Apologies for cross-posting
Cobbing & Upton - Barbican 19 11 99 a note by Upton
Bob Cobbing and Lawrence Upton performed from Domestic Ambient Noise at the
Arts Book Fair at The Barbican, London on 19 11 99 (5 pm - 5.15 pm)
The performance was one of a series running throughout the fair called "Book
Activation". The contents of books are displayed in front of the audience
via a video camera.
The texts used were time goes as bought (Writers Forum 1999 ISBN 0 86162 912
4) and barbacana (Writers Forum 1999 ISBN 0 86162 913 2), two new issues of
D.A.N., made for the book fair.
Only one book could be displayed at a time. The plan had been to fight over
which book was displayed, Upton promoting time goes as bought and Cobbing
promoting barbacana, with the text in camera-view being the one to be
performed. Unfortunately, the arrangement of lectern, microphone stands and
camera angle did not permit this, so Cobbing controlled both books at the
lectern, switching them quite rapidly at times. Upton stood behind him,
responding to Cobbing and reading from his own copy of as time goes as
bought and from the screen, the latter sometimes showing barbacana.
At one point Cobbing pointed to the book, first here and then there, so that
his finger appeared on the screen and both performed what he pointed at.
The performance was well-attended and well-received.
Both old gits perform again Saturday, 20 November 1999 at 3.30.
time goes as bought and barbacana will be performed again, but more
briefly. Also to be launched / performed are:
Traces by Peter French (Writers Forum 1999 ISBN 0 86162 972 2)
and two new publications by Bob Cobbing put out by Nicholas Johnson:
kob bok: selected text of bob cobbing (1949-1999) (ISBN 1 901538 27 3)
Etruscan books - can't remember the price
&
shrieks & hisses: collected poems volume sixteen (ISBN 1 901538 26 5)
Etruscan books £5
available from Peter Riley in UK, Collected Works in Australia and SPD in
USA - according to the information in the books
no time yet to pay any attention to them beyond seeing that they are
handsome production jobs
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