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writing
propeller present their first book 'Five Rooms: a collaborative writing project'
propeller arts collective are pleased to announce the publication of their first book, Five Rooms. Five Rooms is published by ACTS OF LANGUAGE. In February 2009 the five members of propeller came together at Coombe Farm Studios, in Devon, to write for seven days. We began with a proposition: The materiality of things; stone, wood, flesh, bone, copper. What surrounds us and makes us. Our hands work on the stuff of the universe. From this proposition we each set out to develop pieces of writing. Every day we would work alone, each person in their room. We would meet intentionally and accidentally, in the hallway, outside on the hill, over food and coffee, to share each others' writing, to give feedback and to enable exchanges between the texts. The resulting book consists of several pieces written by each member, with resonances of themes, places, times, ideas, objects, and characters echoing throughout the collated work. "Within these pages coexist gods and dogs, dream and fear, love and loss, the exhaustion and hope of flesh and stone. We are invited to inhabit the spaces between fragility and persistence, chance and fate, regimes of order and the apparent formlessness of a deeper grammar of complexity." - David Williams, Professor of Theatre, Dartington College of Arts Read full reviews by Wallace Heim, Cathy Turner, Tracey Warr and David Williams on our blog, here. Five Rooms is commissioned by the Transatlantic Arts Consortium, a collaboration between CalArts, Idyllwild Arts and the Dartington Hall Trust, a registered charity. Five Rooms is edited by Jerome Fletcher. Five Rooms costs £10.00 and is published August '09. Pre-order Five Rooms today at Acts Of Language and it will be sent to you on publication day. propeller will be presenting a series of launches, at Dartington on October 15th, followed by Bristol, London, Manchester and Plymouth throughout Autumn and Winter 2009. Other Writing Writing is central to our collaboration. Our ongoing exercises and experiments in writing, and performing text are rooted in the reciprocal nature of reading the books we love. Our writing takes numerous forms from lectures to performance texts. In september 2005 we contributed to the Reader for 1st year Theatre students at Dartington College of Arts. Download our contribution to the Reader as a pdf In February 2009, as a prelude to our Coombe Farm Writing Residency, we contributed Early Stories to Soundart Radio. This was a two hour radio show of new writing and music. In order to download the radio show as an mp3, please right click on the link below and select 'save link as'. |
