Talk:
Will Holder presents “Flurry”, the 15th issue of F.R.DAVID
Sunday April 22, 7pm at the CAC Reading Room
Free admission
“Flurry,” the 15th issue of F.R.DAVID, came about after being asked to propose ten books for acquisition by the Rietveld Academy library (Amsterdam) and give a talk about that selection. Preferring to reproduce original material over com¬mentary (or commentary as materiality), and allowing others to speak, Will prepared a reading back and forth between the ten books. It soon became clear that this reading could provide a back-bone for an issue of F.R.DAVID. Associated material came up in the process of transcription; plus a lengthy afterword by Danny Hayward, commenting on the poetry of Verity Spott.
Open lecture “Our Values Make Us Different”:
2018 04 23, 1:00 pm, auditorium 102 , Malūnų st. 3
Turning a deaf ear to the Cartesian mind/body split at the root of patriarchy – through Spinoza, Genevieve Lloyd, Marlow Moss, Lygia Clark, Susan Howe, Cara Tolmie, Steven Willats, Robert Ashley, H.D. and J. Jasmine – on the organisation of bodies, their words; and publishing in the art world.
Moderator prof. Henrik B. Andersen. Open lectures and discussions in English.
Creative Discussions:
23rd April 2018, 3:00 pm., VDA C1 building, 102 room, Malunu st. 3
Typographer Will Holder produces oral and printed publications with artists and musicians. He is preoccupied with conversation as dissonant model and tool for a shared set of publishing conditions—whereby the roles of commissioner, author, subject, editor, printer, reader and typographer are improvised and shared, as opposed to assigned and predetermined.
In 2015, aided by a Paul Hamlyn Award, Holder founded uh books, whose programme lies somewhere between the phonetic “uh”, and the graphic a, highlighting the role of the printed page in the oral, the conversational, the moving and the sonic; recording and scoring a shared value and meaning where no single author-genius might take charge of a conversation/production. uh books publishes F.R.DAVID – a typographic journal addressing the position of reading and writing in relation to artistic practise – through which they divert funds from publisher-distributors’ pockets back to supporting others’ work through forthcoming books (with Emmie McLuskey, Lucy Skaer, Cara Tolmie, Chris Evans). Please support them by buying online, www.uhbooks.directory
Will Holder will also host an open lecture ‘Our Values Make Us Different’ and will lead creative discussions with the students at the Vilnius Academy of Arts on April 23 and 24, please join: http://www.vda.lt/lt/
