One Week Not Enough

Book Release

Ann Cotten (AT), Anna Clemensensen Bro (DK), Agnieszka Drotkiewicz (PL), Martin John Callanan (UK), Volha Martynenka (BY), Francesca Musiani (IT), Christophe Van Gerrewey (BE), Urszula Wozniak (DE).

Broken Dimanche Press freut sich, die Veröffentlichung ihres ersten Buches You Are Here ankündigen zu können. Als Anthologie mit Essays, Kritiken, Belletristik, Photographie und Dramen zeichnet You Are Here ein engagiertes Europa von jungen politischen Aktivisten und Kulturschaffenden – ein Europa, welches mit dem 9. November 1989 in Berlin in Bewegung geriet.

Wednesday, November 11 @ Basso

187, Köpenickerstrasse

U-Bahn: Schlesisches Tor

(Entrance is in the lefthand corner of courtyard) 

Broken Dimanche Press are delighted to announce the publication of their flagship book, You Are Here. A ‘pantholgy’ of essay, review, fiction, memoir, photography and drama You Are Here maps an engaged Europe of young political and cultural practitioners growing out of changes set in motion in Berlin on November 9, 1989. With contributions in five different languages You Are Here has been designed by FUK laboratories™ (Berlin). 

Edited by John Holten and Line Madsen Simenstad.
Design by FUK laboratories™
256 pages
18,4 x 12,7 cm
English (with Polish, German, Belarussian, Danish)
ISBN 978-3-00-028868-5

www.brokendimanche.eu  

You Are Here

My friend Jane Hughes recommended FUK laboratories when I told her about our plans for You Are Here, and happily I checked them out. The first impressions came through last night and they are very, very nice indeed. 

Posted Poetry

The good man Colm Keegan posted me some poetry as he promised (a long time ago it feels) A very nice surprise.

 

Chalks 

 

These coloured chalks

Fell into my lap

Fruit from a swaying bag

On a passer by.

So I use them.

To plead and swear

upon the slabs

That you wear and tear upon

and smooth out with your feet.

 

'Look at me!', I write

'I am beneath you, like the pool

from a leaky radiator,

like the roots beneath the trees.'

 

My knees don't feel

the cold housed in the concrete

I gave up on heat.

Your street

Is a barren whore to me

Anyway.

 

I seek to plant nothing

But words.

And if the rain

washes them away

If no-one sees what I say

The chalk dust

At least

will brighten the dirt

trapped by my fingernails.

Utopian Bus Tour

The Utopian Bus Tour went very well by all accounts. I had a lot of fun working with the group from Mind the Gap and turning all their research and ideas into an alternative Dublin, into a city that doesn't really exist. This is obviously a theme of mine, especially when it comes to writing about Dublin. It wasn't easy though, to envision a different city, a better city even, and perhaps that's half the problem, a failure to see past our current, veyr real cities, and focus on the 'invisible cities' of our own collective potential and imagination. 

Mind the Gap

Mind The Gap is a collaborative public art project initiated by
Michelle Browne to work with artists, designers, architects and
planners to look at open spaces in the city and consider new uses for
them. Over the course of two months the group have explored areas
across Dublin city considering how we can re-imagine our civic
society. Throughout Absolut Fringe we will present a range of
interventions that will inform and delight. The project is based at
thisisnotashop on Benburb Street Dublin 7 where you can get
information and contribute to our exhibition of ideas for the city.

Mind The Gap is an Absolut Fringe Commission.

Participants: Michelle Browne, Siobhan Carroll, Carolann Courtney,
Mark Durkan, John Holten, Colm Keller, Issac Lawless, Bryan O’Connell,
Jeni Roddy, Naomi Ronan, Tom Walsh, Chong Wang.

SEPT 5th - 4.30pm

Utopian Bus Tour – A guided tour through
Dublin with a difference. Drawing on unrealised
proposals for the city and imagining new uses
for vacant spaces, the Utopian Bus Tour will
guide you through an alternative vision for the
city. Leaves from Smithfield Square.

SEPT 12th + 19th 8-11pm

Don’t Quote Me – Projected on the outside
of the iconic Screen cinema, Mind The Gap
looks to the silver screen to investigate
Dublin’s current dilemmas. The city, planning,
corruption, and the fall of a nation are explored
through the history of cinema.

SEPT 7th -12th

Fare Play? – Taking off in a taxi from Foster
Place, Mind The Gap will offer you a chance
to learn about NAMA while visiting the sites
of the nation’s current big question. Informed
taxi drivers will explain the workings of NAMA
and show you where it will all happen. Various
times, limited space, booking essential. Email
for details.

SEPT 11th + 18th 6pm - 6.30pm

Operetta – A lone performer looks out over the
city and sings a lament to its citizens. Mind The
Gap presents a solo operatic performance on
Foster Place of arias that highlight the current
plight of the city and its uncertain future.

