writing – Page 10 – Mark Leahy

making collages on Enter Text residency

I have been making some small collage pieces as part of my work on the Enter Text residency at Arteles Creative Center in Finland. The images are working around gestures, body language, and learned behaviour. The plan is for these to accompany a text I am writing on related themes and appear as an artist publication.

article in Performance Research 23.2: On Writing and Performance

I have an essay ‘Disrupting the Market in Echoes: Voice, body and technology in poetry and performance by Hannah Weiner and Holly Pester’ in a recent issue of Performance Research published by Taylor & Francis. The issue, On Writing and Performance, is edited by Ric Allsopp and Julieanna Preston.

This essay considers questions of writing in its relation to voice, technology and performance through a reading of voiced and printed work by Hannah Weiner and Holly Pester. The focus is on two works, Holly Pester’s ‘Buddy Holly on my Answer Machine’ published in Hoofs (2011), from if p then q books, and ‘RJ Romeo & Juliet’ from Hannah Weiner’s Code Poems: From the INTERNATIONAL CODE OF SIGNALS for the use of all nations, published in 1982.

Link to the Journal online: doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2018.1464761

‘threaded insert’ at STREAM, Dartington on September 7th

I will perform’ threaded insert’ as part of the three-day programme for STREAM: a Series of Transdisciplinary Rituals & Experiments in Art & Music at Dartington on Friday 7th September 2018. My performance will take place in Studio 6 and the adjoining spaces from 2.00pm on the Friday. There will be live work, projected and installed works and social events across the weekend. The event is coordinated by Sarah Gray to mark the 10 year anniversary of the closing of Dartington College of Arts at the Dartington Campus. Work will be presented by alumni and former faculty members across music, performance writing, visual performance, dance and theatre.

score from Telling Time workshop

telling time a3 score

I have devised a score for three voices or three parts from material generated by the participants during a vocal improvisation at the end of the Telling Time Communal Making session at Jamboree 2018 at Dartington.

‘threaded insert’ for Projectivisms, Cardiff on 18 May 2018

On Friday May 18th I will present ‘threaded insert’ at the symposium, Projectivisms: way-making the contemporary projective. Organised by Wanda O’Connor, the programme includes performances, papers, workshops and readings.

The structural inheritance of the projective has given way to new experiments of shape, juxtaposition and as yet unnamed forces. What now eclipses or brings forward this important formal work?

Events take place at Cardiff University’s Glamorgan Building and are open to the public.