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February 24, 2012 - May 24, 2013
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Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2013
AAB / about a bicycle : And I Didn’t Even Call the Police!
Sunday, April 28 2013 at 8pm
AAB / about a bicycle
And I Didn’t Even Call the Police!
issue 2 / winter 2013
“To overcome this crisis without questioning the meaning of consumption, production, and investment is to reproduce the preconditions of financial capitalism, the violence of its ups and downs, the philosophy according to which ‘time is everything, man is nothing.’ For man to be everything, we need to reclaim the time of his existence.”
From Christian Marazzi’s The Violence of Financial Capitalism
About a Bicycle trudged through the autumn and winter seasons with another prolific round of readings, focusing on the irreversible and violent 2008, to present, financial economic crisis. Our intent was to historicize the economic principles that have led to Capitalism’s current transmutations, and reflect on the pathologic effects of standardized time on labour, psychologies, communication, and avant-gardism. In many ways the lens turned back on ourselves and highlighted where we capitulate to Capitalistic pressures (via consumption, silence, bourgeois narratives), yet prove a threat (through socio-political boycotts, self-reflexive line breaks, and by establishing a strong understanding of our working ties) to Capitalism’s obscene superego. We engaged in a genealogical understanding of our current economic state, bit by bit, better acquainting ourselves with the varying degrees of brutality inflicted upon us by financial capital and the bitter logic of Neoliberalism, in order to be better critically situated within Capitalist hegemony.
AAB is a group of self-identified women, with interest in reading and discussing interesting critical themes that are pertinent to the space and time of the readers.
Celebrate the launch of our second issue, entitled And I Didn’t Even Call the Police!, featuring performances by Anahita Jamali Rad, Danielle LaFrance, Patrick Morrison, Natalie Knight, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, and Maria Wallstam.
Hosted at the STAG: 826 East Pender Street, Vancouver BC, V6A 1W1
The issue will be available for $10 at the launch.
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Posted: Sat, Mar 02, 2013
THE LANDLORD! : Rent Assembly Pre-Screening
THE LANDLORD! Rent Assembly Pre-Screening
Friday March 8, 2013 @ KSW @ 8:00 pm
In anticipation of the upcoming Rent Assembly, join us for a casual meeting and screening of Hal Ashby's "The Landlord".
All renters are invited.
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At the age of twenty-nine, Elgar Enders "runs away" from home. This running away consists of buying a building in a black ghetto in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Initially his intention is to evict the black tenants and convert it into a posh flat. But Elgar is not one to be bound by yesterday's urges, and soon he has other thoughts on his mind. He's grown fond of the black tenants and particularly of Fanny, the wife of a black radical; he's maybe fallen in love with Lanie, a mulatto girl; he's lost interest in redecorating his home. Joyce, his mother has not relinquished this interest and in one of the film's most hilarious sequences gives her Master Charge card to Marge, a black tenant and appoints her decorator.
at The Kootenay School of Writing
#245-237 Keefer Street, Vancouver, BC
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Posted: Wed, Feb 06, 2013
The Vancouver Institute for Social Research ( VISR )
The Vancouver Institute for Social Research ( VISR )
The next installment of the VISR free school will be psychoanalyst and suicide counsellor Hilda Fernandez's lecture on the Lacanian unconscious at the Or Gallery, 555 Hamilton St, at 7:00 pm on Monday, Feb 11.
The Vancouver Institute for Social Research ( VISR ) is an independent, para-academic, theory-based free school initiating in 2013. Its intent is to move beyond the borders of the traditional university and to open up a more accessible platform in the city for the engaged discussion of critical theory.
The Institute will be initiating a 9-week pilot project in February 2013 and ending on April 1st. Once a week on Monday evenings from 7-9pm at the Or Gallery (555 Hamilton Street), we will be inviting nine different professors to present on topics of their choice over this period. The seminar will be free to the public and all professors will be offering their services on a voluntary basis.
