creative report # 2

8/8/2019 Creative Report # 2

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1.Be Proud of Shadwell2.Share the Pride*

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*This text is in courier font, which suggests it was

written on a typewriter. West Bromwich produced Smith-

Corona typewriters and was also home to British

Typewriters Limited, who manufactured the Empire

Aristocrat, the most portable typewriter in the world.

This unique personal writing machine embodies a standardkeyboard and many other features of the office

typewriter, yet it stands no higher than a matchbox. A

fine example of precision engineering, the Empire

Aristocrat enjoys a world-wide reputation for out-

standing performance. However, despite this, I’m writing

these words on a MacBook Pro, not an Empire Aristocrat,

so from the beginning be aware how I might be

untrustworthy, making false claims, pretending a presence

in the landscape not born out by the reality, some sortof linguistic imposter...



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BURGER KING

BÜRGER KINO ________________

an essay an investigation a poem a provocation an

irrelevance

This text adopts the form of one issue of

the BCCA newsletter. This means it will be 20 sides inlength. This typesize is 14pt and the layout is simple,

reminiscent of home made signs in shop windows and on

market stalls in West Bromwich: transcriptions of these

signs are at the top of this and other pages

I thought it might be interesting to try and place each

page of this text in an appropriate location in West

Bromwich. I liked the thought - even metaphorically - of

these words having an existence again in the city from

which they emerged

this text is about the page, and private

moments of reading. It’s free to come in and have a look .

It organises itself, too, around the form of the BCCA

market stall, using its sections of Art, Culture and

‘Regeneration’; Planning; Local Information; Project

Development; Elsewhere; Film Program,

sometimes only a change of font

is needed to make a piece of writing your own,



super fast

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this is it __________

Katerina Šedá’s project Over and Over began when she

noticed the ever more prohibitive walls and fences

appearing throughout the small German town of Líšeň. Šedá

imagined a performance where she navigated all of these

fences, dependent on the inhabitants in each house

providing some means - a ladder or chair - for her to

cross each fence. This required meeting all the different

residents, and a high level of coordination as one person

failing to realise their part at the specified time would

cause the whole project to collapse

Invited to take part in the 5th Berlin Biennale in

2008, Šedá reconstructed the fences as an installation,

and invited the residents to come to Berlin - with their

fence crossing object - to repeat the performance

themselves. In the book of this project, Šedá presents

her sketches, drawings, sculptures and objects, revealinghow the projects public engagements fed into and out of

the more private languages of these different artistic

media. £1.29 Double Cheeseburger. No joining fee.

Eve Merz SPACE/RETAIL/MAGIC is a small book on the BCCA

stall, which focusses on Market Muir, a playing fields in

Huntly, Aberdeenshire where Tesco want to build a

supermarket, despite having various abandoned stores

nearby, in Inverurie and Elgin: “I spent five days walking the field, photographing grass and trees,

benches, rugby posts, football goals and the old

pavilion. Everything... I photographed everything I saw,

taking approximately 1000 pictures on each site... trying

to create a picture with perspectives true to how we see

things when we move in a space.”

could language work like

this, or is the task here to separate it from everyday,mobile perception and



Take away the fast way __________

In May 2010 I spent two days in West Bromwich as part of

the Black Country Creative Advantage. I was interested in

the language of urban regeneration, in how such issues

were evidenced: in council documents, local newspapers,

museum exhibits, shop signs and hoardings: the word

matter surrounding us in a place. Get in there .

I structured my two days as an investigation of these

different kinds of language. I read through reports and

documents of urban regeneration; I walked the locations

of urban regeneration, noting the language on signs andhoardings. Sometimes the official signs of new urban

regeneration projects occupied the landscape alongside

those for projects long since concluded; future ambitions

and past (failures) jostling for attention.

