Posted by Michael Curran on October 27th, 2008 - Read comments and add your own
I want to riff on birds, riffing as a way of exploring morphic resonance between different kinds of material. Out there in the world, in art, music and literature, birds are ubiquitous. See Max Ernst’s Two Children Are Threatened By A Lark or re-run Hitchcock’s The Birds. Listen to Patti Smith’s Birdland while reading The Raven by Poe. Recall the Four and Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie, Tennessee William’s Sweet Bird of Youth, Jim Morrison’s Bird of Prey, Leda’s Swan, Coleridge’s Albatross and perhaps the saddest bird of all Lewis Carroll’s Dodo. The augurs of ancient Rome would interpret the will of the gods by studying the behaviour of birds, their flight patterns, eating habits and songs. I make no such soothsayer’s claim for my activities, which are more akin to an open play of fanciful pattern matching.
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Posted by LoveHowlMuse on February 27th, 2008 - Add a comment
Screenings of three new films by Jordan Baseman
Wednesday 27 February to Friday 29 February, 6pm
Saturday 1 March, 2pm & 4pm
The three films, Inside Man, An Event In The Village and The Documentary Imperative, continue Baseman’s research into ideas around contemporary portraiture and narrative structure, but also explore the nature, and experience of documentary filmmaking.
The Documentary Imperative
Monday 3 March, 6.30pm
Screening followed by an informal and open discussion about The Documentary Imperative with Amanda Ravetz, Rupert Cox, Steven Connor, Bryony Bond and Jordan Baseman.
For more information and forthcoming events go to www.alchemy.manchester.museum or email bryony.bond@manchester.ac.uk
All events take place at The Manchester Museum, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. To reserve places for events please call 0161 275 2648.
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