As we inaugurate this initial phase, we would like to take this opportunity to open up the conversation with prospective professors and students to create a sustained para-academic platform in the city.
Contact: visrvancouver@gmail.com
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Posted: Sun, Feb 03, 2013
RENT ASSEMBLY: CALL FOR PROPOSALS : DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1ST
The Rent Assembly, a 3-day assembly to be held in Vancouver (Coast Salish Territory) in May 2013 seeks proposals for events, talks, and workshops. Please follow the website link below to read the full CFP.
In the struggle for housing in Vancouver, we tend to highlight issues such as social housing, SROs, gentrification, and affordability. But what about rent as such? The act of renting occurs between those who own, and those who do not. It is parasitic, a way of extracting any remaining surplus value from non-owners. Renting is a historically produced, not-inevitable practice that has become ideologically naturalised as being ordinary and unquestionable. It is a feeling of burden and fatigue, keeping us chained to our jobs, and offering us little time for mustering up a resistance. It is invisible, and if we are to stop paying for the catastrophic damage to our own daily lives, rent must be made visible.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 1ST, 2013
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Posted: Sun, Nov 18, 2012
* Bachinsky * Copithorne * Laba * Morin * Lusk * Strang *
A poetry reading curated by Windsor's Gustave Morin.
Elizabeth Bachinsky, Judith Copithorne, Mark Laba, Gustave Morin, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk and Catriona Strang.
Monday November 26. 7:00 pm. The People's Co-Op Books. 1391 Commercial Drive.
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Posted: Sat, Nov 17, 2012
THE LAST VISPO ANTHOLOGY : Vancouver launch
On Sunday November 25 from 7:00 - 10:00 pm, the STAG (Strathcona Art Gallery) Library will host a book launch party for The Last Vispo Anthology, edited by Nico Vassilakis and Crag Hill.
Running throughout the evening, there will be unscheduled pop-up readings and performances by: Jim Andrews (Vancouver), Judith Copithorne (Vancouver), Crag Hill (Idaho), Donato Mancini (Vancouver), Gustave Morin (Windsor), Michael V. Smith (Kelowna), Nico Vassilakis (Seattle) and possibly more.
The launch will also feature a window installation of visual poetry by Gustave Morin, and an exhibition of prints drawn from the Last Vispo.
Copies of the Last Vispo will be available for purchase.
BYOB Drink BYOB. Food. Friends. & concrete poetry.
About the Last Vispo Anthology (from Fantagraphics): "Fantagraphics spotlights the intersection of art and language in this innovative new collection — without peer in English — that gathers the work of visual poets from around the world into one stunning volume. The alphabet is turned on its head and inside-out and the results culminate in a compilation of daring and surprising verbo-visual gems. // The Last Vispo Anthology is composed of vispo (a portmanteau of the words “visual” and “poetry") from the years 1998 to 2008, during a burst of creative activity fueled by file sharing and email, which made it possible for the vispo community to establish a more heightened and sophisticated dialogue with one another. The collection extends the dialectic between art and literature that began with ancient “shaped text,” medieval pattern poetry, and dada typography, pushing past the concrete poetics of the 1950s and the subsequent mail art movement of the 1980s to its current incarnation. Rather than settle into predictable, unchallenged patterns, this vibrant poetry seizes new tools to expand the body of work that inhabits the borderlands of visual art and poetic language. // The Last Vispo Anthology features 148 contributors from 23 countries on five continents. It includes 12 essays that illuminate the abundant history and the state of vispo today. The anthology offers a broad amalgam of long-time practitioners and poets new to visual poetry over the last decade, underscoring the longevity and the continued vitality of the art form."
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Posted: Mon, Oct 01, 2012
MEANS and IKMQ
Please Join LineBooks and New Star Books for the Launch of Roger Farr’s new books;
IKMQ published by New Star Books
and MEANS published by LineBooks.