Finally, I went for a walk along West Bromwich’s Golden

Mile. Like any high street, I noted the claims for value

in shop windows, on market stalls, council banners and

boards, church notice boards, night club doorways, andshouted out by market stall vendors. I became interested

in the pervasiveness of this language of value,

communicating the good news of the save 10p, the two for

one, the sacraments by appointment, the 100% happiness

guarantee and the everything 89p

As well as the simplicity of the information

they provided, what did such signs tell us about

ourselves? Simply bargains. Could arranging, editing, working with these fragments be a way of understanding,

measuring other aspects of the landscape and community I

had fleetingly encountered in West Bromwich, of

understanding those flattened spaces behind hoardings,

where new supermarkets, schools and houses were supposed

to be be built? Save 39p

Where everything costs a great deal less



Aircraft accessories aluminium castings axles and axle-

tress bearings boiler compositions bolts and nuts bottle

makers box-irons bricks brewers bridges - iron and steel

bright drawn and rolled steel builders’ fittings,

supplies, ironmongery, etc. building trades business

equipment cabinet making caravans casements castingschemicals concrete products constructional steel core

oils and compounds collieries and colliery plant

confectionery and sweets electrical fittings, equipment,

engineering engineering fertilizers flock manufacturers

forgings furniture glass grates gauges, steam pressure,

etc. gun makers hollow-ware hydraulic machines iron

foundries industrial painting mechanical handling

equipment merchants motor engineers motor body building

and ironwork nails non-ferrous founders oils and

lubricants paints pattern makers photography pies

plastics printing rims and sections rolls - chill and

grain, etc. safes slag springs steel sheets and office

furniture strip and sheets timber tools trailers tubes

typewriters typewriters and office equipment washers

weighing machines and spring balances welders wire and

wire weaving

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AN ALIEN EXPLAINS HUMAN SOCIETY THROUGH A

SIGN OBSERVED ON WEST BROMWICH’S GOLDEN

MILE:

Regular 1.99

Medium 2.99

Large 4.99

Family 7.99



only £7.99

only £8.99 ____________

This is it. ..what forms of value find their material

expression in the current ‘abandoned present’ of towns

like West Bromwich, caught between cultural projects

commemorating the closer or more distant past, which has

largely been eroded through successive and ongoing

demolitions, and the still largely imaginary future

townscape, which is present in imagery on hoardings. The

present moment, if visible at all, itself appears defined

largely by not publicly represented demolition sites...

I’m also spending my two days here thinking through the

materials and methods of the writer. In the late 1960s

the US poet Aram Saroyan published a series of books,

often featuring a single word centred on a page. Words

such as “ENOUGH,” or words slightly manipulated, such as

“LIGHGHT.” As these examples show, this was a serious

project with a sense of humour, aware how meaning making

also involved the page and the material forms of letters.

Saroyan has noted that when the Vietnam War and the

assassination of Robert Kennedy changed the mood of the

times, he gave up writing minimal poetry. In 2010 many of

Saroyan’s books are being re-published, both in print and

online, as if the strategies of such a poetics - its

careful attending to delicate relations of letter, space

and page - have, in new and adapted ways, become relevant

to current generations of writers and artists

I thought

this text might be a series of words and slogans arranged

on otherwise empty pages, but I didn’t want to create

another empty landscape of potential. Informed by further

readings in the INVESTIGATIVE POETICS of, for example,

Jill Magi, Kristin Prevallet and Kaia Sand, the pages

filled up we’re the only bank that gives you £5



priced to suit all pockets

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The poet is a researcher, investigator, interpreter,

singer, and prophet who engages in an active relationship

with the political, social, and cultural forces around

him or her. The poet is a manifesto-creating,

opinionated, ranting, perpetual surveyor and tireless

investigator of history. The poet is busy creating verse

grids out of whatever materials are present before him or

her at the time: the poet is an appropriator of sources,

a thief of facts, a collage-creating scoundrel in a hyper state of awareness and inspiration. Flowcharts, newspaper

articles, photographs, etymology, and ethnography become

the raw materials for the poet’s unique assemblage.

big brands big choice big deal

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No longer geared towards attracting the customers

attention (or not to the same end), the collected words

and phrases become tools (for what?). I like it when

phrases, as above, are worked in ways that turn against

themselves. When a phrase is spoken, its intonation may

unfold different meanings than the written word, with no

alphabetic change, but a difference evidenced throughsounding. INSTRUCTION: make a version in language of how

Monika has described the BCCA market stall:

WITH THIS RESEARCH CENTRE we are looking into thedevelopments around “regeneration” - thedemolitions, building work... - in the town ofWest Bromwich. WE WANT TO ASK QUESTIONS such as: what has been and is happening? Who decides andhow? How much can different people have a say? How

can those who live and work here find out aboutthis or influence what is happening?



