A short documentary on the #diisonance project of exhibitions, events and workshop by Steve Ryan & paul hawkins. Filmed and edited by Mark van Klaveren for 612 media, it features Steve & paul talking about their past and putting their ghosts of Claremont Road to rest. It also features soundtrack excerpts from the short film, Blight by John Smith & Jocelyn Pook.
#diisonance event this Friday
The final diisonance collaborative event during the exhibition at The Gallery Cafe is this Friday September 29: hesterglock press // caplet collaboration @ The Gallery Cafe, 21 Old Ford Rd, London E2 poetry & dialogue w/ Jonathan Mann, Jude Cowan Montague,
Matti Spence, Amy Mcauley, Iris Colomb & paul hawkins and there ‘s improvised sounds from The Happy Couple.
Place Waste Dissent website back up and running
Having given the Place Waste Dissent website a rest last year, I’ve finally got round to revisiting it; I’m in the process of updating all the archive images, which may take a while. Bear with me. Meantime, do take a look around . . .
image from PWD exhibition at Bank Street Arts, Sheffield, October 2016
photo by Sarah Grace-Harris
28 July PWD @ Speech Therapy, Nottingham
I’m really looking forward to reading from Place Waste Dissent in Nottingham at Speech Therapy on July 28. Hosted in full technicolour surround-sound stereo by the irrepressable Miggy Angel & John Marriot, Speech Therapy takes place at Bar Deux, 2 Pelham Road, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham NG5 2AO (Opp. The Polish Centre). There’ll be other poets reading + open mic, it all kicks off at 8:30pm. I’ll have copies of Place Waste Dissent for sale, A3 prints from the book, as well as other books, pamphlets (including Servant Drone, which came out about the same time as PWD and was co-written by me and Portugese poet/text artist bruno neiva). Hope to see some of you there . . .
Joe Ambrose on Place Waste Dissent
Arts agitator, writer, film-maker & old mate Joe Ambrose on Place Waste Dissent;
‘I first met Paul Hawkins a fair long time ago and one night over dinner in my Islington flat he told me all about his squatting adventures and life on the road in Spain. Back then he had it in mind to write the book – below – which has just come out commemorating the squatting on London’s Claremont Road, now just a memory because the place got knocked down to make way for a motorway.
I was having dinner with a few friends the other night when my copy of the book arrived in its jiffy bag and I showed it to them and they read it while we were dining. They thought it was wonderful and we talked about how books exist to immortalize what we think feel or do while we’re around. Be that the affairs of a community or an individual or a people or just a handful of folks.
All these years later Paul has gotten his book out – it’s a herculean task to get any book out – and it couldn’t be a better job. Now go out and buy it.’
Reviews round-up
I’m proud to say the book has had some great reviews.
This was a great first review by Jackie Law;
‘It is performance art on the page, an installation with time as the third dimension rather than space.’
Read it in full here
Thivija Sabanathan at Book Smoke. George Jackson in Ambit Magazine. Peter Boughton at Minor Literatures. Stephen E. Hunt for International Times. Mike James for The Contemporary Small Press.
Pretty Messy, Fairly Trashed writer Tony White interviewed me for The Quietus.
and over at Huck Magazine : Josh Gabert-Doyon interviewed me.
Good reviews for the Claremont Road (erbacce press 2013) pamphlet too . . .
Billy Mills for Sabotage Reviews.
and for Contumacy (erbacce press 2014)
Steve Willey at Transmissions. Huck Magazine : Josh Gabert-Doyon interviewed me.
Guerilla Firm
Art/text from Place Waste Dissent (Influx Press 2015); Guerilla Firm (Hawkins/Clements)
Be-bop-a-lu-la Mrs. Pearson
compliments of the day to you
GCHQ and all that Russian jazz
he picks a path
between paper interruptions
office-delegates
punch chunks of shakespeare
punch chunks of Shakespeare
upon the backs of the women
as polygons set red with light
and the sex, incarnadine or rectory
poolside Ian D-S tongues the gravy
mouth plus food equals eat
(excerpt)
Place Waste Dissent in Dead King Magazine Issue 2
Thanks to Penny Elliott for including some collage/text from Place Waste Dissent in Issue 2 of Dead King Magazine.
‘We prioritise and showcase the work of writers who have experienced or continue to experience precariousness. Dead King is a home for a wide range of work, we accept poetry, prose, flash fiction, artwork, and non-fiction writing.’
Also featured are Anna Walsh, Erik Kennedy, Sally Beets, Valentina Cano, Alwina Hermann, Ana Prundaru, Sophie Essex and more.
Place Waste Dissent text/collage online at M58
Further Reading
‘Pretty Messy, Fairly Trashed’ – Paul Hawkins Interviewed by Tony White
– The Quietus
‘Poet Paul Hawkins raises the ghosts of East London’s “No M11” squat protests’
Tony White interview at The Quietus
London author Tony White interviewed my about Place Waste Dissent.
You can read the interview in full on The Quietus site here.
Place Waste Dissent // diisonance 