This afternoon I’m speaking about the ideas and practices informing my recent Project Space residency at Modern Art Oxford. My talk marks the final day of my Project Space exhibition ‘Keeping Time’, and will begin with a screening of the work.
Sunday 19 February, 3pm. Free, booking essential.
To book a place, please visit the Modern Art Oxford website.
The Project Space component of my Modern Art Oxford residency begins on Tuesday and runs for two weeks. Visitors are welcome to stop by any time during the Open Studio periods on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 1-3pm. From the Modern Art Oxford website:
Through a short residency, Tamarin Norwood will explore the Legacy Fellowship to develop a visual vocabulary of choreography, instruction and transcription. As part of her ongoing investigation of the gaps between words and things, rules and games, intentions and accidents, she will track the progress of the Fellowship to create a new body of text and video work.
An exhibition of my work immediately follows the residency, running from February 14th to 19th during normal gallery opening hours. I’m giving an artist talk and Q&A on the closing day.
27 January 2012, 7pm
Tenderpixel Gallery, London
To Draw A Practice includes presentations by antepress (Julia Calver, Patrick Coyle, Cressida Kocienski, Claire Nichols and Tamarin Norwood) and invited guests, each demonstrating their own individual practices from scratch and from memory.
To Draw A Practice is part of the events program running throughout Patrick Coyle: To Draw A Blank, an exhibition and series of performances. Coyle re-presents found images, objects and texts that demonstrate an encounter with misunderstanding, whether in terms of ambiguous meaning or a deliberate misappropriation of material. Working across writing, performance, sculpture, drawing, photography, collage and painting, Coyle displays new works which explore varied meanings of blankness.
Tenderpixel Gallery is at 10 Cecil Court, Soho, London WC2N 4HE – Tenderpixel Gallery, London
#Nightwatch2012 is a collaborative performance for mass participation, taking place on Twitter. The performance will be streamed live to RHYTHMS OF TIME SHARING curated by KIOSK in collaboration with Vox Populi Philadephia at AUX Performance Space in Philadelphia.
Friday 27 Jan 2012 00:30 – 02:30 GMT/ Thursday 26th Jan 19:30 – 21:30 EST
Participating artists: Joanna Brown, Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars. The artists will tweet to a score published in advance. To join in, please follow the score and tweet to #Nightwatch2012. The #Nightwatch2012 score will be published at 00:00 GMT on Tuesday 24th Jan.
An exhibition in tribute to Lettrism, including contributions from Irene Gonou, Eleni Oikonomou & George Papadopoulos, Panagiotis Papafragas, Pentzikis, Christina Sgouromyti, Juliana Borinski, Tamarin Norwood and Stéphane Graff.
Opening: Wednesday, January 18 2012 at 20.00
Performances & Talk: Saturday, January 21 at 13.00
Open weekdays 14.30-20.30, Saturday 14.00-18.00
For further information see the Beton7 website.
Launch Event 3 December 2011
6.30 – 7.30pm
S1 Artspace
COPY explores writing within visual art and performance practice. Issue II, COPY unfold, proposes a tension between the resolved and unresolved, drafted and rewritten, finished and unfinished through works which explore, respond to or enact a state of being ‘in process’.
Alain Ayers / David Berridge / Julia Calver / Paul Carr / Rachel Lois Clapham / Emma Cocker / Laura Davidson / Joanna Loveday / Flatten the Mountain / Daniel Fogarty / Sarah Frydenlund / Derek Horton/ Tamarin Norwood / Flora Robertson / Terry Slater / Richard Taylor / JDA Winslow / Paul Wright [click to continue…]
Tonight I’m presenting My House and Other Inventions, new art writing commissioned for the first in a series of Art/Writing events at AUX, Vox Populi Gallery:
Art/Writing
AUX, 319 N. 11th St, Philadelphia PA
November 25, 7pm
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An evening of screenings, performances, and texts provides space to explore, discuss, and nurture this new, interdisciplinary field of practice, commentary and research.
In her Lawn Poem lecture, multimedia artist Stephanie Barber proposes a new, spatial and organic method of appreciating literature: “To know a poem one must live with it. One must dig their toes into its very L’s and O’s. One must watch their children and city constituents grow and raise children of their own on it.” Barber has had numerous solo screenings of her film and video work including shows at MoMA and Anthology Film Archives, NYC.
Tamarin Norwood presents My House and Other Inventions, a synchronized domestic spectacle, live and unobserved from her home in Oxford, England. A recorded commentary anticipates and prescribes her actions, addressing ambiguities over who’s watching whom, how time unfolds through space, and how presence emerges in absence. The piece develops from her recent performance events at Tate Britain (2010, 2011) and forthcoming interventions at Modern Art Oxford (2012) exploring choreography, simultaneity and representation.
Below is a 30 minute programme produced for Cast and Figment: Radio as Medium and as Such, and broadcast last week from SoundFjord.org. It’s a repeat broadcast of the Musica Practica radio piece I made in 2010, followed by a discussion of the piece between myself and Cast and Figment curator Matthew MacKisack.