Friday October 5, 2012 8pm at People’s Co-op Books
1391 Commercial Dr Vancouver BC
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Posted: Mon, Sep 17, 2012
AAB / about a bicycle
Sunday, September 23 2012 at 8pm
@ The STAG (826 East Pender Street)
AAB / about a bicycle
Concatenate, Concatenate, Concatenate!
issue 1 / summer 2012
‘Be, Be, Be!’ is the metaphysical scream that dominates hierarchical civilisation, to which rhizomatic thought replies: ‘Concatenate, Concatenate, Concatenate!’
- Franco Berardi, Sensitivity to the Rhizome, 2007
During the course of the summer, About a Bicycle (AAB) developed a women’s critical reading and discussion series that addressed the gradual transformation of postmodernity on knowledge production and the manner in which this process has shaped social subjects within the institution, the State, the psycho sphere, and the imagistics of society. The series allowed participants to engage with selected texts that responded to Jean-François Lyotard’s The Postmodern Condition, from debates on aesthetics and politics to how we became posthuman, treading information theory, German Expressionism, and Italian Autonomism.
AAB is a group of women, or anyone who self-identities as a woman, with interest in reading and discussing interesting critical themes that are pertinent to the space and time of the readers.
This event marks the launch of AAB’s premier issue, Concatenate, Concatenate, Concatenate!, with contributions by Danielle LaFrance, Anahita Jamali Rad, Megan Hepburn, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Jacquelyn Ross, Sasha Langford, and more. Presenters will traverse pages of texts, combining performative iterations of the ‘philosopher’ and the ‘expert’ that serve to situate the postmodern in our current contexts. Hosted by the STAG (826 East Pender Street).
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Posted: Wed, Jul 25, 2012
Nicole Markotic and Rob Manery
Nicole Markotic and Rob Manery
Book launch + poetry reading
this Friday 27 July 7:30 pm
People's Co-op Bookstore
1391 Commercial Dr
Nicole Markotic, Bent at the Spine (BookThug)
Robert Manery, Richter-Rauzer Variations (above/ground)
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Posted: Fri, May 04, 2012
The Capilano Review launches a 40th anniversary issue
The Capilano Review launches a 40th anniversary issue
Performance Works
1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island
Steve McCaffery
Maxine Gadd
Garry Thomas Morse
Carol Sawyer + musical guests
+ a reading of Maxine Gadd's new plays
Tickets ($10) available online at Tickets Tonight, or $12 at the door.
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Posted: Tue, Mar 27, 2012
New Star Books Firebombing Benefit
New Star Books Firebombing Benefit
A zillion author reading to celebrate New Star's defiance of the March 7 firebombing.
George Stanley, Larissa Lai, Roger Farr, Jamie Reid, Steve Collis, Fred Wah, Donato Mancini, Daphne Marlatt, David Chariandy, Clint Burnham, Jacqueline Turner, Jeff Derksen, Peter Culley
Saturday, 31 March 2012
15:00
The Western Front
303 E 8th Ave
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Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2012
The Enpipe Line launch
The Enpipe Line launch
Please join Fred Wah, Jessie Schwarz, Steve Collis, Ben West, Kevin Spenst, Reg Johanson, Elaine Woo, Mercedes Eng and others for the launch of The Enpipe Line.
When: Friday, March 23, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.
Where: 505 Burrard Street, Vancouver / Coast Salish Territory (in front of Enbridge's Northern Gateway Pipelines office)
Post-reading reception at Artspeak, 233 Carrall, Vancouver / Coast Salish Territory
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Posted: Sun, Mar 11, 2012
THIRD FRIDAY WITH AMY DE'ATH & CATRIONA STRANG
THIRD FRIDAY WITH AMY DE'ATH & CATRIONA STRANG
March 16 | 8 pm | People's Co-op Bookstore | Free.
Suffolk-via-London's own Amy De'Ath and Vancouver's own Catriona
Strang will be reading this next, third Friday in March at the
People's Co-op.
