Performance as Publishing

Category Archive: research

I, I, I, I, I, I, I, Kathy Acker, ICA, London
July 9, 2019 10:05 pm Leave a Comment
“In a 1996 text, Acker wrote: ‘Language is the accumulation of connections where there were no such connections’, and referred to a kind of language ‘that makes webs’. […] Acker is an exceptional figure in late-20th-century Western literature who moved between the avant-garde art and literary scenes of New York, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Paris and London. Through her prolific writing, Acker developed experimental textual methodologies as she distorted language, hybridised fiction and autobiography, ‘plagiarised’ the work of other authors, and introduced maps, drawings and diagrams.”

— www.ica.art/exhibitions/i-i-i-i-i-i-i-kathy-acker
PaperWork: iilwimi lipsing, serf, Leeds
October 11, 2018 1:35 pm Leave a Comment
“I like how it sounds a bit like wimmin. Wimmin-ing. It’s queer and i and i, like we. It’s lots. Very plural-y. And very very and so. Sounds like lips and ellipses and singing and kissing and something about size, like a thing that is small and growing. It’s funny how ppl get upset from internet comments about bad lipsing. Lipsing is verby it’s doing. It’s now. It’s painting the chin and cheeks so the lips stand out. It’s a tongue in another mouth. To go inside your body. The i’s are quite wavy i and i and i and i and i and i. It’s slow then it’s fast. I’m thinking about the shapes the sound makes my mouth. what words do with me. ii is air muscled out. When did I suck that air iin even? iilwimi lipsing is nice to say softly against the hand. Rushy.”

A night of art writing: performance, soundings and screening by artists Carl Gent, Alison Ballance, Uma Breakdown and Halima Haruna with PaperWork Magazine.

— www.facebook.com/PaperWorkMag/
The Art of Now: The Joy of Text, BBC Radio 4
September 30, 2018 1:15 pm Leave a Comment
“Artist and broadcaster Bob and Roberta Smith, famed for his hand-painted slogans, goes on a personal journey to explore how text and language are used in art.”

— www.bbc.co.uk
ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE
April 28, 2018 8:08 am Leave a Comment
“ORGASMIC STREAMING ORGANIC GARDENING ELECTROCULTURE is a group exhibition looking at practices that emerge between text and performance, the page and the body, combining a display and events programme of historical and contemporary works. It seeks an alternative framework to look at the influence of conceptual procedures as well as experimental writing within contemporary feminist performance practices across visual art, sound and text. The exhibition seeks to highlight these significant trans-historical sensibilities, whilst acknowledging their disjuncts. Each artist brings a particular method, procedure or interrogation to the act of writing or performing text, blurring descriptions such as text, score, work, performance, version and iteration.”

— www.chelseaspace.org
Judith Butler, Notes toward a Performative Theory of Assembly, published by Harvard Press
November 2, 2017 11:34 am Leave a Comment
“Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions, analysing what they signify and how. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, Butler extends her theory of performativity to argue that precarity – the destruction of the conditions of livability – has been a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests.”

— www.hup.harvard.edu
Doreen Massey, For Space, published by Sage Publications
May 18, 2017 8:04 am Leave a Comment
“What if space is the sphere not of a discrete multiplicity of inert things, even one which is thoroughly interrelated? What if, instead, it presents us with a heterogeneity of practices and processes? Then it will be not an already-interconnected whole but an ongoing product of interconnections and not.”

— www.agendapub.com
Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark, published by Canongate Books
December 4, 2016 7:57 am Leave a Comment
“This exquisite work traces a history of activism and social change over the past five decades – from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the worldwide marches against the war in Iraq. Hope in the Dark is a paean to optimism in the uncertainty of the twenty-first century.”

— www.canongate.co.uk
Wysing Polyphonic, Cambridgeshire
July 2, 2016 11:43 am Leave a Comment
“A fully acoustic art and music festival that explores the sonic potential of the voice, instruments and objects:
“SAVORR discusses the nature of sound – its meaning, its potential, its limits and its history…
“Primary artists Frank Abbott, Bruce Asbestos, Wayne Burrows, Rebecca Lee, Alison Lloyd and Reactor come together in a variety of combinations to explore the lines between sound and language, sense and non-sense…
“OUTPOST presents ‘The Temporary Research Centre for Myths, Stories, Tales and Fables’, exploring the nature and themes of stories and how they are remembered, told, and passed on…”

— www.wysingartscentre.org
Performing to the Camera, Tate Modern, London
June 11, 2016 11:26 am Leave a Comment
“This exhibition explores the relationship between the two forms, looking at how performance artists use photography and how photography is in itself a performance. It shows how photographs have captured performances […] and ground-breaking collaborations between photographers, performers and dancers. It looks at how artists […] have used photography as a stage on which to perform.”

— www.tate.org.uk
Blog post #3, Lux artists’ moving image
May 8, 2016 10:03 pm Leave a Comment
“Describing our project as ‘performance to camera’ really points to the idea of a performance mediated through a camera and an audience who only sees that end product. It implies conscious decisions about what the camera sees and how this translates to an online audience.”

— www.lux.org.uk/blog/