

factotum is a password management and authentication protocol negotiation virtual file system for Plan 9 from Bell Labs. He is consistently rejected by the only publishing house he respects, but is driven to continue by the knowledge that he could do better than the authors they publish. A special 'Cobbled Quarter' supplement to The Vacuum closely resembled the corporate freesheet 'Laganlines' published by the Laganside quango to promote their newly branded 'Cathedral Quarter'. An employee or assistant who serves in a wide range of capacities. In 2003 they produced a book and CD called Belfast Songs in which a number of writers, including Glenn Patterson, Paul Muldoon and Leontia Flynn, each wrote about famous songs representing the city. They publish The Vacuum newspaper, put on exhibitions, publish books and make films. For long term storage, keys are usually stored in secstore or in an encrypted file. Factotum is both an arts organisation and artists' project that was formed in 2001 by Stephen Hackett and Richard West. In 2006 they put on an exhibition about the Factotum Choir in the Project Arts Centre in Dublin (subsequently toured to other venues). , The building once used had the "headless dog" image on the brickwork outside. Factotum's exhibitions and publications can also be explicit in criticising attempts to rebrand and redevelop Belfast and the role of marketing and Public Relations in general, as in their 2008 show 'A Century of Spin' about PR photography. It included such events as 'Hermitfest' and the 'Festival of Pathetic Maritime Disasters' much like the facepainting and Titanic themed events in the quango's publicity material. For other uses, see, "On the Barstool Again, With One for His Muse, in 'Factotum, Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship, Portions from a Wine-stained Notebook: Short Stories and Essays, Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life, (novel)&oldid=985361227, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 25 October 2020, at 14:37.įactotum are based in Belfast and their work is often about the city and its history.Īrticle in Hot Press magazine about the Factotum Choir Exhibition. The term " factotum" refers to a general servant and comes from Latin where it literally means "do everything". I had almost forgotten Monee, the grinning old man who prepared our meal. The repeated "Figaro"s before the final patter section are an icon in popular culture of operatic singing. factotum then authenticates to the service on "News story by Culture Northern Ireland questioning whether the Northern Ireland Unseen Offscreen exhibition is factual or parodic",, (arts_organisation)&oldid=918525405, Articles with dead external links from August 2019, Articles with permanently dead external links, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 29 September 2019, at 03:05.īehalf of the program. This exhibition contained film clips, artefacts (like record covers and a desiccated cat) and an extensive history of the Choir from the 1950s to 2000. Factotum was adapted into a film of the same name in 2005, directed by Bent Hamer and starring Matt Dillon, Lili Taylor and Marisa Tomei. Set in the 1940s, the plot follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's perpetually unemployed, alcoholic alter ego, who has been rejected from the World War II draft and makes his way from one menial job to the next (hence a factotum).
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, "Arts Council announces recipients of Curated Visual Arts Award".įactotum's work is sometimes documentary or archival in nature, as in their 2005 photographic exhibition 'The English', which was largely made up of previously unseen photographs from the Imperial War Museum's archive of the British army in Northern Ireland in the 1970s and 80s. In the past they have also run a choir, staged contemporary dance events and organised talks. (dated) A person having many diverse activities or responsibilities. The Factotum Choir, for example, sang a repertoire made up of songs in praise of Stalin (such as Ewan MacColl's "Ballad of Stalin"), corporate songs ("Fokker on the Wing") and national anthems for countries that no longer exist (such as Rhodesia).
