‘How the Great Writers Published Themselves’: Independent Newspaper review
The Independent newspaper — one of Britain’s daily broadsheets — ran a two-page essay review on iam’s ‘Do or DIY’ exhibition at Shandy Hall in last Saturday’s edition. The review by Christina Patterson, which tried to situate the project in terms of the upsurge in commercial self-publishers and the traditional valuation of publishing houses, can be read here.
‘Global Conceptualisms’ reading, Galerie éof, Paris
Nick Thurston read at Galerie éof, 15 rue Saint Fiacre, 75002 Paris at an event organised by Double Change (Fr) and curated by Vanessa Place (USA). The cycle of short readings was arranged as part of the congressional conference on experimental literatures at the Sorbonne University, Paris, where all of the poets reading were also speaking. You can watch the two-part video footage here and here featuring: Paal Bjelke Andersen (Norvège), Christian Bök (Canada), Marco Antonio Huerta (Mexique), Franck Leibovici (France), Swantje Lichtenstein (Allemagne), Vanessa Place (Etats-Unis), Carlos Soto-Román (Chili), Nick Thurston (Grande Bretagne).
Iam co-present Other Room in Leeds
Other Room flyer for Leeds Gallery readings, July 2012
Iam were proud to co-present The Other Room poetry readings series at Leeds Gallery, July 19, 2012. This was second such collaboration following on the success of last year’s one off at Leeds City Art Gallery readings featuring Alan Halsey, Geraldine Monk, Karen McCormack, and Steve McCaffery which you can view in our Portfolio pages.
July’s readings featured: Hazel Smith, Ryan Ormonde, Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks.
Man Booker Quiz samizdat warriors
Umi Baden-Powell (right) offers a quiz sheet to a guest at the entrance to the Man Booker Prize award ceremony, London 2011.
Information as material Samizdat warriors, Umi Baden-Powell, Corinne Macdonald and Sasha Litvintseva distributed the Man Booker Shortlist Quiz to guests arriving at the Man Booker Prize Award ceremony at the Guildhall, London, Tuesday 18 October 2011. See The Man Booker Shortlist Quiz! PORTFOLIO entry for details.
Take the quiz online here.
Download the quiz as a PDF sheet here.
Against Expression – anthology launch
Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing (cover)
*Iam arranged for the European launch of this groundbreaking new anthology, edited by one of our editors and one of our comrades, as part of our curatorial work for the London Art Book Fair, 2011. Check out Craig and Kenny’s keynote speeches from that weekend in the Whitechapel Gallery’s Big Ideas series
Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Edited by Craig Dworkin & Kenneth Goldsmith
Price $45
ISBN 0-8101-2711-3
Year 2011
Pages 608
Binding perfect bound
Illustration colour illustrated cover; text only inside
Dimensions 152 x 228 mm
Publisher Northwestern University Press
Iam archive on year long public display
iam’s ‘Z-Shelves’, designed by Michael Farion; installed at the Whitechapel Gallery, 2011-12.
Public archive of iam catalogue.
Foyle Archive Room, Whitechapel Art Gallery, April 2011-March 2012.
Simon Morris commissioned the Canadian architect Michael Farion to design the Z-shelves in 1999, for the ‘bibliomania’ project. Finally, in 2010, and with the support of The Henry Moore Foundation and Arts Council England, the invisible bookshleves were fabricated by Dauphin Restoration in Oxfordshire. Farion’s brief was to design a transparent, self-standing book presentation unit in the spirit of Victor Burgin’s 1969 art work, Photopath. Which is to say, Farion was asked to produce an unintrusive sculpture that could function as a discreet frame for the books it holds, so that they could seemingly float like a constellation of covers and spines.
Night Divides the Day
Black Page Exhibition opening, Shandy Hall, 2009
night divides the day
Simon Morris
night divides the day, in ‘The Black Page’ exhibition from Simon Morris on Vimeo.
Royal Road to the Unconscious – Video
Photograph: Daniel Jackson, 2002
The Royal Road to the Unconscious from Simon Morris on Vimeo.
The aleatory moment (223,704 words traveling at 90mph).
1st June 2003
(This short video documents the crux in the performance for the eponymous book, published by iam in 2003.)
