Experimental poetry with David Berridge, Rachel Lois Clapham, Philip Terry.
THE OTHER ROOM 27
The Old Abbey Inn, 61 Pencroft Way, Manchester, M15 6AY.
Wednesday 24th August 2011.
7pm start, free admission.
David Berridge lives in London, where he curates VerySmallKitchen. He makes language works for exhibition, performance, print and online publication. In print, The Moth Is Moth This Money Night Moth is published by The Knives Forks and Spoons Press and Kafka Thinking Stations: A Chora(L) Song Cycle by The Arthur Shilling Press. Electronically, Game, Global, Green, Grown, Guys is published by Beard of Bees and Dark Gardens by The Red Ceilings Press.
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As a Curator Rachel Lois Clapham works across exhibitions, gallery education and performance, most recently curating Nahnou-Together Now, an exhibition of socially engaged art at Tate Britain (June - Sept 08). As Co-Director of the writing collaboration Open Dialogues, she has produced experimental art writing projects in association with Wooloo Production (New Life Berlin 2008 and New Life Copenhagen 2009), Performance Saga (Switzerland, 08 and 09), The National Review of Live Art (Glasgow 2007 and 2008), SPILL Festival (UK 2007 and 2009) and ArtsAdmin (UK, 2007), Vital Festival (Manchester 2007), Performa Biennial (2007 and 2009).
Selected Publications
Inside Performance Dance Theatre Journal 2009
A Performance Saga Riff Art Art Art 2009
Carlos Amorales and Rachel Lois Clapham Performa 07 Biennial Catalogue 09
Incommunicado FM Site Gallery Platform Commisssion 2008
Responsible Criticism AN Magazine 2008
Pulse Live Art Almanac 2008
Marcus Young and Rachel Lois Clapham Vital Catalogue 2008
www.opendialogues.com
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Philip Terry was born in Belfast in 1962. He has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His fiction, poetry and translations have been widely published in journals in Britain and America. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (Vintage, 2000), Fables of Aesop (Gilliland Press, 2006) and the poetry collection Oulipoems (Ahadada, 2006). In 2008 Carcanet published his acclaimed translation of Raymond Queneau's Elementary Morality. His latest Carcanet collection Shakespeare's Sonnets was published in 2010. His chapbook Dante's Inferno is published by Oystercatcher Press.
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