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Friday 9th - Sunday 11 th April 2010

Islington Mill, James Sl Salford, M3 5HW.

http://www.islinatonmill.com

Aesthetics and Politics Reading Group, Ruth Beale, David Berridge,

Katie Brandon, Maurice Carlin, Patrick Coyle, Lowri Evans, EI/a Finer,
Royston Futter, Helen Kaplinsky, Stephen Kin ton, Fraser Muggeridge,
Tamarin Norwood, Sam Playford, Luc May Schofield,
Megan Wakefield,Sebastian II/an.

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When you RSVP "U send you a choice of titles and a short extract of
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Participants are invited to take their reading out in an exploration of the twin ~
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For those unfamiliar with the area, we have asked a number of locals for their ~;, ;//1f11{J~
best tips on out of the ordinary or favoured reading spots. From the ~\f~r.r ~ ./
suggestions collected so far, take your pick from the luxurious courthouse V' • vv~

consultation rooms to the hotel where Rolls met Royce or seated at the grimy
foot of a Victorian reading pioneer!

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19.00-2100

DINNER with DINNER-TIME LECTORS - A delicious hot and cold veggie

buffet with vegan option at the Mill for a very reasonable £5 per person.

NB. Booking essential. Please email deaddigital@islingtonmill.com to

book a place.

Dinnertime Lectors include:

Stephen Kingston, Salford Star. We hope some of you might want to take a turn!

VENDREDIS
Helen Kaplins
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A reading of Jorge Luis Borges' short sto 'Pierre M~ nard, Author of the
Quixote' will be made in which a previou reader's note's upon the page will
be read simultaneously. This ghost!y fe back parallels Borge's critique of
literary criticism, in favour ofth~terlY re~p;:)

The reading will incorporate the process of re-writing. A dictionary will be

painted with glue as definitions are read, disallowing the re-reading of the
definition as it once was. The reading process is a meeting between two
bodies of knowledge, in which the pedagogical body of the book is
destabilized by the subjective touch of the human body.

Helen is an artist and curator based in London.

www.helenkaplinsky.com
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Friday night entertainment in the clubspace from: Paradox.

 9pm -1am

·Paradox is a raucous evening designed for the lyrically-influenced and banging

sori of figure. It specialises in giving a platform to alternative writers, lyricists and
musicians reading their written work aloud. Hosted by local Manchester poet
Lauren Bolger, Paradox fuses the spoken word of both established and up and
coming writers with the vocal cream of the Manchester music scene."

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belongs to the moment of writing, the act of reading and commentary; (2)
writing and reading are private acts, which must be made be public in order to {
have political efficacy. READING AS PUBLISHING will begin with a ., ~
presentation of a range of printed, visual and oral materials that unfold how
reading can be published and made public, proposing a preliminary set of
techniques and possibilities. The rest of the session will be for participants
read privat~ly, then cons!der how !o publish that ~xperience to the group. ThelJtf)v.J~
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people based mainly in Liverpool with an interest in exploring the comple • o..A\
relationship between politics and aesthetics, initiated with the aim of creatin
a space that supports the reading of philosophical I political theory outside of
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Installation and Performance
2.30-2.50pm

"A. Alphabetes (from the Ancient Greek alphabetos, originating from the first
two letters of the Greek alphabet, and diabetes, from the Ancient Greek
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diabaino, meaning 'to pass through', referring to the excessive amounts of (0ri I
urine produced by sufferers)." Alphabetes, takes us on an alphabetical tour f V-<JV 11./1
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twenty six items of ephemera and printed material that the artist pins, from A fl{) I..zJ
to Z, at head height around the gallery space. Providing a print-out of his
script for audience members, he leaves his own reading of the increasing v-=r
specific script to memory. The viewer effectively becomes the inadvertent
examiner of the relative success or failure of Coyle's recalling of the script,
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accompanied only by his 26 'aide-memoire'. Crafting slippages between the
visual and verbal quality of language, Coyle examines our experience of that
which has been heard, read and seen.

Patrick is an artist based in London. He is currently producing a weekly live

radio show for CHELSEA Space with Cally Spooner, (broadcast on
Resonance 104.4 FM) and has made recent performances at The David
Roberts Art Foundation, The Mews, SHIFT. and FormContent, (all London,
2010) .
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THE TEXTAND HER READERS

Sam Playford-Greenwell
Reading Group
3 - 4.30pm

Reciprocate the tireless gifts bestowed over the weekend by these flimsy and
vulnerable volumes. Show a little consideration for what the texts themselves
have gained from our perusal of their pages and performance of their
propositions. A group reading and discussion of an extract from the text
Communication and the Work by the literary philosopher Maurice Blanchot,
from his 1955 book The Space of Literature, that addresses the strange
( relationship between the reader and the work read, the peculiar service the
reader provides for the work itself by and through their reading.
Sat still on a park bench, curling from one page to the next, a lightness
emanates and embodies these pages; and as your eyes follow its lines, a
most generous resuscitation is performed, in which the inappropriate passivity
of the word "follow" is hidden.

