Ami Clarke

Be Seeing You

Ami Clarke

23 January – 9 April 2012
Opening reception: 23 January, 19:30-21:30

UN-PUBLISH (publication)

Ami Clarke

Publication launch: 23 January, 19.30-21:30

Controlling the flow of information has become a significant feature of our current lives. Ranging from the personal decision one makes about what information to post online to the on-going efforts of governments and agencies to manage and restrict the release or accessibility of certain information to the public.

Be Seeing You is an installation consisting of two videos, one a small excerpt from the other, which explore notions of both the coercion to offer personal information and late capitalisms embrace of the technology that allows the mining of such details to facilitate every waking moment as a financially contracted transaction.

The installed works take inspiration from the 60’s cult science-fiction British television programme “The Prisoner,” and focuses on “Rover” – an animated object, typical of early lo-fi science fiction, used by the authorities to intimidate residents of “the village”. Treating the collection of appropriated footage in a way more akin to a research project, the film: “Be Seeing You” explores the multiple perspectives afforded by film technology, and touches on relations between the audience and projected image. The emphasis on an experiential encounter with video that speaks perhaps of an authentic physiological experience, is complicated by the slippage that occurs between audio and visual affects, and the relentlessly hypnotic affect of the pulsing light. The immersive environment creates a visual equivalent of certain kinds of auditory stimulation, an aural world, as M. McLuhan noted “the ear favours no particular “point of view”… “we are all enveloped by sound”.

The humour in the repeated sections of footage, suggests a multitude of possibilities.

“Humour as a system of communications and as a problem of our environment – of what’s really going on … does not deal in theory, but in immediate experience, and is often the best guide to changing perceptions……..today’s humour, ....has no story line – no sequence. It is usually a compressed overlay of stories.”

The accompanying video, “Eye-Technics”, 2012 (mini single screen digital video work with sound, duration: 0.53 min, looped), presented in a periscope plinth, is a parodic take on the mechanism of the eye itself.

The exhibition at The Container is also launching Clarke’s new publication, “UN-PUBLISH” (2012) which will be available to visitors free-of-charge (distributed by Banner Repeater, London).

The publication, outlining online and SMS conversations between Bradley Manning and Zak Antaloupe, Adrian Lamo, and an imagined communique with Julian Assange, refers to an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Assange where the authorities re-management of information is addressed as “un-publishing”.

This process of deleting information in an effort to “rewrite” history is of course not a new notion and recalls of the early 20^th century “purges” of the Soviet Union where thousands of photographs were re-appropriated; or more recently the efforts of China, North Korea or Arab Spring countries to control what people see or post. It is ironic that the American government, who so adamantly condemned this activity of the Soviet Union during the cold war, is entangled in the most publicized effort in history to rewrite the news.

Ami Clarke will be giving also an artist talk, discussing the exhibition and the publication. Details tbc.

Kindly supported by A.R.T. (Tokyo).

see here for more details: http://the-container.com/ and here: http://www.timeout.jp/en/tokyo/venue/9788

REVIEW

The Vorticists: Manifesto for a Modern World

Tate Britain, London
14 June 2011 to 4 September 2011

Reviewed by: Ami Clarke.

An Ashen Kaleidoscope.

Banner Repeater has successfully achieved a number of new funding partners, being awarded the Chelsea Arts Club Artist led space award 2011-12, see here: http://www.chelseaartsclubtrust.org/artists.html.

Banner Repeater is also supported by National Express in 2011-12, which provide the two rooms on platform 1 as a gesture of their commitment to the project, with a focus corporate social responsibility in the arts.

Banner Repeater is also very pleased to announce, success in the recent application for the Banner Repeater arts programme 2011-12, from the Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts.

XeroX.

Library: copies of the Xerox book by Jack Wendler and Seth Siegelaub, 1968.

Banner Repeater Xerox book contributions from: Donald Smith, Adam Smythe, Urs Lehni, Chris Rawcliffe, Tom Mason, Ami Clarke.

A photocopy of the Xerox book is on permanent display, at Banner Repeater, and is exemplifies the attempt to make available an otherwise hard to access item; one invested in the desire at the time to de-commodify art by printing cheaply as a Xerox (but actually realised as a lithograph edition), which integrated seamlessly into the market as a precious object. The copy we first acquired came about by being photocopied to allow people to browse the book for the Jack Wendler exhibition at Chelsea space, eventually achieving its intended status. A small library of these is growing with contributions from Donald Smith at Chelsea Space, Adam Smythe at Eastside Projects, Urs Lehni at Rollo Press, Chris Rawcliffe at Pn4, Tom Mason and Ami Clarke.