The original 15 minute piece consists of instructions for its disparate radio listeners to collaborate on a kind of spontaneous orchestral performance, strummed, batted and tapped on whatever materials they might have to hand as they listen. The fluid impossibility of the task depended on each listener knowing they were one of many, that their many counterparts were listening at the very same time, and that they might be participating (too). The time and date of the broadcast is announced at its opening to indicate its liveness and underline a sense of this communality.
In my discussion with Matthew we wanted to consider the effect of broadcasting the piece outside its originally intended timeframe: whether it would feel less ‘live’, and whether the resulting orchestral sound – in every case imaginary – would be imagined differently in this context.
BP Saturdays: Going Public
Collaboration
Going Public is an afternoon of performance, artist-led tours, talks and discussion, where you can experience collaboration in all its forms. Explore collective production, negotiation, coming together and falling apart, with Marcus Coates, Sarah Carne and Pat Cooper, Jo de Waal and the Cardboard Citizens, Jagat Joti Kaur, Rory Macbeth, non zero one, Seymour Arts Collective, Tamarin Norwood and Silvia Ziranek.
Saturday 22 October 2011
12:00-17:00
My piece Doing Words with Things will be performed by BSL Poets Richard Carter and Paul Scott in locations throughout the gallery over the course of the afternoon. More about Doing Words with Things is here.
On Sunday 16 October we’ll be up at dawn to chorus.
#dawnchorus is part of the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY6 project, and this part is happening on Twitter. For the past month nine of us have been developing a dawn event to mimic forms of dawn chorus birdsong in writing. Because birds don’t talk and twitter does words, we’ve been devising ways our tweets can flock or shoal together and reference the calls of individual birds. To hear the performance get up very early on the 16th and follow #dawnchorus.
We will tweet through dawn, from approximately 5:35am to 8am.
Participating writers are: Amber Massie-Bloomfield, Joanna Brown,Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars. #dawnchorus is conceived by Natasha Vicars and developed in collaboration with Mary Paterson and the writers. For more information, please email natashavicars@gmail.com, or see us on Twitter.
Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? is the title of a new work I am installing at the Whitechapel Gallery this weekend for the duration of the London Art Book Fair. The work is a Wild Pansy Press commission for their Portable Reading Room.
Visitors are invited to contribute to the Why Do Birds? catalogue of popular reason, responding to questions drawn from the lyrics of popular songs:
- Why do birds suddenly appear?
- Why are all the good girls taken every time?
- Why do fools fall in love?
- Why do you build me up build me up buttercup?
- Why can’t we get along?
- Why are you lying to your therapist?
If you can’t make it to the Whitechapel this weekend you can download and complete a Why Do Birds questionnaire and post or email it back to me. More about the catalogue will be online soon.
Fitful Thing is a love song to the line that writes it.
A handwritten line of unbroken text runs along the foot of each page as the writer struggles to address the line of ink that issues from the pen. But as long as the writing continues the line cannot be still enough to listen. Fixated on the ever-changing moment of its inscription as the nib careers across the page, the fitful line remains oblivious to the words that shape it.
Fitful Thing is an anthropomorphized expression of the gaps between a text and its writer, its reader and its object, and the impossible hope of their reconciliation. I developed the book as the culmination of my live art residency with the Chisenhale Gallery in 2011, building on my recent research into ‘self apparent’ literature. Details of publication to follow.
Lines 44-45 of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem Le Bestiaire (1911) read: Belles journées, souris du temps, Vous rongez peu à peu ma vie. (Beautiful days, time’s mice, gnawing little by little my life away.)
The image above is the first of five shelf poems I’ve just installed today at TotalKunst, Edinburgh for THESE ARE NOT POEMS. The three-day exhibition is part of the I AM NOT A POET: a two-week festival exploring connections of language, writing and art practice. More shelf poems below, more about the festival at VerySmallKitchen. [click to continue…]
Just posted at VerySmallKitchen: my contextual schema for six excerpts of What The Matter Is, a radio play first broadcast March 2009 on Resonance 104.4FM.
VerySmallKitchen and the Totalkunst Gallery, Edinburgh, present I AM NOT A POET, a 2 week festival exploring connections of language, writing and art practice. Beginning with conversations and lectures as part of AN EDINBURGH ZINE & SMALL PRESS FAIR on 7th August, I AM NOT A POET presents a series of three and one day exhibitions, alongside conversations, lectures, performances, publications, and screenings…
Artists include: Pete Cant, Magdalen Chua, Patrick Coyle, Alex Eisenberg, Jennie Guy, Colin Herd, Shandra Lamaute, Michelle Letowska, Marit Muenzberg, nick e-melville, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson, Gerry Smith, seekers of lice. Curated by David Berridge (VerySmallKitchen) and Mirja Koponen (Totalkunst Gallery).
TotalKunst Gallery, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH1 1EY
More about the festival here.
Herbarium is a web-based anthology of poems written by over 50 poets celebrating and exploring the contemporary resonances of medicinal plants and herbs. Join us for a live reading of poems from the anthology, edited by James Wilkes, and the launch of a zine which will give the anthology a printed afterlife.
Friday 22nd July 22 2011, 7:00 pm
The Urban Physic Garden
100 Union Street
London SE1 0NL
Copies of the anthology, with a CD featuring sound-poems and songs, are available for £5 plus p&p. To order please email herbariumanthology@gmail.com