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To coincide with the exhibition Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs, IMT Gallery are hosting a series of talks and events.
Talk: Listening in Present Time
Saturday 12 June 18:00-21:00
Salomé Voegelin, David Burrows and Mark Jackson discussed the exhibition in relation to contemporary practice.
Voegelin is an artist and writer concerned with the practice and philosophy of sound. She is the author of Listening to Noise and Silence: Towards a Philosophy of Sound Art published by Continuum Press in May 2010. Her sonic pieces use a documentary approach, to glean from the interviewee a truth beyond the visual. She is a senior lecturer and a course leader of the MA Sound Arts at the London College of Communication.
David Burrows is a British contemporary artist and writer. His work consists of drawings and paint-spattered, debris-littered, haphazard installations. Burrows is, with Simon O’Sullivan, one half of Plastique Fantastique and a former member of the art collective BANK.
Mark Jackson is the curator of ‘Dead Fingers Talk’ and project co-ordinator at IMT.
Talk: Rearrange the Word
Saturday 10th July 18: – 21:00
The second of two talks in response to ‘Dead Fingers Talk: The Tape Experiments of William S. Burroughs’. For ‘Rearrange the Word’ David Toop, Anthony Joseph, Kit Poulson and Mark Jackson, considered the influence of William S. Burroughs’ work.
David Toop is a musician/composer, writer, curator and significant presence in experimental and improvised music. His pioneering books on music and sound include Rap Attack, Ocean of Sound, Exotica and Haunted Weather. He curated the sound art exhibition ‘Sonic Boom’, and a 2-CD collection of experimental music in Britain from between 1960 - 1977. Toop is currently co-curating, with Tony Herrington, ‘Blow Up: Exploding Sound and Noise’ at Flat Time House, London.
Anthony Joseph is a poet, novelist, academic and musician. He was born in Trinidad, moving to the UK in 1989. His publications include Desafinado, Teragaton, The African Origins of UFOs and Bird Head Son. He is published in several anthologies, including Dark Matter : A Century Of Speculative Fiction From The African Diaspora, Identity Parade, Red and Black, Brown & Beige - Surrealist Writings from Africa and the Diaspora. He performs and lectures internationally, and tours with his band The Spasm Band. Joseph lectures in creative writing at Birkbeck College, University of London and is a AHRC scholar and doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths College.
Kit Poulson is a painter whose work also has a strong installation and performance element. His work in ‘Dead Fingers Talk’ is indicative of his thirteen-year collaboration with artist Alex Baker, which concerns the fragility of communication and language, often revolving around some form of conversation in which they are the protagonists - sometimes responsive, sometimes ignoring or overriding the other’s actions. He has a PhD in Fine Art from Middlesex University.
Mark Jackson is the curator of ‘Dead Fingers Talk’ and project co-ordinator at IMT.
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This post was written by Mark on May 12, 2010
