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, the novels of Christine Brooke-Rose, William James' writing on consciousness and speech , the essays of Heinrich von Kleist, and Avital Ronell's The Telephone Book.

'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, Ross Sutherland and SJ Fowler, and hauntological synth-pop group Outfit. The Bristol show also features an installation work by Holly Corfield Carr.

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/

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