EVENT THREE
Friday 21 May 6-9pm
RUTH BEALE and ELEANOR VONNE BROWN
An evening of performances and readings, plus the launch of the ‘New Sixpenny Pamphlets’.
Readings:
A Bibliography of Belief, Read by Ruth Beale
In Praise of the Decrepit, by Gavin Morrison, read by Eleanor Vonne Brown
Grenades and Gift Horses, read by Gemma Sharpe
Performance:
10 Gypsy Dances, a text book exercise by Eleanor Vonne Brown
Part 2
Readings:
What will the next exhibition look like? Read by Karen Mirza, Brad Butler and Nabil Ahmed
Writing about art is like dancing about cookery, by Pauline Hanson, read by Fleur van Muiswinkel
Performance:
10 Gypsy Dances, a text book exercise by Eleanor Vonne Brown
About the evening:
New Sixpenny Pamphlets
by Ruth Beale, Karen Mirza and Brad Butler, Gavin Morrison, Pauline Hanson and Gemma Sharpe
Five new texts, commissioned by Ruth Beale in response to a series of 1939 Hogarth Press pamphlets held in her Pamphlet Library. The new texts each respond to one of the five Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets, by E.M. Forster, Stephen Spender, John Betjeman, Virginia Woolf and Graham Bell, and the subjects of belief; art and politics; the heritage industry; the circulation and appreciation of art; and artists and capitalism.
The pamphlets are published in an edition of 75, and will be available to purchase for £2 each or £6 for the set of 5.
10 Gypsy Dances
written by Eleanor Vonne Brown, informed by Pablo Bronstein
Pablo Bronstein initially choreographed 10 dances on a sheet of paper. These dances are for a variety of performers. The choreographies are both temporal instructions, spatial diagrams; looking at the page acts as if one were looking down at a dance floor. These pages are then passed to Eleanor Vonne Brown who turns them into both readable instructions for performing the dances and concrete poetry simultaneously.
For this event the instructions are translated again and performed by a dance collective (in this case the audience) to produce a piece of performance poetry, or 3D visual poem, an abstract exercise in translation and of reading/performing texts in parallel.
10 Gypsy Dances can be read online here:
http://issuu.com/thenewpaper/docs/10_gypsy_dances_publication
and will be available as a dance aid on the evening.
photography: Christian Hagen
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