Never Mind the Beasts

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  • In the heat of the first wave of Lockdown, I participated in an collaboration with the poets Calliope Michail and Chris Gutkind. We decided to call it Gravity Bubbles to emphasize both the gravity of the situation (we were all feeling the heaviness of lockdown in the UK and Spain), and the power of art…

  • My friend in London, Chris Gutkind, created an art project to cope with isolation and lockdown. Photos on a cheapo phone camera. Paying attention to small details around his house. Day to day hopes, despairs, and wonders. Hopefully it will displayed in a gallery sometime this year. It is available to view now at PERMEABLE…

  • I am performing with London based poet Chris Gutkind at Desperate Literature bookshop in Madrid. April 14th. Tonight two poets (one local, one not) in a wham bam double thankya mam. Chris Gutkind mostly started out in Montreal and has lived in London for many years. He worked as a librarian in universities during most…

  • Erkembode (DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX) has created a saintly scroll of my poems (a minimalist version of Kerouac’s On the Road). Erkembode created the poetry scroll while working the gift shop at the British Museum. He said the till was going crazy spewing out poems instead of numbers for receipts. These poems are conversational vernacular poems. A…

  • GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI HAS A NEW PENN SOUND PAGE. YIPPIE!!! Mp3s of readings from London:  Torriano reading series and Enemies project reading at Rich Mix.  Also a reading I did of Grzegorz’s poetry set to some basic music I whipped together. Check it out: http://www.writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Wroblewski.php Painting: Grzegorz Wróblewski The Post-Literate (R)Evolution

  • A picture of me and Ewa and Bandit at our friend Chris’s house last night. This picture was taken after four joints, six beers, and some Iranian food. We all watched the dog chew the ball and we all wished we had the teeth to chew a ball like this dog. I could hear the…

  • http://erkembode.com/2013/11/18/photos-and-blab-from-saints-on-film/ a film on the back of my ghost costume

  • YOU’VE BEEN PUSHING SINCE LAHORE A COLLABORATIVE POST SURREAL TRAVEL STORY OF THREE SAINTS ON A MISSION!!!  WRITTEN BY MARCUS SLEASE, DAVID KELLY-MANCAUX, CHRIS GUTKIND. BASED ON A TRUE STORY! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdaiuSEumzs

  • 11th November 2013 NOT JUST ANOTHER SAINT PERFORMANCE NIGHT AT HARDY TREE GALLERY IN LONDON. IT WAS CALLED SAINTS ON FILM I changed into a white robe and Saint Erkembode screened the film he made on my back while I read a collaborative story about traveling through London to find a Doom Drone concert. The…

  • Chris Gutkind over at the new Summerstock. Staring Pinky. http://www.summerstockjournal.com/2013/08/chris-gutkind.html https://myspace.com/outernet/video/pinky-39-s-violent-nature/2226141 https://myspace.com/outernet/video/pinky-39-s-love-of-heights/47469909