Sunday 15 February 2009, 3pm
Art, language & music coming together. Sarah Jacobs is a sculptor whose work includes making objects, performance, installation, books on paper, and books in electronic form, and is held in collections in Britain and internationally. She also runs Colebrooke Publications. Think of books as sculptures made of language and discourse. Think of multimedia projects that process text in motion. Her constructions give a breath-taking multi dimensional spin to both scientific and literary language, even cookery books. Her electronic work Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: We Report Here (published by information as material) uses text in a visually to document the ethical, economic, political and philosophical polemics associated with mapping the human genome, and their changes through time.
Sarah will be performing with Alex Walker and Imogen Smith. Alex recently performed at the Torriano spoken word renditions of Louis Aragon's Wave of Dreams and the poetry of Vladimir Majakovsky. He was Voice 1 in Sarah Jacobs' Song of the Data Stream for ResonanceFM. He is a member of the dada Theatre of the Absurd company. Stage roles include Howard Hogan/Dr. Nestor in Fat Men in Skirts, a black comedy by Nicky Silver, Victor Frankenstein in Company:Collisions' dance theatre piece Frankenstein. He has appeared in various adverts and virals as well as short films, Ciao Bella and Jellyfish and music videos for Roisin Murphy, Karen Louise and Client. Alex is half ofUru-Ana, appearing at Sundays at the Oto in March. Imogen has worked with Christopher Fry and Steven Berkoff. She recently played a lovelorn librarian at the Whitechapel Gallery and performed in the movement-based ensemble piece Zephyrus Dreams. She has performed poetry by Theresa Elven in Madrid.
Richard Makin is a writer of fiction and poetry and a visual artist. His novel St Leonards is serialized monthly by Great Works and is forthcoming as a paper book from Reality Street Editions. Great Works has also published Makin's novel Work in Process. Exerpts from his sonnet sequence Rift Designs were published in the Reality Street Book of Sonnets (2008). Recent exhibitions include Pages (2006) at the Poetry Society, London. Experience language as a complex and haunting landscape to drift across.
Carillon is an experimental sound performance by artists Dawn Scarfe and Mel Gough. Guitars are tuned to resonant nodes in cymbals to produce a rich bell-like sound. The aim is to investigate accents and textures within the spectrum of resonant sound in immersive and meditative live exploration.
Dawn Scarfe has performed and exhibited throughout the UK and participated in festivals in Scandinavia and Asia. Mel Gough has recently composed for the duo new noise and Jane Chapman, and conducted live musical and visual improvisations using Max/MSP and Gleetchlab at the Hayward, London. Visit www.dawnscarfe.co.uk for further information.
Expect from this afternoon completely new stances on language, music and performance!