Author Archives: Holly Pester

‘Panic Broadcast’ Scrapbook

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Ledbury Poetry Festival Reading with Jamie Wilkes

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scruff poetry

In 1967 at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, University of Cambridge, a high frequency radio telescope was created to survey ‘twinkling’ radio signals from the energy sources at the far limits of known space. Research student Jocelyn Bell was assigned the task of analysing the data flows. Months and miles of readouts later she spotted [...]

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Ledbury Poetry Festival 2-11 JULY 2010

Festival Commission! Holly Pester and James Wilkes Performance Friday July 2nd 9.30pm – 10.30pm. £6 James Wilkes and Holly Pester work collaboratively on themed poetry sets which explore forms of performed texts and live word-scores. They are currently experimenting with the sound aesthetics and themes of radio, devising a poetics that performs something they term [...]

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bird interview

bird interview

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Interview Pieces

A Bookwork published by Regolith Works, now available at The Serpentine Gallery as part of the 2009 Poetry Marathon interview pieces by Holly Pester is licensed under a Creative Commons License

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Bad, Boring Writing about Magenta

1 Using magenta with neutrals opens up smaller spaces like this nursery soft and pink and social. Rough tones of sorbet blend 20% gentle, maybe some dust, fine for a room that’s perfect for you. Or your little pinks. Inviting biological blends can transform the mood of any room without transforming the mood. Perhaps a [...]

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Voiceworks

A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Programme notes: At the conception of this project Kaye and Pester created a system of exchange and translation, developing shared concerns for chance operations, periphery speech sounds and the thrill of live performance. By trading sound, text and image material, they allowed [...]

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Alison Knowles Workshop

Photos by Marsha Bradfield Alison Knowles Workshop Report: Intermedia and the Archive Talk given at Translated Acts 2, Southampton University, 08.06.09 On April 3rd and 4th I was one of 10(ish) artists and researchers invited to take part in a practice-based workshop with the ‘exemplar’ artist Alison Knowles. It was an opportunity that promised a [...]

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Name Score

Please join this facebook group and add your name in sounds

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Video Links of Past Performances

Showreel of performances from 2007 to 2008

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beast talks

i have been playing successfully successsfully I made new friends friends press ahead A head a tail a hairy man Man down!

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The Ventriloquy of Artists’ Interviews

Start the tape. “I always felt the need to bring a new objectivity to” ladders. Who’s speaking? Every interview is a junkyard of voices; you believe, I insist, we all think. Allow me to explain. I am the partial interviewer, veiled in script. I am the interviewee that spoke and the one that was written [...]

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(awake and lie)

awake-and-lie-poster projection text

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live live

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