Currently enrolled in some post-graduate program or other at
Simon Fraser University, Amy De'Ath has studied North American
literature at the University of East Anglia and Temple University
in PA. She is the author of Caribou (Bad Press, 2011) and Erec
and Enide (Salt, 2010). Her blog, Syndicat d'Initiative, is here,
http://amydeath.wordpress.com/.
Light Sweet Crude (LINEBooks, 2009), written with Nancy Shaw,
is a recent instance of Catriona Strang's many collaborations
with writers, musicians and artists. She lives locally.
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Posted: Wed, Feb 29, 2012
Robert Majzels and Erín Mouré @ Play Chthonics
VANCOUVER — For the final event of this year’s series, this March Play Chthonics presents the Griffin nominated writers and translators Robert Majzels and Erín Mouré. Please join us for an evening of reading, poetics, and dialogue in the warmth of Green College’s beautiful Graham House. All are welcome, but please arrive on time as seating is limited.
Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Time: 5-6:30 p.m.
Location: Graham House at Green College UBC, 6201 Cecil Green Park Road
Cost: Free
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Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2012
West Meets West
West Meets West: 6 poets from Vancouver and Washington
Jeff Derksen * Gillian Jerome * Sarah Mangold * Broc Rossell * Linda Russo * Ed Skoog
Saturday, March 10
Café Montmartre
4362 Main St.
Reading starts promptly at 7:30 p.m.
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Posted: Tue, Feb 28, 2012
MoonstruckFrancois Roux
CSA space presents:
Moonstruck
Francois Roux
February 21st to March 18th 2012
Join us March 8th 2012 6pm-9pm for a formal opening.
Born and raised in the small town of Besançon France, Francois arrived to Vancouver on an internship as a part of his MFA studies at l'Ecole Supérieure d'Art de Grenoble.
After completing his internship at the Grunt Gallery, he found himself working with Vancouver artists Geoffrey Farmer, Kevin Schmidt, and Hank Bull.
See Pulpfiction Books (2422 Main St.) for admission during regular business hours: Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm Saturday11am-6pm.
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Posted: Thu, May 12, 2011
Heavy Industries Book Launch
Heavy Industries is a small chapbook press that brings together groups of like-minded poets to design and construct their own books. The run is limited to ten to fifteen copies, with each book no more than ten to twelve pages, containing one long poem. Every chapbook will be an original made by the poet. The current collection is the result of months of hanging out with glue, paper, paper cutters, wiener dog interference, hinges, sandpaper, and coffee/beer/cigarettes/love.
Books will be for sale at the launch.
When/Where:
Spartacus Books
684 Hastings Street East
7:30
May 12, 2011
The current group of industrialists: Nikki Reimer, Reg Johanson, Jason Christie, Kim Duff, and Cris Costa.
Nikki Reimer's [sic] was recently shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize. She likes coffee.
Reg Johanson is a writer and teacher in East Vancouver on Coast Salish land.
Jason Christie wrote i Robot and Canada Post. He's old fashioned and loves books even tho he works with computers. Also, he likes high fives and when people fist pump to celebrate breakthroughs and eureka moments. He and his wife, Andrea Ryer, would like to get a dog one day.
Kim Duff is a dissertation writer, poet, dog-mum, and lover of stuff and things. One day the next book, Huddled and Sorted, will see the light of day. One day…
Cris Costa writes poetry, fiction and etc. After spending 10 years in post-secondary education, she applied her skills by throwing dance parties for roughly 10 months. Costa recently completed her certificate in hipster training by moving to Mount Pleasant. She also likes coffee.
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Posted: Sun, May 08, 2011
BUFFET WORLD launches in VANCOUVER
On May 7, at 8:00 pm join New Star Books and Vivo Media Arts (1965 Main Street, Vancouver) in celebrating the launch of Donato Mancini's new collection of poetry.
