New Definitions for Intermedia (a paper given at the Cross-Genre Poetry Festival, Greenwich, July 2010) The object of this paper is to share a new way of thinking about Intermedia and possible intermedial aspects within the writing of poetry; intermedial aspects that are not necessarily revealed through the use of New Media components or digital [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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
An ambitious two-day poetry event taking place in London during Frieze Art Fair week and featuring unique performances from leading poets, writers, artists, philosophers, scholars and musicians. The Poetry Marathon will include contributions from Vito Acconci, Etel Adnan, Mathias Augustyniak and Michael Amzalag, Caroline Bergvall, Kenneth G. Bostock with Pablo León de la Barra and [...]
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 [...]
A collaborartion between Joshua Kaye (composer) and Holly Pester (poet and text artist) Presidents and Birds and Even by holly-pester 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 [...]
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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Showreel of performances from 2007 to 2008
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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 [...]
