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‘Never recant, never apologise, never explain’: Chris Kraus in conversation with Laura Edbrook
No full textChris Kraus, author of the novels I Love Dick, Torpor, Aliens & Anorexia, Summer of Hate and the collections of art writing, Video Green: Los Angeles and the Triumph of Nothingness and Where Art Belongs, discusses her new work, After Kathy Acker, a critical biography of the late American post-punk writer, due to be released in the UK at the end of August 2017.
Writing the stories of her own life in playfully intimate and candid ways, Kraus’ critical gaze turns as much in on herself and her relationships, as on the sociopolitical structures which enable and limit us. Her work, hailed as a new form of philosophy by the art world and academia, has gained something of a cult following since the release of her first novel I Love Dick in 1997. Establishing the editorial directorship of Semiotext(e)’s Native Agents series in the early nineties she created a significant space for the publication and circulation of radically subjective and restless works by her then underappreciated friends or colleagues such as Eileen Myles, Cookie Mueller and Lynne Tillman. Most recently Chris Kraus has transitioned into the literary and broadcasting mainstreams with the re-publication of a number of her novels, and the adaptation of I Love Dick into an eight-part series for Amazon Videoby director Jill Soloway and playwright Sarah Gubbins.
Chris Kraus read from After Kathy Acker (then a work in progress) at The Glasgow School of Art [GSA], 19 May 2016, followed by a conversation with Laura Edbrook and questions from the audience. This event was presented by GSA in collaboration with the Creative Writing department in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow. With thanks to Colin Herd, University of Glasgow
Is is this it is this, it is this
No full textA performative video-essay presented by Laura Edbrook and Sarah Forrest on the manner of 'distance from' and 'closeness to' in the work and biography of Scottish poet and filmmaker, Margaret Tait. Commissioned by Suzanne van der Lingen and Claire Walsh for Footnoting the Archive, MAP Magazine 2016
"And when you’re ready, slowly open your eyes..."
No full textPatrick Staff performed a guided meditation at the invitation of Conal McStravick for the event 'Calling An Audience' on Saturday 16 March 2013 in the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum, Cultra as part of Grand Domestic Revolution Goes On at CCA Derry/Londonderry. Cara Tolmie also contributed to the programme. This text has been adapted from a recording of the event with the added participation of the authors. Laura Edbrook, Simone Hutchison, Conal McStravick, Patrick Staff, Cara Tolmie
In Conversation with Chris Kraus: The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable
No full textReading and Discussion
Chris Kraus, The Childlike Life of the Black Tarantula: A 20th Century Fable, In conversation with Laura Edbrook.
Reid Auditorium, The Glasgow School of Art
Presented by Forum for Critical Inquiry, The Glasgow School of Art and Creative Writing Programme, University of Glasgow
it is this it is this, it is this
No full textAn adaptation of 'it is this it is this, it is this' for Herland: Subjects and Sequences, 100 Years of Margaret Tait
An evening showcase of historic and contemporary film, poetry and music from women creatives inspired by Tait’s work, with light refreshments reflecting her love of Italy and time spent in Rome provided by Glasgow Award Winning Caffè da Sara.
Curated by Tait expert Sarah Neely, hosted by Gerda Stevenson with performances from Laura Edbrook & Sarah Forrest, MacGillivray, Alison Miller, Alberta Whittle (Tait Award Winner 2018), and a new edit of the GWL documenary 'Margaret Tait. Film Poet' by Marissa Keating and Michael Thomas Jones
Will Internets Eat Brain?
No full text‘Will Internets eat brain?’ is a video-essay performance commissioned by MAP Magazine for Glasgow Film Festival 2017 funded by Creative Scotland.
The video-essay performance investigates performative assemblage, speculative fictions and copy culture in relation to digital technology, the body and the Internet.
The work takes up queer feminist practices as a methodology to investigate viral narratives shared via search engine algorithm and everyday Internet interactions. The speculative, performative and material forms of ‘Will Internets eat brain?’ consider wilfully undisciplined, messy approaches highlighting multiplicity, iteration and otherness. The video-essay is constructed as a series of cut ups and fragmented narratives that upset and bend any singular discursive argument, linearity or chronological space/time logic.
The work was subsequently developed for the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice published by Intellect. 2018
Edited by Susannah Thompson and Laura Edbrook.
Katrina Palmer, Laurence Figgis, Gillian Wylde, Joanne Tatham, Lindsay Seers, Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson, Laura Edbrook and Susannah Thompson.
The Journal was launched with the event: Art Writing, Paraliterature & Intrepid Forms of Practice on Thursday 22nd November 2018, 6-7.30pm, CCA, Glasgow.
Preliminary research was conducted for the panel (Re)volting data Presented at ISEA2016HK. Monday 16 to Sunday 22 May 2016, City University’s Creative Media Centre. With Gillian Wylde the panel included: Jane Prophet, City University, Hong Kong, Helen Pritchard Goldsmiths College, University of London, Tarsh Bates, The University of Western Australia and Jaden J. A. Hastings University of Melbourne.
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was presented as a conference paper - ‘Writing’ Society for Artistic Research (SAR) International Conference on Artistic Research, University of the Arts, The Hague 28 & 29 April 2016
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was presented as a video essay performance at Palace of Culture 2: House of Questions at Newlyn Art Gallery 2017 funded by Arts Council England.
