in another panel … More •Sleep Talk @ The Wellcome•
Yesterday was the long-awaited launch of my so-called audiomagazine, The Howler.the howler audiomagazine, v1 Of course I waited until the last minute to prepare for the event. In the afternoon, I went down to RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, for you non-Londoners) down on Malet Street to set things up, and, gasp, to see … More •Launching The Howler @ The Royal Academy•
A woman named Capucine Perrot from the The Serpentine Gallery contacted me last week and asked if I would be interested in submitting a new manifesto for their an October event, billed as a ‘Manifesto Marathon’the serpentine gallery pavilion, hyde park, london So yesterday I went to go tour the facility at The Serpentine, in … More •Serpentine Gallery Manifesto•
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