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Reading Room publications resource, selected by Will Holder
Will Holder, co-curator of Talk Show, has selected the following publications for reference in the ICA's newly-launched Reading Room.
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Latin American Political Chants compiled by Leandro Cardoso
Artist Leandro Cardoso presents context to the rise of Latin American political chants, which are rooted in 1970s Chilean politics. In 1970, Salvador Allende was the first Marxist on the American continent to become an elected national leader. Before Allende's socialist government was prematurely ended, Chile saw a flowering of the culture of street politics, including political speeches and chants.
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Anthony Burgess talks to Jeremy Isaacs, Face to Face, BBC, 1989
From the archive of Stephen Sutcliffe.
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'Voice Devoured: Artaud and Borges on Dubbing' by Mikhail Yampolsky
An extract from Mikhail Yampolsky's 1993 essay, which explores the relationship between the voice and cannibalism.
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'The speaker as performing artist' by Paulo Virno
An extract from Italian political thinker Paul Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude (2004).
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'Why do we talk so much?' by Susan Blackmore
An extract from psychologist Susan Blackmore's book 'The Meme Machine' (2000), which explores the science of mimetics and it's relationship to Darwinism.
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'0223~0227' by Shigeru Matsui
Shigeru Matsui is a poet interest in the method of poetry and its formalisation. Matsui contributes a 'pure poem' to Talk Show.
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'Babblings from France or Babel in the Île-de-France' by Marc Hatzfeld
An extract from French anthropologist Marc Hatzfeld's essay of the same name (2006).
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'Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment in Electronic Communication with the Dead' by Konstantin Raudive
An extract from experimental scientist Konstantin Raudive's book Breakthrough (1971), which explores the phenomenon of voices of dead persons who appear during playbacks of tape recordings.
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'The Laugh of the Medusa' by Hélène Cixous
Provocative, anti-essentialist and an antecedent to the queer theory, the French writer and philosopher's 1975 essay explores her theory of 'writing the body'.
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'Not I' by Samuel Beckett
Originally a 1977 BBC broadcast, this television adaptation features Billie Whitelaw performing Beckett's play of a disembodied female mouth telling a fragmented and disturbing dramatic monologue.
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Jay Chung & Q Takeki Maeda
The Berlin-based collaborative duo provide background research to their Isabella Bortolozzi exhibition, Berlin 2006.
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'Some Day' by Gertrude Stein
An extract from the writer's novel The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress, written 1906-1911.
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'maybe if you hit it hard' by Chris Mann
The New York-based writer and performer known for his engagement with compositional linguistics presents a new text for Talk Show.
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‘Changing Voices’ by Anne Karpf
An extract from her book The Human Voice (2006) Karpf explores the power of voice, it's power, gender, and politics.