To celebrate the launch of Stress Fractures: Essays on Poetry, James Wilkes and Holly Pester present a new performance of poetic texts exploring the radio voice, which hovers between the paranoia of panic broadcasts, secret codes and the end of the world, and the euphoria of communion across vast distances. Vulnerable to dispersal in static and hiss, this voice from the machine is a marker of human contact, a resonating chamber. A Mercy/Penned in the Margins Commission for the Liverpool Biennial.
Hannah Silva is an artist whose intricate wordplay and extraordinary verbal gymnastics span theatre, performance poetry and live arts. Her “performance-lecture” will unlock some of the secrets of her practice, such as talking backwards and the art of Double Tonguing.
Thursday 16 December, 8pm
Whitechapel Gallery
77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
£6 (£4 concessions)
