Publishing as Performance Symposium
Simon Morris invited to lecture and create a workshop at Publishing as Performance Symposium, convened by PhDArts, Royal Academy of Art (KABK), Prinsessegracht 4, 2514 AN The Hague, The Netherlands, Friday 25th April 2014.
Ravenstein Seminar 2014: Materiality of Literature
Simon Morris invited to guest lecture at Ravenstein Seminar 2014: Materiality of Literature, in Amsterdam organized by Utrecht University and OSL on the invitation of Professor Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, 5-7 February 2014.
Simon Morris lectures at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art
On the 26 October 2013 Simon Morris delivered a lecture on conceptual writing at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art as part of the The Book Lovers.
Long-term project about artist novels
Curated by David Maroto and Joanna Zielinska
The Book Lovers is a systematic attempt to study the phenomenon of artist novels. The central question is: what are the consequences when we accept the novel as an art form in its own right?
MISS READ, Berlin, September 19-22, 2013
information as material took part in the MISS READ festival in Berlin in association with Art Berlin Contemporary, with Simon Morris delivering two lectures and Nick Thurston two poetry readings as well as presenting books from the publishing imprint at their table over the three day event.
Simon Morris USA lecture tour
In February 2013 Simon Morris completed a brief lecture tour in the USA, talking about experimental literature. The itinerary included:
Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, as part of the ‘Writers without Borders’ series (Monday 4th February 2013)
Cabinet Magazine, New York City (Tuesday 5th February 2013)
Harvard University on the invitation of Professor John Hamilton‘s Renato Pogglio Memorial Colloquium Series (Wednesday 6th February 2013)
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art exhibition
October 12, 2012–February 3, 2013
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
The exhibition will be traveling to The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, Canada, in June 2013.
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art features the work of over fifty artists and writers exploring the artistic possibilities of language. Presenting works from the 1960s to the present, the exhibition includes paintings, sculpture, installation, video and works on paper that raise questions about how we read, look at, hear, and process language today. A major current underlying the exhibition argues that the field of literature known as “conceptual writing” can be seen as engaging in a provocative dialogue with the field of contemporary art, producing new insights into the meaning of both literature and art. Co-curated by Nora Burnett Abrams and Andrea Andersson, Postscript is the first exhibition to examine the work of conceptual writing, investigating the roots of the movement in the art of the 1960s and 70s and presenting contemporary examples of text-based art practices.
