Torque [Live]: Fri, 6th June
TORQUE [LIVE]
Fri 6 June 8pm – 11pm
Rich Mix, London
£8 (£6 concs) // Main Space
TICKETS
This multi-media performance night features top practitioners from
fields of poetry, live coding, dance, diy electronics, and classical
music, entwined into a twisted symphony of voice, light, bodies and
semaphore poetics.
feat. HOLLY PESTER // KARL HEINZ JERON // OLIVER COATES & SAM SKINNER //
ALEX McLEAN & KATE SICCHIO // NATHAN JONES & MARK GREENWOOD
TORQUE [LIVE] is bought to you by co-producer of 2013 tour Electronic
Voice Phenomena, and takes up where this award-nominated series left
off, using poetry, theatre and media artst to look deeply at the
opportunities and rich thematic territories offered up by increasingly
hybrid existence.
A show that pushes understandings of networked thought, the internet of
things, and blurred lines between brains, bodies and electronics.
TORQUE [LIVE] will feature:
Oliver Coates / a new commission comprising cello, electronics and field
recordings, plus ‘Oraison’ by Messiaen, one of the first compositions
written for electronic instruments. Accompanied by video works by artist
Sam Skinner.
Karl Heinz Jeron: Sim Gishel / Sim Gishel is a multi-media robot. He
sings and dances for money. His biggest success so far has been his
performance at Das Supertalent with Dieter Bohlen. This will be Sim
Gishel’s first performance in the UK.
Holly Pester - Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems / a new work that re-stages
Hannah Weiner’s ensemble 1960’s work Code Poems, which used the
International Code of Signals for ship-to-ship communication to create a
series of avant-garde happenings. Pester’s new performance draws on our
contemporary experience of digital code in a staged conversation that is
sometimes shambolic, often lyrically active, and always in celebration
of the hopeless comedy of coded communication.
Mark Greenwood and Nathan Jones: The Nodes / a series of conversations
as radical language events, proposing a future for speech beyond
communication. Using models such as pandemonium architecture and chaos
theory, the Nodes press the boundaries for emotive relations within
uncoupled language.
Alex McLean and Kate Sicchio: Body Code / a feedback loop of code,
music, choreography, and dance is played out, as a 'body language '
which short-circuits the binary opposition of physical and abstract.
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See project tumblr for further details: http://torquetorque.tumblr.com
TICKETS:
http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/torque-twisting-language-brain-technology/
TORQUE is co-produced by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner and is supported
by Arts Council England.
TORQUE [LIVE] follows workshops and a symposium at FACT, Liverpool,
comprising artists and academics presenting research and artworks across
a range of subjects, including; spambots, network aesthesia,
neuro-archeology, Russian Activity Theory, live coding and the bicameral
mind. A Torque project ebook will be published by Link Editions in July.
The title of the project is a play on the verb ‘to talk’, and refers to
torque’s original latin meaning ’to twist’, and also the twisting forces
which distort language, technologies and cognitive processes by braiding
them together. The cerebral torque is also a central term used by
neuroscientist Tim Crow in his 2009 thesis that ‘Schizophrenia is the
price Homosapians pay for language’.
Curators:
Sam Skinner
Artist and producer, whose work moves between art and other fields,
combining an interest in art history and theory, in particular new media
and public space, with more engaged practice, including murals,
workshops, animation, set design, gardening, archival research, writing,
and ebooks. He has a BA from LJMU and an MA from Sussex, both in Art
History. Current projects include the design of furniture for a new
green-space in Brighton and an accompanying schools participation and
engagement project, in collaboration with Charles Holden and Plan Projects.
http://samskinner.net
Nathan Jones
Artist, poet and curator. Nathan is the Creative Director of Mercy, with
whom he has produced performance and writing at Liverpool Biennial for
the last three festivals. He produced the Electronic Voice Phenomena
programme throughout 2010-13, and now co-edits, with Tom Chivers, an
accompanying blog at electronicvoicephenomena.net Nathan’s art practice
is based in language noise and digital media performance, and he writes
theatre with the artist Mark Greenwood. Current projects include
SYNDROME a residency and laboratory programme in Liverpool, looking at
interaction and affect in performance; and TORQUE.
http://alittlenathan.co.uk
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Nathan Jones
Creative Director
www.mercyonline.co.uk
alittlenathan.co.uk
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Tel: +44 (0)151 708 9781
Fax: +44 (0)871 714 5298
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