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Poetry in the gallery: Otherwordly - Peltz Gallery

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Venue: Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square

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To accompany the exhibition Otherwordly at Peltz Gallery, we are pleased to present this special event. We encourage you to attend the exhibition before and after the event.

Simon Barraclough (author of Neptune Blue, Sunspots, and writer in residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory 2014) will lead us through a poetic response to the Otherworldly exhibition in the gallery space. The session, which is open to all those who are interested in participating in a workshop, will feature readings, performances and written exercises that reflect the contents of the exhibition but also aim to open up new trajectories out from the exhibition towards new work and new ideas. Expect to read, write, discuss and feed back to one another in a supportive environment.

The event will also feature a live performance of the soundscape created for the exhibition performed by sound artists Arlo Bailey-Evans and Crow Higgott. 

 

Simon Barraclough is the author of several poetry collections and pamphlets, including the Forward-shortlisted Los Alamos Mon Amour, Bonjour Tetris, Neptune Blue, Sunspots and Iarnród Éireann. He devised the multi-poet, multimedia events Psycho Poetica and Vertiginous and toured Sunspots as a one-man show with songs and films in 2015/2016. In 2014 he was writer in residence at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory and is one of three editors behind the new humanity-in-deep space enterprise Project Aboena. His latest book is Divine Hours (Broken Sleep Books 2024).

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This event is part of the events series for Otherworldly, a free exhibition at the Peltz Gallery 4 October - 6 December 2024.

Otherwordly is a group exhibition of London-based emerging artists who have worked in dialogue with the latest research in astrobiology. The study of the origins, evolution, and distribution of life in the universe, astrobiology is one of contemporary science's most rapidly developing areas of research. It explores questions such as: What is life? How does life arise from non-life? What are the essentials and contingencies of habitability and evolution? Are we alone?


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