[spectre] Torque [Live]: Fri, 6th June

[nathan jones]

*TORQUE [LIVE]Fri 6 June 8pm – 11pmRich Mix, London£8 (£6 concs)
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This multi-media performance night features top practitioners from fields
of poetry, live coding, dance, diy electronics, and classical music,
entwined into a twisted symphony of voice, light, bodies and semaphore
poetics.

feat. HOLLY PESTER // KARL HEINZ JERON // OLIVER COATES & SAM SKINNER //
ALEX McLEAN & KATE SICCHIO // NATHAN JONES & MARK GREENWOOD

TORQUE [LIVE] is bought to you by co-producer of 2013 tour Electronic Voice
Phenomena, and takes up where this award-nominated series left off, using
poetry, theatre and media artst to look deeply at the opportunities and
rich thematic territories offered up by increasingly hybrid existence.

A show that pushes understandings of networked thought, the internet of
things, and blurred lines between brains, bodies and electronics.

TORQUE [LIVE] will feature:
*Oliver Coates / *a new commission comprising cello, electronics and field
recordings, plus ‘Oraison’ by Messiaen, one of the first compositions
written for electronic instruments. Accompanied by video works by artist *Sam
Skinner.*

*Karl Heinz Jeron: Sim Gishel / *Sim Gishel is a multi-media robot. He
sings and dances for money. His biggest success so far has been his
performance at Das Supertalent with Dieter Bohlen. This will be Sim
Gishel’s first performance in the UK.

*Holly Pester - Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems / *a new work that re-stages
Hannah Weiner’s ensemble 1960’s work Code Poems, which used the
International Code of Signals for ship-to-ship communication to create a
series of avant-garde happenings. Pester’s new performance draws on our
contemporary experience of digital code in a staged conversation that is
sometimes shambolic, often lyrically active, and always in celebration of
the hopeless comedy of coded communication.

*Mark Greenwood and Nathan Jones: The Nodes / *a series of conversations as
radical language events, proposing a future for speech beyond
communication.  Using models such as pandemonium architecture and chaos
theory, the Nodes press the boundaries for emotive relations within
uncoupled language.

*Alex McLean and Kate Sicchio: Body Code / *a feedback loop of code, music,
choreography, and dance is played out, as a 'body language ' which
short-circuits the binary opposition of physical and abstract.

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See project tumblr for further details: http://torquetorque.tumblr.com

TICKETS: http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/torque
-twisting-language-brain-technology/

TORQUE is co-produced by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner and is supported by
Arts Council England.

TORQUE [LIVE] follows workshops and a symposium at FACT, Liverpool,
comprising artists and academics presenting research and artworks across a
range of subjects, including; spambots, network aesthesia,
neuro-archeology, Russian Activity Theory, live coding and the bicameral
mind. A Torque project ebook will be published by Link Editions in July.

The title of the project is a play on the verb ‘to talk’, and refers to
torque’s original latin meaning ’to twist’, and also the twisting forces
which distort language, technologies and cognitive processes by braiding
them together.  The cerebral torque is also a central term used by
neuroscientist Tim Crow in his 2009 thesis that ‘Schizophrenia is the price
Homosapians pay for language’.


Curators:



Sam Skinner

Artist and producer, whose work moves between art and other fields,
combining an interest in art history and theory, in particular new media
and public space, with more engaged practice, including murals, workshops,
animation, set design, gardening, archival research, writing, and ebooks.
He has a BA from LJMU and an MA from Sussex, both in Art History. Current
projects include the design of furniture for a new green-space in Brighton
and an accompanying schools participation and engagement project, in
collaboration with Charles Holden and Plan Projects.

http://samskinner.net



Nathan Jones

Artist, poet and curator.  Nathan is the Creative Director of Mercy, with
whom he has produced performance and writing at Liverpool Biennial for the
last three festivals. He produced the Electronic Voice Phenomena programme
throughout 2010-13, and now co-edits, with Tom Chivers, an accompanying
blog at electronicvoicephenomena.net  Nathan’s art practice is based in
language noise and digital media performance, and he writes theatre with
the artist Mark Greenwood. Current projects include SYNDROME a residency
and laboratory programme in Liverpool, looking at interaction and affect in
performance; and TORQUE.

http://alittlenathan.co.uk

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Nathan Jones
Creative Director

www.mercyonline.co.uk
alittlenathan.co.uk

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