HEY HEY GLOSSOLALIA

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Robert King Wilkerson—a member of the Black Panther Party who spent 29 years in solitary confinement in Angola Prison—will discuss the use of speech under the pressure of complete isolation. This presentation is developed with Rigo 23, a longtime collaborator of Wilkerson’s, who will present a video documentary about how he has used language in his visual artwork to support and broaden awareness of figures like Wilkerson, and how the idea of language relates to ideas of truth.

Ryan Gander & Bedwyr Williams, Liam Gillick & Tirdad Zolgadhr,
Adam Pendleton, and Frances Stark

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Ryan Gander & Bedwyr Williams, Liam Gillick & Tirdad Zolgadhr, Adam Pendleton, and Frances Stark will respond to the title of this program, The Eroticism of Pedagogy, by giving performances that subvert (and pervert) the traditional lecture format—exploding ideas of didacticism, information exchange, and the power of the speaker over his/her audience. Musical interludes between each by Vert (Adam Butler) will encourage the audience to move beyond their usual role as complacent listeners.

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Speechcraft is London-based Carey Young’s debut public performance in the U.S. It features a meeting of the international public speaking club Toastmasters, presented as a readymade performative situation which the artist will adapt by inserting her own subject matter. Toastmasters aims to help people from all walks of life to construct their public presence so that they look and sound like ‘leaders’. Young will ask each speaker to address objects from her studio which she finds artistically inspiring. As with every Toastmaster meeting, the resulting speeches will be judged and evaluated in a cycle of inspiration, review and reward. Speechcraft intends to question the relationships between art, artists and the public by presenting Toastmasters as a kind of alternative space of creativity, interpretation, ritual and critique.

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Mark Leckey will give a lecture on the unstable nature of images accompanied by a collection of visual examples. He will address the divisions between static and time-based imagery, and the theoretics of a highly visual culture. This talk will be performative and informative, engaging the structure of the lecture format while working inside of it.

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This provocative, high-energy concert will include spoken word pieces and sound compositions by No Bra (Susanne Oberbeck), Genesis P-Orridge, Rammellzee, and Ian Svenonius. Their performances will skirt the boundaries between information-giving and noise, as well as language and music—pushing the voice to its very limits. The event is named for Mercedes McCambridge, the actress who performed the dubbed-in voice of a demonically possessed character in The Exorcist. McCambridge did not actually appear in the film, but her voice over has become iconic nonetheless.

In Chris Evans’ Cop Talk series, the artist arranges recruitment sessions by police departments for art students—suggesting the need for artist representation in the police force while simultaneously exposing students to an alternate career. Though Evans has presented these talks internationally, this is his first Cop Talk to be held in the United States.