Friday 23 June 2023, 8pm
Live performances and DJ sets to launch issue #12 of performance interview zine TALKER. The new issue features a conversation with Jakarta-based performance-maker and storyteller Agus Nur Amal PMTOH.
TALKER is an interview zine about performance. It’s been published since 2016 by Giles Bailey. All previous issues will be available at the launch and feature Ian White, Kate Valk, Richard Maxwell, Sue Tompkins, Dora García, Spalding Gray, Kathy Acker, Jo Fong, Paul Maheke, Clifford Owens, Gustav Metzger, Barby Asante and Miranda July.
Agus Nur Amal PMTOH uses household objects for storytelling performances and creates art objects to share ideas, knowledge, conflict resolutions and trauma healing. Collaborating with artists, photographers, videographers, and educators, he aims to entertain and educate through various methods. After he graduated from theatre faculty at the Jakarta Institute of Arts, Agus returned to his hometown Weh Island (Aceh, Sumatra) to research and study the art of Acehnese storytelling known as PMTOH. Agus is also involved in community empowerment activities, having joined the Anti-Violence Community in handling student brawls in 1999-2002 in Jakarta. From 2003 until now, he works with Komunitas Tikar Pandan community for trauma healing and peace building projects in Banda Aceh. His work was featured in a major exhibition in Kassel, Germany as part of Documenta 15 in 2022.
https://aguspmtoh.blogspot.com/
Hannah Catherine Jones (aka foxymoron) is a Doncaster-born, Bajan-diasporic, London-based artist, researcher, multi-instrumentalist, broadcaster/DJ (BBC Radio/TV, NTS - The Opera Show), composer, conductor, founder and creative director of Peckham Chamber Orchestra – a community project established in 2013 and founder and creative director of Chiron Choir - a queer diasporic choir established in 2022.
In performance, Jones conjures transcendent soundscapes, building layers from a live multi-instrumental set-up including theremin(s), voice, synthesisers, strings, samples and utilising fx and multiple looping systems simultaneously, to transport audiences into interdimensional sonic portals.
Jones completed her AHRC DPhil scholarship at Oxford University in 2021 for which the ongoing body of work The Oweds was presented as a series of live and recorded, broadcast, audio-visual episode-compositions, using disruptive sound as a methodology of institutional decolonisation.
Jones has performed, exhibited and lectured widely, internationally, including: Leeds Art Gallery, Barbican Centre, National Gallery, Southbank Centre, Institute of Contemporary Arts, V&A, Oxford University, Trinity Laban, Cafe Oto, Nottingham Contemporary, BrittenPears, (UK), Ocean Space (IT), ECAL (CH), Sandberg Institute (NL), University of Bayreuth (GER), Beirut Art Centre (LEBN), Oi Futuro (BR), Eyethu Centre (SA), New York University, Harvard University (U.S.), NIRIN: 22nd Biennial of Sydney, Liquid Architecture (AUS), Wonderfruit (TH), amongst others.
Barby Asante is a London based artist, curator, educator and occasional DJ. Her work is concerned with the politics of place, space memory and the histories and legacies of colonialism. Asante’s work is collaborative, performative and dialogic, often working with groups of people as contributors, collaborators or co researchers. Barby’s performance work is the subject of TALKER #10.