Each Xerox book copy details its precedent: as a copy of a copy of a copy, and so on, and maps how it became part of the library, and the photocopier used in the printing of each copy.

New text work:

"Is it built around a formula?" Ami Clarke 2011. (Bradley Manning (bradass87) and Zach Antolak ( ZJ), appropriated internet communications)

'No one suspected a thing. (I) listened and lip-synched to Lady Gaga's Telephone while "exfiltrating" possibly the largest data spillage in America history." (Bradley Manning)

which was recently published in:

SCHIZM MAGAZINE presents an assortment of found, made and contributed material edited and formatted to build and/or re-contextualize various forms of visual and written language.

Keeping in mind a definition of schism as engaging with ideas about discordancy and paradox, fifteen contributors were invited to submit material towards its production.

For issue Three the editor proposed as a working theme; Covert/Overt ‘Crossing the line’, Is there a line? who defines it? How does this definition change? What are it’s limits?

From images that reveal security equipment, to text book illustrations conveying information, the magazine compiles email correspondence, cartoons, photographs, drawings, texts etc, collecting, mixing and balancing these responses to ideas concerning the dichotomy inherent in the proposed theme.

Contributors;

Shahin Afrassiabi (London), Bob Ajar (New York), Mike Andreae (London), Noah Angell (London), Roisin Byrne (London), John Chilver (London), Ami Clarke (London), Neil Fox (New York), Jillian King (New York), Laura Oldfield Ford (London), Waldemar Pranckiewicz (London), Giorgio Sadotti (London), Stephen Setford (London), Matthew Stock (London), Barry Sykes (London).

Schizm Magazine is available at Printed Matter (New York), Koenig Books (Charing Cross Rd. & Serpentine, London), Donlon Books (London), X marks the Bökship (London), Motto Distribution (Berlin) & Banner Repeater (London).

Edited, Designed & Produced by Emma Holmes August 2011, London UK. Schizm Magazine is a bi-annual publication. Issue Three: 1st Edition, 250 Copies.

Issue Three Launch at Banner Repeater, on the 23rd of September 2011, 6-9pm. With a Talk/Performance by Barry Sykes.

press here for link to video:

http://vimeo.com/29492746

'Corners: a research project', HD video, looped, Ami Clarke, 2010. (press here for more details)

Won one of the three Creekside Open Awards on Saturday 11th June, selected by Phyllida Barlow.

This year, over 900 artists entered the competition and Phyllida Barlow and Dexter Dalwood independently viewed and selected works by 128 artists for two exhibitions.

CREEKSIDE OPEN 2011

Selected by Phyllida Barlow and Dexter Dalwood

http://www.creeksideopen.org/

The CREEKSIDE OPEN 2011 is the fourth visual arts competition run by the Art in Perpetuity Trust.

A.P.T Gallery

CREEKSIDE OPEN 2011 Exhibition Selected by Dexter Dalwood, 12 - 29 May 2011

Exhibition opens Thursday 12 May
Prize giving Saturday 14 May
The exhibition will be open Thursday to Sunday from 12noon to 5pm and at other times by appointment

CREEKSIDE OPEN 2011 Exhibition Selected by Phyllida Barlow, 9 - 26 June 2011

Exhibition opens Thursday 9 June
Prize giving Saturday 11 June
The exhibition will be open Thursday to Sunday from 12noon to 5pm and at other times by appointment

Banner Repeater: project space and reading room, Hackney Downs Network Rail station, E8, has opened.

Please find more details at www.bannerrepeater.org

and join the facebook group Banner Repeater for updates on exhibitions, events and performance, as well as reading room activities.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/group.php?gid=148890355148145&ref=ts

You can read an article on the MA degree show here at Dazed and Confused online by Amah-Rose
McKnight-Abrams: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/8301/1/central-st-martins-fine-art-grad-show

or the short version below:

(image directly below: still from 'Corners: a research project'. HD video.)

http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/705044

Inside outsider language
A perspective on communication

Ami Clarke, Dave Hanger, Yuri Pattison, Amikam Toren, Matthew Verdon, George Young

Matthew Verdon - Composition No 1, 2009 Matthew Verdon, Composition Number 1, 2009

Inside outsider language is an exploration into visual and verbal languages. By tying together language and the institution, it attempts to illustrate our dependence on codified references.

