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Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and its Meanings, at the LRB Bookshop

More info here.

“The Re-Enchantment is a national project by Artevents exploring our relationships with place, through art, live performance, film and writing. In Towards Re-Enchantment, eleven writers and poets each respond to a particular location within the UK and consider it in terms of its potential to ‘re-enchant’. Four contributors to the book will [...]

News from Iain

I’m collecting ‘Postcards from the 7th Floor’ soon. And will be offering 26 special copies, lettered & signed by myself & Oona Grimes, with additional material, for sale. As well as trade copies.

Kevin Ring, as you know, is publishing ‘American Smoke’, a revised extract from GHOST MILK.

And Mr Jones Watches are launching [...]

Landscaping: Artists, Maps and Britain – British Library Conference Centre

11th September 2010

14:30 – Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair: Swandown – Ordnance and Surveying “Swandown will be a travelogue and odyssey. A poetic film-diary about landscape and Culture, undertaken on board a plastic swan-shaped pedalo. In the summer of 2011, multi-talented, multi-platform artist and film-maker Kötting (Gallivant, Ivul) will pedal from Swan Lake in [...]

SWANDOWN at Coastal Currents Arts Festival

SWANDOWN: A plot by Andrew Kötting and Iain Sinclair Thursday 9 September 6 – 8pm : Talks Swandown is both travelogue and odyssey. For the last five or six years we have been formulating a plot to pedal a Swan shaped pedalo from Hastings to Hackney. As part of the research we have walked the [...]

Strangelies in Dalston (DVD)

Strangelies in Dalston

This short silent film was mostly shot in early 1969 when Dr Strangely Strange came over from Dublin to London to record their first LP, Kip Of The Serenes after producer Joe Boyd had signed them to his Witchseason company.

The band stayed in Albion Square, Dalston with old Dublin mates Renchi [...]