Films from this Mercy organised event at Manchester’s Cornerhouse are now available, featuring SJ Fowler, Nathan Jones and Hannah Silva, above. You can also watch SJ Fowler’s lecture on poetry and violence.
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Mercy at Manchester Weekender
Cornerhouse are hosting a brand new live-language-cascade mixing lecture, performance and archive-feedback with video-smith Sam Meech, and poets Steven Fowler, Nathan Jones and Hannah Silva.
Composite: Feedback is a multimedia showcase and live archiving event curated by Mercy, mixing together spoken-word performance with live sampling, notation, analogue processing, and projection – all in one self generating feedback loop. A beautiful and absurd experiment, where the performers and array of interfaces are thrown into a productive conflict.
The event is split into three sections, beginning with short talks and performances on noise, speech violence and glitch, followed by a feedback work-out, pushing the performers into a state of continual improvisation. Finally the Annexe will be left to perpetuate itself as a throbbing artifact of degenerating feedback material.
Featuring poets Steven Fowler, Hannah Silva and Nathan Jones. With video design by Sam Meech. This event is part of the Manchester Weekender. More here.
EVP Think Tank
Electronic Voice Phenomena Think Tank
7th October in Liverpool,
featuring a range of artists from UK and Berlin, discussing the question
“what are the implications of electronics on the contemporary voice?”
The day, for invited artists, will feature presentations/performances from Erik Bunger, Ross Sutherland, Steffi Wiesman and Sam Skinner.
And there will also be room/resources for conversation, creative thinking and experimenting on this theme.
The Think Tank comes in the context of Mercy’s EVP weekend with Liverpool Biennial 2012, and the performances in this programme will form a basis for some of the discussion.
There will be formal and informal opportunities to make work and propose future projects, and items from the day will feed into future Mercy plans, including a UK/Europe tour in 2013.
We are particularly looking for possible collaborative relationships to form.
list of confirmed attendees, including artists, poets and musicians:
(participants from Berlin are enabled to come thanks to British Council and Arts Council England through the Artist Internationational Development Fund.)
Berlin:
Erik Bunger http://www.erikbunger.com/
Alessandra Eramo http://www.ezramo.com/
Karl Heinz Jeron http://portfolio.jeron.org/
Francesco Cavaliere http://www.nathiascatola.com/
Steffi Wiezman http://www.steffiweismann.de/
UK:
Joe Banks http://thequietus.com/articles/09899-joe-banks-disinformation-rorschach-audio
Iris Garrelfs http://irisgarrelfs.com/
Ross Sutherland http://rosssutherland.co.uk
Anat Ben David http://www.yippieyeah.co.uk/anat/
Joe Banks http://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/
Hannah Silva http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk/
Steven Fowler http://www.sjfowlerpoetry.com/
Only invited artists can attend.
If you wish to be considered for a place, please send an email to nathan@mercyonline.co.uk with your details and area of interest.
We cannot pay any fees for attendees, but we can arrange accommodation.
Syntax: Coding for Writers 23rd and 30th June
OPEN CALL FOR PRACTITIONERS to take part in this workshop opportunity FREE OF CHARGE at FACT in Liverpool.
This is practical and thorough opportunity aimed at strong, established writers who are willing to experiment. No experience of coding is necessary though.
There’s lots of rhetoric around the need for this kind of knowledge for writers in the contemporary environment, and Mercy and FACT are keen to support the long-term establishment of expertise in this area. We are also influenced by the presence of Re:dock’s network and others like it in Liverpool and Manchester, where artists are engaging with coding in a playful and open way.
CONTENT
Processing is a programming environment which allows for all kinds of automated functions – appropriating, generating and animating text, integrating online content into your poems – and also interactivity. The workshops will be run by Tom Schofield, who is an established practitioner, and very aware of the particular requirements of working with text and Processing. Examples of things you can build in Processing are too numerous to mention, suffice to say there are implications for showing work as installation, on-line publication, video and in performance. As well as making your own work with support from Tom, you develop a pretty good idea of the possibilities of collaboration with more experienced coders.
APPLY
To apply please send a short statement of interest, bio and links to your work. Applicants will be chosen on the basis of their ability to contribute to a network of strong writers seeking support each other in experimenting with digital poetics – so good writing, experience and aptitude for contributing to critical conversations, and established practice.
REQUIREMENTS
You must be available to attend the workshops on 10am-5pm Saturdays 23rd and 30th June.
Between these workshops you will be expected and supported by the course leader, to complete homework tasks, developing your own work with Processing.
The workshops are FREE, paid for by FACT’s Open Curate It programme, and represent a continuation of this experimental workshop we did with Re-dock at Madlab last year, which were funded by Ideastap.
There are limited travel bursaries available from Mercy, funded by an Arts Council England GFA award, please indicate if you would like to be considered for one of these.
For info and to apply please email nathan@mercyonline.co.uk
[application deadline 25th May]
LINK to Mercy for more details
SJ Fowler and Ben Morris at Liverpool Music Week
An experimental, highly affecting experimental poetry and music performance for unsuspecting audience at Liverpool Music Week, commissioned by Mercy.
SJ Fowler at Liverpool Music Week
Friday 11th November, 7.00pm the Cinema Room at the Contemporary Urban Centre as part of Liverpool Music Week Closing Party.
Nathan Jones and Mercy are teaming up with Samizdat and La Racaille for a new music/language/art event exploring trance, mantra and the loop. The event features a new commission from Other Room reader Steven Fowler and a new setting of Dustin Wong’s Infinite Love album for guitar orchestra by Jon Davies.
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