When?

7pm, Thursday 27th October

Where?

London: Meanwhile Space, upstairs in the O2 Centre, Finchley Road

Liverpool: Elevator Cafe/Bar, 25 Parliament Street

Where will you sing?

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The hatches have been nailed shut, the creak of a rusty armature silenced with globdules of lubricant. And There It Was, the website; the event, stuttered into life.

UPDATE: The event took place on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 at Chisenhale Gallery. Photos from the event can be found here:

We start from the position of the ‘and’. A neglected conjunction, moulded by the incidents, events or ideas that came before – often just before – its… ]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:33:57 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/out-loud/and-there-it-is http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html Three years ago, Edge collaborated with The Serpentine Gallery in London in a program of "table-top experiments" as part of the Serpentine's Experiment Marathon . This live event was featured along with the Edge/Serpentine collaboration: "What Is Your Formula? Your Equation? Your Algorithm? Formulae For the 21st Century."

Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Serpentine, has invited Edge to collaborate in his latest project, The Serpentine Map Marathon, Saturday and Sunday, 16 – 17 October, at Royal Geographical Society, 1 Kensington Gore, London SW7 2AR (Map).

The multi-dimensional Map Marathon features non-stop live presentations… ]]> Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:52:00 -0700 http://www.edge.org/documents/Edge-Serpentine-MapsGallery/index.html http://www.curatormagazine.com/amandajohnson/the-art-of-marina-abramovic-and-the-prophesy-of-matthew-arnold/ The upside-down values of the art world, popularly infamous, ridiculed, and resented, are by now the mark of the sphere itself, sufficient to establish the cynic’s principle that if you wish to succeed in the art world, do what you would never dream of doing in the real one. Take for instance Chris Burden’s 1971 performance piece Shoot, remembered in photographs with the artist’s dry captioning: “At 7:45 P.M. I was shot in the left arm by a friend. The bullet was a copper jacket .22 long rifle. My friend was standing about fifteen feet from me.” Burden was later… ]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:10:00 -0700 http://www.curatormagazine.com/amandajohnson/the-art-of-marina-abramovic-and-the-prophesy-of-matthew-arnold/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdAYKGNajQ&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Tue, 12 Oct 2010 03:03:42 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHdAYKGNajQ&feature=youtube_gdata http://gli.tc/h/blog/?p=349 gli.tc/h art in Chicago ]]> Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:32:00 -0700 http://gli.tc/h/blog/?p=349 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SphokTj1t0&feature=youtube_gdata ]]> Sat, 09 Oct 2010 05:29:00 -0700 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SphokTj1t0&feature=youtube_gdata http://machinemachine.net/text/out-loud/speaking-about-ants-superman-and-centaurs

This text was read out loud on the 21st November, as part of the Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art-Writing, held at The Whitechapel Gallery

Thanks must go to Maria Fusco and Francesco Pedraglio for asking me to take part…

In one of the most uncanny revelations in science fiction, the protagonist of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine awakes from his anthropic slumber: the museum is filled with artefacts not from his past, but from his future.

Like… ]]> Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:29:00 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/out-loud/speaking-about-ants-superman-and-centaurs http://acertainrealism.blogspot.com/2009/11/known-unknowns-4-hours-continues.html The Known Unknowns is a scheduled cycle of continuous readings running parallel to Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing, an evening organised by Maria Fusco and Book Works at Whitechapel Gallery. The festival reflects on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through six newly commissioned works by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors and Gail Pickering. The aim of The Known Unknowns is to gather an interesting number of contributors to publicly read extracts or entire sections of their own texts. The fluidity and the continuity of the act of reading-aloud will unveil a focus… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:45:00 -0700 http://acertainrealism.blogspot.com/2009/11/known-unknowns-4-hours-continues.html http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/27/product_id/385?session_id=1258455028383f96137d95bc221d98b5ce7b7b0bfb Saturday 21 November, 6pm - 11pm Showcasing UK artists and writers, this parley-based event speculates on the materialisation and dematerialisation of art writing through newly commissioned works, together with readings drawn from open submission. The event is hosted by Maria Fusco with Book Works and structured around issue three of The Happy Hypocrite, themed ‘Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading’. A specially produced publication is available on the day, published by Book Works. New commissions include a lecture, readings, performances and installations by Adam Chodzko, Ruth Ewan, Babak Ghazi, Beatrice Gibson, Nathaniel Mellors, and Gail Pickering, together with The Known Unknowns,… ]]> Sat, 21 Nov 2009 05:43:00 -0700 http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/shop/product/category_id/27/product_id/385?session_id=1258455028383f96137d95bc221d98b5ce7b7b0bfb http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su.html#hollypester Holly Pester is a performance poet currently working on a project with the Barry Museum in Manchester. I, raven, the is about the relationship between words and sound, and the title itself inevitably brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in which the refrain “Never More” reads increasingly, as the poem progresses, as less like words and more like sounds. Pester’s poem attempts to capture the “shape of words” and as she reads, her mouth contorts into shapes. The result is a series of sounds from everyday life that seem disconnected from the actual meaning of the words. “The… ]]> Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:29:00 -0700 http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2009/06/poetry_marathonsaturday_and_su.html#hollypester http://www.hollypester.com/live-performance/voiceworks/voiceworks-holly-pester

A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist)

Presidents Birds and Even

At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and the thrill of live performance. By trading sound, text and image material, they allowed the piece to workshop itself out of their (re)interpretation and (mis)translation. Kaye and Pester have engendered not only a musical score, but a hypertextual network of graphic notation, sound poetics and a prolific collaborative partnership.

The piece works as a triptych, with each instant both setting Pester’s text and also conceptually representing each visual poem. The piece is also interspersed with rhythmic interludes.

Baritone – Alex Garziglia

Percussion 1 – Catherine Ring

Percussion 2 – Louise Morgan

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