NOWHERE BUT E17

nowhere to be measured with steel tapes

2011-08-23T16:02:00.000+01:00

'Indeed, it is rather an odd sight, the old lady perched on top of an aluminium step-ladder, apparently gazing into nowhere, or measuring the desert with steel tapes'.

Bruce Chatwin, 'Maria Reiche: The Riddle of the Pampa', in,

WHAT AM I DOING HERE (Picador,1989), p.99.

nowhere near the atrium

2011-06-18T17:46:00.000+01:00

'If enough witnesses testified they saw Christie at the time of the shooting and he was nowhere near the atrium the case against him would be dismissed'.

J G Ballard, Kingdom Come. p.261

nowhere near the field of the marsh

2011-06-06T07:56:00.000+01:00

'From this standpoint, one would expect to find that transitional beings are particularly polluting, since they are neither one thing nor another; or may be both; or neither here nor there, or may even be nowhere (in terms of any recognized cultural topography), and are at the very least "betwixt and between" all the recognized fixed points in space time of structural classification'.

Turner, V. 1986. The Forest of Symbols. Aspects of Ndumbu Ritual: Cornell University Press.
Chapter 5, Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage - p.97

nowhere to be immaculate

2011-05-18T07:55:00.000+01:00

'Around me the residential streets were still silent, the suburbs of nowhere, immaculate pavilions that reminded me of the stylish tombs on the mortuary island in the Venice lagoon.'

J G Ballard, Kingdom Come. p.137.

Nowhere to think in terms of abstract space

2011-03-31T23:29:00.004+01:00

'It is an expensive and ugly testimony to the fact that, when men think in terms of abstract space rather than real place, of single rather than multiple meanings, and of political aspirations instead of human needs, they tend to produce miles of jerry-built nowhere, infested with Volkswagens.'

Robert Hughes, The Shock of the New, (1980) p.211.

Nowhere to go but over the moon

2011-03-28T23:32:00.002+01:00

'Christie was nowhere near the mezzanine.'

J G Ballard. Kingdom Come. p.47

Nowhere to stop

2011-03-19T16:29:00.000Z

'Thence I went, by the shortest road... towards a point which necessarily led me through Tottenham Court Road: I stopped nowhere, and walked fast; yet so it was that in Tottenham Court Road I was not overtaken by (that was comprehensible), but overtook Walking Stewart.'

de Quincey

Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison. p.106.

Nowhere but off the road

2011-03-18T16:12:00.002Z

'Perhaps because nowhere in Britain is more than a day’s drive from anywhere else if you put your mind to it, the UK road film is generally a species of art cinema, the inner journey of the traveller transfiguring the discovery of the landscape.'

http://found0bjects.blogspot.com/2011/03/uk-road-film.html

Nowhere to be found phonetically

2011-03-15T21:58:00.003Z

'An umbilical cord. Only Samuel Beckett got the relationship right: Lucky and Pozzo, strangers, arriving from nowhere, to deliver their lines and depart.'

Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison. p.300

Nowhere in the timeless moment

2011-03-14T17:27:00.000Z

'Here the intersection of the timeless moment

Is England and nowhere

T S Eliot, Little Gidding

Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison, p.342

Nowhere to howl

2011-03-12T17:11:00.000Z

'It would be a mistake to suggest that their work sprang from NOWHERE , separate from a network of influences and ideas in the arts'

Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists Books, p.71

Nowhere in a cacophonous sepia storm

2011-03-11T17:05:00.000Z

'The great wind from Nowhere of October 1987: I awoke in a sepia dawn to a cacophony of tortured metal; through the Venetian blind slats I could see that six by three foot panels were being torn from the scaffolding on the old LCC block opposite'

Will Self, Psycho Too, p.13

Nowhere to find continuity

2011-03-10T10:13:00.000Z

'as I rode along I reflected that nowhere in the world was there such continuity as in the Arabian desert.'

