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
Broadcast – Linguistic Transmissions feat. James Wilkes and Holly Pester A new performance of poetic texts exploring the radio voice, which hovers between the paranoia of panic broadcasts, secret codes and the end of the world, and the euphoria of communion across vast distances. Vulnerable to dispersal in static and hiss, to detuning and disaster, [...]
The violins of autumn Are men in wetsuits tracking a tracking device Scruff is part scratch part fluff Jean’s moustache muffles his question numbers numbers may be scratched and his head is scruffy Stay thermal Sccrrruufff is Orson Wells burning it down. Scruff tracking a tracking device Scruff cherry is a secret agent Jean’s got [...]
Jean’s moustache is longer than we thought Jean’s moustache is. Slick, shuffling out to sea Jean’s moustache covers his mouth Jean’s moustache muffles his speech It screeches, then steps out of character Jean’s moustache is a system of numbers Jean’s moustache is a little green heart beat Pulse pulse pulse. Roof. Blown. Off. Jean’s moustache [...]
