Category Life

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

Lichen Strains: digital post card

Infinite Editions have just posted Drew Milne’s ‘Lichen Card’ (2013), as one in the series of their digital post cards to download and print. This is the first showing of Drew Milne’s LICHEN STRAINS project. Links: Inifinite Editions There’s also an index of all the many great things on the Infinite Editions site.

‘smoke & fluff’

‘Smoke & Fluff’ was made in in 2012 for the ‘Pussy Riot’ solidarity event in Cambridge and then later shown at the Parasol Unit, London in December 2012.

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 […]

urban ducks and tree crinolines

Urban life around the Institute continues to defy the situationist need to go on the dérive. Footage from April of this year has just come in, featuring a duck and ducklings that took to the pavement at some distance from water, as if compelled to exercise their nervous urbanity. Deprived of footage, the still is […]

Pussy Riot Cambridge night documentation

Here are a few images and a poem from an extraordinary night of readings and performances in the Judith E Wilson Drama studio, Cambridge, in solidarity with Pussy Riot, 21.10.210. The event grew out of the English PEN anthology ‘Catechism: Poems for Pussy Riot’, edited by Sophie Mayer, Mark Burnhope and Sarah Crewe. There were […]

Pussy Riot Solidarity in Cambridge

Pussy Riot Solidarity Night in Cambridge Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, University of Cambridge Faculty of English 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP 7.45 pm, Wednesday 21st November. All welcome. A night of poetry readings and brief performances in solidarity with Pussy Riot, to coincide with solidarity nights across the UK and in conjunction with […]

Departures from the Institute: a flower of fuzz

Here at the Institute, the flowers of fuzz are much prized, and so it is with some sadness that we report the departure of a much respected colleague, the Addrock Geranium Fuzz: A firm favourite for some years, this fuzz face clone of quality produces sputtery blooms of soft-clipping distortion, care of its finely tuned […]

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Documentation at the Institute…

  Documentation of recent readings, performances, film poems and reading in Paris

Security alert at the institute: mobilo scooter lock

sculptural installation or security consciousness? Night duty staff at the institute were thrown into confusion on discovering this Mobilo scooter lock, later photographed in the light of day. Were younger members of the institute set upon transforming everyday life into an art installation, reshaping the lived as resonances of plastic and plasticity? Or was the […]

POLYply 21 LOVE

POLYply 21 >  7 pm October 11th. C4cc. 16 Acton Street. Kings Cross. London.

POEMS FOR: Pussy Riot

CATECHISM: POEMS FOR PUSSY RIOT, edited by Mark Burnhope, Sarah Crewe & Sophie Mayer Members of the Institute of Electric Crinolines featured in Poems for Pussy Riot. Download it here!

Bodies of Memory

BODIES OF MEMORY directed by Fiona Templeton at Tate Britain, October 5, 2012   At Late at Tate on October 5th 2012, artists’ group New Work Network presents Acts of Legacy, a series of performances, films and debates exploring the influence and memory of experimental and ephemeral art practices from the late 60s to the present day. […]

Double Change vous invite à une lecture de

Thursday 27 September, 7:30pm @ galerie Jérôme Poggi: Redell Olsen and Charles Robinson Redell OLSEN et Charles ROBINSON Le jeudi 27 septembre à 19h30 GALERIE JÉRÔME POGGI + OBJET DE PRODUCTION 115/117, rue La Fayette – 75010 Paris – Tél. : + 33 (0)9 51 02 51 88 M° Gare du Nord ou Poissonnière – Parking Vinci rue […]

A Rocket for Astrid

A Rocket for Astrid with Hubble telescope observing in the distance. Stay tuned for news of exhibitions at the Institute.