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*Muster Page Habit 2* *for EVP on Tour* * at Cube, Bristol, Sunday 19 May at 7.00pm* * Mark Leahy* *'on being spoken through as conduit for sticky words'* For *Muster Page Habit 2*, I propose an intersection of speech / thought and vocalisation that teases together a sensing of language as speaking through the body, that performs a talking that is thrown from the speaker outwards to a public / for a public / making public in the hope of hearing by hearers. The project considers agency and subjecthood as audited in textual representation. Tracking through word and sound it crosses *Beckett's Lucky* <http://samuel-beckett.net/Waiting_for_Godot_Part1.html>, the novels of *Christine Brooke-Rose*<http://research.hrc.utexas.edu:8080/hrcxtf/view?docId=ead/00019.xml&query=brooke%20rose&query-join=and>, *William James' writing on consciousness and speech*<http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/James/Principles/prin9.htm> * *, the essays of *Heinrich von Kleist*<http://www.ias-research.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Kleist-and-Hamburger_-_1951_-_On-the-Gradual-Construction-of-Thoughts-During-Speech.pdf>, and *Avital Ronell's *<http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Telephone-Book,671074.aspx> *The Telephone Book*<http://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/product/Telephone-Book,671074.aspx> . 'You can't photograph such means of communication.' (Brooke-Rose, *Such*, 271) The EVP programme takes its inspiration from Konstantin Raudive’s notorious ‘Breakthrough’ experiments of the 1970s, where he captured voices-from-beyond in electronic noise. Themes of otherness, the profane and the divine join with new approaches to writing speaking and performing in a suite of new interlaced works – featuring poets* **Hannah Silva*<http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/thetotalman-hannah-silva/> ,* **Ross Sutherland*<http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/ross-sutherland-2/> and *SJ Fowler*<http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/electric-dada/>, and hauntological synth-pop group* **Outfit*<http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/outfit/>. The Bristol show also features an installation work by* **Holly Corfield Carr* <http://hollycorfieldcarr.wordpress.com/>. *Commissioned for Electronic Voice Phenomena by Penned in the Margins and Mercy** * *Supported by AA2A at Plymouth College of Art* *http://www.electronicvoicephenomena.net/index.php/bristol-cube/* *http://markleahy.net/news/* -- Mark Leahy artist - writer - teacher [log in to unmask] www.markleahy.net