This may be of interest to list members on the other side of the Atlantic.

all the best

Mark Leahy
Dartington College of Arts
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Writing Space 
an exhibition of text and book works from AVT, George Mason University
and Performance Writing at Dartington College of Arts, Devon, UK. 
November 10-18 2004

Curators for AVT: Phillip Warnell, Sean Watkins, and Claire MacDonald
Curatorial Assistant Lisa McCarty
Curators for Dartington: Jerome Fletcher, Mark Leahy, and Deborah Price

exhibition:     Fine Arts Gallery and FAB alcove at George Mason University
                November 10 -- 18, 2004

screenings:     JC Cinema, George Mason University
                Monday November 15      2:00pm to 3:30pm
Tuesday November 16     10:30am to 12:00pm
Tuesday November 16     7:30pm to 9:30pm


Writing Space is the title of the text art and book art exhibition to be
held this year in the Fine Arts Gallery and FAB alcove at George Mason
University, just outside Washington, DC. It began as a small project two
years ago with work made in the AVT 395, ‘Writing for Artists’ class. Last
year the exhibition was held in the Fine Arts Gallery and featured a talk
by book artist and theorist Johanna Drucker. This year the exhibtion will
feature text and book works by students from GMU’s AVT 395 five classes,
which are being taught by four faculty: Claire MacDonald, Colleen Kearney
Rich, Megan Kelly and Laura Zam. The exhibition will also feature a
participatory film loop project as well as video and digital work made by
students in Phillip Warnell’s GMU digital and video classes. 

In addition we are bringing an exhibition from Dartington College of Art,
performance writing (1994 –2004), a cross-section of text-based work that
reflects some of the diversity of writings associated with the Performance
Writing course at Dartington College of Arts over the last decade. 

performance writing (1994 – 2004) features work by faculty and graduates,
these include poets and text artists John Cayley, cris cheek, Robert
Hampson, Caroline Bergvall, performance artist Gregg Whelan from Lone Twin
(who are currently in residence in New York), and a new short digital film
by Claire MacDonald and Pete Brooks. 

Dartington’s exhibition, performance writing (1994 –2004), first shown
earlier this year in Exeter, England, shows examples of writing operating
within, pushing up against, and exceeding the boundaries of different
media: sound-works, video-works, screen-works, page- and book-works,
installation-works; and of writing for differing contexts and cultural
settings. The exhibition, curated by Mark Leahy and Deborah Price, will be
accompanied by a series of screenings, and readings by the artists and
curators who will visit with it: Jerome Fletcher and Mark Leahy.

Writing Space will open at 4.30pm, Wednesday November 10th, with some short
readings by Jerome Fletcher and Mark Leahy, and will close on November 18
with a talk on collaborations between artists and writers by New York based
publisher Steve Clay of Granary Books. Steve Clay’s work with artists and
writers includes working with Charles Bernstein, who read here on September
22nd,  and Johanna Drucker. Granary’s ‘A Book of the Book’ and ‘The Century
of Artists’ Books’ are both used in AVT 395. Steve Clay will talk in the
Fine Arts Gallery at 4 p.m. onThursday  November 18th. The event is being
co-sponsored by NME, New Media Exchange: InterArts, Writing and Performance
which is a collaboration between English, AVT and NCC.

www.beauty.gmu.edu/avt395
www.dartington.ac.uk/pw