‘Shadow was amazed to hear his owner refer to the toilet as the big white phone’ Installation: 8th-11th March Performance: 10th March, 1pm The show is curated by Rose Lejeune Cartel Gallery – Black Container Space situated in the Courtyard of The Old Police Station 114 – 116 Amersham Vale London, SE14 6LG Tube: New Cross (East London Overground) [...]
Saturday 11th February, 3pm Holly Pester in response to the poetics of Lygia Pape “Every Saturday the Serpentine Gallery hosts talks and seminars for the public. This winter prominent artists, poets, curators and academics discuss themes connected to the Lygia Pape exhibition and the Neo-Concrete movement.” ————————————————————————————————————————————————– The below sound poems were made in response [...]
January 13th, Tenderpixel Gallery Holly Pester presents work at the opening night of Patrick Coyle‘s ‘To Draw a Blank’
A book launch and performance night at the Rich Mix, Shoreditch, London. Saturday 15th October, 7pm Featuring collaboration works from Tom Jenks & Chris McCabe; Patrick Coyle & Holly Pester; Sam Riviere & Jack Underwood; Sandeep Parmar & James Byrne; James Wilkes & Ghazal Mosadeq; Iily Critchley & Tamarin Norwood; Sean Bonney & Jeff Hilson; Marcus Slease & Tim [...]
Performance at Buffalo, NY Friday September 23, 8 pM Karpel es Manuscript Library, Porter Hal l , 453 Porter Ave
9pm, Sunday 16th October, at the Bluecoat, tickets £5 Part of Mercy’s Overlap programme exploring shared territory across music/writing/performance, this event features a premiere of a new work by former Poet in Residence at the Bluecoat, Nathan Jones with Tom Rea Smith, plus Tuvian throat singer Soriah, Holly Pester colluding in the uncanny valley, Mark [...]
A Mercy Project 12th-16th October, the Bluecoat. School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX A week-long work played over the public address system at the Bluecoat’s Chapter and Verse Festival, Liverpool. Exploring the realisms of computer generated speech and the sounds of familiar conversations, and the uncanny valley in between the two. More info here
Ongoing news poem made of breaths and words. Sourced from the Today programme’s news bulletins on BBC Radio 4. News Piece 9 8 2011 by holly-pester News Piece 8th to 12th July 2010 by holly-pester News Piece 16th to 19th October 2010 by holly-pester News Piece 20th July 2011 by holly-pester
Effort Noiser is a work in progress shanty project. The aim is to get it sung by a chorus of either fishermen or astronauts. Effort Noiser: A Space Shanty by holly-pester The song takes the structure of several types of sea shanty, ranging from long voyage verses, to short haul call-and-response chants, to landing songs. [...]
Featuring Tony Lopez, Robert Grenier, Ron Silliman, Geof Huth, Carol Watts, Philip Davenport, Holly Pester, Tony Trehy. A Text Festival Publication with Apple Pie Editions
The Text Festival Sound Archive Meets Objects from the Bury Museum Art Installation, Text Festival 2011 Opens 30th April Bury Art Gallery, Museum and Archive, Bury, Lanc. Audio works, recorded poetry and sound documents from the Text Festival archive and Bury Gallery collection are re-sited with objects from the museum stores. The combined bodies [...]
3am magazine & the Maintenant series presents in conjunction with Europe house presents Naujas Poezijos: Young Lithuanian & British poets in collaboration April Friday 8th – 7pm – Entrance free to all “In a collaborative, ebullient and inimitable poetry event, we welcome three of Lithuania’s finest young poets to London with a reception at Europe [...]
Holly Pester by Maintenant
VLAK Journal London Launch VLAK 1 will be launched in London at Birkbeck College, 32 Tavistock Square, on the 29th of October, from 6pm, featuring readings by Allen Fisher, Caroline Bergvall, Sean Bonney, Holly Pester, Carol Watts & Louis Armand. “VLAK is an international curatorial project with a broad focus on contemporary poetics, art, film, [...]
Sound and Dark Featuring Christian Bök (CAN), Holly Pester (UK), Sarah Boothroyd (CAN), Eduard Escoffet (SP) – others to be confirmed @ The Met Arts Centre 30th April 2011 / 7.30pm
