&ndash; Holly Pester

14-04-2013

HOLLY PESTER: SOOTH THE SAYING OF SOOTH

Thursday 25 April 2013 to Sunday 28 April 2013, 11:00 to 20:00

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Bob Cobbing’s ABC in Sound – an Other Room Ensemble Performance

22-11-2012

A celebration of Bob Cobbing, ABC in sound – ensemble performance

23rd October, 2012, The Castle Hotel, Manchester

A ensemble performance of Cobbing’s ABC in Sound, at the Other Room, featuring Tim Allen, Joanne Ashcroft, Richard Barrett, Leanne Bridgewater, Matt Dalby, Phil Davenport, James Davies, Ollie Evans, Patricia Farrell, Clive Fencott, Alan Halsey, Michael Haslam, Tom Jenks, Angela Keaton, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O’Sullivan, Holly Pester, Robert Sheppard, Adrian Slatcher, Scott Thurston, Gareth Twose, Steven Waling, Steve Willey and Nigel Wood.

The Murmur Line

29-08-2012

news, News Piece, sound piece

Site-specific sound installations by Holly Pester

Featured on the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry

http://soundcloud.com/holly-pester/the_murmur_line

The piece was devised by listening to radio news broadcasts and notating the intakes of breath made by the news readers, using key utterances as exhales. The piece explores exhaustion and expenditure in the voice, translations of speech into song, and the constant pulse of news words.

This event took place on Wed 14 – Sun 18 March
Around at the StAnza Poetry Festival and around St Andrews

“For The Year of Creative Scotland 2012, StAnza has commissioned the English sound poet and artist Holly Pester, known for her ‘news breath’ sound pieces, to use recent news items to create for the festival an original composition which, along with other works, will offer chance encounters with text and voice in unexpected nooks and corners around town.”

Holly Pester at dOCUMENTA (13)

21-08-2012

http://d13.documenta.de/#/participants/participants/holly-pester/

CHORALITY, ON RETREAT: A WRITERS’ RESIDENCY

Residency, Performance and Workshop, 22nd – 26th August, 2012

Residency at Dschingis Khan Restaurant

Through its location in the Dschingis Khan Restaurant, the Writers’ Residency investigates the possibilities of privacy in a public space. In addition, through a series of talks, writers-in-residence are offered the possibility of a public moment during their time in Kassel. Having developed out of conversations and readings during the residencies, these talks encourage the choral meeting and exchange of voices.

Poetry reading with Adam Kleinman at Offener Kanal Café, 24th August

Adam Kleinman: Todesfuge
Holly Pester: The Sick Sad Work Song: a performance of song-driven poetry, shanty loops and rough speech

The Poetry Readings Program is an exercise in emancipating the body from the clichés and constraints of the day, under a spotlight, in a dark, intimate, night time space. Every Friday at 11 pm in the Offener Kanal Café, an invited guest opens the evening by reading out loud selected poems to a gathering of people who listen out loud, and are later invited to take over the microphone and recite or read their own poetry or that of others into the night.

Rise of the Mondegreens – song words better by error, workshop at Huguenothouse, 25th August

Writer-in-residence Holly Pester leads a workshop about sea shanties and miss-heard song lyrics, inviting the audience to create poems rooted in the sonic possibilities of the misunderstood.

Collaboration with Emma Bennett – - – Maintenant Camarade: edition III, Saturday 7th, 7pm, at the Rich mix

05-07-2012

Rich Mix hosts the third Camarade poetry event, featuring ten pairs of contemporary European poets. Please do attend, entrance is free.

www.richmix.org.uk / www.3ammagazine.com / www.maintenant.co.uk

Iain Sinclair & Tom Chivers
Jeff Hilson & Robert Shepherd
Maria Ferencuhova & Frances Kruk
Holly Pester & Emma Bennett
Philip Terry & Allen Fisher
Tim Atkins & Harry Gilonis
Simon Barraclough & Isobel Dixon
Andy Spragg & David Berridge
Richard Barrett & Marcus Slease
Chris McCabe & Tom Jenks

‘Word of Mouth’ Group Show at the Cartel Gallery, Installation and Performance

17-02-2012

‘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)
Buses: 188, 47, 59

Holly Pester will be showing a sound installation at the Cartel Gallery between 7th-11th of March, with a performance on Saturday 10th, 1pm. The work, ‘Shadow was amazed to hear his owner refer to the toilet as the big white phone’, will explore communication failure and humble broadcasts.

Saturday Seminar at the Serpentine Gallery

11-02-2012

news, poetry, sound piece

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 to Lygia Pape’s woodcuts and neo-concrete poetry. The series was made for a presentation at the Serpentine Gallery, 11th February 2012. All pieces are anagrams of the word ‘Disentangled’ from Pape’s poem Boca a Boca.

The following video is of the poem written in response to my engagement with the exhibiton, Magnetized Space, and to the Pape material.

Maintenant Poetry IX – The Camarade Project

11-10-2011

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 Atkins. With an introduction by Steven Fowler.

SUNY Buffalo Poetics Plus

18-09-2011

Performance at Buffalo, NY
Friday September 23, 8 pM
Karpeles Manuscript Library, Porter Hall , 453 Porter Ave

Electronic Voice Phenomena

14-09-2011

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 Leahy operating between digital and analogue to generate song lyrics and looping rhythmic texts, and Emma Bennett talking like a bird talking about a bird.

More info here

Uncanny Valley – Sound Installation by Nathan Jones and Holly Pester

14-09-2011

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

A Sea Shanty for Outer Space (A Space Shanty)

Effort Noiser: A Space Shanty by holly-pester

27-07-2011

live performance, Miscellaneous, news, sound piece

Effort Noiser is a work in progress shanty project. The aim is to get it sung by a chorus of either fishermen or astronauts.

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. These structures were tracked onto the route map of the Apollo 11 lunar landings.

The Bury Poems

27-06-2011

news, poetry

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

“I did not know till afterwards”

12-04-2011