Jane Austen

Colony 14 has arrived

Maura will be showing:
Gweithio gyda | working with Jane Austen
written & spoken word

at: Bookends,
High Street Shopping Arcade Aberteifi/Cardigan SA43 IHJ
From 16th August - 1st September
Bookends is open 9.00 - 5.30 Monday - Saturday.

On the private view night [August 16th from 17,00 at all venues] Bookends will be open through until 19.30 there'll be some Jacob Whittaker master brewer wine available.

EVENTS:
Maura proposes reading events - participatory
Saturday 23rd August for elevenses
A LINK to a little snippet of elevenses with Jane
Saturday 30th August at 15.00.
Bookends can sell you a cup of tea or coffee! and if it's not raining we can sit outside...the themes will be philosophy and Jane Austen, Maura will provide books and set up reading rules and see what chance outcomes occur.

Salon de Textes Edition 2

Pride & Prejudice Movement & Letters by Way of Verbs - a reading
Delpha Hudson - curator/organiser - sits with bell in hand to stop me after 10 minutes, I was getting close to the end....

LISTEN HERE

Also showing were Working with Jane Austen Movement: Past, Possible, Present and Mention of Letters [Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Persuasion] and the short version of Pride & Prejudice.
Plus Judith Whitehouse's response to my reading Pride & Prejudice Movement & Letters by Way of Verbs [heard via a recording] and my response to Mark Leahy's "hello" This is a test", more on that HERE




Link to Salon de Textes Edition 2 April 11th 2014
 a wide range of works - live or in response to spoken word pieces.

coming up in Spring 2014: two listy things

Salon de Textes, Penzance April 11th
Pride & Prejudice Movement & Letters by Way of Verbs - a reading - see THIS POST


The Language of Lists, Text Festival,  Bury May 2nd - July 9th
Flighty Whispers, a video


“At a recent work shop on sound symbolism in Atlanta, Georgia, he reported that "wh" words associated with words that describe the production of noises such as "whisper", "whine" or "whirr", and those beginning with "fl" that tend to signal movement in the air, such as "fly" or "flail", also enjoyed this fast track in the brain's processing. Bergen concludes that these may all be forms of sound symbolism.”

Robson, D. (2011, July 16). Kiki or bouba? In search of language's missing link . New Scientist , 30-33



Flighty Whispers to Feathers from Flo Fflach on Vimeo.




A link to some images from the exhibition - a report from the exhibition - including spoken word

Pride & Prejudice shortened further

By method of erasure I reduced Pride & Prejudice to descriptions pertaining to movement in, or descriptions of, space, past, present possible plus anything to do with letters – I did the same with Sense & Sensibility and Persuasion. This involves the movement of people, descriptions of rooms or houses, the drives to Pemberley, the crucial letters in each story. Pride & Prejudice was reduced further to spoken reading of 30 to 40 minutes duration – whilst still being recognisable to close readers of Jane Austen. This piece is the third layer: just the verbs of the original erasure version, the skeleton of space and movement in it – and the important letters. Is there anything recognisable to anyone else other than me? Could these be instructions for a performance?
This piece was recorded in the airing cupboard.

The work was "shown" in Dublin
Sound Devices: exploring literature through sound - Rathmines Library,
(Feb 2013) | Second in the Sound Devices podcast series. [see comments]
in a slightly different form - an introduction and finish of two chapters with a single voice, the centre section overlaid

PW12 at the Arnolfini

"Dw i'n Crwydro byd...." has had a new outing. A text created as a response to its showing in Falmouth has been added.

It was shown in the Lightroom at the Arnolfini for the Performance Writing weekend. The placing next to  Emilie O'Brian's "I'm doing this now" was thoughtful, connections of textile, body, making.

Follow this link for more information on "Dw i'n crwydro..."
A link to its showing at Contexture in Falmouth

a duel, duet, dual performance.
A reading and echoing of an erasure version of Pride & Prejudice [a link to a link for more information on the text] based on movement and space. One reads the other repeats until they can't continue, roles are swapped. Sometimes you hear the cry of mercy - that means stop and swap. A lot of laughter.
Performed with sonic artist Lou Laurens

There are photographs but due to reactions to my actions and words the copyright to show them publically has been withdrawn. 

the full unedited half hour recoding - note it was performed at the bottom of basically a very metallic stairwell!