Notes on Communication: VOZ RARA

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Responding to Grand Union’s 2017 public programming theme ‘Voice and Communication’ the two curators have put in place a series of workshops, screenings, performances and public talks looking at the use of voice as a cultural and political agent.

The programme will feature work by Hamish MacPherson, Sabel Gavaldon, Alex Martinis Roe, Jaume Ferrete Vázquez, Mikhail Karikis and Katarina Zdjelar.

The title VOZ RARA is inspired by the work of Catalan artist Jaume Ferrete Vázquez (in English “rare, unusual voice”) and it refers to exceptional uses of voice as metaphor and practice of collective participation.

The programming run from Autumn 2017 – Spring 2018 includes the following events:

September 28, 2pm
HAMISH MACPHERSON
Improvising Politics: Out of Touch
Workshop at Grand Union

October 7, 3pm
SABEL GAVALDON
To strike a pose is to pose a threat
talk at Grand Union

November 2-4
ALEX MARTINIS ROE
Our Future Network: Workshop on Practices of Alliance
workshop – venue tbc

November 30 – December 2
JAUME FERRETE VÁZQUEZ
Voz Rara Rara Rara
workshop – venue tbc

December 1, 7 pm
JAUME FERRETE VÁZQUEZ
There are none so deaf
performance in Minerva Works

February 2018
MIKHAIL KARIKIS
Vocal Terrains: sound, collectivity and labour
a screening of Karikis’s films and a performance lecture at Birmingham University

May 2018
KATARINA ZDJELAR
Between the sounds
a screening of Zdjelar’s films at Birmingham City University