if p then q book launches

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Mahu closing event: if p then q book launches

Stephen Emmerson
Peter Jaeger
seekers of lice
Nathan Walker
Chrissy Williams
+ visual art and poetry collaboration

The Hardy Tree Gallery, Kings Cross
27th June 2015, 7.30pm*, Free entry, BYOB
* Peter Jaeger from 4-7 pm

if p then q is an experimental poetry press which has been publishing cutting edge work since 2008. This event is a chance to both launch the latest crop of if p then q titles and celebrate the final night of Steven Fowler’s Mahu exhibition at The Hardy Tree Gallery. As well as performances by Nathan Walker, Chrissy Williams, Stephen Emmerson and seekers of lice, the event will feature a special, not to be missed, 3 hour performance by Peter Jaeger, as well as a collaborative art workshop with artist and director of The Hardy Tree, Amelie Russell.

The event is free and there will be a bookstall selling all if p then q titles, including the recent landmark Written 1976-2013 by P. Inman.

Should you wish to this is a bring your own booze event.

Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She is director of the Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire. She is currently editing a book on Poetry Comics for Sidekick Books. Her if p then q publication, Epigraphs, has been praised highly by a number of reviewers - Sarah Gonnet, Emma Lee, Dead Ink, Stride and Shearsman. The book was also featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb.

Stephen Emmerson's books and objects include: Telegraphic Transcriptions, a never ending poem..., Comfortable Knives and Pharmacopoetics. He co edits Blart Books with Lucy Harvest Clarke. https://stephenemmerson.wordpress.com/ He has two if p then q publications - the very limited Stephen Emmerson's Poetry Wholes and the upcoming publication Family Portraits.

seekers of lice is an artist and writer, with 10 books in the Tate's collection of Artists' Books. Other books include Theatre Of Objects (VerySmallKitchen 2012) and limber (The Knives, Forks and Spoons Press). Fly-Leaf is included in VLAK 5 (2015). Her if p then q collection, Encyclops., is a print version of an artwork which was displayed at News of the World gallery in London.

Peter Jaeger is a Canadian text-based artist, poet, and literary critic now living in London. He is the author of eleven books, and his most recent publications include John Cage and Buddhist Ecopoetics (Bloomsbury 2013), 540493390 (Veer Press 2014). He has also shown bookworks and performed his work at various galleries and art festivals, including MACBA in Barcelona, the Whitechapel Gallery and the ICA in London, the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, and in Turkey at the 12th Istanbul International Biennial of Contemporary Art. He is Professor of Poetics at Roehampton University in London. His if p then q title, A Field Guide to Lost Things, is a novel which recomposes elements of the first three volumes of Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way.

Nathan Walker is an artist, curator and writer. His work investigates writing and speaking in and as performance. Primarily working in the fields of performance and action art, Nathan’s works explores expanded concepts of writing, including durational writing and sound poetry. His work also extends into online projects that consider the event of performance in electronic poetry. Alongside artist Victoria Gray he is co-director of Oui Performance an artist-led organisation dedicated to research and presentation of performance art.
nathan-walker.co.uk. His if p then q title, Action Score Generator, is a print-based version of his fantastic website of the same name.

Amelie Russell was born in Quebec City and now works in London. Alongside commissioned work, Amalie has been featured in group and solo exhibitions throughout the UK and Canada. Her most recent body of work, Four Measures, has been selected to show in the International Art Expo in Venice, Italy this year.

Mahu is SJ Fowler’s first solo exhibition in London. A novel onto gallery walls. A novel written without prelude or revision. A novel written in black ink on white walls. A novel in words that veers into neologisms. A novel in language that veers into abstract symbols. An asemic novel. A novel of twenty-one days, before it is stripped, chopped, framed, never to be reunited again.

ifpthenq.co.uk
theenemiesproject.com/mahu
hardytreegallery.com

Entry: Free

Time: 7.30