Hollis Frampton: Zorns Lemma (1970)
On Thursday night, it was a pleasure to follow the final residency session in the Study and the last of our March Workshops with a chance to view Hollis Frampton‘s 1970 film Zorns Lemma, projected on 16mm on a big screen in The Space. Frampton is widely regarded as one of the key figures in American underground … Read more
Appropriations (IV): Five Sonnets in the Aftermath and Anticipation of a Financial Meltdown
Five Sonnets in the Aftermath and Anticipation of a Financial Meltdown “The world’s an ark wherein things pure and gross Present their lossful gain and gainful loss, Where ev’ry dram of gold contains a pound of dross” Francis Quarles: Emblems (Book II/vii, 1635) (i) Genesis What was brick is glass. What was solid glows with … Read more
The Thread at Bilborough Library
On the morning of March 22 myself and Saima Kaur went out to Bilborough Library to present copies of a booklet featuring images from the workshops and the text written out of notes, artworks and conversations gathered during the four sessions in February to the staff and participants. A panel was installed in the library to display pictures … Read more
The Thread
The Thread, as its title suggests, is a text woven together, produced as a response to the Write Here workshops held at Nottingham Contemporary and Bilborough Library & Community Centre during February 2011. Its form echoes that of the exhibitions by Jack Goldstein and Anne Collier from which we took our inspiration. Where those artists … Read more
Appropriations (III): Black Glass
Black Glass “Each new development in cinema might, paradoxically, be taking the medium closer to its origins: in fact, it may be the case that cinema has not yet been invented…” Andre Bazin: The Myth of Total Cinema (1946) (i) Imagine these images as they embrace the eye: a white star in the hook of the moon, … Read more
March Workshops (Overview)
All workshops will be taking place in the Meeting Room at Nottingham Contemporary from 5 – 7pm on the first four Thursdays in March. More infomation is available at the website, though these sessions are now fully booked. However, I’ll be in the Study from 3 – 5pm (ahead of the workshops) on all the … Read more
Final Workshop For February
This week saw the final session in the first series of workshops, bringing the sessions full circle with a return visit by the group to Nottingham Contemporary after an introductory session at the beginning of the month and two sessions at Bilborough Library and Community Centre making our own responses to Jack Goldstein’s Text Totems … Read more
Appropriations (II): Zeropolis, or Shelley in Las Vegas
Zeropolis, or Shelley in Las Vegas “The sense of day and night, of false and true,/Was dead within me…” (The Revolt of Islam, Canto III, Stanza XXIV) (i) So now we come into the wide main street, the summer ended, the sun bright on every concrete wall, neon sleeping in its aluminium frames. Mary, … Read more
Stan Brakhage: 23rd Psalm Branch
It’s no accident that a book’s design should echo that of a door. Open it, and the rooms inside can be as mysterious, spacious and memorable as those of any building. Every turn of the page is another door, one room leading into another like one of those corridors you might find yourself losing your … Read more
Third Workshop: Sounds
The third workshop in our series of four (following the group’s first visit to Nottingham Contemporary to see the Jack Goldstein and Anne Collier exhibitions and our session making Text Totems at Bilborough Community Centre last week) involved a bit of preparation the night before. Specifically, it involved rummaging through the ever-present pile of records found … Read more
