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About David Ellis

Date: 10 September 2006

Writer, performer and curator David Ellis is a participant in a a TV/Film experiment in which he joins an unknown group of artists, writers & former utopianists in Nowa Huta, the Stalinist steel-town suburb of Krakow.

David Ellis is a participant in a 'De-luxe Communist Tour'/A revisit to Tomorrowville, a TV/Film experiment by Warsaw's Z Studios, in which he joins an unknown group of artists, writers & former Utopianists in Nowa Huta, the Stalinist steel-town suburb of Krakow.

During allocated free time Ellis will be available for comment /live reportage./conversation direct from Krakow. For converation/reports etc contact him on 07876613224 / address_puzzle@hotmail.com or a40secondsour@live.com.

David Ellis is a writer, performer and curator. He founded 'Puzzleclub' in 1994 (a.k.a David Ellis's Rapid Response Unit) to act as a platform for his 'rogue enthusiasms'. Co-collaborators have included Iain Sinclair, Andrea Dworkin and artist Simon Tyszko. In 2001 'Silent Key' was broadcast by BBC Radio 3 for the experimental radio series ' Between the ears'. In May 2008 he presented 'Kitted Out or Who gets to dress the assassin? (a lesser-known history of adversarial cult clothing)' at The Horse Hospital, in response to the 'Dressed to Kill' season of films. In September 2008 he will be presenting an appreciation of the work of Antonin Artaud 'Endnotes from the point of boiling' at the Theosophical Society,London. Since 1995 Ellis's 'anti-lectures' have included subjects such as 'K.2 The Mountain' 'Embaressment' and ' The true weight of a pinch of salt'.

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