POEM AWAITING DEVELOPMENT



use me and save £75 _____________

Write in public and The Public, the high street, through

Kings Square and Queens Square, write as I walk, then

stop to write up words seen or overheard. I feel self

conscious, as if I’m about to be challenged, although no

one does. Why would someone write down all the prices and

signs in a street? Maybe people will think I’m an

inspector (of what?). Perhaps my concern is less with the

ethics of what I’m doing, then with a sense of the dated,

awkwardness of my technology: paper and pen. If I was

holding a phone and talking, or tapping out on itskeypad, no one would pay me any attention. But writing

Describing what became known as

“New Journalism” Tom Wolfe wrote of a generation of

writers in the 1960s that abjured fiction, preferring to

note down what was actually going on around them. In his

long essay Radical Chic , Wolfe did just that, standing in

the centre of the room, writing down what he heard and

saw at a party the composer and conductor LeonardBernstein held for the Black Panthers. Wolfe turned to

fiction thirty years later, feeling that held more

appropriateness when describing the Wall Street of the

1980s

this language of regeneration policy

documents, billboards, shop signs. I think it requires a

method somewhat awkward, lo-fi, a little ludicrous and

clumsy. Hence the design of this newsletter. I also want to make something that can be enjoyed by the

figures wandering through the computer images of the new

Sandwell college. Who are they? What do they want to

read? Can they read? Are there books and newspapers to

fit the stock characters and types of this Google Sketch

Up world?

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We have seen our quaint little parish of 70 souls in

1086, grow into a County Borough (1882) with a population

1000 times greater. We have watched the little self-

contained village grow until it sends its products to the

ends of the earth. Its holloware, springs, iron and

steel, soap, printed matter, balances, builders’

ironmongery, kitchen utensils and steel safes, are today

to be found in every quarter of the globe. We have learnt we are ‘citizens of no mean city.’ Free reactions

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Engineer Hermann Knoflacher invented the Gehzeug/

Walkmobile in 1975. Made of a wooden frame, rope, and red

and white safety tap, the frame, extending into space

around the human body, allowed the pedestrian to

approximate the amount of space taken by a car. I imagine

Hermann in 2010, a Tesco supermarket around his middle,

showing not just its built form, but its ecological

footprint, its psychic imprint on our minds and lives....

Tassle net Lyndsay

Roma Amersham Louise Clumber Petal Sally



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20% off everything

haircuts 20% off special offer June only _____________

There are various maps on the BCCA stall. This text is

another, although I wouldn’t use it to get you anywhere

quickly

Order an OS map with yourself in the centre. A

wiki map that you can enter data into yourself.

Historical maps. Maps of a future city. Maps in our

heads, with memories and emotions for scales. Talk maps.

In “Hidden Cities” the poet Geraldine Monk writes a tour

of Manchester. In this poem-talk-quide the materiality of

the city enters Monk’s language, as content and

commentary. It shapes and invites her own linguistic

invention in the same manner as the city itself unfolds

each day, and through literally dirty dealings of

Victorian industrialists

Finding ways of opening writing

to all this, makes text itself a form of address, bothcharacter and micro-climate:

Welcome to all of you... involuntary ghosts of

tomorrow... scoring future imprints down the roads

and junctions of unmarked time... welcome to the

imperceptible slice between now and now... the

progression of idle nanoseconds.

Welcome to Manchester... Funchester....Gunchester...Madchester...

Journey with me now and regain a return to where we

almost started... journey through the making of each

suspended sentence... spectral word... half breathed

comma... shifting metropolis... through these

unofficial urban arteries of time-ticking

creatures... glossed out histories... contrived

artefacts... accidental spaces.



Anything on Walter’s Farm Table £5 _____________

YOU CAME TOP OF THE TABLE OUT OF 182 SHOPS

IN WEST BROMWICH: A PLAY

ACT 1

A series of hoardings form the backdrop of the play:

COMPARE THESE PRICES!; SAVE 3p; BREAD STILL ONLY 10 1/2p;

PG TIPS TEA 7 1/2p; LARGE WONDERMASH 11, MEDIUM 6

SCENE 1:

West Bromwich, 1981. Bernard O’Connell from the Black

Country Liason Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions

is working on Peoples March for Jobs Banner. Behind him

two banners on the wall:

Means Misery

DesperationDemoralisation

Bitterness

and alongside:

Destroys the

Youth and

Britain’s

Tomorrow

The banners grow bigger and bigger until they fill the whole space. Then they require separate spaces, then

separate buildings. Each banner, alone, meaning confused.

