Orium in process

Kai Fierle-Hedrick's blog

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Situationist International Online

Pre-situationist Archive cobra, lettrism, lettrist international, international movement for an imaginist bauhaus, heatwave, council for the liberation of everyday life, the enragés and more Link situationist international archive virtually every situationist text available in english: journals, books, tracts, essays, articles, manifestos, documents and correspondence Link post-situationist archive books, essays and articles by former situationists from the sixties to the present day Link situationist chronology a month-by-month breakdown of events from the alba congress to the theses on the si and its time Link Links international web-based situationist resources Link

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How2: new issue, archives got sorted yeah

New issue now out. Link Lots of work by people who are talented in ways that can only be described through complex implementations of the Fibonacci sequence, Dan-Brown-Style. On a related note, John Sparrow has been hard at work on sorting out How2's archives. See here.

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Berkson, Corbett, Coolidge video snippets

Tom Raworth has some video snippets of the Berkson, Corbett and Coolidge reading that took place in Tottenham on 6th June. Link (We were meant to be there, but we went to the Parasol Unit instead, which happened to be the venue for a poetry reading the night before. That's what happens when you post on a blog about two readings at the same time. Locked doors are panic-inducing.)

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ICA: Charade

'Imagine every book, film, play or song is about to be destroyed, every news story, television and radio programme about to be erased. What would you save? Simon Pope invites you to join the Charade network and attempt to commit your chosen item to memory. Subscribe to the newsfeed and be first to hear about gatherings at locations around central London and our live event in Trafalgar Square. Inspired by Fahrenheit 451, Charade imagines a future where our most treasured items from the media are under threat of destruction. When forced to rely on our own memories and bodies for storage and retrieval, how would our relationship to these artefacts change? What new forms of ownership and distribution might emerge? You can register and find out more about the project at www.charade.org.uk.' Free Sunday 24 June 2007 2:30 pm Trafalgar Square

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How 2: Poetry and Performance

'We are looking for papers, interviews, reviews and new writing that relate to issues of poetry and performance. We invite papers that focus on a range of approaches to poetry and performance, including the relationships between live art / performance and poetics and what has been termed in the UK, Performance Writing. We would like our contributors to consider some aspect of performance poetry or poetry in performance in relation to contexts of collaboration, networks and communities, and / or, its crossover into digital writing and new media. We are also particularly interested in the concept of a "poetic economy", which examines the way that gift cultures can be suggestive of possibilities for developing poetic networks. Poetry's oral tradition is finding new relevance within this type of economy and we welcome submissions that address the recent development of poetic practices that focus on the spoken word such as those supported by a range of venues including; Naropa University and the Bowery Poetry Club. We are also interested in poetry's relationship to live-art, music, sound poetry, and performance in new media.' See our guidelines on submitting work Contact: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett and Sophie Robinson, Royal Holloway, University of London. ejlburnett [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk and sophie_amelia_robinson [at] yahoo [dot] co [dot] uk Deadline: September 1st 2007.

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Sean Bonney at Birkbeck

this thursday, rm 539 birkbeck college malet st sean bonney doing tracts and commentaries 7 - 9

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THE BLUE BUS: June reading

'Frances Presley, Alfred Celestine and David Miller will be reading their poetry in the upstairs room at The Lamb, 94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1, from 7.30 on Wednesday 20th June. This is the second in THE BLUE BUS series, and will include the launch of David Miller’s In the Shop of Nothing: New and Selected Poems. Admissions: £5 / £3 (concessions). Nearest tubes: Russell Square; Holborn. The third reading in the series will be by Ken Edwards and Vahni Capildeo, on Friday 20th July, same venue, same time. Further events will be announced in due course.'

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The Foundry: music license petition

'to: Foundry artists and mailing list subscribers There is a petition on the Number 10 website protesting against the recently-introduced music licensing laws. It is the most subscribed to petition on the site with nearly 80,000 signatures. The petition closes TODAY, Monday 11 June 2007, at midnight. If you have not done so already, please sign up.' Sign the petition 'The new law is having a debilitating effect on the grassroots arts-music scene in the UK. The Foundry is a gallery, art performance venue and pub. We are not a late-night club, we close at 11pm. We are not loud, and we have no neighbours. All events are unfunded unsponsored and free. Since the introduction of the new licensing law in November 2005, music and sound art activities at the Foundry have had to stop for no reason. Most of the events we used to host have not found a new venue. The music side of art is being suffocated by this legislation. From Tuesday-night experimental live sound art to Friday-night DJS, most activities are now subject to an unobtainable license. This is wrong and the government should reduce the reach of this stupid law so that some reasonable level of natural human expression and artistic experiment can happen without recourse to authoritarian approval. There are plenty of other laws already in place to deal with excessive noise, nuisance and public safety (which the Foundry has never contravened). Activities in the Foundry and countless other places which have hitherto caused no problem to anyone are ceasing under threat of criminal prosecution. Most recently the police have started to demand name address date of birth and phone number of each participating artist before approval of those rare events we are possibly still allowed to put on. Were we to invite a piano player to play a tune on our piano without this approval we would be breaking a law that carries a penalty of £20,000 fine and six months in prison and closure of the Foundry. The URL for the petition: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/licensing/ (it's worth signing up, for your trouble you'll get a souvenir email from Tony Blair before he leaves the place) "Tough act to follow, say musicians" Recent news item on BBC news website (features the Foundry) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6665529.stm Details on the licensing law at the Foundry website: http://www.foundry.tv/licence/index.html if there's anyone you think will sign this petition and does not already know about it, please pass this email on. CLOSING DATE FOR SIGNING IS TODAY, MONDAY 11 JUNE 2007 Thanks for your attention. You never know, the government might even listen!'

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The melting of the Empire State Building

'The Empire State Building melts in the hands of prominent net artist Mark Napier. His custom code gives the iconic skyscraper a new look for the digital age, while reminding viewers that software, not steel, is the new medium of power.' Link

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