Iain Sinclair's Blog, page 10

London drawings

Liam O’Farrell makes drawings of his walks in London, and he hopes to walk with Iain and draw those walks too.

 

 

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Iain Sinclair is leaving London

The title is from an article on The Spectator authored by Sinclair McKay (I am feeling silly obsessing about the coincidental clash of name/surname).

Very few authors have fashioned a London more real than the one we see: Dickens, Conan Doyle, Patrick Hamilton, Angela Carter. Sinclair is firmly among them. While his contemporary Peter Ackroyd [...]

Open City Documentary Festival (5-10 September)

As part of this year’s Open City Documentary Festival (5-10 September), we will be presenting a collection of events around artists/filmmakers John Smith and Andrew Kötting.

The programme John Smith: Lost in Leytonstone is characteristic of Smith’s formal ingenuity, anarchic wit and oblique narratives, creating mysterious and sometimes fantastical scenarios from documentary records of [...]

COMING TO A CINEMA NEAR YOU: EDITH WALKS & FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN

EDITH WALKS & FORGOTTEN THE QUEEN With David Aylward, Claudia Barton, Anonymous Bosch, Jem Finer, Andrew Kötting, Eden Kötting, Alan Moore and Iain Sinclair.

CONFIRMED VENUES 21.06.17 HOME Manchester – Andrew Kötting Performance Q&A 23.06.17 ICA London – Andrew Kötting – Iain Sinclair Readings Q&A 25.06.17 East End Film Festival David Aylward – Claudia Barton [...]

Lost events: EDGELANDS

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Big brother is watching

I seem to have added Big Brother to the website. It’s a widget that tracks readers via geolocation. It’s interesting and quicker than checking the logs of the web server, but it’s kinda scary.

What do you think, readers? Should I remove it?

 

Stretched City: Pushing Against the Current in the Last London

21 June 2017 6 – 8 pm Darwin Lecture Theatre, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1 6XA

Iain Sinclair explores the condition of perceived groundlessness in the stretched city that London has become, by way of memory raids, recovered texts, visionary encounters and the constant pressure to step beyond our knowledge, beyond our restricted [...]

“Reports of demise much exaggerated”

Ben,

Celebrating the rude health of the book business in the elegant and highly civilised surrounding of the migrated Maggs antiquarian operation in Bedford Square. Reports of demise much exaggerated. Author peddling tales of renegade days on market stalls as an appetiser for The Last London.

best,

Iain

 

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“A good gathering of all ages and interests on the cusp of the electoral meltdown”

 

A snapshot from the end of the ‘Edgelands’ tour, last night in Cambridge. Nick Papadimitiou, walker, land-poet, author of Scarp, archivist, smiles alongside Cuifeng Ouyang, Associate Professor of Foreign Languages, and some freelance monologuist. A good gathering of all ages and interests on the cusp of the electoral meltdown. Strong and steady. Onwards and [...]

“Travellers should look for the man at Panopolis”

The last word & testament of CHRIS PETIT, ‘Coming Down In Berlin’, will be available ONLY at London City Airport on Sunday May 21 between 12:30 and 15:30. Travellers should look for the man at Panopolis with a copy of Roger Gilbert-Lecomte’s The Book Is A Ghost, and approach him with a request for ‘End Times Healing’.

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