Communication in art, whether visual or verbal, uses these references, which we align with what has happened before.
A liminal state is one before a transition, a zone of ambiguity just outside the peripheries of common thought. Just as art advances beyond this threshold, this exhibition works to show how our current language and ability to ‘read’ are extended. Through large-scale installations and sculpture, the exhibition navigates recognizable gestures and language.

With a selection of London-based artists, the exhibition gathers site-specific and never-before seen works that explore this liminal state and the language structures we navigate.

The overall composition hints at the artists’ expanded practices beyond what is immediately tangible.

Exhibition curated by Jack Brindley

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2 July – 15 August 2010
Private view: Thursday 1 July, 6.30-9.30pm

The gallery is situated between Angel and Old Str, on Wharf Rd, near Victoria Miro Gallery and Parasol Unit.

Waterside Project Space
Unit 8, Waterside
44-48 Wharf Rd
London N1 7UX

http://watersideprojectspace.org/inside-outsider-language/inside-outsider-language.html

Opening times during exhibitions
Wednesdays-Saturdays: 11am-6pm
Sundays: 11am-4pm
First Thursdays of every month: 11am-9pm
and by appointment.

wps@watersideprojectspace.org
020 7193 5440

6th– 12th April, Central Saint Martins, Charing Cross rd, south window.

Diagram as Event.

After a period of research at the John Latham archive: Flat Time House, a period of display on Charing Cross rd, Central Saint Martins, south window:

five John Latham diagrams, considering further the diagram in relation to the archive:

• The basic (T) diagram

Score in terms of art

• The basic (T) diagram

the Plane (AU) is ‘score’ a non-extended re-present with extended events.

• Point Drawing

There is no intended interpretation, the drawing is included as prototype

• The basic (T) diagram

PROVISIONAL DRAWINGS (PART 2)
not for printing

• The basic (T) diagram

the map is a readymade after the initial premises are set out.

the diagram

Sited amongst screens, reminiscent of office work cubicles and temporary exhibition stands, providing a spacial grid within the gallery space, discussion and short presentations of ideas relating to the diagram on Saturday 13th, followed by a day of display on the 14th of selected works.

13th and 14th February 2010

Form Content project space:
51-63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP

Program

Start at 14:00

Brief introduction to the day and introduction of invited people.

Screening:

Dr John Mullarkey’s lecture: Diagrammatic Actualism, ACTUAL VIRTUAL (selected half hour)

“My argument is basically that, whereas Deleuze tends to think of his diagrams as virtual processes – as only a potentially concrete (or actual) thing – I believe that it is better to think of them as already actual processes.”

touching on ideas relating to the working drawing, and the performative object.

Presentations:

David Berridge:

Presentation of An Improvised Diagram Syllabus - an overview of the diagram ranging from Rodchenko to Gabriel Orozco - and photographic and video work by Rachel Lois Clapham and Alex Eisenberg.

Julia Calver:

Reading of two recent texts and screening of her video work Jet (2’)

Patrick Coyle:

Presentation and discussion around his work Holding this objecty/making this objecty

Cressida Kocienski:

Presentation and discussion of the diagram as linguistic moment

Claire Nichols:

Presentation of a new series of drawings and of the most recent Empty Gallery Interviews

Tamarin Norwood:

Presentation of the artist book DO SOMETHING and of the radio/text work Musica Practica.

Gemma and Hannah Sharpe:

Works by Hannah Sharpe associated with text by Gemma Sharpe will be on display

Josh Baum

3 balloons - balanced to transcribe in mercurial lines a diagram of almost anything.

End at 18:00

http://www.formcontent.org/projects/diagram/

The Shandy Show
A selection of works from The Shandy Collection

In-Conversation event, 6.30pm, 11 November 2009, at the Arts Gallery. University Curator Medeia Cohan-Petrolino discusses work from the show. Rsvp essential to rsvp@arts.ac.uk

The Arts Gallery is proud to present the first major gallery exhibition of works from an unorthodox and intriguing private collection. The Shandy Show reveals an eclectic set of artworks amassed by an anonymous London-based collector over the last decade; uniquely, the majority of the works were accrued through an exchange of his skilled labour for art. Opening on 9 October, The Shandy Show will feature over twenty works by artists including Sarah Lucas, Mark Titchner, Andrew Grassie and Lisa Milroy among others, specially selected with a focus on alumni of University of the Arts London.

