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Date: April 7th, 2011
Cate: Events, happenings, Octopod gigs, Residencies
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Poulpe at Islington Mill

Poulpe poster

Poulpe

by Octopus

Saturday 26th March, Islington Mill, James Street, Salford M3 5HW

7pm-3am, £7 admission

Octopus members John Hall, Andrew Deakin, Fern Oxley and Glenn Boulter
have developed POULPE as part of a short residency with Islington Mill.

The piece takes charity shop audio books collected in Cumbria and
Manchester as source material for a multi-channel installation
and a series of live performances. Creating a variable audio collage
from fragments of throwaway fiction, POULPE will be presented on
Islington Mill’s upper floors during the Merzman cabaret on
Saturday the 26th March from 7pm.

POULPE is Octopus’ second foray into Schwitters-inspired audio work
following ‘Morsonata’, a radio piece by Mobile Radio that was
commissioned for the inaugural FON Festival in 2009.
‘Morsonata’ saw Schwitters’ ‘Ursonate’ performed
by two Morse code operators from Barrow-in-Furness
Submariners’ Association as part of an hour long transmission
that was broadcast live from the festival’s base in Barrow Shipyard.

POULPE was commissioned by Littoral as part of
MERZMAN: Kurt Schwitters in the North West

www.islingtonmill.com
www.merzman.co.uk
www.octopuscollective.com

Date: December 20th, 2010
Cate: Community, FON 2010, happenings

Octopus Merch at Coniston Farmers Market and Art Fair.

We have better pictures somewhere, but for now enjoy the sunlight on the paper fibres in this uninformative snap of our Merch Stall at a pre Christmas Grizedale Arts event at Coniston Institute.  As a fundraiser for the Institute we were selling work by Paul Rooney, Binural Media and ourselves alongside local artists and butchers, and several Grizedale alumni including Marcus Coates, Ryan Gander and Nat Mellors. A nice day all round. We ate well and Moved Some Units.

Date: October 30th, 2010
Cate: Community, FON 2010, happenings

Octopus and Mobile Radio present a wine tasting At Coniston Institute.

Knut Aufermann and Sarah Washington AKA Mobile Radio have been back with us as this week, giving advice on setting up our FON AIR radio project and presenting a wine tasting at Coniston Institute.  Knut and Sarah brought some choice bottles from thier home in the Mosel valley in Germany and  Grizedale Arts provided some excellent soup. A nice mix of people turned up and heard of Mobile Radios’ doings and of the German Governments plans to build a bridge  that will  blot out the sun from a large slice of the Mosel valley and trash a bit more of it in the making. See the Save The Mosel Valley campaign.