SCENE TWO

King George Playing Fields, with ‘Elephant Rock’ - huge

slag heap adjacent the Patent Shaft site ( which is now a

warehouse park near Wednesbury Parkway metro). These are

joined by piles of rubble from the Tesco site and two



clay heaps glimpsed on the Lyng development site. The

mounds are playful, but wary of each other.

SCENE THREE

West Bromwich, 1970s. Mac Hamblett leads a one man

campaign to get the old Adelphi cinema demolished and the

site developed. Fallen into ruin, Hamblett complains it

has become both safety hazard and eyesore. Stood in front

of the ruinous building, he holds up a crumbled cinema

ticket. Slowly everyone notices and copies this gesture.

ACT 2

TWO VOICES

TO BE READ SIMULTANEOUSLY BUT LISTENING TO EACH OTHER

VOICE 1: The growth of cities The need for protection The

power of the church The rise of the merchant The Grand

manner The rise of industry The city in decay Wren’s plan

for the city of London Nash’s contribution to London

Haussmann’s plans for Paris How others have dealt withdestruction The town must not be rebuilt as it was - but

demolish with discrimination The Heart of the city The

home in relation to the town The home Work in the City

Transport Recreation Health in the city The child in the

city Architectural form Dream or reality? The economics

of reality

VOICE 2: shop around for the cheapest food the best food

at the cheapest price its as simple as that... its not mypolicy to undercut supermarkets I’m just hear to make a

living like and a living I intend to make the best way I

can make it.... I make a penny a loaf and I turn enough

loaves... serve bread always helps bring other trade in

... 1p on 1 loaf sell 106 loaves that’s 106 pennies and

106 other items as well... couple of papers have been on

to it... if I was running myself out of business I’d soon

find that out in about a week



I’ll give you a sausage free of charge today

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FLAMING GOOD MEAT

Working with the words and phrases I encountered, I began

to imagine a form of theatre. I arranged texts into the

forms of scenes, and made phrases into lists of

characters. A “little theatre” as the poet Frederico

Garcia Lorca proposed

I wasn’t worried about being overly

realistic in these scripts. These were theatres of the

page and of language, ways of trying - playing -revealing something of the words sale I encountered

as well as the street

signage, there was the collection of official documents

on the BCCA stall. Making them into theatre scripts was

(a) refill and save up to 80%; (b) while you wait; (c)

ways of negotiating with the un-read and possibly

unreadable; (d) great food at amazing prices

_____________

GOLD TO CASH

TOGETHER WE ARE STRONGER

BETTER THAN HALF PRICE

No hats

No hoods

No Shox

No Air Max

No 110s



Everything is really appreciated

_______ West Bromwich stands pre-eminent in the manufacture of metal springs. It would be hardly too much to say thatthe town was the birthplace of this industry. There are more than thirty firms engaged in this industry in West

Bromwich and their products are known in all parts of the world. The growth of the motor-car and the development ofaeronautics, the wireless, electricity and engineering,have created an enormous demand for springs of everysize, form, and description, and the major part of thisdemand is met by West Bromwich spring manufacturers. Thevariey of springs now in use is remarkable, and the rangeof them covers an astonishing number of uses. There are,for instance, single springs for heavy rolling stock,etc., weighing as much as five hundredweight each, andsome for wireless equipment so minute that they arehandled only by delicate instruments. The largest andsmallest springs are made with equal success by WestBromwich craftsmen. The largest kinds are used mainly inrailway and tramway rolling stock. These, such asbuffing, bearing, helical and volute springs, are madelocally in large numbers, as well as laminated springsfor commercial vehicles and motor-cars. Aeronautical and motor-car engine springs are also made in largequantities as well as all types of general engineeringsprings, safety valve springs, coil springs and allelectrical springs, however intricate. Hardened andtempered springs and springs made from the best harddrawn steel, phosphor bronze and brass are turned out ingreat variety and numbers. Modern upholstery makes largedemands upon the spring industry and in West Bromwich abig industry is carried on in the manufacture of springseats and squabs for the motor and furniture trades,spring interiors for theatre seats, three-piece suites,etc., and cone springs for the mattress trade, as well astension springs for use in conjunction with these, andall kinds of coppered, galvanised and black japannedupholstery springs. Special springs are made tocustomers’ specification from drawings or patterns ifrequired, and where necessary West Bromwich spring makers

