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Merry Christmas: "twelve"

for the first ethic of christmas my true love sent to me an ambiguity in a non-temporal truth for the second ethic of christmas my true love sent to me two hierarchies between body and soul and an ambiguity in a non-temporal truth for the third ethic of christmas my true love sent to me three veils of illusion two hierarchies between body and soul and an ambiguity in a non-temporal truth for the fourth ethic of christmas my true love sent to me four errors of dogmatism three veils of illusion two hierarchies between body and soul and an ambiguity in a non-temporal truth for the fifth ethic of christmas my true love sent to me five extrinsic justifications four errors of dogmatism three veils of illusion two hierarchies between body and soul and an ambiguity in a non-temporal truth for the sixth ethic of christmas my true love sent to me six phenomenal modalities five extrinsic justifications four errors of dogmatism three veils of illusion two hierarchies between body and soul and an a

Women in Art - Bury Art Museum

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Funny how when you're busy you don't notice you're own patterns. I only realised this morning that all the contemporary art installed currently at Bury Art Museum is by women artists:  Liz West  "Colour Collection" in the Museum; Alison Erika Forde  "There's Nothing for you here" in the gallery; Jo Clements  "Retrospective" in the video gallery Hilary Jack  "The Late Great Planet Earth" in the Sculpture Centre And Penny Anderson's 'Speech Bubble' Christmas Tree on the Ring Balcony   I quite like that there wasn't a plan for an all-women display - and it was just the brilliance of the work that brought it together. 

Two new shows at Bury

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National Poetry Day

Twitter tells me that somewhere in the world it's National Poetry Day and in the threatening context of the Conservative Party conference which thankfully ended yesterday in Manchester, I thought I'd put up a poem from my last book: The End of Poetry . It's called 'Intolleranza' after Luigi Nono's socialist opera    Intolleranza Lower than vermin … the gates are opening. Our murderers are here. Suspended Song Today: Conceit: will shoot us truth construct it Instruction all Bijective the quiet fragile of this work to be silent and  Instead the listener who is silent. minuend individual receives From it, fretting is overwhelmed we an idea opposed mereologic fragility and have a collective A new audience and a presence of nilpotent unfolding of a silence to die in company null conquest of the interior of musical structures taking Different forms, shining paths as revolt. FIST. FITS. The favoured design for the future Flow

Total Recall

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Phil Davenport installing his "The Weather, in lipstick" - and part of Marco Giovenale's "asemic encyclopedia" As mentioned in the previous blog, this year is the 20th anniversary of me starting work in Bury - the 4th of August to be exact. I only came across this by accident in some old job papers and thought maybe we'd have a party or go for a quiet meal - whatever. Anyway, I mentioned it to Phil Davenport some months back in passing and it turns out a surprise was hatched. Phil talked to Derek Beaulieu over in Canada and the two realised that it was not only my 20th anniversary but also the 10th anniversary year of me creating the Text Festival. To wit, the pair invited various artists involved in the Text over the years to make a commemorative artwork. Though I should say that I am humbled and honoured that so many artists actually did (I am, of course), typical of Phil and Derek, instead of celebrating my genius or my contribution to the history of

Past Pain

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As the 20th anniversary of me working in Bury approaches, it was difficult to resist the urge to nostalgia (Greek: past pain ): I recall the first exhibition I ever curated was Michael Sandle 's etchings - I knew his work because we went to the same art school in the Isle of Man (separated by some years).  Satisfyingly, though my next thought turned to what comes next? (John Peel used to say that it was next record that he wanted to hear not the one he'd just heard) Over the last couple of days it's really felt like some exciting times to come: Riiko Sakkinen finding his concept for his show next year: The ABC of Capitalism ; Hillary Jack finishing her new commission in Bury; Great Dutch sculptor, Auke de Vriers visiting to discuss his show next February and a big new public art commission; And there's the pop-up in the gallery pulled together by Phil Davenport and Derek Beaulieu - which I'll blog about shortly.