To celebrate the launch of the new Stress Fractures, I’ll be giving a performance-lecture on the radio voice with Holly Pester. And the fantastic Hannah Silva will also be performing.
Thursday 16th December — 8pm — Whitechapel Gallery, London
Tickets are £6 and can be booked here
This is the third in a series of Stress Fractures events: others are on October 28th and November 11th
On Tuesday 9th November I’m reading at the Blue Bus series with Chris Gutkind and Rachel Lehrman.
8pm – Upstairs @ The Lamb – Lamb’s Conduit Street – London WC1
On Monday 8th November I’ll be giving a public lecture called:
Visions in a Hollow Land: the novels of Mary Butts and experimental radar of the 1940s.
I’ll explore the connections between the occult-influenced modernist novelist Mary Butts, and the wartime experiments in radar that took place along the coastline of her ‘Hollow Land’ of South Dorset. It’s all about threat, paranoia and enforcing the regime of visibility in times of crisis. If this sounds like your cup of tea then please come!
The details:
Doors 7pm for 7.30 start
bring your own bottle
free entry
@ St Barnabas Church
Shacklewell Row
Dalston
London E8 2EA
No, not the sandwich. Broadcast Linguistic Transmissions is a new performance by me and Holly Pester, based on our ongoing investigations into the radio voice. There will be tape voices, body static, live radio transmissions and headphone paranoia.
We’re in Liverpool as part of Midnight Special, a late-night performance and reading series put together by Mercy .
Saturday October 9th, 8pm-midnight — Old Paint Shop, Renshaw Street, Liverpool — FREE
Free tickets are available from the Diesel store (The Met Quarter, Liverpool, L1 6DA) or by emailing special@mercyonline.co.uk
Details of the full Midnight Special programme here
A collaboration with Wayward Plants. A composting grave for flowers, together with 6 text works, installed in Wandle Park over the Bank Holiday Weekend, 29-31 May 2010.
This installation was part of Away Day, a project by POST Artists’ Network.
The text pieces were subsequently installed at the Union Street Urban Orchard.
In 2010 Holly Pester and I performed a collaborative set at Ledbury Poetry Festival. You can listen to one of our Pingings below.
A radio play, live performance and debate about the impact of brain imaging on society. A series of 6 episodes imagining the lives of two characters with different brain conditions had they lived in 1906, the present day, and 2030. Co-written with neuroscientist and science communicator Louise Whiteley, with music composed by Cheryl Frances-Hoad.
Go to the Interior Traces website for full information about this project, funded by the Wellcome Trust, or to download free MP3s or stream videos.
I’ve just uploaded excerpts from the Ledbury performance here – our pings, fuzzes and stutters now streamable. Thanks to Daniel Rourke for recordings and photos, and to Ledbury Poetry Festival for hosting us.
The flower stories I wrote for the Funeral for Flowers project with Heather Ring have gained a second life at her Union Street Urban Orchard. This is a great project so if you’re in London over the summer go and have a look!
Pamphlet published by Sideline Publications in 2010.
This prose poem responds to and takes its name from a tour of the Cambridge night devised by artists Townley and Bradby.
It was part of Nightjar 2009, a series of temporary artworks and encounters between dusk and dawn. Cover image by Julian Hughes. If you’d like a free copy, please email me: renscombe.press@yahoo.co.uk