Prospekt Obukhovskoy oborony, 151, +7 812 326 1744, ipm.ru (Russian-language only), factory tours can be arranged in advance at the main manufacturing site, £15pp for a group of five Not many people think of visiting St Petersburg for its contemporary art scene, but that is changing fast with a number of extraordinary new venues springing up around the city.
(A wrinkle: in Texas, as well North Carolina and South Carolina, Hanson officals said, the prevailing language on the factory floor is Spanish, and in Quebec and parts of Ontario, business is conducted in French and English).
All this, plus a setting in a Fife factory, language to make Irvine Welsh blush and sharp, bitterly funny, furiously paced gags spilling into the one claustrophobic room the action unfolds in.
Written in imaginative, forthright language, "The Wasp Factory" (his 1984 debut) and "The Bridge" (1986) were novels that countless young Scots read and took to their hearts.Asked whether he could join a Book Festival event marking three decades of his work, Iain told me "I'd bloody love to".
(Chinen) ★ New Languages Presents: Music Factory (Friday through Tuesday) Equal parts conceptual-art marathon, sociopolitical statement and free-improv happening, Music Factory can plainly be described as a continuous 96-hour performance, featuring some five dozen musicians.
That was partly for safety – the floor was raised – but it gave the club the language of a real factory, where hazard lines warn of forklift trucks.
The same farmers who had, a couple of generations back, been peasants, speaking a strange national language, working in our factories, speaking against us from hearths and pulpits yet greeting us warmly and with a practiced humility.
On the factory floor, local languages prevail.
Factory contacts anywhere are closely held secrets, and we didn't yet have the language to communicate and negotiate with factories.
Though he encounters problems with the language barrier and hasn't negotiated with factory owners before, he remains committed to what he calls his "humorous domestic hygiene product".
