Watch: UCL Slade School presents Off the Shelf?

Taking the re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL as its theme, this event gives visitors the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry ? including artists and writers Vito Acconci, Sol Le Witt, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Derek Jarman and Bob Cobbing. These texts will be explored through various forms of performance and accompanied by film, video and documentation from the era. Michael Duffy, artist and contributor said: 'There is a huge range of research taking place in and around the Slade that's actively exploring the relation between words and images across various fields of creativity and scholarship. This takes place at both undergraduate and postgraduate level within the school and is also the focus for the Slade Word Image Forum that extends beyond the Slade to a national and international network of academics and practitioners who meet regularly at the Slade to share research. ?Off the Shelf (OTS) came about as a way to bring a snapshot of this activity together alongside an exhibition of publications taken from UCL's Small Press Collection, which features unique works by eminent artists and thinkers like Richard Long and Sol LeWitt.' The evening will also include new creative works by contemporary visual artists, writers and musicians, exploring the interaction between words and images and a 'speaker's corner? with short talks by members of the Slade Word/Image Research Forum.