Genuine Smiling

I’ll say the people holding it

Something You Can Do On Your Own

1. Find that the plastic light pull at the end of the cord can be screwed apart, and find that there is space inside.
2. Cut a thin strip of paper, write your name along it, roll it into a tube and insert it into the light pull.
3. Be in the room a few years later when someone who knows your name finds that the light pull can be screwed apart and that there is paper inside.
4. Look at the person when he or she opens out the paper and looks at you and nods slightly but does not say anything to you.
5. Do not say anything while the person rolls up the paper and puts it back and closes the light pull.
6. Do not say anything to the person subsequently about this, and do not expect that he or she will say anything to you about it.

Bricks

Yesterday we made some straight lines.

Word Play at the Whitechapel Gallery

Two Thursdays ago I went to the Whitechapel Gallery for an event called Word Play. We all stuck together lines and words and phrases cut out of two texts, and from these fragments and agglutinations we built a kind of play in three parts. Some of the agglutinations were exquisite.

I made one particularly nice sentence which I tried to steal and keep for myself by sellotaping it in a line to the table where I was sitting, but then I moved to be better positioned for the scissors and when I got back it had gone.

antepress at FormContent

Tomorrow from 12-6pm I’ll be at FormContent with antepress. Here’s a bit about them:

FormContent is a curatorial project space, initiated in 2007 by Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva and Pieternel Vermoortel in London’s East End. Its mission is to create a space in which to experiment with ideas and exhibition formats, to foster an active collaboration between artists and curators while challenging their roles.

… and here’s a bit about what we’ll be doing there:

out of office

I am on holiday.

Things Doing Things

You can keep doing things until things happen to them. Here are three people who know how to do this.

How Things Began

This afternoon’s Digestives broadcast on Resonance FM is How Things Began, a conversation between Adrian Rifkin and Tamarin Norwood in response to the 1950s children’s radio programme of the same name.

How Things Began airs today at 4:30pm and is repeated this Friday at 7:30pm, and you can listen by clicking the ‘Listen Now’ mp3 stream at www.resonancefm.com, or tune in to 104.4fm inside London. Afterwards it will be available to download as a podcast at www.antepress.co.uk.

Gandt Presents

For the month ahead a printed text work of mine will be online as part of WE’RE ALL GOING TO BLOW SO THE BUILDING GOES. It’s the first in a series of month-long online exhibitions at www.gandtpresents.com. Most works in the exhibition are scans of limited edition printed artists’ books, and they’re available to download until August 9th.