Morden

Slightly different post today to try out a new idea. Leave your comments on the Morden event below, the rumour is it was a mighty fine one.

Jennifer Pike Cobbing 90th Birthday Celebration

Saturday 10th July, 4pm onwards

The workshop featuring some work specially prepared for the occasion will commence at 4pm. After a short interval, at approximately 6pm, a second session will feature performances by:

• Sean Bonney
• Patricia Farrell
• Ulli Freer
• Frances Kruk
• Robert Sheppard
• Mike Weller

The 13th issue of AND, edited by Adrian Clarke and Ulli Freer, will also be launched at this event. Jennifer's new book from Veer Books, The Conglomerization of Wot (Veer 029), will also be available on the day.

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3BL

Admission is free, all welcome.

Chlorine Reading

Wednesday 21st July, 8pm

• Martin Corless-Smith
• Becky Cremin
• Luke Roberts
• Cathy Wagner

Coachwerks, Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton BN1 7HB

Admission £5 (waged) / £3 (unwaged)

Writers Forum

Saturday 10th July, 3.30pm

Betsey Trotwood, Farringdon, London EC1

The Wire Salon

Thursday 8th July, 8pm

A monthly series of salon events, hosted by The Wire magazine, and dedicated to the fine art and practice of thinking and talking about music.

The series continues in July with an event that examines the collision of auto-destructive art, proto-psychedelia, free jazz, noise and sound poetry that occurred at the fringes of the UK's swinging 60s counterculture. Author/musician David Toop, curator Mathieu Copeland, and Syd Barrett biographer Rob Chapman, author of A Very Irregular Head, will lead a discussion on the practices and philosophies that linked such quintessential underground figures as artists John Latham and Gustav Metzger, free jazz pioneer Joe Harriott, Pink Floyd, improvisors John Stevens and AMM, composer Annea Lockwood, and sound/text poet Bob Cobbing. The panel will also debate how their work continues to impact on today's radical artists and musicians. Plus, screenings of the original 16mm prints of films by 60s experimental film maker Jeff Keen, including the legendary Marvo Movie; and Edwin Pouncey spinning Othersounds of the 60s.

Cafe OTO, 18 - 22 Ashwin street, Dalston, London E8 3DL

Admission £4

via Sharon Borthwick

Plus

An exhibition is running at Flat Time House between 24th June - 25th July.

And the John Latham Anarchive Exhibition runs at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 2nd April - 5th September.

Performatives after Deconstruction

Tuesday 29th - Wednesday 30th June

Since Derrida, de Man and Miller first read Austin, the encounter between deconstruction and the performative has affected every discipline of the humanities (politics, law, architecture, literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, critical theory, cultural studies, etc.). Analyses have multiplied and have put into relief the performative structure of concepts and traditions in a search for their conditions and laws of possibility. This conference seeks to understand the current terrain of the performative after deconstruction: its heritage, its operation and its future.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University, Penrhyn Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey KT1 2EE

Admission costs available here.

via Jonny Liron

ATTENTION:

ATTENTION: do not look away, open your hands, each digit splayed, gasping. ATTENTION: burn, flay, shear the academic quagmire, the jaundiced plastic dummy inserted into the mouth that names itself 'experimental'. ATTENTION: curse your hand that lilts and wafts. ATTENTION: twist impact against itself. ATTENTION:

Visit the website.

84 Great Eastern St.

84 Great Eastern Street is now occupied.

The Foundry was a free accessible space that hosted a variety of arts and music events.

This building will be leveled by Park Plaza who intend to build an "Art'Otel" in its place, sweeping away the DIY culture that has been built here over many years by many people. This luxury hotel will capitalise on a sanitised imitation of what was, selling sub-culture tourism art a premium.

This process of gentrification has forced out the disenfranchised inhabitants of the area. Our creative potential is being sacrificed to a political system that pursues profit though cultural demolition.

In defiance of the destructive forces of the market we assert our right to culture and community through the occupation of this building and the creation of a free and open space.

Visit the website.

via Harry Gilonis

if p then q Live

Don't forget that even if you can't make it to the if p then q event tomorrow night you can still watch three of the poets live on Ustream. See this post for details and URLs.

New Bob Cobbing Publications

Dandelion Collaboration

Price unknown, No Press, 2010 (hand-sewn, 40 copies available) 

LOUISE GATE

$3, No Press, 2010 (hand-sewn, 25 copies available)

Contact Derek Beaulieu to order copies.