are prepared to design new kinds of springs to suit anyparticular innovation. West Bromwich has been famous for many years for its iron and steel industries and manyfirms have become world famous for the manufacture ofiron and steel tubes and pipes. The tube manufacturingindustry has advanced enormously in modern times and WestBromwich manufacturers have been kept busy. Tubes forevery purpose in great variety are turned out in their works, and are in demand not only throughout the BritishIsles but in all parts of the world. All the variousgrades are supplied by local manufacturers from the highgrade seamless precision steel tube through the range toelectric resistance welded, furnace welded, lap and butt welded, close joint down to wrought iron. Non-ferroustubes in brass and copper and bi-metal are also producedin large quantities. A comparatively new branch of theindustry is the manufacture of plastic tubing inpolythene P.V.C. and nylon. Allied to the tube industryare manufacturers of various fittings for gas, water,steam, hydraulic and electrical purposes in addition toplain and special flanges and joints as used in highpressure steam mains, etc. It is impossible to detail allusers of tubing but to name a few uses there is the highpressure field as used in boiler and ancillary plant fornuclear and conventional power stations down to the lowpressure for gas, water, and steam services. Railways athome and abroad use large quantities for boilers,superheaters, air brakes, fuel lines, injectors andoverhead gantries for electrified lines. The motor tradeabsorbs a big volume for inner and outer steering tubes,track rods, fuel pipes, shock absorbers, exhaust pipes,car seat frames, cross members, axles, petrol fillerpipes, and various engine details. Added to these are thecycle and motor-cycle trades, tubular furniture, toy andperambulator manufacturers, the chemical and petroleum

industries as well as Government Departments.With regardto heavier tubing, West Bromwich maufactures iron andsteel poles for telegraph, telephone, tramwaytransmission lighting, tubular ship’s derricks, steel pitprops, and ventilating shafts for sewers, etc.



Kennel£15.39 ___________________

11.55pm. I’m in my room at the West Bromwich Premier Inn.

I have brought back a lot of the documents on the stall,

laid them out on the bed. I look through Cathy Busby’s

YOUR CHOICE, a book of photo’s of food stuff packaging in

Jingkelong, China during the Beijing Olympics. Earlier

that evening, in Netto’s I stand behind someone with a whole trolley of Pepsi Max. When you write in the street

how are you deciding what is important and not important?

When I come back to London, S says: “I was stood behind a

nun in Tesco’s on Portobello Road. Guess what she had in

her trolley? Nothing else. Just one thing.” “Pepsi Max,”

I said. I was right

Someone is thinking/

speaking to herself. Analyzing beat of energies, of

digression, remembering. Memory and this question: Whatis the relation between narrative and history, between

art and memory? Articulate the relation between

witnessing/ events and speculation/ fiction. An attempt

to see how issues of biography and history are neither

represented nor reflected but are translated,

reinscribed, radically re-thought. History as a

translation, through which is created new articulations

of perspective. Acknowledge the conceptual and social

prisms through which we attempt to apprehend....



Go laugh! Go listen! Go dance! Go watch! Go

learn! Go play! Go discover! Go public!

_________

When I only had a small piece

of text on each white page I related this to all the

empty space in West Bromwich - the areas flattened and

awaiting a new Tesco or new housing

I thought of

this “empty” page as a space like a hoarding, which -

away from the central thoroughfares - are more likely

bare boards than an image of what will (may) be.

I wasn’t sure if it was useful to make such literal

connections of page and space. Like areas of Lyng become

impromptu parkland, such zones and pages are not empty,

but subject to the constant encroachments of litter, bird

dropped seeds, teenagers, dog walkers, thoughts

Perhaps such metaphorical thought

exercises are themselves abandoned, flattened, awaiting

development. Sometimes, printed in this primitive way,this essay seems too stretched out, but also

1 pack for £1.50 2 packs for £1.20

WEST BROMWICH: THE OPERA

Characters

Vision

The Vision 2026

Vision for Urban Form in Sandwell

The Sandwell 2020 Vision

A 30 Year Vision for the Black Country

Live Work Play Learn

Here’s another thing to smile about



You won’t want to lie down anywhere else

_________________

ACT 1

ALL: (speaking simultaneously, but not understanding the

words) West Bromwich: a well-connected base for

successful businesses and investment, a vibrant centre

with great retail, cultural and leisure experiences,

supported by a healthy, skilled community with access to

rewarding employment opportunities, good quality housing

choices and excellent and educational and learningfacilities.

