The Blue Bus [Updated]

Wednesday 19^th November, 7.30pm

• UPDATE: Peter Philpott will be reading instead of Johan de Wit
• Peter Riley

The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, London WC1 (upstairs room) £5/£3 conc. Congratulations to David Miller on this being the 20^th Blue Bus reading, no mean achievement. He also has an excellent line up scheduled for the new year.

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Chris Burden

Chris Burden's provocative, often shocking conceptual performance pieces of the early 1970s retain their raw and confrontational force in these dramatic visual records, shot on Super-8, 16mm film, and half-inch video. Guided by the artist's candid, explanatory comments on both the works and the documentative process, these segments reveal the major themes of Burden's work - the psychological experience of danger, pain, and physical risk, the aggressive abuse of the body as an art object, and the psychology of the artist/spectator relationship. This compilation is an historical document of one of the most extreme manifestations of 1970s conceptual performance art.

go to U B U W E B

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BlazeVOX Offer

Two titles for the price of one.

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Google's Feast

Seth Finkelstein on the news that Google is now eating all knowledge:

From one perspective, Google is making "fair use" - the use of short extracts, allowed under copyright law - of the books. Possibly a small snippet may be shown, while the searching ability is a valuable "transformative" application. But from a competing perspective, Google is making commercial use of the entire book itself overall. Doing it in little pieces per transaction might then be akin to the "salami slicing" computer crime technique of stealing extremely small amounts from a large number of items.

Salient points, worth chewing over while Google gulps.

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NOMADIC COLLABORATIONS

I met Rachel Lehrman at Crossing the Line (London poetry reading series) and she passed me her card - Nomadic Collaborations:

Nomadics is an International Arts Collective. We aim to promote communication and cooperation among different artistic disciplines, places, cultures, groups and peoples in order to create fuller, multi-media and interdisciplinary works. We believe that by working together, we can overcome personal, intellectual and artistic boundaries. Our goal is to help artists expand their practices and their perspectives, by creating opportunities for artists to collaborate, communicate and learn from one another. Although most collective members work internationally, Nomadic-Collaborations' was founded in London in 2004. All collective members involved in our local programmes originate from different cultural and geographic backgrounds, but are based in and around London or the Southeast of England for at least part of the year. We work in very disparate fields ranging from music and sound composition, to set design, creative writing, installation and web design. Collective members also work in Portugal, Greece, New York, and France.

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Sophie Robinson Reading At SoundEye 2008

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkpQy27ske4] via Sophie Robinson

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Veer Off

£5.50 via CPRC Featuring: Geraldine Monk, Steve McCaffery, Tim Atkins, Christine Wertheim, Morris Scully, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Ian Patterson, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Charles Bernstein, Jamie Wilkes, Carol Watts, Alex Davies, Peter Jaeger, Gilbert Adair, Jerome Rothenberg, Frances Presley, Mairead Byrne, MJ Weller, Out To Lunch, Harry Gilonis, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Doug Jones, Tom Raworth, Jeff Hilson, John Sparrow, Richenda Power, Alice Notley, Simon Smith, Tony Trehy, Aodán McCardle, Martin Bakero, Karen Mac Cormack, Jon Clay, Alan Halsey, Stephen Mooney, Scott Thurston, Johan de Wit, Edmund Hardy, Esther Leslie, Val Pancucci, Alyson Torns, Francis Crot, James Harvey, Ken Edwards, Chris Paul, Will Rowe, John Wilkinson, Ruhul Amin, Lisa Samuels, Tina Bass, Diana Godden, Adrian Clarke, Allen Fisher, Justin Katko, Sean Bonney, John Hall, Robert Sheppard, Steve Willey, Antony John, Robert Hampson, Tom White, Lawrence Upton, Tilla Brading, & Piers Hugill.

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Addendum on a Victory

Silliman:

Not that any of this was by now a great surprise. When I was poll-watching it Phoenixville, it became quite clear by 9:00 AM that somewhere between 90 and 100 percent of the Obama “target voters” - people who had already indicated to volunteers that they were voting for him - were going to turn out. I have never seen anything like that before in my life. I was just one of 1.1 million Obama volunteers yesterday. Unquestionably the get-out-the-vote effort was the greatest single act of community organizing in this nation’s history.

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LINKS FOR YOUR EYES

Jim Goar of Past Simple, Can Of Corn and Catfish Press wrote down on the back of a receipt some things for me to check out that I might not have heard of: magazines, reading series, nice things of worth. Although it may have been Marcus Slease that wrote them down, not so sure now, there was drinking, it was late, it is two weeks on. Anyway, here it is we should check it out together:

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TALKSTALKTALKS: Stephen Willey

Wednesday 12th November, 7.30-9pm The Council Room, Birkbeck Main Building, Torrington Square, WC1 Stephen Willey giving a talk on 'Documents of Collaboration: The poem in Song and Opera'. Featuring the launch of a new work, Portmanteaux///Document, by Edward Nesbit and Stephen Willey.

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