Wilfred Thesinger, in Will Self, Psycho Too, p.42

Nowhere near the beauty

2011-03-09T10:09:00.000Z

'For pictures, small or great, if beautiful, ought not to be painted on leaves of books, to be worn with service; and pictures, small or great, not beautiful, should be painted nowhere.'

John Ruskin, Lectures on Art. No. 143.

Nowhere but in the follies

2011-03-08T09:53:00.000Z

'Madness did not come on him suddenly, out of nowhere.'

Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison, p.98

Nowhere to be seen studying dragons

2011-03-07T09:46:00.002Z

'The modern European squatter, that pierced and patched mutant of the past 25 years, is nowhere to be seen.'

Aaron Lake Smith, Vive Le Tamac Nine!, 'Vice' Vol' 8 No.4

Nowhere more than a narrow path of studies

2011-03-06T09:38:00.000Z

'The houses crowded in upon a roadway that was nowhere more than twenty feet wide and in places narrowed to twelve.'

Neil Hanson, The Dreadful Judgement. The True Story of the Great Fire of London, p.41

Nowhere to search for a fact

2011-03-05T09:30:00.003Z

'There is nowhere of any consequence between High Beech and Mary Joyce's Glinton.'

Iain Sinclair, Edge of the Orison, p.120.

Nowhere to complain

2011-02-02T15:03:00.003Z

'He introduced activism to the field of urbanism, something that was nowhere to be found among the surrealist dreamers, who were too passive, too ready to let themselves go, carried away by chance or the unconscious'
Vincent Kaufman, The Poetics of the Derive, 2001.

Nowhere near Railway Terrace

2011-01-30T15:51:00.002Z

The Situationists' combination of cultural means and revolutionary ends has been influential nowhere more so than in Paris's 1968 student uprising when Situationist slogans were painted on the walls.

Nowhere to be sung to the tune of Roud #6294

2010-12-22T15:34:00.004Z

'Nowhere but E17' has been handed over to 'Lost and Found in E17'

http://www.julianbeere2011.blogspot.com/

Nowhere to be found welcoming

2010-08-11T17:29:00.004+01:00

This little alien, a finch or budgerigar I believe, perched on the brink of Walthamstow - a fugitive at small? It had flown in tantalising orbits about me - so close at times I might have grabbed it or held out a finger for it to rest on. Later that night, on return to my chamber in the dreamspace of nowhere but E17 I dreamt it sang, News from Nowhere, backwards, verbatim (as if I'd know! Well I seemed to be very familiar with the utopian tome in my dreams - where else?). I swear obscenely this dream is as true as a dream can be.

I attempted to stretch my thoroughly English bound tongue, to utter some sort of pidgin budgie babble - and lo! Lo and behold! The caged larks ascended in a fabulous pastoral chorus - singing into being a bridge across the mighty Ching, welcoming me across into the dangling gardens of Walthamstow.

O paradise allotment - so edible a welcome, enchanted this entrance so befitting a stranger

Look! Stranger

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_This_Island

http://ayjay.tumblr.com/post/146118519/w-h-auden-paysage-moralise

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/nov/15/fromthearchives.whauden

Look stranger - who am I to welcome someone or thing, even you, to Walthamstow? I have been trying to find, in the vast expanse of my immaterial mind, a working answer to this compelling question (at least a question, if not an issue) of identity.

I propose walking along an entire boundary of Walthamstow, in one direction and then another. During these walks, to which you are not and were not invited, I will be unwelcoming to any person who bears some subtle resemblance to me - e.g. if you have or even look like you have a toothache, I will in no uncertain terms tell you to get lost. I shall patrol the fringe of this local art festival, a one man - person - unwelcoming committee - telling you where to go in my most fluent budgerigar.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00t9f0b

Enough of this absurdity.

Another of the artists contributing to, Common Grounds, is Tribasia,

http://www.tribasia.com/

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Tribasia will be presenting a slideshow and talk at Forest Recycling Project on Sunday 5th September.

Beyond the Mekong: The Colourful Cultures
of Minority Groups.
4.30 – 5.30pm

FRP community space