BUFFET WORLD
Donato Mancini
128 pages
New Star Books (Vancouver)
textual poems, visual poems and conceptual writings.
statistics & food & capitalism & death & lists.
full colour.
composed 2003-2010.
in print & available.
visit the New Star Books website below
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Posted: Sun, May 08, 2011
TCR GEORGE STANLEY ISSUE
The Capilano Review launches The George Stanley Issue (3.14)
May 18 | The Sylvia Hotel
7pm reception | 7:30pm readings
GEORGE STANLEY
GEORGE BOWERING
SHARON THESEN
PETER CULLEY
The Sylvia Hotel: 1154 Gilford Street on English Bay, Vancouver
For more information: contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
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Posted: Sun, May 01, 2011
DERKSEN + MANCINI + MOTTO BOOKS
April 28 at the Waldorf hotel, Fillip and Motto Books present “Recent Publications,” a party hosted by the Waldorf Hotel in conjunction with the release of two new Fillip Editions publications: Fact ‘n’ Value by Donato Mancini and How High Is the City, How Deep Is Our Love by Jeff Derksen. Copies of the recently released spring issue of Fillip magazine will also be available, along with a large selection of other new titles from Motto Books, including recent and back issues of Graphic, The Exhibitionist, 032C, May, and Piktogram. Other titles for sale will include new releases from Roma Publications, Nieves, Sternberg Press, Bedford Press, Spector Books, and Occasional Papers, among many others.
Mittens & Gloves (Jeff K. and Courtenay W.) and Christopher Olsen will play pop music from the past five decades.
The Waldorf Hotel is located at 1489 East Hastings Street, Vancouver. The event will take place in both the hotel’s lobby and downstairs, in the Hideaway Room.
Thursday April 28, 8 pm – late
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Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2011
New TSUNAMI Editions content
new facsimile PDFs of early Tsunami titles available for download:
Verbose, by Gerald Creede (1987)
Fruit Dots, by Peter Culley (1987)
Until, by Jeff Derksen (1987)
How Two, by Kathryn MacLeod (1987)
Visualized Chemistry, by Calvin Wharton (1987)
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All downloadable Tsunami titles:
Ambit, by Gerald Creede (1993)
Verbose, by Gerald Creede (1987)
Fruit Dots, by Peter Culley (1987)
Pause Button, by Kevin Davies (1992)
Until, by Jeff Derksen (1987)
Ape, by Dan Farrell (1988)
The Relatie Minor, by Deanna Ferguson (1993)
Oral Tragedy, by Dorothy Trujillo Lusk (1988)
How Two, by Kathryn MacLeod (1987)
Ready Terms, by Robert Mittenthal (1989)
Affordable Tedium, by Nancy Shaw (1990)
Multiple Poses, by Colin Smith (1997)
Jump/Cut, by Larry Timewell (1987)
Visualised Chemistry, by Calvin Wharton (1987)
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Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2011
Japan Earthquake Benefit Reading
***Friends Across the Pacific: An Evening of Readings & Performances**
Join us in supporting relief efforts in Japan. The BC Japan Earthquake Fund
and the Asian Canadian Studies Society invites you to an evening of poetry, fiction, performance, with some of Vancouver's finest writers:
Daphne Marlatt, Joanne Arnott, Proma Tagore, Roy Miki, Lydia Kwa, Hiromi
Goto, Fred Wah, and more!
Thursday, March 31, 2011, 8pm. Doors open at 7:30pm
VIVO Media Arts Centre, 1965 Main Street, Vancouver
By donation. All donations will go to the Canadian Red Cross through the
BC-Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.
** All welcome. Must be 19 years of age or older to purchase alcohol. ID required.**
The BC Japan Earthquake Relief Fund (BC-JERF) is a coalition of volunteers; we are individuals, community groups and businesses concerned for the well-being of the people in Japan in the wake of the recent earthquake, tsunami, and unfolding nuclear threats. Our purpose is to vet and act as an organizational hub for BC communities' fundraising efforts and to facilitate the delivery of this financial aid to the affected people in Japan. Funds raised through BC-JERF-endorsed campaigns and events will be donated in full to reputable charities operating on the ground in Japan, such as the Japanese Red Cross.
