Call Waiting
Presenter Martina Copley Readers: Martina Copley, Tara Denny, Lou Hubbard, Gabriella Imrichova, Ming Liew, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Josephine Mead, Sanja Pahoki, Chunxiao Qu, Amaara Raheem, YongPing Ren, Francesca Rendle-Short, Fiona Shewan, Joel Stern, Benjamin Woods, Bixiao Zhang.
Call Waiting
Saturday 30 November, 3-4pm
Presenter: Martina Copley
Readers:
Martina Copley, Tara Denny, Lou Hubbard, Gabriella Imrichova, Ming Liew, Nancy Mauro-Flude, Josephine Mead, Sanja Pahoki, Chunxiao Qu, Amaara Raheem, YongPing Ren, Francesca Rendle-Short, Fiona Shewan, Joel Stern, Benjamin Woods, Bixiao Zhang.
Drawing from poet John Giorno's Dial-a-Poem1 New York, 1968, in which Giorno set up a toll-free telephone number that a person could call to hear recordings of artists, poets, musicians and activists of his era,
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Call Waiting is a stuttering make-shift live broadcast dealing with reading aloud and writing in contemporary art practices.
An assembly of speaking bodies, invited artists/writers read aloud in gallery and broadcast live on Saturday 30 November 3-4pm.