The Shandy Show presents a snapshot of a collection where the conventional financial requirements for collecting fine art have been subverted, substituting skilled work in exchange for acquisitions. Working as an art installer, art technician and builder, the collector has to date amassed an enviable collection of over 80 pieces.

Assisting an artist friend in 1999 the collector acquired his first work; a painting given to him by the artist as a gesture of gratitude. Since its inception, the collection has grown organically through donations, exchange for labour or by direct purchase. The result is an egalitarian collection that maps the chance interactions of the collector's life and stands as a genuine testament to his passion for contemporary art.

The Shandy Collection does not adhere to any strict criteria governing media, content or size; the defining aim has been to acquire works that are representative of each artist’s practice. If anything unifies the collection it is the collector’s own life as he lives and works amongst the artists of East London. Indeed, the collection itself takes its name from the street in which the collector lived. The exhibition will feature over twenty pieces in a variety of media, including: Sarah Lucas’ Man Marrow, a sculptural piece in concrete and steel, which the artist gifted to the collection in 2004; Mark Titchner’s 2001 inkjet print Hell is Other People, which the collector requested in exchange for refurbishing the artist’s gallery; and Lisa Milroy’s oil on canvas painting Shoes, a recent artwork acquired by the collector, given in exchange for maintenance work at the artist’s home.

9 October – 14 November 2009Arts Gallery
65 Davies Street
W1K 5DA

Open Monday – Friday: 10am – 6pm
Saturday: 11am – 4pm
Nearest Tube: Bond Street
Admission free

Claire Nichols and I will be discussing The Empty Gallery Interview we conducted prior to my exhibition Unknown Unknowns, in relation to the on-going Project Fold. It will be an informal discussion with other Goldsmiths Art Writing course students being held at Form Content, Saturday 19th September. The gallery will be open to all-comers, so please come and join us.

009
a project by FormContent with a permanent installation by Giada Pucci

- Saturday 19th September from 1 - 6
antepress
antepress is an imprint and project platform initiated by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths College.
This season they will work side-by-side with FormContent in fostering a dialogue between exhibition formats and what constitutes art writing. This relationship will culminate in a publication released in 2010.
On September 19 antepress will present its activity and will discuss its future relation with FormContent.

For the whole month, FormContent’s office will be moved purposefully at the centre of the scene. Throughout the exhibition the space will be open to artists and curators to present and discuss projects. It will be a chance for developing future collaboration, to test out ideas or to have in depth discussions on specific interests.
If you would like to contact them please drop them an e-mail at info@formcontent.org

Special thanks to Luca Frei who for the occasion lends the bookshelves he designed for the exhibition ‘It’s not for reading. It’s for making’

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FormContent
51-63 Ridley Road
E8 2NP London
www.formcontent.org
Fri-Sun 12-6

POLYTEK

Private View: Saturday 29th August 2009, 5.30 - 9pm.

Form 82 & Associates, Josh Baum, Ami Clarke, Warren Garland, Le Guo, Gabo Guzzo, Stephen Harwood, Sadie Hennessy, Michael James, Nick Judd, Russell Maurice, Scott Robinson, Teresa Schweiger, Katrina Sluis, Clare Smith.

30th August - 13th September 2009
Opening times Thurs - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment.

Water Lane, Exeter, EX2 8BZ.
Train to Exeter St Thomas

www.thelazysusan.net

antepress presents Digestives

What is to be made of art writing?

Resonance104.4FM invites antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio.

Digestives is an assorted collection of new radio works by antepress and their invited collaborators, comprising performance, discussion, storytelling and sound.

Programme

Mondays 4.30pm and repeated Fridays 7.30pm

The Empty Gallery Interview with Ami Clarke at Campbell Works

When: Mon, July 27, 4:30pm, repeated Fri, July 31, 7:30pm

Where: Resonance 104.4FM

The Empty Gallery Interviews make public the anticipatory dialogue that exists between the exhibitor and the exhibition space. Here Claire Nichols and Altair Roelants interview Ami Clarke at Campbell Works gallery, tracing Clarke's evolving relationship to the space in the lead up to installing her work.

