Ever since the spectre of public spending cuts first began to loom over the horizon in 2008, policy-makers and strategists have urged the arts sector to work together to pool resources and share practice …

Read the full article, published in Arts Professional 26/4/12

http://www.artsprofessional.co.uk/Magazine/view.cfm?id=6282&issue=252

Sunday 11.00 − 13.00 / A panel and audience discussion on the Future of multi-media writing / In the face of the digital, where’s writing going? 

Panel: John Hall (UCF) - Lucy English (Bath Spa) - Christine Atha (Arnolfini) - Mary Paterson (Open Dialogues) - Nathan Jones (Mercy Online)

http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/events/details/1325

Access All Areas is a new publication brought out by the Live Art Development Agency, following their excellent weekend of performances and discussions in 2011.  Including my two short essays: ’ Reflections on Access All Areas’ and ‘Undress/ Redress’

http://thisisunbound.co.uk/index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=23&products_id=350

TWEET THE DAWN

St Augustine’s Tower

The Narroway, Mare Street, London E8 4RP
4am-6am, FREE

http://fringefilmfest.com/whats-on/sunday-2012

Duration

Culture Lab, Newcastle University

29-31 March 2012

Review of Not If But When: Culture Beyond Oil, by Platform, Art Not Oil and Liberate Tate (2011)

#Nightwatch2012 is a collaborative performance for mass participation, taking place on Twitter.  

FRIDAY 27th JAN 2012 00:30 - 02:30 GMT/ THURSDAY 26th JAN 19:30 - 21:30 EST

Streamed live to RHYTHMS OF TIME SHARING curated by KIOSK in collaboration with Vox Populi Philadephia at AUX Performance Space in Philadelphia.

Participating artists: Joanna Brown, Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars.  

The artists will tweet to a score published in advance.  To join in, please follow the score and tweet to #Nightwatch2012 

The #Nightwatch2012 score 

1.       Tweet from 00:30-02:30 GMT on Friday 27^th Jan/ 19:30-21:30 EST Thursday  26^th Jan

2.       Tweet about the night.

3.       Tweet to #Nightwatch2012

4.       Start by naming your location, your timezone and the rhythm of your night.

5.       End by naming your location, your timezone and the rhythm of your night.

6.       Inbetween, follow the words, thoughts and rhythms of the other 

image http://www.layoutsparks.com/1/159946/moon-girl-night-sky.html

I AM NOT A POET Assembling published by VerySmallKitchen, including Memory Exchange score and poem. 

http://verysmallkitchen.com/2012/01/20/i-am-not-a-poet-assembling/

The full ASSEMBLING is online here, with contributions from:

Magdalen Chua, Emma Cocker, Peter Cant & Alex Eisenberg,  Jennie Guy, Colin Herd, Mirja Koponen, Shandra Lamaute, Michelle Letowska,Jow Lindsay, nick-e melville, Iain Morrison,  Marit Muenzberg, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson, seekers of lice, Gerry Smith, Kim Walker, andSamantha Walton.

The lemon that I stole in Leningrad

When heather kept me warm in a night where I could not find my tent

They formed a human chain

The old man had tears in his eyes

At the late age of 57

Trolleys and trams

We all used to sleep outside under the grapevines

We buried him in the garden of a special friend

He said nothing!

Seeing lightning bolts falling down to the sea

Terrified until the bottom

I am ashamed

Eventually one magical summer’s evening

Rowing out to a tiny island

Rings on the fingers, Bells on the toes

The smell of the oranges of my childhood garden

I believed it was a robin

All broken timber and flaking white paint

I now know that it was a wren

Why was I scared?

It smelled of the summer

The magic of making a new friend

Walking to a lesson across cobbles

An unexpected and happy time

I pass as straight

He stops at the turnstiles to glare

Was there some secret tunnel?

I said, ‘I was running away.’

I don’t know why

I still feel a little haunted

Tastes Wrigley’s Spearmint, smells Radox green

Until he fell on the dog

Before you left me

A glimpse of new love

She’d take me there one day

I learnt my lesson

Falling off a brick wall

Standing under a tree sheltering from heavy rain

Catching frogs amongst shopping trolleys

It was the final time

I am sliding into something

About nothing in particular

I didn’t go to jail

Nobody laughed

No one has said anything

Burnt cigarettes

I could not believe in the truth anymore

And I regret doing that

I can’t remember last night

Note: this memory may be second hand, passed to me through stories from my parents

Excerpts from memories donated to The Memory Exchange, Wednesday 10^tth August 2011 at Totalkunst Gallery, Forest Cafe, Edinburgh.  Memory Archivist: Mary Paterson.  

photo by Julia Ross

Getting to Know You - a score for flash performance will be at I’m with you: Occupy London, Thursday 8th December 2011

http://imwithyouclapton.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/im-with-you-occupy-london/

Extract from Getting to Know You

What is the difference between the sound of birdsong and the sound of a car alarm?

Do you own a mirror? 

Can you be more specific?

Do you like to lie?

What are you sharing?

Do you take photographs of yourself on your phone?

Are you now or have you ever been trending on Twitter?

Is this an ambition of yours?

More details from I’m with you:

I’m with you is going to erupt at the Bank of Ideas on Sun Street in London, next Thursday on the 8th of December. Join us for a coordinated set of un-harmonious performance outbursts, as friends of I’m with you contribute song-length flash performances to the growing alternative investment structure. 

The event will be a collaborative, simply produced presentation of complicated (or not so complicated) ideas, emotions and experiences related to occupation, solidarity, righteous anger and desire (with a healthy dose of ridiculosity, glamour and hysteria).

Performance/interventions/ provocations/ organisational infrastructure by:

Season Butler
Jesse Darling
Eleanor Weber
The Walsh/Beiderman family
Mary Paterson
Sophie Robinson
Arkem
Caroline Smith
Jan Mertens
Alex Eisenberg
Johanna Linsley
R. Justin Hunt
Christa Holka

A half day symposium looking to the future of Public Art in North Kent. 

http://www.encounter-northkent.co.uk/2011/11/17/people-place-and-space-seminar-guests-announced/

Two Poems by Mary Paterson, published on Our Penniless Write

Waiting Game

I picked up an old magazine …

http://ourpennilesswrite.tumblr.com/post/12072522911/waiting-game  

Going to the Cinema with a Colleague

This would all
Be so much
Better if …

http://ourpennilesswrite.tumblr.com/post/12072418222/going-to-the-cinema-with-a-colleague

#dawnchorus

#dawnchorus - 16/10/11

#dawnchorus  - tweeting the dawn - will be performed at dawn on Sunday 16th October 2011 (approximately 5:35am to 8am) on Twitter.  

Participating writers are: Amber Massie-Bloomfield, Joanna Brown,Tiffany Charrington, Eddy Dreadnought, Sally Labern, Tamarin Norwood, Mary Paterson and Natasha Vicars.  

#dawnchorus is conceived by Natasha Vicars and developed in collaboration with Mary Paterson and the writers, as part of the Live Art Development Agency’s DIY8 programme.  

For more information, please email natashavicars@gmail.com, or see us on Twitter. 

” … I bought sleeping pills over the counter and took them as protection against the fighting dogs.  The dogs fought til daybreak …”

Short story.  

Published for free download on Ether Books

http://itunes.apple.com/app/id362070951?mt=8