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was presented as a video essay performance at ReFrag #4 Cradle-to-Grave, The New School, Parsons Paris School of Art, Media and Technology 2018
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was presented as a conference paper - 'Artistic Research Will Eat Itself', Society for Artistic Research (SAR) International Conference on Artistic Research, April 11th 4pm - 13th 6pm 2018 at University of Plymouth.
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was exhibited as a multi-screen video installation at:
British Film Institute as part of Code Liberation and Women with a Movie Camera festival 2018 curated by Phoenix Perry & Kiona Niehaus
‘Will Internets eat brain?’ was exhibited as a multi-screen video installation as part of the group exhibition Corrupting Data @ Falmouth Art Gallery 2017
Artists included: ϟℙ∀ℳℳ▁ℙϴШ€ℜ Rosa Menkman, Mario Klingemann, Gillian Wylde, Oliver Scott, Sam Hains Curator Magda Tyżlik-Carver
Do Not Make The
No full textA collection of 15 hybrid, genre-bending, experimental essays that brings together published and unpublished authors in a unique collection essays that spans narrative, video, twitter, poetry, philosophy and documentary. Commissioned essays join those selected from a call-out in summer 2017 to voice personal, authorial and human concerns across generations, continents and history. Personal and political, some gentle, others playful and irreverent, this anthology shuffles text, image and moving image, following no single tack as it builds creative and critical resilience. Edited by Elizabeth Reeder, Laura Edbrook and Alice Bain. This book is the culmination of a Royal Society of Edinburgh project Essay Catalyst Conversations run by Elizabeth Reeder and the result of a collaboration with MAP Magazine. It was supported by RSE and Creative Scotland.
Authors: Lisa Robertson, Colette O’Connor, Joanna Walsh, Ruth Novaczek, Beatrix Gates, Fiona Montgomery, Tracy Mackenna, Claire Heuchan, Elena Aldegheri, Christopher M.J. Boyd, Katherine Mackinnon, Chin Li, Emily Labarge, Maria Sledmere, Isabella Streffen, Miranda Stuart, Kate Briggs
Do Not Make The
No full textA collection of 15 hybrid, genre-bending, experimental essays that brings together published and unpublished authors in a unique collection essays that spans narrative, video, twitter, poetry, philosophy and documentary. Commissioned essays join those selected from a call-out in summer 2017 to voice personal, authorial and human concerns across generations, continents and history. Personal and political, some gentle, others playful and irreverent, this anthology shuffles text, image and moving image, following no single tack as it builds creative and critical resilience. Edited by Elizabeth Reeder, Laura Edbrook and Alice Bain. This book is the culmination of a Royal Society of Edinburgh project Essay Catalyst Conversations run by Elizabeth Reeder and the result of a collaboration with MAP Magazine. It was supported by RSE and Creative Scotland.
Authors: Lisa Robertson, Colette O’Connor, Joanna Walsh, Ruth Novaczek, Beatrix Gates, Fiona Montgomery, Tracy Mackenna, Claire Heuchan, Elena Aldegheri, Christopher M.J. Boyd, Katherine Mackinnon, Chin Li, Emily Labarge, Maria Sledmere, Isabella Streffen, Miranda Stuart, Kate Briggs
Launch event for Journal of Writing in Creative Practice: Art Writing, Paraliterature and Intrepid Forms of Practice
No full textRescheduled launch event of the co-edited, special issue of Journal of Writing in Creative Practice. The event was held at CCA, Glasgow on 22 Nov 2018 to coincide with the launch of the Art Writing Research Group at GSA and an associated lecture and workshop led by Kate Briggs. (Event was due to take place in July 2018, but was rescheduled due to Mackintosh Building fire and closure of CCA).
Performances, readings and screenings included contributions from Laurie Figgis, Katrina Palmer, Neil Bickerton (for Joanne Tatham), Elizabeth Reeder, Amanda Thomson and Gillian Wylde. The event was introduced and hosted by editors Susannah Thompson and Laura Edbrook
'Thank you for writing to me so often, you are revealing yourself to me in the only way you can', Sick Sick Sick: The Books of Ornery Women
No full textThis paper reflects on the reading and discussion group ‘Sick, Sick, Sick’: The Books of Ornery Women; a Glasgow and web-based open reading project examining a radical or ‘bludgeoned’ subjectivity of female writers. Programmed between November 2013 to November 2014, the reading programme contrasted the work of new female writers emerging from the online Alt-Lit scene with the late nineties Semiotext(e) ‘Native Agents’ publications under the editorial directorship of Chris Kraus, and extended to post-critical precursor texts by authors including Kathy Acker.
Collectively, the group explored tensions between language, sociology, subjectivity and power-relations and how such issues impact upon gender and take form in the text. We asked how authors using their own biography, bodies and emotional lives as material disrupt expected hierarchical sequences or to what extent such corporeal texts might reproduce them.
The project aimed to prioritise the reader in an environment designed for collaborative and discursive interpretation. Paralleling the collapsed critical distance so often performed in the selected readings, we produced the possibility of an empathetic conversational exchange between writer and reader. As a group of readers (ourselves writers, researchers, artists and more) we interacted with authors who experiment with language as referential material—further extending a relational and associative practice that explores modes of authorship beyond the individual expressing herself.
Initiated by Emma Balkind (GSA) and Laura Edbrook in collaboration with MAP, Glasgow, the project attended to the online Alt-Lit scene’s already established multifaceted modes of reading and writing and occupied, and developed by way of, a number of intersecting platforms. The reading group met at the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow, and was accompanied by a commissioned events programme. Online blog and twitter dialogue expanded the forum to include contributions from international readers and authors
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