Category Crinolines
Weather, Whether Radar: the book
Written and published despite all the difficulties associated with Covid, the Institute collaborated with Ethical Midge to publish Redell Olsen’s remarkable book, Weather, Whether Radar: Plume of the Volants. This artist’s book offers glimpses of Olsen’s digital studio and portfolio of work as the winner of the DARE Art Prize, awarded by the University of […]
Anthology of Writing (For Robert)
Here at the Institute we’re only slowly emerging from the difficulties of coronavirus lock-down exhaustion and its various aftermaths. As we gather strength for new work, here’s a look back at one of our exciting publications, an anthology of writing gathered in honour of Robert Hampson and published jointly with the Poetics Research Centre, Royal […]
Cutting Carbons
New book from the Institute: Drew Milne, Cutting Carbons (2019). 20 pages, 3 poems in sequence – ‘Rock Song’, ‘Cutting carbons in the sky’ and ‘Plastic Palace’ – (epigraph and extracts below) in an edition of 100 copies (£4.00 / £5.00 including UK postage / postage elsewhere on request). ‘Rock Song’ and ‘Cutting carbons in […]
For Robert: An Anthology
An Anthology for Robert, June 2017 RHUL Poetics Research Centre Electric Crinolines Editions. https://indd.adobe.com/embed/f4f65fa1-970f-467f-8cd0-48405e21d73b?startpage=1&allowFullscreen=true
Smock
Hot on the heels of ‘Mox Nox’, the Institute of Electric Crinolines are delighted to announce the publication of Redell Olsen’s new chapbook, ‘Smock’. Printed in an edition of 200 numbered copies, with full colour printing of image and text through, the book is 28 pages long. The book is framed by an epigraph from Luce […]
Mox Nox
The Institute are delighted to announce publication of Redell Olsen’s new book ‘Mox Nox’. The book was handmade in an edition of 10 copies for BOOKMARE project 2, ‘of average sunlight’, currently on show in Kingsgate Studios, London. Set in Gill Sans and Copperplate, printed on Canelletto 160 and tracing paper, the edition features photosensitive adhesive […]
Solar Commune
The Institute are delighted to announce the publication of Drew Milne’s latest book, well booklet really. It’s called ‘solar commune’ and it’s just a tad under A6 in dimensions, printed on handmade papers, using writing by Drew and photographs he took in the Luberon, France, in the summer of 2016. The photographs are of a secretive community […]
lichen sayings
An unprecedented surge in votes for lichens has persuaded some here at the Institute that it might be worth sharing a few of the many proverbs, aphorisms and otherwise abbreviated sayings that make up lichen folklore. Drew Milne, curator of the Institute’s lichen research section, is currently applying for grants like it’s going out of […]
Vote Lichen
Here at the Institute, the recent election saw Drew Milne campaigning for the politics of lichens. Taking some well earned time off from a hectic schedule, he attempted to put the wider perspective into a thoroughly provincial and depressing election. Here are a few of his election posters.
Lichen Gruel
Here at the Institute, we’ve been so busy, it’s been a while since we’ve posted anything. Here’s a glimpse of Drew Milne’s recent piece of work entitled ‘Lichen Gruel’, currently on show in Churchill College, Cambridge as part of the group show ‘Englightened Perspectives: an exhibition working through science and art’. The show is up […]
Visual Poetics Exhibition: Cambridge
English Faculty Library, University of Cambridge Curated by Redell Olsen
News from the youth section
Younger members of the Institute often confuse juvenilia with juvenalia, but research into seasonal forms of transport goes ahead regardless. With the count down in full swing, the relation between the advent calendar and the number of shopping days till Xmas is one among a number of critical debates. Other pressing questions include: a) how […]
crinolines amid ruins
Drew Milne will read recent poems at: Daniel Blau Gallery. ‘….Recognition of the limits of pure poetry, and the necessary negotiation with impurities of language, literary form, cultural history, and contemporary sociality helps to make modernist poetics so restless, awkward, and interesting. If the ruins resemble the wasteland of a modern land-fill refuse site, there […]
The Institute goes to London
Members of the Institute will be performing in central London at the Runnymede Literary Festival, Saturday, March 23rd, 2013. It is expected that younger members of the institute will frolic in the vicinity. 1.0 – 2.00: Simon Smith, Adrian Clarke, S.J. Fowler 2.00 – 3.00: Redell Olsen, Drew Milne, Stephen Mooney 3.15 – 4.15: Jennie […]
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