Please RSVP to samsamthefryingpanman@hotmail.com and text by Blanchot

will be emailed to you in advance.
Sam is an artist and practice-led PhD student based in Bristol.

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THE DEMOLITION OF DALE GARAE: A Co memorative Bookmaking ,/jJ)/

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Evans mark the passing of a building through a performance of publishing.
letter announcing the imminent demise of 21/23 Oldfield Road becomes the ~ )~ ~
starting point for a deconstruction of language, memory and ritual. cAS

Maurice Carlin is an artist based in Manchester. He is a member of Islington/{~ I I

Mill Art Academy, an alternative self-organised art school. () ~ _ O-Y' c.l:1

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Manchester based Lowri Evans makes art and performance. A cv graced by ~

Quarantine, Grupo XIX and her own Shot in the Dark is punctuated by her '61, ~.
own self-styled mission of having "a vague stab at everything". --- .... ,J,-f, <:. ~--- tfJJVV"

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PERSONAL READING HISTORIES
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6.30 - 7.30pm

"Far from being writers-founders of their own place, heirs of the peasants of
earlier ages now working on the soil of language, diggers of wells and builders
of houses-readers are travellers; they move across lands belonging to
someone else, like nomads poaching their way across fields they did not
write, despoiling the wealth of Egypt to enjoy it themselves." (de Certeau
~4, 174).

·he links between your reading history, autobiography and practice. In

/ '\ignificant places did you read? Who influenced your reading? Whose
'QU recall reading aloud? A workshop to map out your reading
( histories in any medium. Map protagonists, scenes, images, plotlines,
forbidden books, frightening books, comforting books, books endlessly reread,
graphic novels, stories and even periods of complete reading
abstinence. Bring materials to work with Oust a pen if you wish!) and a headful
of books.

Megan Wakefield is a PhD student with University of the West of England and
Spike Island Bristol, where she also works .
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19.45pm

DINNER with DINNER-TIME LECTORS - A delicious hot and cold veggie

buffet with vegan option at the Mill for a very reasonable £5 per person.

NB. Booking essential. Please email deaddigital@islingtonmill.com to

book a place.

Dinnertime Lectors include:

Royston Futter , Working Class Movement Library and Writer Martin Holman.
We hope some of you might want to take a turn!

Sebastian Willan
Performance

As a Sound Designer and Composer for theatre (tv and film), Sebastian's
arrangements are in effect, conversations formed of his own reading of
the literary text, and that of the directors and actors. On the occasion of Reading for
Reading's Sake he will be performing an arrangement, produced for an upcoming
production of Shakespeare's Othello.

Sebastian is a Composer and Sound Designer based in London. Recent projects

include Henry V staged at the Southwark Playhouse and Othello for Lazarus
Theatre Company, opening at Blue Elephant Theatre this month .

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Saturday night entertainment in the clubspace from The Second Sitting with
Crazy P live (limited reduced guest list available). Booking required, please
contact: deaddigital@islingtonmill.com

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SUNDAY APRIL 11TH

RADICAL TRUST: TAGGING THE LIBRARY
Katie Brandon
From 11am

As Roland Barthes said in "The Death of the Author," "a text consists of
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multiple writings, proceeding from several cultures and entering into dialogue,
into parody, into contestation; but there is a site where this multiplicity is
collected, and this site is not the author, as has hitherto been claimed, but the
reader." Likewise, the multiplicity of the library is not collected in its librarian or
its catalogue, but in its readers. Throughout the weekend Katie will open out
the classification of this library to all who use it. Take a book. Read it. Tag it
however you choose. Enter the tags into the catalogue.

Katie is an artist based in Manchester. She is the current Islington Mill

resident librarian.

http://www.islingtonmill.com/d .php ?r= islington m iIIreferencelibrary

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ESSA YING TOUCH

Rachel Lois Clapham
Performance
From 12noon

George Bataille wrote about the agency of the BIG TOE. John Baldessari pointed at
paintings pointing at conceptual art. Somewhere between these two notions is the
praxis of the FINGER as a simultaneous form of writing, or diagram, and physical
gestures as text.
[Essaying Touch] is a body of work that runs quietly through Reading for
Reading's Sake pressing on embodied acts of (w)reading and writing, finger(ing)
texts and pointing to pointing to things. Documents will be made over the course of
the three days. At some stage there will be a collective moment of attention.

Rachel Lois Clapham is Co-Director of Open Dialogues, a UK based collaboration

that produces critical writing on and as performance.

www.oDendialoQues.com