I have a visual text / poem included in the World Book Night 2026 exhibition at Bower Ashton Library, UWE Bristol open from Thursday 2nd April to Friday 31st July 2026. The theme or prompt for the submissions was ‘The Mountains are Calling,’ and artists were asked to send works up to A5 in size, that responded to the prompt. We were also asked for texts or works that could be added to a growing bibliography of ‘mountainish’ texts.
My landscape text is on the right in this image from the installation. (Photo by Marian Kilpatrick) More information can be found here: https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/wbn2026/
The Scores Project presents 11 works or projects initiated between 1953 and 1975, that used scores within their realisation, their dissemination, their presentation, or their documentation. These scores are accompanied by contextualising essays and digitised copies of printed, audio, and video material in a web environment that mixes archive, essay collection, anthology and exhibition. Each key work is represented by multiple items including photographs, video clips, notebooks, correspondence, publicity materials, as well as drawings, notations, diagrams, instructions and other forms by which the score is presented.
The publication [aims] to find better ways to share and educate audiences about these complex and untidy works. These are works that in library or conservation terms involves bits of paper, cards, grainy video recordings, notes and sketches. Digital technology and an online platform allow readers and viewers to engage with these in new ways, and to encounter them in the context of framing essays and scholarship.
My review of a new publication on the work of Dick Higgins, AlchemiesofTheater:Plays, Scores, Writings edited by Bonnie Marranca, is now live on the Leonardo Reviews site.
Marranca’s focus is on performance theory and history, and she frames each of the four sections with a short prefatory essay. These give some historical and critical context for the works, and offer background information on productions, or publication, gathered from the archive, or through correspondence with collaborators, performers, family and friends of Higgins.
The book introduced me to works by Higgins I was unaware of and gives a sense of the range and variety of his practice. You can read the review at:
