Hum Everything Unpinned

£5, booking online required - link below

Ayesha Hameed
E Scourti
Vicky Sparrow
Daniella Valz-Gen

Join us for a night of readings, poetry and performance exploring sound, voice and rhythm thriving in the gaps between languages, formats and media. Invited by E Scourti as part of their research into a ‘geography of nobody language’, the artists and writers will present work exploring spoken voice and live audio in poetic reading. Themes explored will include writing as survival, mistranslation and depersonalising the self through digital and cross-lingual interference, collective voice, queer ambivalence and writing from embodied liminality.

This event is supported by CHASE and Goldsmiths, University of London.

Ayesha Hameed, London, UK, explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her Afrofuturist approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. She currently teaches on the MFA in Art at Goldsmiths University of London, is a Kone Foundation Research Fellow and Artist in Residence at the Camden Arts Centre and is Professor of Artistic Research at Uniarts Helsinki.

E Scourti is an artist and writer living in Athens and London, working across video, performance and text with the scraps of everyday archives, routines and obsessions. Often writing in Greek and English and the mistranslations between them, their publications include No to Self (Veer 2, 2023) and As the non-world falls away (TEXTZ, 2024). They are nearly there with a PhD from Goldsmiths and teach on the BAFA at Central St Martins.

Vicky Sparrow writes and performs poetry that plays with rhythmic layered textures and shifting sonic patternings in search of a re-visioned horizon. Her poetry collections are stand ins (RunAmok, 2023) and Notes to Selves (Zarf, 2016); her writing appears in Vortext, Ludd Gang, Writing Utopia, datableed and elsewhere. Vicky teaches literature at the University of Nottingham and lives in London.

Daniella Valz Gen’s process-led, work explores poetic experience through different forms of reading, writing, performing and making. They’re invested in a relational and responsive approach to land, place, and the other-than-human. Born in Peru and based in London, Valz Gen’s work highlights the interstices between languages, cultures and value systems as areas where potential new meanings can arise.