John Hall: soon and recent

Soon

ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival 2010, Kuopio, Finland, Sept 29th – Oct 3rd 2010

"ANTI Festival 2010 will focus on textual, written and language-based responses to site specificity."

‘Making it new out of old hat: the words in Lone Twin’, chapter in A Lone Twin Workbook (working title), edited by Carl Lavery and David Williams, and due out early 2011 from Black Mountain Press.
A collection of essays on poetics and performance writing is planned for publication in 2011 (Acts of Language).
Loose Packed: production and publication of the textual card game, written in collaboration with Lee Harwood, is planned for 2011 from Acts of Language.
Recent
SoundEye Festival, Cork, 14-18 July 2010
ULTIMATE dART, last MA Show at Dartington, 20-22 July 2010

PW10 performance writing and cross-artform textual practice

Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol., May 8-9, 2010

Included hanging of Interscriptions (visual poem correspondence with Peter Hughes) and a delivery of Thirteen Ways of Talking about Performance Writing.

‘The beats that unite: listening to Douglas Oliver’s prosody and its relation to his remarks on beat and stress’, a workshop in Variations on the Theme of Harm, a One-Day Conference on the work of Douglas Oliver, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies and the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, December 5th 2009.

An exhibition of visual texts

Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth College of Art, Tavistock Place, Plymouth PL4 8AT; 01752 203 434

Exhibition now down

Work shown included:

Interscriptions: a correspondence, a collaboration with Peter Hughes)

Twenty image-text overlays, produced in an email exchange between the two collaborators (correspondents). Each is accompanied with a quatrain.

Loose Packed, a collaboration with Lee Harwood

Lee Harwood about to deal in the inaugural card game of Loose Packed (Photo by Anthony Caleshu)
Jerome Fletcher declares his hand. Framed versions of some of the pieces are behind him (Photo by Anthony Caleshu)
Heartfelt, some sketches on the heart, mostly in pink.
Me-roar, nine pieces set in mirror frames
(Photo by Anthony Caleshu)
Two road signs, Avoid and No access
(Photo by Anthony Caleshu)