Event
City Poems & City Music Live Part One
11 Apr 2019
Whitechapel Gallery
London, United Kingdom
Exhibition
City Poems & City Music
11 Apr 2019 – 9 Jun 2019
Cost of entry
Free Entry
Address
- 77-82 Whitechapel High Street
- London
- e1 7qx
- United Kingdom
- www.whitechapelgallery.org
Travel Information
- Bus: 25, 205, 254
- Tube: Aldgate East / Aldgate
- Train: Liverpool Street
Torn posters, sack-cloth and graffiti cover screens in a dark basement, while the taped sound of sirens and street traffic noises blast an assembled Liverpool crowd. City event took place in 1962 and was the first ‘Happening’ staged by artist and poet Adrian Henri (1932–2000).
About
Inspired by Henri’s interdisciplinary spirit, a season of art, poetry and music reflecting on the experience of the city comes to Whitechapel Gallery this spring. Musician Thurston Moore and arts editor Eva Prinz curate three evenings of experimental performance from today’s leading poets and musicians. The season is titled ‘City Poems and City Music’, after an exhibition that took place at the Gallery in 1975, featuring Henri and his peers.
Alongside will be a display of related material from Henri’s archive as well as recordings of the 1960s pop poetry band The Liverpool Scene (1967–70), which he fronted. The exhibition is curated by art historian Catherine Marcangeli and reveals Henri’s continual interest in the patterns, sounds and occasional violence of urban experience. Moore will be in residence during the exhibition, remixing audio recordings from the archive.
Supported by: Paul McCartney
