A---Z, Always Coming Home, Chapter 3

Free, booking required – link below.

Fuyuhiko Takata, Vivienne Griffin X Josh Woolford, Stefan Jovanović, Emily Pope

The third chapter in the A---Z programmed series Always Coming Home.

Vivenne Griffin and Josh Woolford open the event with a new musical set, followed by Stefan Jovanović who will perform a new reading When the Clarion Came to Call, a work in progress sharing, a contemporary and epic form of parrhesia on experiencing an otherworldly character and voice. In the second part of the evening we dive into teenage feelings with BUST by Emily Pope, a new performance-lecture, to end on a perverse and humorous role play, Fuyuhiko’s film Love Exercise.

Trigger Warning: references to trauma during Stefan Jovanović's performance.

A---Z, Always Coming Home series is the development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative. Thinking of change and flux as part of speculative futures and worldbuilding as ways of expressing current socio-political issues and expanding from there to potential other paths.

In line with this proposition, language, and other forms of expression, from the bodily to sound and the non-descriptive, are given a platform to create new ways of thinking and working together: explorations and considerations of embodied practices as political disruptions.

Additionally, references and inspirations are worth mentioning: such as the “title-hommage” to the 1985 science fiction novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, where we follow the Kesh people, a cultural group who live in the distant future long after modern society has collapsed. And also the work by Pauline Oliveros with the Deep Listening method aiming to explore expanded consciousness – “Acoustic space is where time and space merge as they are articulated by sound.”

A---Z, Always Coming Home is a new series of events for Matt’s Gallery, programmed by exploratory producing platform A---Z (Anne Duffau), as a development of a recent research on the affect of visual and sound in narrative, featuring works by:

Babak Ahteshamipour, Bliss Carmxn, Sarah Howe & JJ Chan, utopian_realism, Matt Carter, Vivienne Griffin, Stefan Jovanović, Billy Klotsa, Tarek Lakhrissi, Jennifer Martin, Josèfa Ntjam, Philomene Pirecki, Harold Offeh, Emily Pope, Saint Abdullah, Fuyuhiko Takata, Josh Woolford, Abbas Zahedi, A---Z.

A---Z aims to impose a collaborative, inclusive and critical practice/praxis – this demands a responsibility to decolonise programmes, build on positivity towards/and inclusivity in terms of gender and race discourses, and demonstrate openness, intersectional, responsive and critical juxtaposition methods.

Always Coming Home is supported by a Research Project Grant from the Royal College of Art, London.