So when will this show hit the US?  Seriously, has Cobbing ever had an
> American exhibition--or Canadian?  He should have.
>

That depends upon the US.

In 2007, there was "Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You" at the
Rosenwald Gallery - organised by Matthew Abess, I believe, using Marvin
Sackner's archive. I have a catalogue somewhere

I'm told Bob is included in the exhibition currently at UBGallery; and
fine as those people are (if I could remember it I'd pastiche Vonnegut's
disclaimer from BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS) I regret the apparent lack of
published documentation; so I don't know what's in it beyond some of the
names -- my name not carrying enough weight to be advertised the only
people who know I'm in it are those I tell: I'm in it, I'm in the e-poetry
bit, a big paper engineering job by me and Guy Begbie that cris spoke of
when it was shown in May; it's crossing the Atlantic more often than I am

There was Eyerhymes in Canada (Edmonton?), my god, 15 years ago, almost 15
years. That was general but from descriptions it included a substantial
number of Cobbing items, though possibly _the hits_

I did tout this -- what I can provide -- with various possibles your side...

As I am now apparently making some progress *this side, I am not
*immediately pushing. There seems to me no point in getting people keen
only to say _sorry, can't make an agreement just now_

This exhibition is different to the one I did in London in the spring,
quite different. I could do a bigger one of both.

My ideal would be to get a REALLY big one and I am putting some effort
into that just now -- if we reach for the stars maybe we'll get upstairs.
That would enable me -- no, encourage me -- to document it all better and
comment... No one's paying me for this and I do the work in between other
things.

Once I had a superset I could make subsets; but I am further on than I was
by having made this effort. I don't have to redo what I have done, though
I might want to revise or expand it.

Not that what I have done is near perfect; because rfecently I have been
annoyingly unwell -- i.e. not dying but coughing and apparently choking!
So, somewhere yesterday, on a couple of occasions, I thought: that'll do!

Missing date, missing dimension... I could get them with effort, but I am
trying to survive in some order! Wanting to have done with the judgment of
a nagging consciousness

Should there be an invite from the states or canada, i shall of course ask
about carriage, insurance, fares, subsistence, (fee?)

I'm a reasonable man *and, for instance, I absorbed the fares to Bristol
and  carried the stuff on my aging shoulder rather than waste time filling
out grant forms; but across the Atlantic would be too expensive

There will come a point at which I shall disperse the stuff I have
gathered.  For now, though, I seem to be doing ok in bringing it to some
attention.

I am very pleased to be at Bristol. They're sympathetic and there it
raises the question of what is and is not an artist's book

If anyone wants to talk to me seriously about getting stuff shown in north
america, I am open to it, though immediately it would be speculative while
I follow up on two venues which seem very keen but have yet to confirm
dstes -- but I can be fairly certain that nothing much can easily happen
till February next because much material is tied up till then at UWE

(Documentation for Bristol is written, as I say, and will go up tomorrow
morning as the show opens -- no preview. I'll decide this week how and
when to make it available more widely. I won't maker it available until
the venue has seen it; that would be badly mannered!)

Best


Lawrence


On Sat, December 3, 2011 16:16, bob grumman wrote:
> So when will this show hit the US?  Seriously, has Cobbing ever had an
> American exhibition--or Canadian?  He should have.
>
>
> --Bob G.
>
>


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