SLADE WORD/IMAGE FORUM presents OFF THE SHELF:
PERFORMANCE, FILM,VIDEO, POETRY, MUSIC: an evening of live-events staged by the UCL Slade School of Fine Art at Wilkins North and South Cloisters plus the Old Refectory, March 22nd 2010, 6.00-10.30pm.
Taking as its theme a re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL Library Services Special Collections, this event will give you the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry - including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing.
These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation of the period. The evening will also stage new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, and students, and a 'speaker's corner' with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum. This is one of a series of public events planned by the forum for 2009-2011.
As well as the event, there is an exhibition in the North Cloisters until 5th April of material from the UCL Small Press Collections. Elizabeth Lawes
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