FLIGHTS #1 POETRY, PERFORMANCE & BOOKS [be]FOR[e] INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY TUESDAY 7 MARCH 2017 7-9.30pm, doors & book tables from 6.30pm AIMÉE LÊ ALISON GIBB GHAZAL MOSADEQ MENDOZA MMMMM (LUNA MONTENEGRO & ADRIAN FISHER) SANDRA KEATING SOPHIE MAYER PRUE CHAMBERLAIN JENNIE COLE ELEY WILLIAMS THE HORSE HOSPITAL, COLONNADE, BLOOMSBURY, LONDON WC1N 1JD £5 waged, free entry unwaged. All welcome. RSVP via Eventbrite Flights is an occasional event series of poetry and performance, emphasising the work of female-identified poets, performers, and artists. The series programming is guided by the principle of inclusivity. Flights #1 will take place on 7 March 2017 at the Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, London, on the evening before International Women’s Day.
Featuring:
ALISON GIBB
Alison Gibb is a poet-artist and researcher, investigating language and creating poetic outcomes through experimental explorations into the processes, methods and critical spaces of visual art, poetry and performance.
Alison’s publications a.vase - 2017, Silent Diagrams –2013, Parallel To Red In Chorus -2011 are published by Knives, Forks and Spoons press. Her sound collage CD, Pomegranates In The Oak, was produced by zimZalla in 2012, and her bookwork I am knot . . .a. poster in pieces of POWER was published by ambergris press in 2015.
alisongibb.com
SANDRA KEATING
Sandra Keating is an experimental multidisciplinary artist working with visual narratives, social commentary, the psychology of art and conceptual art as therapy. Her process-based practice involves automatism, catharsis and flow. As part of this she has a series of artist books she blacks-out as a process of "concealing in order to reveal” in terms of finding new narratives and observing inner psychological outcomes. This Black-out poetry has always been practised solo but recently, her newest versions are made as group works.
With a renewed interest in participatory practice and environmental art, in 2015 she has also started to develop Project Wonderlands, an interdisciplinary body of work based on ecopsychology and nature reconnection which involves research, visual observations, theory-based works, socially engaged art projects, group work and experiential workshops. Her current book for this work is a First Edition of J.G Ballard’s “Concrete Island,” and she has invited the public and other various artists to participate in the Black-out process.
sandrakeating.com
AIMÉE LÊ
Aimée Lê (b. 1990, Ann Arbor, MI) is a Vietnamese American writer. With Fiona Chamness, she is the author of Feral Citizens (Red Beard Press, 2011). Recent projects include an EP of (mis)translated Greek pop songs, Aliki in Saigon (interview), presented at the Sound Acts festival in conjunction with AMOQA/Athens Museum of Queer Arts, publications in Muzzle, Litmus Press editions, and The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry. Her main interests include materialism, Marxist theory, performance, narrative and the novel. Some past forms of communal living have included organising a full-time tent occupation of Dartmouth College in solidarity with Occupy Wall St. and a live-work collective, West Side School for the Desperate. She currently lives in London in a tent in an ecological commune in opposition to airport expansion, and is pursuing a PhD in Practice-based Poetics at Royal Holloway, University of London, on “’The National Question’ in American Literature 1913—present”; in general trying to be about it.
SOPHIE MAYER
Sophie Mayer’s most recent poetry books are (O), published by Arc, and kaolin, or How Did a Girl Like You Get to Be a Girl Like You, published by Lark Books, both in 2015. She was the co-editor of the activist poetry projects Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot; Binders Full of Women; and Glitter is a Gender, and founder of the website I Don’t Call Myself a Poet.
