Join us for our first event in Glasgow! A double launch at the wonderful Good Press on Friday 5 July!

*This event has been rescheduled from the 4 July to allow everyone to vote in the election*

We will be launching FLOOD, a new zine documenting our workshop series between 2023-2024 which explored place-making poetics across coastal and riverside spaces in the South East of England, investigating the tensions underlying shifting landscapes, intertidal zones, living systems and anonymised processes of de/composition. The zine brings together prompts, references and outcomes from the series. 

We will also be launching the new print issue of FIELDNOTES, titled 'the destructive method'. Our sixth issue contains new writing and artwork from Anne Carson, Joe Clark, Elijah Jackson, Manuela De Laborde Noguez, Jonas Eika, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, Ocean Vuong, Vanessa Billy, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Emmerson, Kidist Amberber, Robert Beavers, Natasha Cox, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Chris Kraus, Emmett Lewis, Tava Tedesco, Flo Ray, Imane Boukaila, Chris Martin, Adam Wolfond and Rasha Abdulhadi.

There will be readings by FIELDNOTES friends and contributors including artists and writers Kate Paul and George Finlay Ramsay, introduced by FIELDNOTES Editor Bella Marrin.

ABOUT

FIELDNOTES is an artist-run publishing project based in Newham in east London. We produce a print journal twice a year alongside a public programme of workshops, mentoring opportunities, radio broadcasts, screenings and readings. Founded in 2020, FIELDNOTES aims to promote and support non-conforming creative practices that pioneer new cultural forms. We seek to challenge the systemic inequalities that limit opportunities in the arts by working with individuals and communities who may not find support elsewhere. Our purpose is to provide a test site for poetic innovation, a place for new voices and collaborations, a venue for experimental modes and fresh departures between disciplines. We are interested in the third thing between two known things; we are looking for the spaces between translations and transitions.

KATE PAUL is an artist-writer based in Glasgow, and until recently a childcare worker. Some themes which come up in her work are co-regulation, unusual/garbled voicing, and disturbances within highly regulated spaces. She works on collaborative projects with friends, and is currently researching liquids and urination for a multi-media work.

GEORGE FINLAY-RAMSAY is an artist working with poetry, ritual and analogue filmmaking. In 2017 & 2018 he burned hundreds of people’s regrets inside volcanoes across Eurasia. His fake epic poem Raven’s Reprise (2020) tells of a trickster raven travelling through the pandemic and remaking the world to her better designs. His short film CASTOROCENE (2021) sees beavers re-build the world after humans have destroyed it. Mid length film Family Fugue (2022) is about how we are haunted by, and in turn haunt our ancestors. Nursted, from the sleep side (2023) and Flesh, Wax & Glass (ongoing) deal with the idea of a house falling asleep, and the complexities of filming sacred blood rituals respectively. He is currently making plans to have his body thrown into a volcano after he dies.