Event overview
Led by Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, Teresa Calonje, and Anna Gonzalez Suero
‘Down Curse (2018 AD—2018 BC)’ performed by
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson, will be followed by a collaborative response with Jon K Shaw, called ‘Re-void: Re-verse: Signalling Through The Flames’ that will insufflate how the magic earth of Artaud’s “strange channels” can transmit chthonic frequencies when transposed to the scream of an heretical marsh xone.
Teresa Calonje in conversation with Jenny Doussan on screaming as gesture.
During this conversation we will be discussing Giorgio Agamben and his writing on gesture as “a means without end”. How can one understand gesture as an event that brings body and voice into new “use”? How might we think screaming as gesture? How long can one be held in the “midst” of screaming/of gesture without falling again and always into structures of reproduction, representation and visibility? Has gesture not already been lost?
The Noisy Screen, by Anna Gonzalez Suero
The ultrasound screen is full of noise and noise, yet it is a quiet screen. The image is full of noise and now we hear the screaming screen. Its quietness gives us a new image out of the screen as soon as we see the lovely scream.
An autoethnography using material taken from an email exchange with Nina Power concerning 'void-feminism' (Power 2017). The Noisy Screen attempts to develop a poetic form of void for expressing the experience of having an ultrasound done.
Bios
Sophie Sleigh-Johnson is an artist based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. She is working on a PhD at Goldsmiths College called 'Radio Bifrons: Broadcasting From The Crypt'. Recent projects include 'Cealdwiellla' with New Noveta, and occasional broadcasts of ‘Chthonic Live’ on Resonance 104.4 FM. In 2015 she published 'Chthonic Index' in collaboration with Timothy Morton.
Jon K Shaw is a writer, editor and educator based in southeast London. He teaches in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London; City and Guilds School of Art; and West Dean College. His ongoing research concerns immanence, substrate and the philosophies, cultures, biologies and geontologies of movement.
Teresa Calonje is a PhD candidate in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, currently working on gesture and its appropriation in live art. She edited Live Forever. Collecting Live Art (2014).
Jenny Doussan is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths. She is author of 'Writing Lines: Agamben contra Nietzsche' in Cultural Critique (2016) and Time, Language, and Visuality in Agamben's Philosophy (2013).
Anna Gonzalez Suero is an artist based in Cologne. Her work is heavily influenced by feminist theory. The use of the fetus as an artistic motif is an ongoing project of hers.
Nina Power is a senior lecturer in philosophy at Roehampton University. She is an activist, writer, and the author of One-Dimensional Woman (2009).
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 16 Nov 2018 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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