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Shrapnel | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. In 1998, for reasons that are explained in the full length working title:. 8220;Shrapnel: extracts from a documentary fiction on the subject of money, containing many fabricated quotations, in which one hundred ‘lucky’ pennies are found, gathered from city streets and saved towards the purchase of a lottery ticket.”. I came to think of. Witnessed might very well happen outside the written story, while the outcome of an incident that we. 8220;Can ...
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Robert Holcombe | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. On The Fringes of the Independent Group: The Collages of Gene and Michael Harrison (Robert Holcombe 1923 2003). Many works are also unsigned, notably those in the. Series (1974 1981) and. 8220;…open a distance between the work and myself. Few things irritate me more than lazy assumptions that artworks are invariably the confessions of their creators.”. The Book of Disquiet. Gothic Conversation: A Crucifix for Luis Bunuel. Not Smoking Can Seriousl...
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Exotica Suite & Other Fictions (Launch at New Art Exchange, July 10, 2015) | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. Exotica Suite and Other Fictions (Launch at New Art Exchange, July 10, 2015). Exotica Suite and Other Fictions. Will be out on July 10th, via Shoestring Press for the print publication, and as a full length album, also titled. Ghost Box, 2014). The launch will also premiere a cycle of related short films to which the recordings act as soundtracks. It’s all scheduled to take place at at New Art Exchange. BOOK PUBLICATION CONTENTS and BLURB:. Simul...
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Decoding Monkey | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. In her essay ‘ Chinese Tricksters. Danita Fleck groups Huang Yong Ping. With Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, and Song Dong as artists who have. It’s in this light that Monkey seems very relevant to both Huang Yong Ping’s own work and the role played by artists in China more generally during the past two decades: as Fleck goes on to point out, specifically of Monkey surely the best known of all Chinese trickster figures. Play BBC Sport 2008 clip: 2m]. Both the...
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Baroque Poetics | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. 8216;The Surrealist Look: An Erotics of Encounter’. 8220;Living Brest to Chrystall Masse”: Thomas Philipott’s Poems. 1646) and the Poetics of the English Baroque. LCMartin, introducing a reprint of Thomas Philipott’s little-known Poems. The terms of condemnation in the Life of Cowley. This is not exactly the position being taken when Martin quotes Johnson’s “voluntary deviation from nature” as a critical comment on PhilipottR...And linked thei...
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Sarah Lucas | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. With Knobs On … : Sarah Lucas and British Art in the 1990s. 8220;Where’s it all going? What are we fucking up to, if anything, that we all think is so important? Sarah Lucas, 1996. A now long-forgotten poet named Hugh Sykes Davies, writing two years after the high watermark of English Surrealism, the International Exhibition of 1936, sent a fairly standard-issue bit of automatist poetry to. Signs That Say What You Want Them To Say …. 1991), among...
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Seven Steps | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. This is a version of a talk given on Sunday 31 August 2008 at The Reading Room’s. Writing On The Theme Of Hysteria. Session, in collaboration with The Coelacanth Press. The event was staged to mark the occasion of. Without Pomp or Nonsense,. A re-enactment of Lord Byron’s funeral in Nottingham. The piece also appeared in. The Coelacanth Journal No.2: Hysteria. Seven Steps On The Road To Mundane Hysteria. Trans Gwendolyn Albert, Prague, 2000).
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Interview | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. The following interview was conducted by Anneliese Hill, a student on Dr Sophie Mayer’s Creative Writing: Poetry course at Middlesex University in the Spring of 2012, for inclusion on the I Don’t Call Myself A Poet. 1: Firstly, what was the first poem you read and how do believe this has affected you? I can’t remember the first poem I ever read but my dad had a habit of singing grotesque songs to us in the car as small children:. Reading books on...
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Reality of Art | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. The text below was drafted from notes used as part of a symposium on the theme. The Reality of Art. Held at the Courtyard Theatre, Shoreditch, as part of. On May 2, 2012. Chaired by Michael Bucknell, the panel consisted of Tom Estes. Artist), William Howard (director of Projection Gallery. Kenneth Nwagbogu (arts entrepreneur), Irene Kukota (independent researcher) and Laureana Toledo. Notes Towards an Informal Statement on The Reality of Art.
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Poems | Wayne Burrows
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Blog and website of Wayne Burrows. A Thousand Empty Bowls. Links to poems online:. 2011 – ). Let us now stand here, glance. Through light as it enters the shallows. And shows the sun and water fused;. Let us seize what their coupling. Reveals to us, hold in mind. How its sparkling pewter-white. Turns gold, copulates with slate-blue waves,. Surges, laps around our feet. And foams where salt water ovulates stones. In the lime-washed forcefield. Of the daylight moon. It exults. As we are, but nonetheless.
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