Published for Resonance 104.4FM by antepress, an imprint and project platform set up by a group of art writing practitioners who began collaborating last year as a result of the MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths. Resonance invited antepress to explore the contemporary position of art writing through an ongoing experiment with radio. Their current series, Digestives, investigates the question, ʻwhat is to be made of art writing?ʼ with a collection of new radio works by antepress and their collaborators. antepress curate a diverse programme of publications, events, projects and exhibitions.

http://www.antepress.co.uk

Device

http://www.amiclarke.com/device.htm

is to be published in

/seconds, the online journal of contemporary art and its research

www.slashseconds.org

Issue 11: If X, then Y, A Pure Condition: Proposals and Rehearsals (re: construction, enactment, invention)

Unrealised Projects launched the Volume 4 publication (a partial introduction to a process in progress) at the Liverpool Artists Book Fair on Saturday 20th June 2009 at A Foundation, 67 Greenland Street, Liverpool.

Unknown Unknowns - Unknown Knowns http://www.amiclarke.com/unrealisedprojects.htm

The publication aims to show the open process and development of the concepts and concerns of volume 4 as a starting point and will be developed and added to as the process evolves.

You can see some images and a PDF at http://www.unrealisedprojects.org/coming-soon/liverpool-artists-book-fair/

www.afoundation.org.uk

The Work in Progress presents: Noisy Image

SATURDAY 27th June 2009
Times: 7pm
Tickets: £5 (tickets on the door only)

An evening of live and recorded artworks that use, reflect on and involve TVs and video monitors. Around thirty artists and musicians will perform and show works that exist in relation to a TV screen or video monitor.

There will be TVs and monitors around the space, amongst the audience, and on stage. The programme will contain two modes of presentation: live works on stage alternating with recorded video works, shown on monitors positioned to offer the audience a closer in viewing distance. Introductions to artworks will be relayed to the monitors. Some works operate as sculptural objects and will run for the duration of the evening.

Featuring works by: Julia Calver, Lee Campbell, Paul Carr, Jenna Collins & Chris Scobie, Ami Clarke, John Clayman, Chloe Cooper, Amy Cunningham, Shaun Doyle & Mally Mallinson, Benedict Drew, Katharine Eastman, Emma Hart, Pierpaulo Inga, Dai Jenkins, Dean Kenning, Bob Levene, Louisa Martin, Jordan McKenzie, Bruce McLean, Rachel Mars, Harun Morrison & Helen Walker, Shane Munro, Erica Nordqvist, Tim Parkinson, Harriet Poole, Clunie Reid, Jack Southern, Corinna Till, Tetsuya Umeda.

For its next exhibition Campbell Works is pleased to present new work by:

Ami Clarke - Unknown Unknowns

15th May - 31st May

Opening Night: 14th May 6 - 9pm

Events:

Please Join us for a Film Screening Night and Discussion – 6.30pm – 9pm 29th May 2009.
7pm screening.
Something Rich and Strange: The Life and Music of Iannis Xenakis. Mark Kidel, 50min.
20 minute break.
8.15pm Followed by a programme of artists short films.

The Empty Gallery Interviews

by Claire Nichols & Altair Roelants

Unknown Knowns - Ami Clarke

Friday 1st May 2009 7.00 pm

Introducing the second in the series of The Empty Gallery Interviews: A live conversation piece in which art

writers Claire Nichols and Altair Roelants will talk with artist Ami Clarke about the upcoming show Unknown Unknowns.

This interview will offer an insight into the methodology that informs the artist‘s response to the

Campbell Works gallery; tracing Clarke‘s evolving relationship to the space in the lead up to installing her work.

For further information please visit www.campbellworks.org

Campbell Works
Press Release

Ami Clarke - Unknown Unknowns

For this solo exhibition the artist will present a new body of work consisting of a conundrum of folding screens. The works self-assemblage flat pack form, references modular and temporary architectural space, and such structures as the ubiquitous ‘exhibition stand’ of the trade fair. The screen device unfolds in the gallery space, both navigating territory, whilst refuting permanence as it becomes its own logo; its own legend.

The title for the show draws on a comment made by Donald Rumsfeld, the former US Secretary of Defense during a news briefing in 2002 that betrays itself, in its seemingly absurd investigation into what might be regarded as the truth. As a statement essentially designed to put the general public and media off the scent, it displayed a remarkable lack of self-awareness, as it alludes to the actual activity of ‘covering up’ the truth, and mention of the ideological ‘unknown knowns’ that structure society itself.

