I first found Berlin's Kunsthaus Tacheles on 4 September 1997, purely by chance. It blew my mind. This is (with slight edits) what I wrote in my travel journal the next day: We got to this place! It was a cafe-bar as you go in, with cool, industrial decorations. There was a back door which lead to a garden/small park. Wow! It was mad. There was another bar next door and the building was four storeys high and severely run down. We went up and on the second floor there was another bar and cinema which was showing Kubrick's Dr Strangelove . On the fourth floor was an art exhibition of contemporary East German paintings. As we walked through the park there was all sorts of junk and small stones dotted around, and lots of people with weird clothes just hanging around. On the far side there was a temporary stage with some sort of performance going on, with people shouting and banging drums and singing. On the left there was yet another bar, a few wooden tables ...
Publication Title: sorry that you were not moved Authors: Kimberly Campanello & Christodoulos Makris Publisher: Fallow Media Date of Publication: 10 February 2022 Availability: Free sorry that you were not moved is an interactive collaborative digital poetry publication by Kimberly Campanello and Christodoulos Makris exploring space-time dimensions of travel through experimental-appropriative writing strategies and audiovisual interventions. It was created in collaboration with Ian Maleney of Fallow Media, inspired by Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities , and made with the support of an Arts Council Literature Project Award. CLICK HERE to travel. Dear reader, After several months navigating digital space-time in intertextual collusion with Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities , we present these mementoes of what we encountered on our voyages. The engines of our digital travels were fired by diverse strategies and they landed us both nowhere and everywhere. All refle...
This spring I will lead an 8-week course with title 'writing as a reader / reading as a writer.' The course is offered as part of the Irish Writers Centre Academy 's Spring 2026 programme. This is an online course. Beginning on Thursday 5 March 2026, it will run weekly between 6.30pm - 8.30pm Dublin time. Limited spaces available. Book your place here . Full course information on the IWC website , and below. Course Summary: As poets and writers we are first and foremost readers mediating external material, text and otherwise, in the process of making new work. And as readers operating in the digital age we are increasingly aware of the creative potential of reading and repurposing. In ‘writing as a reader / reading as a writer’ participants will exercise their capacity to read creatively, critically and intuitively, and to employ source material directly towards literary composition. This is a generative course incorporating regular writing tasks underpinned by carefully se...
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