Langoustine reminder

Don't forget, Steve will be reading at Langoustine tonight. Click here for details.

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Stuckism

'International art movement for new figurative painting with ideas. Anti the pretensions of conceptual art. Anti-anti-art. The first Remodernist art group. Daubers (daubing is the new painting).' Link Also check this stuckist manifesto. These people worship at the altar of Jeremy Clarkson. Being unrevolutionary isn't revolutionary, it's boring. Give pieces a chance. Stuckism. Get rid of the 't' and you're closer. Why does everything have to be so extreme all the time? It's wearing, that's what it is. If I make things less extreme for everyone it will do us all the world of good. Maybe soon. Click more for some of my favourite-stupid Stuckist quotes. Stupid: Salmon Rushdie is the epitome of contemporary turgidity and defies anyone of sensibility to read more than one paragraph, wherever that paragraph may happen to be. His writing achieves all the characteristics that defeat anything worth saying, a position guaranteed in todays self preening philistinism to win all the prizes. His style is artificial and insulting to even avarage intilligence, the story lines are a random assemblage and the language false. We advise people not to read him. Stupider: The writer can only write what he knows about him/her self. To develop as a writer you must develop as a person. Stupidest: The probable reason that writers have to communicate in a more accessible manner is because, unlike the visual artist who only needs to pander to a self deceiving elite, the writer is reliant on the general public to buy his or her work. This is one of the most convincing proofs of democracy in action ever encountered. Off-the-scale: In any period that the writer lives he/she has to say the wrong thing to get it right.

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Review of Openned 9

'Lucy, is an artist. Lucy paints pictures of Barbara Streisand.'

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The Infinite Mind in Second Life with Kurt Vonnegut

'n August 2006, the national, weekly public radio program The Infinite Mind made broadcast history as it aired a four-part special taped inside the three-dimensional virtual on-line community Second Life. Among those interviewed in front of a live virtual audience were author Kurt Vonnegut. This is a machinema video of Vonnegut's interview taped inside Second Life, on the 16-acre virtual broadcast center built by Lichtenstein Creative Media, which produces the program. The host is John Hockenberry.' Link As not seen at Openned 9.

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'Coffee Break' by Anna Ticehurst

'Coffee Break' by Anna Ticehurst has been added to the Poetics of The Foundry issue. You can view it here.

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Salt Margins II

Thu 3 May, 7pm Whitechapel, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 Salt Margins II 'Poet and former professional snooker player Jane Holland reads from Boudicca & Co (Salt). Cult author Amy Prior presents her latest book I Can’t Believe How Great I Feel with live drawing by Sarah Doyle. Stuart Taylor premieres Metropol, his poetic exploration of the city. Plus up-and-coming poet and novelist Joe Dunthorne.' Organised by Tom Chivers, Salt in the Margins. Free, no booking necessary.

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Thanks

Many thanks to those of you who showed up last night, we hope you enjoyed the reading. Special thanks to those who bought their laptops for John Cayley's performance, and to those who read so brilliantly.

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Langoustine: May reading

Openned's very own Steve Willey will be reading at the next Langoustine. La Langoustine est morte, the 7th Saturday 5 May 2007 7.30pm The Poetry Café 22 Betterton St. Covent Garden London WC2H 9BX Adm. £5/4 cons. La langoustine est morte , The only night in London dedicated to experimental and innovative poetry, fiction and performance returns to the Poetry Café in Covent Garden for the 7th instalment of the series. This month we feature one of our strongest line-ups yet, a thrilling fusion of abstract poetics, risqué fictions, spiritual songs and ambient mischief with: Amy Prior – fiction/performance Steve Willey - poetry Perciphone Petticoat – poetry/performance Musadiq Sanwal - spirit songs

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yt communicatING

It's alive!!! IT'S ALIVE!!! Link

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Openned 9

Don't forget, Openned 9 tonight (2nd May). More info.

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