Humber Mouth
Utterance
Hull Art Lab offers the other, the incredible, the spanner in the oyster, more a hair in the mouth than the floppy fringe. Utterance
as an illiteral take on literature, whether static, silent, live or audible. The sound of language and the appearance of words: exhibited, screened, performed, and played.
Exhibition - Megan Bedell
Megan Bedell is an artist based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her work plays with language and symbols. (re-)presenting phrases and words in pictorial or three-dimensional form.
Screening: Do(n't): Three Short Films by John Wynne
Do(n't) was originally an installation for the European Group for Organisational Studies in Barcelona in 2002 and subsequently became a set of 3 pieces designed for the online journal Ephemera.
Sound artist John Wynne is engaged in a series of works based on recordings made in Africa, including Hearing Voices, a photographic sound installation based on the speakers of endangered Khoisan click-languages
which showed first at the Botswana National Museum, then at the National Art Gallery of Namibia and will be at SOAS in London from July to Sept 2005. His first work with auditory warnings was for 25 speakers hidden under Copenhagen's main square: it was banned by the city council for allegedly frightening and confusing
the public. Fallender ton für 207 lautsprecher boxen, in Berlin, made use of 207 recycled hi-fi speakers and sounded, according to one entry in the gallery visitors' book, like Heaven… and Hell.
John has created soundtracks for films selected for the London Film Festival, the BBC Short Film Festival, the Whitechapel Open, the European Media Art Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Sound Arts at the University of the Arts, London and is doing his PhD at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has a regular programme called Upcountry on ResonanceFM in London.
Events:
Performance: Silvia Ziranek - Z Said
VENI, VIDI, VOCAB'D; I CAME, I SAW, I CONJUGATED: I THINK IN WORDS, I WORK IN VERBS, I SEW INFINITIVES (97%). TO DO IS TO BE, SO I WAS. THEN I HAD. NOW I AM, AGAIN. OH BONJOUR OFFSPRING ( A LIFE WITH A DOOR IS A DOUBLY ATTRACTIVE FEATURE). AGAIN: I WROUGHT, I WIPE, I SHALL TYPE - NOT CAST. WITH SEASONING. (c) SCZ 2005. NOR IRON. I'D NEVER DECLINE A DECLENSION.
Performance: Maggie Nichols - Stories in Sound
Every sound can tell a story and the human voice is the first instrument of story telling. I open to the muse and improvise. Fragments of meaning interact with apparent non-sense. Each listener may hear their own stories; some may seem crystal clear, others abstract even subliminal. We may even connect to the same story. I don't know myself what the muse may tell. Every time it is an act of faith; in myself, the listeners, the environment and each unfolding moment. Spontaneous music making is the joyous challenge of daring to be as free as one can trust oneself to be. Creativity as a birthright is the main story I tell. Practicing creative freedom is the way I tell it.
Aeol Atsw: An Evening Of Language And Text-based Sound Works
An Evening Of Recorded Language And Text-based Sound Works. These are compositions that use the spoken word as raw material made between 1947 and 2005. The works and extracts selected featured documentary as music, poetry as noise and language as environmental soundscape. Artists, poets and musicians included: Antonin Artaud, Henri Chopin, Bob Cobbing, Katherine Norman, John Oswald, Michael Snow, Isidore Isou and John Wynne.
Nothinghappenshere! An evening of shouted words, guttural screams & sound
With permission from Ben Woodling, the instigator of last years event at the Haworth Arms, we presented the second in the series of freeform, beautiful anarchic wordsmithery: Liberation. Revolution. Resurrection. Ambivalence towards it all. Words can't bring us down, apparently. This is a showcase event, a night of diverse opinions; a night of people talking about whatever they want. We call this freedom of speech and we are coming, of course, from the streets. This evening is about you and me and how we have lived, out here on the periphery.