RATIONAL REC presents THE OULIPO NIGHT
Tuesday 5 June 2007
Organised by Andrew Infanti and Matthew Shlomowitz
Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
44 Pollard Row, London E2
(5 mins from Bethnal Green tube)
£5 on the door
Doors open at 8pm, first performance 8.30pm
www.rationalrec.org.uk
Rational Rec is a monthly inter-art social occasion based at Bethnal Green
Working Men's Club, incorporating sound, music, text, performance, film and
dessert into a damn good night out. Come along and be artistically,
intellectually and alcoholically stimulated.
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The OuLiPo - an acronym that translates as "workshop of potential
literature" - was a post-war French literary movement that included Georges
Perec, Italo Calvino and Raymond Queneau. The tenet of the OuLiPo is to
create literature via constraints such as palindromes and lipograms.
The event Features:
-- An OuTraPo performance (Workshop for Potential Tragi-comedy)
-- Interview with Stanley Chapman, the first exponent of OuLiPo in the UK in
the 1960's
-- OuLiPo like music pieces by Tom Johnson and Damien Ricketson
-- Oulipean activities and games for the audience
-- "Documentary Saga of the OuLiPo" - a new multimedia work by Rees
Archibald, Andrew Infanti and Matthew Shlomwowitz that promises to explain
everything you need to know about OuLiPo.
-- Book stalls by Bookworks, Artwords Bookshop and Strange Attractor.
Stanley Chapman (b. 1925) was a British architect, designer, translator and
writer. He became a member of Oulipo in 1960, founded the Outrapo, and is
also a member of the French Collège de 'Pataphysique, and the London
Institute of 'Pataphysics and the Lewis Carroll Society. His English
translation of Hundred Thousand Billion Poems was received with "admiring
stupefaction" by Raymond Queneau.
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RATIONAL REC is organised by Russell Martin, Cecilia Wee and Matthew
Shlomowitz.
First Tuesday of every month at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club
www.rationalrec.org.uk
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Cecilia Wee
4 Augustus court
Woodfield avenue
London SW16 1LG
020 8677 5104(London)
07929 108 360 (Mobile)
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www.ceciliawee.com
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