SUPERNORMAL is an experimental festival of arts and music, expanding upon new paradigms of what a festival can be. Independent and uncompromising, it champions multi-faceted, exploratory art and music from the underground, margins and fringes to impart inspiring and engaging encounters beyond the everyday and the expected.

Supernormal 2017 will take place from 4-6 August at Braziers Park, Oxfordshire. Weekend tickets are available here priced at £85, including camping (no extra booking fees to pay).

https://www.supernormalfestival.co.uk/programme

Phonica: Six

A selection of exceptional musicians, writers and artists working in a mix of media, playfully challenge the boundaries of word and sound.

Phonica: Six features performances from a host of trailblazing and award-winning Irish and international writers, musicians and artists working in the realms of new and electro-acoustic music, contemporary poetry, installation and audio-visual composition, improvisational writing, telecommunications research and ethno-jazz.

This groundbreaking initiative offers a unique opportunity to experience performances from across Europe and beyond rooted in multiplicity, collaboration and innovation.

Phonica is a primarily poetry and music series with an emphasis on multiformity and the experimental. Conceived, programmed and hosted since early 2016 by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska, Phonica aims to explore compositional and performative ideas and to encourage a melting pot of audiences and artists from across artforms.

Curated and hosted by Christodoulos Makris & Olesya Zdorovetska

Artists: Lina Andonovska, Jessica Foley, IRIDE PROJECT, Claire Potter, Billy Ramsell, Nazgul Shukaeva.

http://smockalley.com/phonica-six/

Coupler, closing event
Sunday July 2nd, 14:00, Xero, Kline & Coma.

Catenary, is a reading performance by Claire Potter with artist Frank Wasser that activates Potter's sculptural text installation, Coupler. 

Constructed over two floors and incorporating the connecting staircase, Coupler's provisional scaffold structure aligns two stretcher-like platforms on the first and lower floors of the gallery. Face-down on scaffolding mesh stretched across the platforms, are installed site writings made in Barcelona's gothic quarter, and at Gaudi's famously incomplete La Sagrada Familia Basilica. In adopted stress positions, Potter and Wasser will perform the task of reading these texts, comporting around descriptions of architectural form and the aftermath of a violent encounter. 

Doors will be open from 14:00 and Catenary will begin at 14:15.

zarf presents:

WORD!EVENT

7pm on Wednesday 12th July

at Wharf Chambers, Wharf Street, Leeds.

Our next event is in just three weeks’ time! Joining us with their Words will be Jow Lindsay Walton and Claire Potter!! DO NOT MISS the chance to see them with us in Leeds. 

Please note we are downstairs again – level access at the rear of the building, and accessible loos through the bar.

We will also have a book table, so come and visit, circulate and peruse… 

See you soon!

ABOUT THE PERFORMERS

Jow Lindsay Walton is the co-editor of Sad Press and Hix Eros. He has written two speculative fiction novels, Invocation and Alice Shrugged, and his most recent poetry pamphlet is Ten Laws. He lives in Bristol and sometimes goes to other places. Twitter: @jolwalton / @hixeros.

Claire Potter works across performance, publication, installation and film. Influenced by linguistics and performance theory, Potter’s work challenges received definitions of reading, writing, and speaking, to reconsider what it is to ‘articulate’. Thematically their practice is centred on the temporalities of traumatic experience, and it is through this rubric that they approach socially and politically orientated subjects such as adolescence and gender-based violence. Recent and forthcoming writing includes: How does it feel when you put it on? OAR journal, Oxford University Press; Inside an explosion is calm, Cesura/Assecco journal, London; Penmon Point, Penmon, in No Title, CCA Derry-Londonderry; Lads of Aran, in The Body that Remains, Punctum, New York; and, White hot, very, very, Ma Bibiloteque, France. Potter is from Merseyside and is currently based in Yorkshire.