Community Partners: VIVO Media Arts Centre, Powell Street Festival Society and Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art.
For more information contact: Julia Aoki, Communications Coordinator at julia@bc-jerf.ca
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Posted: Wed, Feb 09, 2011
The Capilano Review Launches Issue 3.13: Manifestos Now!
Please join us at our Vancouver Art Gallery launch
February 22, 2011, 6:00-9:00 pm
WE: Vancouver – 12 Manifestos for the City exhibition rooms
Readings at 8:00 pm: Colin Browne, Margot Leigh Butler, Reg Johanson, Kim Minkus, Nikki Reimer, Sheila Ross, Edward Top, and more . . .
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Manifestos Now! Exhibition Opening Reception and Panel, with Brian Ganter, Lisa Robertson, Marie-Hélène Tessier, Pierre Coupey, and Reg Johanson
March 3, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Room 7000
SFU Harbour Centre, 515 West Hastings, Vancouver
followed by a walking tour of the Teck Gallery’s Manifestos Now! exhibition, which runs from February 22-May 27, 2011
For more information: contact@thecapilanoreview.ca
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Posted: Sun, Jan 30, 2011
Poet Michael McClure
Friday February 11, 2011
San Francisco writer Michael McClure gained fame as one of the five poets who read at the legendary Six Gallery event in 1955, where Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. A key member of the Beat Generation and California counterculture, McClure has published extensively as a poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and songwriter, and is known for the highly original, visionary quality of his writing as well as for his dynamic poetry performances. In recent years he has collaborated with many musicians, notably Ray Manzarek, former keyboardist with The Doors, and the composer Terry Riley. McClure’s Vancouver appearance comes on the occasion of the publication of
Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems (U. of California Press), which follows closely the 2010 publication of Mysteriosos and Other Poems (New Directions). Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, a fifty-five minute documentary film of Michael McClure, with cameos of Dennis Hopper, Ray Manzarek, and Allen Ginsberg, is soon to be released.
Michael McClure will be making two appearances
on Friday February 11, 2011:
2:00pm
Screening of new documentary film, Abstract Alchemist of Flesh, presented by McClure
Room 7200
WAC Bennett Library
8888 University Drive
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
8:00pm*
Reading from his works (Introduced by George Stanley)
Room 1700 (Labatt’s Hall)
SFU Vancouver - Harbour Centre
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6B 5K3
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Posted: Wed, Jan 05, 2011
Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound
Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, Steve McCaffery/bpNicol, and Kevin Davies, as introduced by George Bowering) - A screening and talk presented by Michael Turner
Western Front Media Arts is pleased to welcome Michael Turner as inaugural Western Front Media Archive researcher-in- residence, as part of Past is Prologue, an ongoing research project considering the Western Front Media Archive. Past is Prologue is a new initiative that will invite artists, writers, archivists and historians to conduct research related to the Western Front Media Archive, an on site repository of over 1300 tapes, including performance documents, video art and audio recordings.
Building an interest in expanded literary practices in Vancouver, Vancouver based author Michael Turner, conducted research around the Western Front Media Archive’s collection of largely unseen video documentation of literary readings that took place at Western Front in the 1970s and 1980s. This research has culminated in a screening titled Three Readings: Camera, Tape and Sound (Kathy Acker, bpNichol/Steve McCaffery and Kevin Davies, as introduced by George Bowering), and an accompanying essay, which will be available in a limited print run, and online as a print-on-demand downloadable PDF at www.front.bc.ca.
This screening will focus on how each reading is mediated specifically through the camera, audio recording and the qualities of archival video tape. The screening will feature Kathy Acker’s 1977 reading from The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec, bpNichol and Steve McCaffery’s 1977 performance of Aupe Relationships and Kevin Davies as introduced by George Bowering, reading from Exhibit A in 1983.
Wednesday January 12, 2011 at 6 PM.
Western Front Grande Luxe Hall, 303 East 8th, Vancouver.
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