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Maintenant Poetry IX – The Camarade Project

Holly Pester — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 15:07:20 +0000

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

Holly Pester — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:34:53 +0000

Performance at Buffalo, NY

Friday September 23, 8 pM
Karpel es Manuscript Library, Porter Hal l , 453 Porter Ave

Electronic Voice Phenomena

Holly Pester — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:52:04 +0000

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

Holly Pester — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:41:53 +0000

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)

Holly Pester — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:24:05 +0000

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

My mission then; to do things like how Jeremy Deller has done them before.

If you think you can help, then help. But don’t do it for me, do it for these guys.

The Bury Poems

Holly Pester — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:07:51 +0000

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”

Holly Pester — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 11:22:34 +0000

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 are presented as a collection to evoke ideas around stored voices, sound transmission and encounters with archives.

Featuring Caroline Bergvall and Ciarán Maher, Carolyn Thompson, Nick Thurston, Phil Davenport, Ron Silliman and Robert Grenier.

Young Lithuanian & British poets in collaboration

Holly Pester — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 11:17:37 +0000

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 House and an exchange of poetry from some of the finest native poets the city has to offer. Alongside Donatas Petrošius, Gabriele Labanauskaite and Tomas S. Butkus, a half dozen resident poets, featuring Agnes Lehoczky, Jeff Hilson, Jon Shaw, Tim Atkins, Holly Pester, Kate Kililea etc…, will read short excerpts from their work, exchanging and communicating the rare command of their poetry, highlighting their shared engagement along with their own distinctive understanding of what is poetic. It will be a energetic and memorable evening.”

V+L-A=K MAGAZINE Launch, 29th October 2010

Holly Pester — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 10:39:29 +0000

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, philosophy, music, science, design, politics, performance, ecology, and new media.
Our global-local environment is defined by intersections, hybrids, transversals: realities that are contested, interactual and always in the process of taking new forms.“

Text Festival, April 2011

Holly Pester — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:48:22 +0000

Sound and Dark

Opening Text

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