Some upcoming events, publications, exhibitions, including the launch of my new poetry collection with Test Centre (June 3rd) and a performance at Tate Modern (July 18th), plus a few things that’ve happened in 2015.
May 2nd – Celebrating Jackson MacLow’s Light poems, reading at the Wellcome collection.
May 8th – Feinde: Austrian Enemies, collaborating with Jorg Piringer at the Rich Mix.
May 13th - reading at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, for an event discussing Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s relief The Wrestlers, drawing on my work for the Tate.
May 14th - for UNESCO’s European Literature Night Edinburgh, I’ll be launching my collaborative poetry collection,Oberwildling: on the life of Oskar Kokoschka, with Colin Herd, at the Sutton Gallery.
May 15th –a reading at Little Sparta, the garden of Ian Hamilton Finlay.
May 17th – a reading at Five Years Gallery, for the ‘How to write’ project
May 18th – a reading at Cog Arts, Dalston
May 19th to 27th I’ll be reading in Newport, Cardiff, Swansea, Bangor & Aberystwyth in Wales, as part of the Enemies project: Gelynion, collaborating with Joe Dunthorne, Nia Davies, Zoe Skoulding & co
May 29th – Reading at the Hay-on-Wye festival to close Gelynion in Wales.
June 3rd - I’ll be launching my new poetry collection {Enthusiasm} published by Test centre on June 3rd in London.
June 5th – Gelynion in London, at the Rich Mix Arts Centre.
June 6th – Stoke Newington Literature Festival, reading with Iain Sinclair & Tom Chivers for Test Centre.
June 6th - My solo exhibition, Mahu, opens on June 6th at the Hardy Tree Gallery in Kings X. 10 events follow in the 3 week run.
June 11th - a reading at the Garden Museum, London, for my residency with J&L Gibbons Landscape Architects
June 21st – Reading at the Berlin Poesiefestival.
July 18th – a performance & discussion at the Tate Modern
A recent interview on Sabotage Reviews, by Will Barrett, a comprehensive discussion of the purpose behind my work. http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/03/10/its-all-one-enormous-blancmange-an-interview-with-s-j-fowler/
In February I attended the Salzburg Global Seminar for a program called the Neuroscience of Art: what are the sources of Creativity & Innovation? A report http://www.stevenjfowler.com/salzburgglobal
I attended the International Literature Showcase in Norwich, produced by the Writer’s Centre and the British Council, speaking on a panel about technology & literature. My writeup here.
Since January I’ve been in part-time residence at the Hubbub at the Wellcome Collection, which is exploring the nature of rest through neuroscience, social science & aesthetics.
I performed with Zuzana Husarova for the Parisian sound poetry festival Festina Lente in February.
I attended the Lettretage conference in Berlin, in January, giving a presentation which describes the history and purpose of the Enemies project.
I now have a page on the Poetry Archive
I launched my collaborative book 1000 proverbs with Tom Jenks, at a Liverpool Camarade event, published by Knives, forks & spoons press.
For Wrogowie: Polish Enemies, I performed with Milosz Biedrzycki, celebrating the work of Tomaz Salamun
For Enemigos: Mexican Enemies, I collaborated with Amanda de la Garza, via video.
I read at the Whitechapel Gallery with Chris McCabe, for Stateland, curated by Gareth Evans.
Fourfold, a press in Glasgow, published my collaboration with Ross Sutherland, nick-e Melville, Ryan Van Winkle & Colin Herd: the Auld Fold.
The new Penned in the Margins 2015 programme features details on my first play, a scratch of which is scheduled for October.