"CCA is pleased to announce that Mason Leaver-Yap, Claire Potter, Karl Holmqvist and Jacob Wren have been commissioned to contribute texts for ‘No Title’, CCA’s ongoing public project with Sarah Pierce. ‘No Title’ is centred around Pierce’s interest in dementia, taking a creative and critical approach to ‘the community of dementia’ that departs from the typical artistic approaches of the therapeutic or diagnostic. The project continues the artist’s ongoing interests in narrative, collective memory, and constructions of community."

http://cca-derry-londonderry.org/news/karl-holmqvist-mason-leaver-yap-claire-potter-and-jacob-wren-commissions-announced/

Images from No Title project exercises, Exercise 4 Shape Pack, Sarah Pierce

More details to follow. 

Reading new fiction for launch of Cesura//Acceso journal for music, politics and poetics.

More info: https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/cesura-acceso-issue-2-launch/

Public talk at Sandberg Instituut, for Critical Studies MFA programme. 

"The Disembodied Voice and the Cassette Tape which includes artworks by, Maia Conran, Patrick Coyle, Karen Di Franco, Tom Goddard, Kihlberg & Henry, Francesco Pedraglio, Holly Pester and Claire Potter."

Part of Maia Conran residency at Cardiff Contemporary 2016.

http://www.kingsgateworkshops.org.uk/single-post/2016/11/14/Maia-Conran-The-Disembodied-Voice-and-the-Cassette-Tape-with-a-presentation-on-The-Unbook-Prize-at-Cardiff-Contemporary-2016

SUBVEILLANCE PRESENTS REFLECTIONS ON ‘THE END’ FOLLOWED BY BRIDGET HAYDEN AND CLAIRE POTTER

CONCERT / SATURDAY 29TH OCTOBER, 19:00 / £5.00

Gallery II, University of Bradford and M@BU - Music at Bradford University presents as an off site event for the exhibition curated by Helen Kaplinsky Subveillance: 50 years of the University of Bradford from below

http://www.wearefuse.co/project/152/subveillance-presents-reflections-on-the-end-followed-by-bridget-hayden-and-claire-potter/

Reading performance at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield. Programmed by Linda Kemp

Reading performance at launch of exhibition publication for group show Overlay, at White Rainbow. 

Reading from CHAVSCUMBOSS at Gramophone Ray Gun poetry event run by The Dock Road Press at The Everyman, Liverpool. 

More info soon at: http://www.everymanplayhouse.com/whats-on

ACTION POETRY

Action Poetry is a series of performance events that consider the poem as an action. Action Poetry will present artists whose practices explore language in expanded forms hoping to remove boundaries between disciplines and discover new possibilities for the voice, writing and performance.

Claire Potter & Mark Greenwood
Thursday 10th March 2016
KIOSK PROJECT SPACE, 41 Fossgate, York
7pm - 8:30pm 

http://www.ouiperformance.org.uk/actionpoetry

Monthly noise and performance event at PowerLunches, London.

Performing alongside Blood Stereo, Vicky Langan, Charcoal Owls & Ravioli Me Away.

Reading and slide projection performance Lads of Aran at Foaming At The Mouth, art/writing event in Dublin, Ireland. Other performers include storyteller Sahand Sahebdivani, artist Emma Haugh, writer Sue Rainsford and artists Eoghan Ryan and Shane McCarthy. 

Performing with musician and artist Bridget Hayden at Todmorden Unitarian Church alongside musician John Chantler and Elizabeth (Andy Abbott). 

https://www.facebook.com/events/915156601859794/

Along with artist Lily Keal, I will be staging an version of The Figure of The Lad in response to the Recording at The North Wall, recording an exhibition by Joseph Noonan-Ganley and Nina Wakeford. 

http://www.thenorthwall.com/moreinfo.php?ref=ruskin-recording

The Figure of The Lad is a reading performance that positions and investigates The Lad as a figure defined as an exterior. The performance draws on colour theory, ritualised gesture and sportswear to invoke and explore The Lad's surface.  

The exhibition _being being read being reading being read and reading beings_  is curated by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner for Furtherfield gallery, London. It marks the publication of Torque #2: Reading.

http://furtherfield.org/programmes/clear-spots/torque-2-reading-room

http://torquetorque.tumblr.com/