Chris Joseph

BROADWAY CINEMA
STUDIO
THUR 24 APRIL, 8PM
FREE

Commissioned local artists Sasha Andrews and Hetain Patel with Louise Clements will be talking about their new work for Digital Broadway.

Hetain and Louise will also hold a short performance of tabla druming and Kathak dancing as part of their presentation about A SILENT SEARCH FOR 16 CLASSICAL BEATS to illustrate their collaboration and the how the dialogue exists in its classical form.

HETAIN PATEL
A SILENT SEARCH FOR 16 CLASSICAL BEATS
On the Glass Screen until April 30.

Borrowing a 16 beat rhythm cycle from Indian classical music and dance to structure this new video work, Hetain Patel and Louise Clements investigate notions of origin and displaced culture. Using the movement vocabulary of traditional Kathak dance to shape the visual rhythm of this silent work, the performers play with the conversational relationship inherent between Tabla drummer and Kathak dancer. As the performers fall in and out of sync with one another, Hetain uses red Kanku pigment both to provide structure for and to trace movements from Louise’s dance.

www.hetainpatel.com

THURSDAY CLUB - supported by the Goldsmiths DIGITAL STUDIOS and the Goldsmiths GRADUATE SCHOOL

6pm until 8pm, Seminar Rooms at Ben Pimlott Building (Ground Floor, right), Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, SE14 6NW

FREE, ALL ARE WELCOME

For more information check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/gds/events.php or email Maria X at drp01mc[at]gold.ac.uk

To find Goldsmiths check http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/find-us/

————————

24 APRIL with KATE PULLINGER & CHRIS JOSEPH

Flight Paths: a networked book

“I have finished my weekly supermarket shop, stocking up on provisions for my three kids, my husband, our dog and our cat. I push the loaded trolley across the car park, battling to keep its wonky wheels on track. I pop open the boot of my car and then for some reason, I have no idea why, I look up, into the clear blue autumnal sky. And I see him. It takes me a long moment to figure out what I am looking at. He is falling from the sky. A dark mass, growing larger quickly. I let go of the trolley and am dimly aware that it is getting away from me but I can’t move, I am stuck there in the middle of the supermarket car park, watching, as he hurtles toward the earth. I have no idea how long it takes – a few seconds, an entire lifetime – but I stand there holding my breath as the city goes about its business around me until…
He crashes into the roof of my car.”

The car park of Sainsbury’s supermarket in Richmond, southwest London, lies directly beneath one of the main flight paths into Heathrow Airport. Over the last decade, on at least five separate occasions, the bodies of young men have fallen from the sky and landed on or near this car park. All these men were stowaways on flights from the Indian subcontinent who had believed that they could find a way into the cargo hold of an airplane by climbing up into the airplane wheel shaft. No one can survive this journey. “Flight Paths” seeks to explore what happens when lives collide – the airplane stowaway and the fictional suburban London housewife, quoted above. This project will tell their stories; it will be a work of digital fiction, a networked book, created on and through the internet. The project will include a web iteration that opens up the research process to the outside world, inviting discussion of the large array of issues the project touches on.

Questions raised by this project include: what are the possibilities for new narrative forms? How do we “write to be seen” or “write to be heard” when creating multimedia narratives, and can we imagine writing to be smelled, tasted, felt? What are the effects of collective authorship across multiple forms?

 
KATE PULLINGER [www.katepullinger.com] works both in print and new media. Her most recent novels include A Little Stranger (2006) and Weird Sister (1999). Her current digital fiction projects include her collaboration with Chris Joseph on ‘Inanimate Alice’ [www.inanimatealice.com], a multimedia episodic digital fiction; and ‘Venus Redemption’, a game for female casual gamers. Pullinger is Reader in Creative Writing and New Media at De Montfort University [www.creativewritingandnewmedia.com].

CHRIS JOSEPH [www.chrisjoseph.org] is a digital writer and artist who has created solo and collaborative work as babel [www.babel.ca]. His past projects include ‘Inanimate Alice’ (with Kate Pullinger), an award-winning series of multimedia stories; ‘The Breathing Wall’ [www.thebreathingwall.com, with Kate Pullinger and Stefan Schemat], a digital novel that responds to the reader’s rate of breathing; and ‘Animalamina’ [www.animalamina.com], a collection of interactive multimedia poetry for children. He is editor of the post-dada magazine and network 391.org, and is currently Digital Writer in Residence at the Institute of Creative Technologies [www.ioct.dmu.ac.uk], De Montfort University, Leicester.

Read more