Return of The Listening Ears Binaural sound; glass head; Perspex; inkjet photograph (2012) First seen in 2008 as a performative rant on the streets of Maidstone, “The Listening Ears” return to the Medway in the form of a sound sculpture. The ears serve as a focus for the act of listening as the viewer…
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Fabrica 20th Sept 2012
Last Thursday at Fabrica in Brighton I was given the chance to present a work-in-progress showing of my latest installation The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing. An invited audience listened to the sound pieces and a presentation of the project, as well as a short performance with the newly commissioned Sonic Baton, made for me…
A Requiem for Grey Area
I shall be performing a brand new piece with my newly commissioned Sonic Baton tomorrow evening around 9pm. A Requiem for Grey Area will feature sounds recorded on the evening, manipulated and performed using Ableton Live. Vacation Grey Area 31/08/12 7.30 – 10pm GMT Featuring performances by SPASKI, Joseph Young, Gary Goodman & MORE! After…
Talawa this summer
Just heard that I’m going to be working on the sound design for a devised piece with the excellent Talawa theatre co. I can’t believe it’s a year since the show at the V&A!!!
Boxpark
A derive around the commercialised “alternative” shopping space with Harry Ross and Helen Scarlett O’Neill of Fruit for the Apocalypse. #skinnyvintage
More Shoreditch Psychogeography
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Tate Britain commission
I have been commissioned by Tate Britain to run a series of silent soundwalks around the gallery as part of a participatory day of art events for families on June 9th for BP Saturdays: Tate Together.
Aural Detritus
On Friday May 11th starting at 7.30 pm I will be performing as part of Paul Khimasia Morgan’s Aural Detritus series at the Green Room Cafe at Phoenix Gallery in Brighton. I am going to be performing with a mix of birdsong and junk emails! See you there…
Own Art interview
I was recently interviewed for the Own Art newsletter (an Arts Council publication) about my purchase of the late Katy Dove‘s edition of “Score” and how it related to my own practice. You can read the article here.
Cerith Wyn Evans
As part of my role in the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion, I recently conducted a series of silent soundwalks with the public around the building which explored the relationship between sound and public space. Cerith Wyn Evans describes the exhibition as a “love letter to the building”, and this is my response…
The Psychogeography of Shoreditch
As part of the research for my new project The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing , I went to Latte Central (aka Shoreditch) yesterday to gauge the temperature of the streets. This is what I found… #skinnyvintage
Bobby Does Bexhill
Now that the secret’s out, I can reveal that I am indeed “Bobby America”… Bobby America is a creation as part of my role in the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Bobby is a fictional survivor of Andy Warhol’s (late) Factory days – a former model and bit part actor who now…
The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing
My latest project The Ballad of Skinny Lattes and Vintage Clothing has been awarded a research and development grant by Arts Council England. The new piece is an exploration of globalisation and gentrification… taking in a journey that begins on Wall Street in 2008 during the weekend of the Lehmann Brothers collapse and culminating in the financial crisis…
This Saturday @ De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea
My first interpretation session as part of Warhol is Here, is this Saturday from 2pm at the DLWP. 29 Oct / 26 Nov / 10 Dec / 4 Feb 2012 Bobby America is a survivor and a former star of the Warhol Factory. Bobby is a talk radio host, and he would like to talk…
Performance photographs :: Common Sounds
Pictures copyright Mike Massoro http://www.mikemike.co.uk
Concerto for Brutalist Buildings
Myself and Peter Faulkner, in our role as artist:agitators The NeoFuturist Collective, were invited to act as hosts for an ambitious site-specific performance at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington High Street. The result was a suite of works celebrating the history and architecture of this splendid modernist icon, Concerto for Brutalist Buildings. Fruit for the…
Interpretation Team – De La Warr Pavilion
I have been invited to be part of the Interpretation Team at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill. This beautiful modernist icon of a building is one of my favourite galleries, so I am delighted to be part of the team that will be delivering courses and events for the local community in response…
Gold Dust performances announced
Gold Dust – a series of intimate headphone performance at The Ceramic House, exploring sound and domestic space, with invited guest artists. Part of HOUSE festival. May 11th: Joseph Young, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 18th: Joseph Young, Neil Luck, Paul Morgan, Michail Mavronas May 28th: Joseph Young, Jon Aveyard, Marcus Leadley Tickets available online from Brighton Ticket…
Artist’s Story @ Fabrica 14th April 6.30pm
As part of the Artist Resource events around Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet, I have been invited to give an Artist Talk at Fabrica in Brighton on 14th April at 6.30pm. I will be discussing my work and methodologies and, in particular, my latest collaboration with Public Art Ceramicist J Kay Aplin for HOUSE, part…
Shouting at Clocks!
Background “Walter Benjamin quotes reports that during the Paris Commune, in all corners of the city of Paris there were people shooting at the clocks on the towers of the churches, palaces and so on, thereby consciously or half-consciously expressing the need that somehow time has to be arrested; that at least the prevailing, the…
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