FTHo

An afternoon of performances that relate to or extend our understanding of the work in exhibition. Curated by Bridget Crone.

The exhibition, EYE MUSIC FOR DANCING takes experimentation with phonetics as a starting point, addressing the abstraction of language through the physicality of sound itself. Alliteration, tonal patterning, feedback, distortion, stretched and reshaped vocalizations are explored through work by London based artists, Anna Barham, Julika Gittner and Heather Phillipson alongside a selection of the poet, Bob Cobbing's work. 

Situated within the exhibition itself, this afternoon of performances, will include works by the exhibiting artists Anna Barham and Julika Gittner. These performances relate closely to the work in exhibition. For example, Julika Gittner's performance accompanies her work, SBWA, and further addresses its relationship to the dynamics of behavioral economics. Anna Barham's durational reading-performance, Volume II provides a sense of the physical (or as Cobbing would say, "muscular") activity of language itself.

Heather Phillipson's trio of video and installation works made especially in consideration of Latham's conception of Flat Time House as a body, will be available for viewing during the afternoon; the strong use of voice in these works provides a complex companion to the live performances by Barham and Gittner.

In addition, we are delighted to welcome the poet, Robert Sheppard, who, with Patricia Farrell, will perform Blatent blather/virulent whoops - the work that he wrote in collaboration with Cobbing in 2001.

As we know, Bob Cobbing's use of the photocopier was a central aspect of his work and we pay homage to his processual practice - the focus on language as a physical and perhaps machinic activity. 

We extend an open invitation to writers and poets to bring finish worked or work in progress for performance and duplication via the photocopier that will be installed in the gallery space. There will also be a selection of items from the John Latham Archive to copy.

PLEASE BRING WORK FOR PERFORMANCE-PRODUCTION USING THE PHOTOCOPIER.