UPDATE 5/10/12
RUNNING ORDER
8pm - doors open
a new work from James Wilkes: 'Chirologia'
8.30pm - Ross Sutherland
9.30pm - Hannah Silva
10.00pm - Anat Ben David
10.30pm till late - Dialogue Disco Supreme Team
It is ten years since Mercy emerged from the brickwork with an irreverent zine about tramps and dickheads and and a gorgeous carbuncle of an exhibition. Join us to celebrate and launch our latest programme, as part of Liverpool Biennial 2012, featuring 3 of our favourite practitioners of voice/technology and performance. With added dinks and tacks...
Mercy and Liverpool Biennial 2012
present
Electronic Voice Phenomena Launch
8-10pm AT Camp and Furnace Blade Factory FREE
Three solo performers who use the electronic interface to extend the voice, flatten the temporal plane and warp the lyric form, presenting new trajectories in cyborg speech.
Plus return-from-retirement of the Dialogue Disco Supreme Team, aka Alextronic and Matt Smith (HIVE) spinning some records to celebrate our 10th birthday!
The launch of a weekend of activity exploring Electronic Voice Phenomena as a convergence of spirit, language and technology.
FEATURING
Hannah Silva
www.hannahsilva.co.uk
GHOST
RUNNING
Dynamic sound-poetry performance layering and interweaving
the stories of the great marathon runners from across history, with
the sounds and rhythms of running including heartbeats, breath and
pulse. Vocal play and electronic effect, history, legend and myth
converge in a truly contemporary display of the virtuosic and
conceptual.
"incredible vocal control and dexterity... her voice speeds up, the pace quickens, the athletes each sprint towards their goal; be that gold, Goddess or girl." digyorkshire.com
(originally A Humber Mouth Special Commission, funded by Hull City Council)
Anat Ben David
www.yippieyeah.com/anat
founder-member of Chicks on Speed, vocalist, writer, performance
and media artist performs in a 'installation' set-up from her latest
spree of works she describes as
'Op-eRa-art': where
disciplines and materials come together with ability to change or
'disturb' one another and generate new meanings. Totally
unpredictable, technically ambitious and punk.
"A linguistic landslide, words weighted with meaning... one moment she's crooning like a gently demonic Nico... the next moment space and silence are tested by a barrage of hi-NRG drums and lunatic scalling vocals" PLAN B
Ross Sutherland
www.rosssutherland.co.uk
One of the founding contributors and
leading lights of Mercy!
STAND BY FOR TAPE BACK-UP.
Ross has found an old videotape that
used to belong to his Granddad. So far on the tape he has found: a
bit of Robbie Coltrane in Tuttii Frutti, Tom Cruise in Cocktail, and
an episode of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air. Ross is exploring ways of
remixing the material, transforming the footage into something that
tells his life story - merging form and content in Ross's
inimitably engaging style.
"Surprisingly affecting [...] The story arc of The Fresh Prince becomes a Dantean spin through the circles of heaven and hell with Sutherland using the images, which are now cultural wallpaper, as a starting point for grieving." - The Wire
The Mercy artistic programme is supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England GFA, and Liverpool City Council