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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span> [<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">LIVE</span></span>]<br>
<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Fri 6 June 8pm – 11pm<br></strong><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Rich Mix, London<br>
</strong><span style="font-weight:normal;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><a href="http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/torque-twisting-language-brain-technology/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(147,150,129);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">£8 (£6 concs)</a> // Main Space<br>
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This multi-media performance night features top practitioners from fields of poetry, <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">live</span></span> coding, dance, diy electronics, and classical music, entwined into a twisted symphony of voice, light, bodies and semaphore poetics. <br>
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feat. HOLLY PESTER // KARL HEINZ JERON // OLIVER COATES & SAM SKINNER // ALEX McLEAN & KATE SICCHIO // NATHAN JONES & MARK GREENWOOD </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,'Liberation Sans','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span> [<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">LIVE</span></span>] 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. </p>
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A show that pushes understandings of networked thought, the internet of things, and blurred lines between brains, bodies and electronics.</p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:15px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,Arial,FreeSans,'Liberation Sans','Nimbus Sans L',sans-serif;line-height:19.5px">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span> [<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">LIVE</span></span>] will feature:<br>
<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Oliver Coates / </strong>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 <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Sam Skinner.</strong></p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Karl Heinz Jeron: Sim Gishel / </strong>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.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Holly Pester - Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems / </strong>a new work that re-stages Hannah Weiner’s ensemble 1960’s work Code Poems, <span style="font-family:arial;font-size:small;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">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.</span></p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Mark Greenwood and Nathan Jones: The Nodes / </strong>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.</p>
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<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">Alex McLean and Kate Sicchio: Body Code / </strong>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.</p>
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See project tumblr for further details: <a href="http://torquetorque.tumblr.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(147,150,129);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;outline:none;text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">http://torquetorque.tumblr.com</a></p>
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TICKETS: <a href="http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/torque-twisting-language-brain-technology/" target="_blank">http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats-on/event/<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">torque</span></span>-twisting-language-brain-technology/</a></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span> is co-produced by Nathan Jones and Sam Skinner and is supported by Arts Council England.</p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span> [<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">LIVE</span></span>] 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, <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">live</span></span> coding and the bicameral mind. A <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">Torque</span></span> project ebook will be published by Link Editions in July. </p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;line-height:normal;text-align:center">The title of the project is a play on the verb ‘to talk’, and refers to <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">torque</span></span>’s original latin meaning ’to twist’, and also the twisting forces which distort language, technologies and cognitive processes by braiding them together. The cerebral <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">torque</span></span> is also a central term used by neuroscientist Tim Crow in his 2009 thesis that ‘Schizophrenia is the price Homosapians pay for language’.</span><br>
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<code style="margin:0px;padding:0px"> </code></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica"><span style="font-weight:700">Sam Skinner</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica">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. </p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica"><a href="http://samskinner.net/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(112,128,144);text-decoration:none">http://samskinner.net</a></p><p style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px">
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<span style="font-weight:700">Nathan Jones</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Helvetica">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 <a href="http://electronicvoicephenomena.net/" target="_blank">electronicvoicephenomena.net</a> 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 <span style="background:rgb(255,255,204)"><span class="" style="background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">TORQUE</span></span>.</p>
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