ON BEAT
Barry Miles, Ian MacFadyen, Peter Jaeger & Marcus Slease
Tuesday 15 January 2013,
7 pm
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, Islington
£6/£5 Concessions
http://parasol-unit.org/on-beat
To accompany the October Gallery exhibition 'William Burroughs: All out of time and into space' and relating to Shezad Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' for Parasolstice - Winter Light 2012, ON BEAT will focus on Beat Culture’s history and influence more broadly. It will include talks by contemporaries of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, creator of the original Dream Machine in 1959, as well as explications of poetics and contemporary work influenced by the era.
Peter Jaeger will give a talk/reading entitled "A Philip Whalen Mala" on Whalen, Snyder, Ginsberg and their understanding of Buddhism as it pertains to compositional method.
Marcus Slease will read new work inspired by Burroughs' The Soft Machine.
This event is a collaboration between Parasol unit, October Gallery and Intercapillary Space.
Links:
Exhibition at October Gallery: http://www.octobergallery.co.uk/exhibitions/
Intercapillary http://www.intercapillaryspace.org/
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Intercapillary Places - Dec 13th
Nina Power & Redell Olsen
Programme
Nina Power:
A talk on the philosophy and control of public space
Redell Olsen:
London launch of 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (Subpress, 2012)
Parasol Unit, 14 Wharf Road, N1 7RW
Thurs 13th Dec
Drinks from 6.30pm, event begins at 7.00pm
Arrive early to view the retrospective of work by Jannis Kounellis as well as Shezad Dawood's 'New Dream Machine Project' in the winter pavilion
Tickets: £5/£4 conc
Free wine
Biographical Notes
Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University and is the author of 'One-Dimensional Woman' (Zer0 Books, 2009).
Redell Olsen's recent projects include films and texts for performance: ‘Bucolic Picnic (or, Toile de Jouy Camouflage)’ (2009), ‘Newe Booke of Copies’ (2009-10), 'SPRIGS and Spots' (2011-12) and the site-specific collaboration for film and performance "Lost Pool" (2010). Her previous publications include 'Book of the Fur' (rem press, 2000) and 'Secure Portable Space' (Reality Street, 2004). 'Punk Faun: a bar rock pastel' (2012) is just out from Subpress. She is a Reader in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London. For more see: http://redellolsen.co.uk/wordpress/
Jannis Kounellis was part of the Arte Povera movement in Italy that emerged during the 1960s. On show at Parasol Unit will be works such as Untitled (Carboniera), 1967; Untitled (steel plate and braid),1969, on loan from Centre George Pompidou, Musée national d’art; Metamorphosis, 1984, and Untitled, 1977, an electric train moving on steel plates installed around one of the pillars of the gallery.
Tickets can be booked through Parasol Unit by phone, email or online through Paypal -
To book your ticket please contact Lucy Britton on lucy@parasol-unit.org / 020 7490 7373 ext. 20
Please book ahead as spaces in the gallery can fill up
To keep up to date on Places events follow @intercapillary
More information on the Jannis Kounellis exhibition http://www.parasol-unit.org/jannis-kounellis
Intercapillary Places: https://sites.google.com/site/intercapillary/
Emily Critchley & Timothy Thornton at the Parasol Unit - 27th Jan
Thursday 27th January, 7pm:
Emily Critchley and Timothy Thornton
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
Part of the Parasol unit poetry programme in collaboration with writer and poet Barry Schwabsky
Emily Critchley and Timothy Thornton
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
Part of the Parasol unit poetry programme in collaboration with writer and poet Barry Schwabsky
Keston Sutherland at the Parasol Unit, 29th July
The Parasol Unit Readings Series continues on Thursday, 29 July at 7 pm with a reading by Keston Sutherland.
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public.
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public.
4th February - Parasol Unit
The Parasol Unit Readings Series continues on Thursday, 4 February, 2010 at 7 pm with a reading by Peter Riley.
Peter Riley was born in Stockport in 1940. He was an editor of The English Intelligencer and the editor/publisher of Poetical Histories. Passing Measures, his selected poems, was published by Carcanet in 2000, and The Day’s Final Balance: uncollected writings 1965-2006 was published by Shearsman in 2007. His most recent book, Greek Passages (Shearsman, 2009) is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece. Mark Scroggins has called Riley’s work “an extraordinary poetry, one which takes the techniques of modernism to almost a certain limit, yet retains the entire lyric and emotional intensity of the English tradition.”
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. Parasol Unit readings are organized by Barry Schwabsky. They are free to the public. More information at http://www.parasol-unit.org/.
Peter Riley was born in Stockport in 1940. He was an editor of The English Intelligencer and the editor/publisher of Poetical Histories. Passing Measures, his selected poems, was published by Carcanet in 2000, and The Day’s Final Balance: uncollected writings 1965-2006 was published by Shearsman in 2007. His most recent book, Greek Passages (Shearsman, 2009) is a set of 105 prose-poems derived from four sojourns in Greece. Mark Scroggins has called Riley’s work “an extraordinary poetry, one which takes the techniques of modernism to almost a certain limit, yet retains the entire lyric and emotional intensity of the English tradition.”
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. Parasol Unit readings are organized by Barry Schwabsky. They are free to the public. More information at http://www.parasol-unit.org/.
Andrea Brady & Carol Watts - 30th April / 17th May
Andrea Brady
at Parasol Unit on Tuesday 30 April at 7pm:
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=22
Andrea Brady & Carol Watts + music
at Cafe Oto in Dalston on Sunday 17 May at 3pm:
18-22 Ashwin St
London E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/index.shtm
at Parasol Unit on Tuesday 30 April at 7pm:
14 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
http://www.parasol-unit.org/index.php?id=22
Andrea Brady & Carol Watts + music
at Cafe Oto in Dalston on Sunday 17 May at 3pm:
18-22 Ashwin St
London E8 3DL
http://www.cafeoto.co.uk/index.shtm
Poetry by David Chaloner at Parasol Unit
The Parasol Unit Readings Series continues on Thursday, 19 March at 7 pm with a reading by David Chaloner.
David Chaloner is one of the most distinguished poets at work today. He was born in rural Cheshire in 1944, and Manchester provided the cultural and social context for his early writing, which appeared in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion, among others. In the late sixties he founded One, a magazine for new writing. He has lived in London since the early seventies, and continues to publish prolifically. His Collected Poems (Salt) appeared in 2005, and his most recent book is Beyond These Lines (Equipage, 2007). Peter Riley has praised Chaloner’s work as “a poetry which draws its discourse from the central history of poetry in English by being an ever-new thing, the script of here and now by its very freshness.”
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public. The next reading after David Chaloner’s will be by Andrea Brady, on Thursday, 30 April.
David Chaloner is one of the most distinguished poets at work today. He was born in rural Cheshire in 1944, and Manchester provided the cultural and social context for his early writing, which appeared in the Penguin anthology Children of Albion, among others. In the late sixties he founded One, a magazine for new writing. He has lived in London since the early seventies, and continues to publish prolifically. His Collected Poems (Salt) appeared in 2005, and his most recent book is Beyond These Lines (Equipage, 2007). Peter Riley has praised Chaloner’s work as “a poetry which draws its discourse from the central history of poetry in English by being an ever-new thing, the script of here and now by its very freshness.”
Parasol Unit is located at 14 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, between Old Street and Angel tube stations. More information at www.parasol-unit.org.
The Parasol Unit Readings Series is organized by Barry Schwabsky. The readings are free to the public. The next reading after David Chaloner’s will be by Andrea Brady, on Thursday, 30 April.
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