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Copyright Wendy Pye
Talk
The Old Weird Albion
7 Nov 2017
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 19:00
Cost of entry
£8/£5 concessions
Address
- 16-18 Ramillies Street
- Soho
- London
- W1F 7LW
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Just off Oxford Street so accessible by bus services to Oxford Street and a 2 minute walk from Oxford Circus Tube Station.
American writer Justin Hopper is joined by photographer Wendy Pye, researcher Angus Carlyle and musician Sharron Kraus in performances and discussion based on The Old Weird Albion, his creative non-fiction exploration of landscape, memory and myth along the South Downs.
About
Published by Penned in the Margins, The Old Weird Albion is a series of psychogeographic encounters with the dark history of our open spaces and suburbs, which sees Hopper travel across the Sussex homeland of his ancestors in an attempt to reconnect with the land and himself.
Speakers
Angus Carlyle is Professor of Sound and Landscape Director of CRiSAP at London College of Communication. His research explores sound and text as artistic practice, contemporary photography, 'Landscape' and site specificity.
Justin Hopper is a writer from Pittsburgh, USA, living and working in England. His site-specific audio poems have been commissioned and funded by the Shorelines Festival of Literature of the Sea, the SPILL Festival of Performance and the Sprout Fund, and included collaborators such as Scanner, Shirley Collins, Jem Finer, Lost Harbours and Susie Honeyman.
Sharron Kraus is a singer of folk songs, a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose solo work and collaborations offer a dark and subversive take on traditional music. Her music is influenced by gothic literature, surrealism, myth and magick.
Wendy Pye is a visual artist using photography and film who is interested in creative and cultural practices relating to nature and the landscape. Her work taps into environmental psychology exploring multi-layered narratives of, and spiritual associations with, a ‘sense of place’. Since 2008, Wendy has created bodies of work that respond to the well-known beauty spot Beachy Head in East Sussex.