Throughout the exhibition, a sense of device, of something happening just off-screen, lingers in the air. The shift in perception that is experienced whilst viewing ‘Studies in Space Intuitions’ hints at this human projection. Our world is revealed as artifice and design, riddled with device, wile and ruse, strategem and manoeuvre.

Created for Campbell Works editions, the audio work ‘Anti-clockwise’, a dub-plate recording of bathwater turning down the plug-hole in the northern hemisphere, takes a common misunderstanding; an international urban absurdity, as its reference point. The work itself relies on the clockwise device of the turntable, not only to play the recording, but in doing so, to simultaneously delete itself.

Unknown Unknowns… “ ..the things we do not yet know that we do not know.” Donald Rumsfeld

Ricochet

Saturday 30th May
7.30-11pm

Chip Projects, 10 Tavistock Road (off Romford Road), London, E15 4ER
(nearest tube/train: Stratford, buses: 25, 86)

The event combines contributions from a broad grouping of artists and others within the art field, and hopes to offer a look at things that, while peripheral to our practices and interests, still, for some reason, hold our attention.

Phone: Anna 07985 778 977
Stuart 07775 691789
annaajohnson@hotmail.com

The work 'Folly' : composite picture titled 'The Clearing'
is included in /seconds, on-line publication, by Peter Lewis, April 2009.

The Dreamachine

Useless Beauty and Fuzzy Logic: correlations of violence

Peter Lewis

http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/002/articles/aclarke/index.php

The Clearing.

"[...] Cryptic architecture, where form no longer reveals function. They seem to contain the codes of some mysterious mental process" J.G. Ballard - The Atrocity Exhibition 1969.

http://www.amiclarke.com/folly.htm

Unknown Unknowns is soon to be included in Lynn Harris and Sam Ely's; Unrealised Projects Volume 4.

The project is currently in transition to another format on-line, but you can get there via this link:

http://www.unrealisedprojects.org

'Unknown Unknowns" will also exist as a soon to be launched lone web-page, which will link back to this site and the descriptive text. This will be navigatable by reference to the selection of tagged terms of Unknown Unknowns ........Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns and Unknown Knowns.

Half Pint - a work that was first shown in the Hare pub exhibition in 2006, is to be dusted off and shown in the exhibition; "ENCOUNTERS WITH SCALE" opening Thursday March 26th 4- 8pm at the Portman Gallery.

Portman Gallery, Portman Place, London E2 OPX.
http://portmangallery.blogspot.com/

Exhibition continues until Sat 4th April
Open Thursdays and Fridays 4 - 7pm
Sat - 1-6pm

Ami Clarke, Naomi St. Clair-Clarke, Mikey Cuddihy, Dean Kenning, James R. Ford, Oliver MacDonald, Michael Sinclair, Andro Semeiko, Christopher Stevens, John Workman

A selection of the proliferation drawings series will be shown at Not Outer Space opening on February 13th 2009 Manchester.

http://www.amiclarke.com/proliferationseries.htm

Frunt & Nexus Art Cafe are proud to present -

Not Outer Space
An exploration of here.

A new exhibition considering the way we negotiate space around us.

Opening Friday 13h February 7pm - 9pm.
open 10am - 7pm, 7 days until 1st March @ Nexus Art cafe, Dale st. The Northern Quarter, Manchester.

Artists:
Emma Kemp, Nicola Farington, Kate Astbury, Maya Harding, Ami Clarke, Jenni Danson, Oliver Palmer, Becca Smith

For more information including directions see www.nexusartcafe.com or e-mail liznexus@hotmail.co.uk

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"Something for the weekend" (text work)

is in the on-line publication /seconds, issue no 9;
Vanishing Point: The Vicious And Virtuous Circle; edited and curated by Peter Lewis

http://www.slashseconds.org/issues/003/001/articles/aclarke/index.php

Cut-up text work combining text from; newspapers, advertising, the Wizard of Oz film-script, old car manuals, and other self-penned, but un-used text from over the years. It was put together with the syncopation and meter of the words foremost in mind. At the time it seemed non-sensical. In hindsight it may have more to it than first expected.

Tristan Tzara's guidelines for 'recipe for a Dadaist poem" - "take a newspaper, take scissors, cut out the article and then cut it into words; put them in a bag, shake gently, and take out one by one..... the poem will resemble you."