bLOGOS/HA HA has long been interested in ventriloquism. In the Mystery of God's Voice projected ] without movement of lips ( through
us, Imago Dei, His Creature Screens.
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GERTRUDE CONTEMPORARY
Octopus 19 : Ventriloquy
Curated by Joel Stern
Initiated in 2001, the Octopus series of exhibitions supports ambitious curatorial practice, through engaging an invited curator annually to develop a project that draws upon their research interests and provides a platform for new forms of exhibition making. In 2019 Gertrude is delighted to be working with Joel Stern.
Opening : Friday 31 May, 6pm - 8pm
Gertrude Contemporary || 21-31 High Street, Preston South
Exhibition Dates : 1 June - 20 July
Exhibiting Artists : Ceri Hann | Danielle Freakley | Eric Demetriou | Gabriella D'Costa | Jacqui Shelton (with Alice Heyward and Megan Payne) | Jake Moore | Makiko Yamamoto | Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan | MP Hopkins | Simon Zoric | Steven Rhall
Performances by : Ash Kilmartin | James Rushford and Rachel Yezbick | Jacqui Shelton, Alice Heyward and Megan Payne | Jake Moore, Kate Brown | Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan | Melody Paloma | MP Hopkins | Sonia Leber and David Chesworth | more TBA
Anarchronism Effects : Opening weekend performance program
Performance Dates : Saturday 1 June, 2-4pm
Gertrude Contemporary || 21-31 High Street, Preston South
This performance program,
Anarchronism Effects, explores the way ventriloquy performs a dislocation of body from voice in time and in space. The program borrows its title from scholar Sarah Kessler's research into 'ventriloquial materiality' and ventriloquism's "enduring anachronism—its at once anticipatory and antiquated appearance."
Anarchronism Effects features new performances created for Octopus 19: Ventriloquy by Ash Kilmartin | Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan | Melody Paloma | MP Hopkins.
Ash Kilmartin will perform
You, as a paragraph, a monologue for mediated voice, engaging the ventriloquial tropes of possession, dislocation, and the excessive physicality of (the at times seemingly autonomous and absurd) speaking voice.
Melody Paloma will de- and re-code a suite of Code Poems by Hannah Weiner, master ventriloquist and psychic host to corporeal and non-corporeal bodies alike, in collaboration with retired seafarers Neil Butt and Leigh Webster.
Mel Deerson and Briony Galligan will traverse the theater curtain separating heaven from hell.
MP Hopkins will read through himself some texts about speaking/voice/language and hear himself doing this reading to himself.
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ventriLOGOS/HA HA
plus a few things from the Puppet Culture heap
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
cast member (early1960s)
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
rehearsal studio with Untitled Puppet Paintings (-1976-)
Theatre of the Actors of Regard
A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something...
