How is Art Writing? | Three

"WRITING (the) SPACE"
Thursday, 19 May 2011 | 18:00 to 20:00 | Leeds

Re - (Afterlive) courtesy Rachel Lois Clapham and Emma Cocker © 2011

Time/Venue: 6-8pm at Wild Pansy Press Project Space, Old Mining Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds LS2 9JT

"If I hammer, if I recall in, and keep calling in, the breath, the breathing as distinguished from the hearing, it is for cause, it is to insist upon a part that breath plays in verse which has not (due, I think, to the smothering of the power of the line by too set a concept of foot) has not been sufficiently observed or practiced, but which has to be if verse is to advance to its proper force and place in the day, now, and ahead. I take it that PROJECTIVE VERSE teaches, is, this lesson, that that verse will only do in which a poet manages to register both the acquisitions of his ear and the pressure of his breath."

(Extract, Projective Verse, 1950.)

The third in the How is Art Writing? dinner series. Food, drink and a live performance by artist Giles Bailey (biog included below) on the last day of WRITING (the) SPACE, an exhibition and event series exploring the physical and spatial possibilities of writing outlined in Charles Olson’s Projective Verse. All welcome, but booking essential:

http://inaword-dinners.eventbrite.com/.

WRITING (the) SPACE is developed by Rachel Lois Clapham (Open Dialogues) in partnership with New Work Yorkshire and supported by In a word…. More information about the project can be found on the Open Dialogues website.

Giles Bailey was born in York in 1981. He studied art in Leeds, Glasgow, London and Rotterdam at the Piet Zwart Institute where he is currently enrolled on the Master of Fine Art Programme. Having a long term interest in the power and peculiarities of the voice much of his work constitutes a study of the performing role for a speaking subject with a specific interest in the images that are used to construct and recount history. The inefficiency or problematic character of these images become the basis for performances that aim to expand or complete them.