Block Universe is London’s leading international performance art festival. It will run for 10 days, starting on 26 May 2018. Positioning London at the forefront of international performance art, Block Universe 2018 will feature commissions by artists working at the cross-section of contemporary visual art, dance and music.
Hanne Lippard (b. 1984, Milton Keynes, UK) is a British Norwegian artist based in Berlin who focuses on the production of language solely through the use of voice. In performances, installations, videos and audio pieces, she arranges, composes and combines her own wordplays with words by others. Fragments from everyday speech, sourced from various online platforms, are constantly reworked through the use of repetition, pronunciation and rhythm. Phrases and images associated with contemporary topics such as work, success, and lifestyles are evoked. By merging content and form and through a gentle rhyme, her vivid words begin to lose their prescribed value and modify to take on new meanings. With an almost hypnotic, cleansing approach, the vocal sequences sink into the listener’s mind and create a free-form, associative pattern of melodic, linguistic formulas.
Reading – Hanne Lippard
Wednesday, 30 May 2018, 8pm
Somerset House, New Wing, Lancaster Room, Strand, London WC2R 1LA, entrance from Lancaster Place
Lunchtime – Artist Talk with Hanne Lippard and Vanessa Boni
Thursday 31 May 2018, 1pm
Somerset House, Lancaster Room, Strand, London WC2R 1LA
Block Universe is supported by the Goethe-Institut.
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