SEPT 19th 12pm - 3pm

Flower Show – Following from the tradition of
competitive window box competitions in the
Smithfield area, Mind The Gap offer you the
chance to come to Smithfield Plaza and design
your own flower box display to be adjudicated
by Lord Ross of Birr Castle, Father to Lord
Oxmantown. Take this opportunity to bring plant
life to the plaza.

SEPT 20th 3pm

The Big Freeze – Goethe famously said
“architecture is frozen music.” Taking
inspiration from the architecture of Smithfield
Plaza, a brass band will perform The Ride of
The Valkyries by Wagner. This collaborative
performance highlights the
peaks and troughs of Smithfield Square
as a public space.

Ongoing

Public Seating – Mind the Gap will provide
alternative public seating in the city for
visitors and commuters over the course of
Absolut Fringe. Seating will be provided on
Aungier Street, Hawkins Street and other
city centre locations

Sunken Site – Hammond Lane – A series
of visual proposals will be presented for an
unused site on Hammond Lane and Church
Street. A collection of proposals taken from
an open call from designers and architects
explore the possibilities of the disused spaces
in the city.

Thisisnotashop – The hub of the Mind The Gap
operation, the gallery will host an exhibition of
ideas for the city. Inspired by the urban myth
that Santiago Calatrava designed the James
Joyce bridge on the back of a napkin, we invite
you, the viewer, to present your ideas for the
city of an ever-expanding array of napkins.
The gallery will also host The Smithfield
Archive presenting the history of the area and
unrealised proposals for its regeneration.

Watch out for other surprise events on our blog!


Contact us at

mindthegapdublincity@gmail.com,
www.Mindthegapdublincity.blogspot.com

Fringe Box Office
Filmbase, Curved St., Dublin 2
call: 1850 FRINGE
www.fringefest.com

Thisisnotashop
26 Benburb St, Dublin 7.
www.thisisnotashop.com

Vernissage 001.3

How to distract yourself from finishing a novel, Part 1

I have a lot of work to be doing, therefore distractions are on the increase. Tuesday isVernissage 001.3 in Dublin, then on Thursday I'm reading at the Boru Revue in Phibsborough, Dublin from The Bellows City.  I've also been invited to work on a text for a great project that's part of the Fringe Festival that will be 'delivered' on Saturday, Septemebr 5th...

So for distraction:

Broken Dimanche Press is interested in what is going on in today's Europe, who is challenging conventions and investigating our shared contemporary. We see ourselves working across borders and in the future wish to translate writers and thinkers into other European languages than those they write in.

The Kakofonie is currently seeking submissions for our next issues:

002 will be concerned with the political, we'll be looking at social democracy in the 21st century and the political capital of the imagination and the arts vis-à-vis the rise of rightwing populism and the crash of the free market. We are open to all art forms and genres, and are particularly interested in receiving fiction that deals with the contemporary in imaginative and challenging ways.

003, this issue will be comprised of video work. We interested in video art, literary videos (including viral promotion work for books etc), experimental documentary and any other work you'd care to send along.

We have finished sourcing material for our flagship book You Are Here, to be published in November. It will include poets, novelists, philosophers, political acitivists amongst other disciplines from across Euorope, including the award winning Ann Cotten (GER), novelist Agnieszka Drotkiewicz (POL), political scientist Francesca Musiani plus many more...

At the moment we are also interested in hearing from anyone who feels committed to experimental fiction and poetry, challenging political journalism, translation and philosophy in terms of book length ideas.

Submit to :

holtenjohn@gmail.com

Multiple submissions are fine.

We will strive to reply to all correspondence.

We can't go on for ever without submissions so please send something!

Kakofonie Vernissage 001.2 Oslo

Thnx

Gratitude to: Sylvain Marchand & Lisbeth Løvbak Berg

Vernissage 001.2 Oslo

As one of the themes of the issue is the transformative power of the walk along the City's streets, the second exhibition launch of The Kakofonie will occur outside on Grønlandsleiret, 0190, the site of the now closed Grønlandshagen. An Oslo favourite in its day, The Kakofonie will return to this shut up site and reinvest it with life for the evening. Come join us for a drink and perusal of the latest issue.

Launch 001.1 Berlin

Public welfare stuffed full of cultural nourishment

Everything is moving forward. I've gotten Charlie Stadtlander's crossword in my inbox and I'm like a fucking kid at christmas. The Kakofonie is proving the highlight of the summer already. Then there's Ann Cotten's text Verschwörung und Verwechslung translated wonderfully by Joy Hawley,  and my head is spinning. I'm thinking, this is the shit, this is fucking wonderful. You Are Here has received three of its contributions in the last three days and I'm very excited about them, the whole thing is coming together and beginning to show that it's really going to say something. Roll on November 9!

THe Kakafonie is Coming Soon

Andrea Bedorin (IT) / Andrea DeAngelis (US) / John Lalor (IRE & FR) / Patrick O Beirne (GER) / Luke Sheehan (IRE) / Charlie Stadtlander (US) / Simon Stranger & Susanne Krövel (NOR) / Pia (NOR) / Christian Ward (UK) / Karl Whitney (IRE) 

http://www.brokendimanche.eu/kakofonie