Speaking Parts
16 May to 24 May 2015
Speaking Parts, a ten day exhibition framed by two weekends of performance, brings together artists who weave text and language – from poetic prose to the spoken word and scored voice – into the fabric of sculpture, film, painting and performance.
The works in the exhibition are for the most part ephemeral and portable, and depend on the input of the artist, collaborators and/or audience to be fully realised. Each piece has its own temporality, from one-off performance to intermittent activation.
During Speaking Parts, Raven Row will host Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live, an evening celebrating the work of the great British concrete poet Bob Cobbing (1920-2002), with performances by Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hansjörg Mayer, Hannah Silva and David Toop.
Artists in Speaking Parts are Brian Catling (b. 1948, UK), Michael Dean (b. 1977, UK), Natalie Häusler (b. 1983, Germany), Ewa Partum (b. 1945, Poland), Heather Phillipson (b. 1978, UK), Agnieszka Polska (b. 1985, Poland) and Giorgio Sadotti (b. 1955, UK). The exhibition is curated by Amy Budd, writer and Exhibitions Organiser, Raven Row.
Performance Programme:
Friday 15 May, 6.30pm:
Ewa Partum, Natalie Häusler, Giorgio Sadotti
Wednesday 20 May, 6.30pm:
Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live with Brian Catling, Paula Claire, Beth Collar, Hansjörg Mayer, Hannah Silva and David Toop
Saturday 23 May, 6.30pm:
Agnieszka Polska and David Bernstein, Brian Catling, Michael Dean, Giorgio Sadotti
Admission is free, however booking for the performances is essential as space is limited.
Please note Speaking Parts will be open daily from Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 May.
The event Bob Cobbiiiiiiiiing Live coincides with Make Perhaps This Out Sense of Can You: Symposium on Bob Cobbing at Chelsea College of Arts on Thursday 21 May 2015 (10am-5pm). Participants include David Toop, Holly Pester, Will Holder, Fiona Becket, Karen di Franco, Rosie Cooper, William Cobbing and Steve Willey. Click here for more information.
Ewa Partum
Poem by Ewa: Book by Ewa, 1972
Rubber letters in a foil on paper
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view showing
Ewa Partum
Poems by Ewa, 1971-74
Courtesy of the artist and Galerie M+R Fricke, Berlin
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Ewa Partum
A restaging of Active Poetry (first performed in 1971)
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Ewa Partum
A restaging of Active Poetry (first performed in 1971)
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Ewa Partum
A restaging of Active Poetry (first performed in 1971)
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Ewa Partum
A restaging of Active Poetry (first performed in 1971)
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Ewa Partum
A restaging of Active Poetry (first performed in 1971)
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view showing
Ewa Partum, Active Poetry (first performed in 1971), 2015; and,
Giorgio Sadotti, ANOTHER ANOTHER ANOTHER RING OF BALLS, 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Giorgio Sadotti
Performance of ANOTHER ANOTHER ANOTHER RING OF BALLS
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Giorgio Sadotti
Performance of ANOTHER ANOTHER ANOTHER RING OF BALLS
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Agnieszka Polska and David Bernstein
A presentation of The Talking Mountain, 2015, as a live action screening
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Agnieszka Polska and David Bernstein
A presentation of The Talking Mountain, 2015, as a live action screening
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Natalie Häusler
A reading of extracts from her poems Corals, 2015, and Impressionisme, 2014
Raven Row, 15 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Agnieszka Polska
I Am The Mouth II, 2014
Video
Courtesy of the artist and Żak Branicka Gallery, Berlin
Agnieszka Polska
Watery Rhymes, 2014
Video
Courtesy of the artist and Żak Branicka Gallery, Berlin
Exhibition view showing
Heather Phillipson
sub-fusc love-feast (drone), 2014
Installation and drone video footage from Dundee Contemporary Arts
Video, perspex, timber
Video courtesy the artist and Rob Page
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view showing
Natalie Häusler
Impressionnisme, 2013
Oil pastel on wood, woodcut, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view showing
Natalie Häusler
Impressionnisme, 2013
Oil pastel on wood, woodcut, sound
Courtesy of the artist and Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Exhibition view showing
Natalie Häusler
CORALS (excerpt): Reflexionsarmer Raum/ Anechoic Chamber Experiment (No 4), 2015
Acoustic foam, fabric, wood, fossilized corals and oysters, audio adapter, glove, speaker, audio recorder
Courtesy of the artist and Supportico Lopez, Berlin
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Brian Catling
QUILL3, 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Brian Catling
QUILL3, 2015 (detail)
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Brian Catling
Performance of QUILL3, 2015
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Brian Catling
Performance of QUILL3, 2015
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Brian Catling
Performance of QUILL3, 2015
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Michael Dean
(Untitled), Diminishing book, 2015
MDF, concrete, book
Photograph Eva Herzog
Michael Dean
A reading of Untitled (You Fuck), 2014
Raven Row, 23 May 2015
Photograph by Eva Herzog
Michael Dean
(Untitled), Diminishing book, 2015
MDF, concrete, book
Photograph Eva Herzog