Around About Words
by Malgorzata Kitowski
Malgorzata Kitowski from PoetryFilm introduces a selection of experimental shorts exploring altered states of consciousness, synchronicity and the ineffable: ‘filmifications’ of poems, films jigsawed from cut-ups, beat writing, texts, trips and dreamscapes. Part of the “Around About Words” Late at Tate / Tate Triennial – full details below.
Friday 7 April 2006, 18.00–22.00
Part of Late at Tate Britain: April 2006
Animation poem by Alec Finlay
© Alec Finlay
Tate Britain celebrates the living word with radical acts of reading around the gallery. Lose yourself in altered states of consciousness with live performances by poets, poetry on film and historic recordings from the likes of Ginsberg and Ashbury scattered throughout the galleries.
19.00–19.30 Room 8
The Stand-up Shaman conjures different realities by way of the works of William Blake. Warning: This performance contains flashing lights and The Transcendental Object at the End of History.
19.00–20.00 Manton Studio
Pick up free tickets up from the Information Desks.
Poets Tom Raworth and Alec Finlay read together under the title This Poem Has Been Removed from Circulation. Raworth was born in London and during the 1970s travelled and worked in the United States and Mexico. He returned to England in 1977 to become resident poet at King’s College, Cambridge, and still lives in the city. Since 1966 he has published more than 40 books and pamphlets of poetry, prose and translations. Finlay is an artist and poet whose press, Morning Star (1990–2003), published 50 titles.
20.00–21.30 Auditorium
Malgorzata Kitowski from PoetryFilm introduces a selection of experimental shorts exploring synchronicity and the ineffable: ‘filmifications’ of poems; films jigsawed from cut-ups, beat writing, texts, trips and dreamscapes.18.00–22.00 Rooms 19, 20 and 21
Listen to historic recordings of poets such as Ginsberg and Ashbury taken from the Poetry Archive and coupled with works of art in the galleries.
Tate Britain Throughout the gallery Free, no bookings taken www.tate.org.uk
March 24th, 2006 at 4:27 pm
Sounds good, shame we haven’t got something like this in B’ham maybe the-beat and B’ham words should team up for a poetry reading in B’ham?
April 1st, 2006 at 11:20 am
Good idea Sean! This could/should be arranged! Malgorzata
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