edition #7: unwritten language / unnamed places

I hope you all have as much fun browsing through this as I did putting it together!
Edition #8 will be hosted by Walter Bjorkman at "Qwik bake Synthetics".
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Edition #7: Sean Burn

Today I am presenting something different - a guest piece for Edition #7 of the blog Carnival >language>place.

 Artist Sean Burn honours us with an extract from his latest exhibition, semtxt.

semtxt. a sequence of one word visual poems. surrounded, often defined by words, we also use language to free ourselves. and language is alive as this exhibition shows. semtxt is a body of visual poetry in charcoal. it produces a backdrop akin to jackson pollocks drip paintings by furious action-writing and rewriting over and over repetitively to reclaim languages. this produces a layer of 'asemic' language - which you can look at but cannot 'read'. then a new word which collides existing words in new combinations is erased out of this dense layer of charcoal to comment on many aspects of contemporary life including medicine, mental health, media, nationhood, sexuality, warfare, family, environment etc. radical antipsychiatrists, deleuze/guattari talk about the lines of our life - both the formal ones - & also the more subliminal, that mark our unique voyages. i try following these ones in my work, giving voice to alternatives, these strategies for survival 

the exhibition runs 23rd june to 7th july 2011, at oriel beaufort, temple street, llandrindod wells. ld1 5hg. wales. It is open tuesdays and wednesdays 10am to 4pm, other times by appointment; telephone 01597-8222777 for further information.

See also http://www.celfogwmpas.org/www.celfogwmpas.org/Artist_in_Residence.html

Coming soon!

Submissions are open until 24th June!

Look out for the new edition of the carnival here next week!


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Still alive...

Just spending time working on the upcoming >language>place blog carnival (I want it to be perfect!) and the absorbing 100 days project... catch me at either of those places!

Submission call

Still enjoying the blog carnival edition #6, over at Glow Worm. This morning I have gone back and re-read the section Poetry playing at the edge. "Enjoying" again Sharon Cooper's haunting line "daily there is less of me". This afternoon, who knows which one(s) I will dip into. I love holidays, lazy days off work when everyone else is busy, especially if they are not filled with strangely unshiny silver vertical rain, like yesterday.

And now, the call for submissions to edition #7 - the theme for edition #7 is "unwritten language / unnamed places"

• How is spoken language different to the written word? How does an unknown language sound? How do you read the language of the body? How does music dovetail with language? Can pictures speak languages?
• How do you remember places? Many of my favourite places are too small for names, so you have to describe them, "You know, the beach that appears at low tide, in that corner between the house and the pier with the stone steps, up the road from the coastguard station..."
  Sometimes places become synonymous with language, this place is simply "beach" or "moor" or "city" or "home".
  Some places may not have names, or may have too many names.   

The edition is planned for end of June, submissions are open from June 1st to June 24th. Click here for details about how to join in the Carnival. Send an e-mail to me at "langplace AT gmail DOT com", and include the link to your blog entry, and a brief description of your language/place contribution (1-2 sentences) You do not have to send themed entries, but I will prefer them ;)

You can find out more about the carnival here, and more about it's originator, Dorothee Lang at her blog virtual notes. You can also find a complete listing of the editions on the >language>place page here.

Carnival News (provided the world did not end at 6pm)

I am looking forward to edition #6 of the blog carnival >language>place, to be hosted by Michelle Elvy over at Glow Worm. Each edition seems to get richer and richer, and it is fascinating to see how each host puts the edition together. And daunting too, there is a lot to live up to for me, as I will be hosting edition #7.


The theme for edition #7 is "unwritten language / unnamed places"

How is spoken language different to the written word? How does an unknown language sound? How do you read the language of the body? How does music dovetail with language? Can pictures speak languages?

How do you remember places? Many of my favourite places are too small for names, so you have to describe them, "You know, the beach that appears at low tide, in that corner between the house and the pier with the stone steps, up the road from the coastguard station..."
Sometimes places become synonymous with language, this place is simply "beach" or "moor" or "city" or "home".
Some places may not have names, or may have too many names.   

The edition is planned for end of June, submissions are open from June 1st to June 24th. Click here for details about how to join in the Carnival. You do not have to send themed entries.

You can find out more about the carnival here, and more about it's originator, Dorothee Lang at her blog virtual notes. You can also find a complete listing of the editions on the >language>place page here.