Title: Talk Show ICA
Location: ICA
Description: Talk Show: A month-long season of artworks and live events addressing that central feature of human life - the act of speech
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-19

This event brings together live performances by four figures who experiment with sound poetry and musical structure, tracing a lineage from Dada and Fluxus. Poet Ann-James Chaton and guitarist Andy Moor have collaborated frequently, most recently on an album which tells the story of a journalist through his articles and broadcasts. The Australian sound poet Chris Mann moved to New York in the 1980s, and is known for performances which involve the reading of dense texts at great speed. They are joined by the composer, musician and curator Alex Waterman, whose work explores experimental music and its relationship to language.

Received an email from Will Holder describing the event a bit longer:

We’re into the third week of Talk show at the ICA, and I thought I’d write to tell you about what should be one of my favourite evenings on the programme: I DO understand that you might be less familiar with these names than others, but nevertheless:

Alex Waterman
Chris Mann
Anne-James Chaton + Andy Moor

Alex is a musician and writer, and my collaborator on a few publications, and as you may know we’re working together on Robert Ashley’s biography. Alex will perform a solo (”Night Driver”).
Chris is an Australian friend of ours from NY, who Ashley dedicated “Yes, but is it Edible” to (published in F.R.DAVID “Stuff and Nonsense”). Chris just described tomorrow night as “animated Beckett” and “wanting, but unable to be phone sex”.
Ann-James performed at my first celebration of Marcel Duchamp’s birthday, after I first saw him (with Alex) at The Ex’s 25th birthday in Amsterdam. The Ex was a punk band who’ve got older and are now easily called ‘improvisers’. Andy Moor is their guitarist. Together Ann-James and Andy will perform “Le journaliste”.

Tuesday May 19th, at 7pm.
Free
(Booking required. Please call the Box Office on 020 7930 3647. Tickets must be collected 30 minutes before the event starts, or they will be released.)