She is also a feminist film activist and critic – author of Political Animals: The New Feminist Cinema (2015), curator with Club des Femmes, and a regular contributor to Sight & Sound, the F-Word and Literal. She has reviewed poetry for Shearsman Magazine and Poetry Review, among others, and was part of the experimental collaborative poetry project A Thing Like You and Me, edited by Sarah Crewe for aglimpseof. Her current project is Disturbing Words, a subscription email newsletter about the language of where we are now.
sophiemayer.net
MENDOZA
mendoza is a Northumbrian poet and researcher investigating disembodiment, liminal space and marginal entities through poetic practice. Their work evolves through a series of creative processes: performance, making and unmaking, appropriation and assimilation, exploring the interaction between sound, image and text as a means of de-constructing / (re)constructing the ‘self’. The emphasis is on both the materiality of the text and the creation of (single or multiple) textual identities. mendoza, a.k.a. Linus Slug: Insect Librarian, is the founder of ninerrors poetry series, editor of FREAKLUNG poetry zine and co-editor/event organizer at Stinky Bear Press. Recent publications include: “the science of poetry • the poetry of science” Linus Slug / Peter Manson broadside 2015, and “Type Specimen: An Observant Guide To Linus Slug”, Contraband, 2014.
MMMMM (LUNA MONTENEGRO & ADRIAN FISHER)
Adrian Fisher and Luna Montenegro are artists and poets based in London. They work collaboratively under the name mmmmm, creating text, performance, film, installation and sound. They are interested in ideas of ritual, presence and the collective and have shown their work in Europe and Latin America. Their practice develops in a variety of contexts including museums, art galleries, site-specific spaces, residencies, poetry forums, magazines, radio, pubs and public spaces. They have been members of the London Biennale, The Writers Forum in the UK and Chile and were two of the founders of the infamous bobs cabaret, a weekly all-night art warehouse in London. They have made over 10 films together with Gines Olivares under the collective mmmmmfilms. They run a small press 'One Night Stanza' and are part of the experimental sound band 'the yet'.
mmmmm.org.uk
GHAZAL MOSADEQ
Ghazal Mosadeq is a poet and writer and a doctoral researcher at Birkbeck College, University of London. Her research focuses on models of autobiography and how Sūfi traditions of writing inform and disturb such models. She writes in Persian and English and also translates from these two languages. Her first poetry book, Dar Jam-i Ma, published in 2010, was short listed for the Kor-sheed award (women’s poetry award in Iran). She won the Bay-Haqi Prize for fiction in 2013. Her books have been published internationally by Heermand Press (Iran), Morvarid Publishing House (Iran), Red Ceiling Press (UK), Susak Press (UK) and in magazines such as Karnameh, Bukara (Iran), Poetry Wales (UK), Writer’s Hub (UK), Words Without Borders (USA), and Serie Alpha (Brazil). She is the Co-founder of “Zeer Pelleh”, an avant-garde poetry and performance group in Tehran. She is also the founder and editor of a new publishing project, Pāmenār Press.
Organisers: PRUE CHAMBERLAIN
Prudence Chamberlain is a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, and previously Poet in Residence at Surrey University. Her co-written House of Mouse was released by Knives, Forks and Spoons Press in 2016, while Dirt Talk is forthcoming with Pyramid Editions in March 2017. girlasavendingmachine.wordpress.com
JENNIE COLE
Jennie Cole is a poet and artist, currently undertaking practice-based doctoral research with the Poetics Research Centre at Royal Holloway, University of London (RHUL). Her research investigates uses of citation in art and poetry, drawing from Walter Benjamin's uses and theories of citation. In her practice, Jennie works across film and video, audio, performance, artist's books, and other printed matter, with enthusiasm for unruly formats, the crossing of discourses, and varied approaches to the means of finding language. Her works have been exhibited, published and performed internationally, appearing in things and places including POLYply, Caesura Gallery, Otoliths, MCBA Book Arts Biennial, E.ratio, Small Po[r]tions, Performance Research, The Poetry Library (Southbank Centre), European Media Art Festival, OOMK Future Library, and Athens Digital Arts Festival. Jennie's poetic sequence GARGANTUA is available from BlazeVOX. jenniecole.org
ELEY WILLIAMS Eley Williams is co-editor of fiction at 3:AM magazine. Her collection Attrib. & Other Stories (Influx 2017) was chosen by Ali Smith amongst 'the best of debut fiction' for this year's Cambridge Literary Festival. Eley has a small book of poetry, Frit, forthcoming from Sad Press in 2017.
eleywilliams.com
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With thanks to all members of the RHUL Poetics Research Centre for their ongoing support, to Simon and Ira at LCBA, and The Horse Hospital.
FLIGHTS #1 7-9.30pm Tuesday 7 March 2017 at The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, London WC1N 1JD
RHUL POETICS RESEARCH CENTRE