In Sandwell, we are making a commitment to the creation

of sustainable, high quality environments in which people

are proud to live, work and play. The Sandwell of 2020

will be a thriving, sustainable, optimistic and forward

looking community. Sandwell residents will live in a

transformed borough. They will enjoy excellent health, a

safe environment, heave access to rewarding employmentopportunities, and have a positive view of life in

Sandwell, in a revitalised West Midlands. It will

continue to be a diverse, but harmonious mix of

industrial/ commercial activity and attractive

neighbourhoods....

ACT 2

The various VISIONS improvise as they wish, using the

words of ACT ONE. Some have their heads in their hands.

ACT 3

THE SANDWELL 2020 VISION eats the others, but in the

reversible manner of certain cartoons. If SANDWELL 2020

VISION was cut open down the middle then the other



visions would come tumbling out, unharmed, eager for

implementation.

THE SANDWELL 2020 VISION: The last year has seen real

delivery in our vision to create a place for working,

living and education, by raising standards andexpectations. In West Bromwich inparticular, visible

progress has been made and will continue to be made in

the coming months.

As the audience leave the following text is distributed:

THE POET: The simple act of moving information from one

place to another today constitutes a significant cultural

act in and of itself. I think it’s fair to say that most

of us spend hours each day shifting content into

different containers. Some of us call this writing.

Language as material, language as process, language as

something to be shoveled into a machine and spread across

pages, only to be discarded and recycled once again.

Language as junk, language as detritus. Nutritionless

language, meaningless language, unloved language,everyday speech, illegibility, unreadability, machinistic

repetition. Obsessive archiving & cataloging, the debased

language of media and advertising; language more

concerned with quantity than quality. How much did you

say that paragraph weighed?

THE END, although as the audience leave slogans are

projected on the walls around them:

fantastic deals or 7 for £100We’re the only bank that gives you Other sacraments are celebrated by appointmentsuper free We pay more we lend more We buy them as well Rock bottom price Just eat Time’s running out 500 Free

Super stylish big value pack



top taste

wise buy

unlimited __________

SOURCE TEXTS p1: adapted from West Bromwich OfficialHandbook, 1964; p3: Katerina Šedá Over and Over (JRPRingier, 2010); p5: “THE INDUSTRIES OF WEST BROMWICH” inWest Bromwich Official Handbook, 1964; p6: Firstparagraph: Monika Vykoukal; p7: Kristin Prevallat,“Investigating the Procedure: Poetry and the Source” inMark Wallace and Steven Marks ed. Telling it Slant:Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s (University of AlabamaPress, 2002);p10: Henry Herbert Price, Old West Bromwichor The Story of Long Ago, 1924, and Knoflacher’sinvention is included as one of numerous strategies in

What You Can Do With the City eds. Giovanna Borasi &Mirko Zardini (Canadian Centre for Architecture,Canada);p11: Geraldine Monk, “Hidden Cities”, inNoctivagations (West House Books, 2001); p12 Act 1:Images from DVD The MACE archive for CENTRAL ENGLAND ATVTODAY 22.01.74 ATV TODAY Survey on Food Prices. Scene 1-3: Taken from images in In Living Memory, an exhibitionat The Public. Act 2: VOICE 1: Ralph Tubbs Living inCities (Penguin 1942), and VOICE 2: Transcript of ATVToday programme (as above); p15: entries on springs andtubes in West Bromwich Official Handbook, 1964; p16: Abigail Child, This is Called Moving: A Critical Poetics

of Film (University of Alabama Press, 2005); p17-18:Visions taken from documents available on stall,including: RETHINK WEST BROMWICH (2009); West BromwichTown Plan: Supplementary Planning Guidance to theSandwell UDP (2004), The West Bromwich Area Action Plan:Preferred Options: A Development Plan Document(2008);p19: The Poet is from Kenneth Goldsmith “Postlude: I LoveSpeech” in Marjorie Perloff and Craig Dworkin eds. TheSound of Poetry/ The Poetry of Sound (University ofChicago Press, 2009).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: David Berridge is a writer who lives inLondon. He is the author of The Moth is Moth This Money

Night Moth and Kafka Thinking Stations. Essays on

connections of writing and art practice can be found in

JACKET, Fillip, Syntax, and elsewhere. He curates

VerySmallKitchen which, throughout September, is in

residence at The Pigeon Wing gallery in London, with two

projects: WRITING/EXHIBITIONS/PUBLICATIONS and The

Festival of Nearly Invisible Publishing.

http://verysmallkitchen.com [email protected]

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