Initiated August 2010
Revised 13 June 2011
Revised 1st September 2011
Added to November 2011
The following notes are added to keep you up to date. Below them, under the three asterisks are the preceding and unrevised entries. The whole will be revised and expanded with more photographs as soon as there is time
August -- December 2010: Practice-based Research under "AHRC
Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition" with University of Dundee
January – May 2011:
developing various projects including islands (ongoing) and namely (completed)
June 2011 - October:
reviewing what we had achieved so far; designing and making namely
unnamed; and curating our first exhibition (UWE
Bristol)
November (+) setting
out on new work while completed work continues to be exhibited in Scotland and USA
Current exhibitions
Poetry Beyond Text, Royal Scottish
Academy Lower Galleries, The Mound, Princes Street, Edinburgh 12 Nov to 18 Dec:
FORESHORE (2010)
ENGINE / HOUSE (2010)
NAMELY UNNAMED(2011)
&
Language to cover a
wall UB
Gallery, Buffalo, Nov 17 - Feb 18 2012:
NAMELY (2011)
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August - December 2010: Research under "AHRC Poetry Beyond Text: Vision, Text and Cognition"
Single copy book works completed
Dance poem
FLEETING........SHU...../FFLE........./TTLE
Speculative Scores
Speculative Scores in this form has been taken as one of the resources for the production of a text-sound composition by John Drever and Lawrence Upton which -- volcanoes, health etc permitting -- will be premiered at e-poetry 2011 in USA in May 2011. See below
We have now made a range of book works, some as prototypes and maquettes
Here are some snapshots taken in the last quarter of 2010. Please understand that they were just taken to provide a sketchy record of what we were up to
http://www.wfuk.org.uk/wfbooks/labbook/bristolpics_web.docTwo have been editioned:
foreshore: a 35 page concertina book of polychrome images
engine / house: a three-dimensional book structure
and here are sets of curatorial photographs of them from an exhibition in Dundee
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
We have an exhibition of our work at UWE Bristol from 19th September to 22nd October 2011 and expect to include some or all of the above works
In January 2011, we were invited to build our bookwork version of Upton's NAMELY to be exhibited at State University of New York at Buffalo in May 2011 during May 2011. The work was completed, with a transformation of the imagery, and exhibited to some acclaim.
We have adopted Island as a general theme or label for our ongoing and future work.
September 2011 - we have added Fake to our lst of themes
draft introduction to our forthcoming exhibition